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The poor schoolmarm or master, required to provide a certain amount of value for your child’s entertainment dollar, now must compete with texting, instant-messaging, Facebook, eBay, YouTube, Addictinggames.com and other poxes on pedagogy. -
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Strategy Tutor is a web-based tool designed to support students and teachers doing reading and research on the internet. -
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What will a child in the UK make of a laptop designed to help children in the developing world? Rory Cellan-Jones brought an XO home to find out. -
1voteUsing photos of oft-snapped subjects (like Notre Dame) scraped from around the Web, Photosynth (based on Seadragon technology) creates breathtaking multidimensional spaces with zoom and navigation features that outstrip all expectation.
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1voteNEW YORK—Think you're smarter than a fifth-grader? How about a 5-year-old chimp? Japanese researchers pitted young chimps against human adults in tests of short-term memory, and overall, the chimps won.
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1voteWikipedia definition of virtual community
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PC Mag review of One Laptop per Child -
1voteWashington Post / November 28, 2007 WASHINGTON - Some scholars are joining parent advocates in questioning whether the No Child Left Behind law, with its goal of universal academic proficiency, has had the unintended consequence of diverting resources and attention from the gifted.
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1voteOur top priority is the education of disadvantaged and at-risk students in pre-K through grade eight. We use research to design programs and services that help schools better meet the needs of all their students.
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2voteFatworld - Fatworld is a game about the politics of nutrition. It explores the relationships between obesity, nutrition, and socioeconomics in the contemporary U.S. Coming Fall 2007. Not quite the same educational value as Elemental, but interesting considering our nutrition focus.
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