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This is the curriculum I created around the website "Stocksquest," a stock market simulation. This curriculum was part of my semester project for David Perkins' class "Cognition and the Art of Instruction." The goal was to facilitate the learning of a valuable skill (investing your money) while making connections to the discipline of economics and real world events.
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The purpose of this post is to highlight 10 Semantic Apps. We?re not touting this as a ?Top 10?, because there is no way to rank these apps at this point - many are still non-public apps, e.g. in private beta. It reflects the nascent status of this sector, even though people like Hillis and Spivack have been working on their apps for years now.
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Medical emergencies don't occur every day. But when they do, information can help you deal with these situations.
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