Category Archives: Curricula

Culturomics Analyzes Online News Worldwide

Kalev Leetaru describes a summary of the emerging field of Culturomics. It gives priority to analyzing the context and tone ofthe imperfect information available to people at the time we take social action, especially as news media capture a snapshot of the real–time … Continue reading

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California Calls for Digital Math Science Textbooks

All high school math and science digital content developers can submit your material to the California Learning Resources Network by June 15 in order to be reviewed in time for use starting in Fall, 2009. Submissions are considered for inclusion … Continue reading

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HP Offers Free Online Classes

HP has a growing list of free online classes that show how to increase use of PCs including Tablets more efficiently. Want to shorten start up time with a Vista notebook? How about using Bluetooth to connect and print? Maybe … Continue reading

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Learning Plans on Demand

Here’s more Internet support for classroom teachers and school administrators willing to individualize instruction of learners. User say this product takes the guess work out aligning instruction with state standards while lesson planning for each student. Content areas include math, … Continue reading

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ANGEL Learning Lesson Plan Builder

ANGEL Learning announced the addition of Lesson Plan Builder to its Learning Management Suite. This allows educators to create template-based standards aligned content with their alignment tools. Educators can share their lesson plans across teachers and schools as well as … Continue reading

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Gates on Philanthropy and Capitalism

Bill Gates shares insights with Charlie Rose for the 12th time. Through this latest interview, he offers how he identifies, thinks about and organizes to address what he sees as unmet opportunities in business and philanthropy, including his thinking about … Continue reading

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Tablet PC Tutor Arrives!

Ann Williams reports started sharing some of the projects underway at Carnegie Mellon University by Dr. Ananda Gunawardena. One post is about Autism and tablet PC’s, one about Tablet PC Math, a tablet pc math drill program that has a … Continue reading

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Tableteer Offers The Chemistry Book Online

Science teachers and students might find it useful to check out The Chemistry Book, an online textbook for high school. The author developed the text as a Wiki. Any member registered on the site can edit the text. He uses … Continue reading

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Biomonitoring and Telemedicine Sensors in Clothing

Nicholas A. Kotov and a team of chemical engineering researchers at University of Michigan, demonstrate a simple process of transforming general commodity cotton threads into intelligent e-textiles using a polyelectrolyte-based coating with carbon nanotubes (CNTs). Efficient charge transport through the … Continue reading

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Teaching Robots Right from Wrong

Tom Simonite reviewed bloggers Wendell Wallach and Colin Allen’s book Moral Machines: Teaching Robots Right from Wrong. In general, they suggest that developers consider 4 rules: Program robots with principles. Never give a robot a task where the outcome is … Continue reading

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