"Results from Project Tomorrow's annual Speak Up survey reveal a disconnect between students', adults' views on technology in schools"
Article about DimensionM from Tabula Digita pilot in Virginia
Kids & Family Reading Report is a 2008 national survey of children age 5-17 and their parents
BeatBots creates robots for research, therapy, and entertainment.
Microsoft is conducting research on the possible educational benefits of playing video games.
On October 28, 2008, after several years of legal wrangling, Google, the Association of American Publishers (AAP), and the Authors Guild reached a settlement agreement concerning Google’s scanning of copyrighted works. The scanning of these works has been done in cooperation with research libraries throughout the United States. The settlement agreement requires court approval by the presiding judge in the U.S. District Court in New York because the case was brought as a class action suit on behalf of selected copyright owners.
In this web-based survey, 578 leading Internet activists, builders, and commentators and 618 additional stakeholders (1,196 respondents) were asked to assess thought-provoking proposed scenarios for the year 2020.
Daphna Oyserman, a social psychologist at the University of Michigan, asked inner-city junior-high children in Detroit what kind of future they would like to have, what difficulties they anticipated along the way, how they might deal with them and which of their friends would be most helpful in coping. After only a few such exercises in life planning, the children improved their performance on standardized academic tests, and the number who were required to repeat a grade dropped by more than half.
The idea is, what are the points at which we're tempted, and can we reduce the issues at the point of temptation? When we got people to contemplate on their morality, they reduced their cheating. So the issue is, how in society we can get people to contemplate morality more when it matters.
In her research, Martinez Aleman asked hundreds of students to explain how they viewed their Facebook profiles and how they interpreted Facebook communications. She found Facebook use had developmental characteristics, meaning it reflected a student's changing needs, considerations about the self, self impression, group identification, and level of playful use.
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"Results from Project Tomorrow's annual Speak Up survey reveal a disconnect between students', adults' views on technology in schools"
Article about DimensionM from Tabula Digita pilot in Virginia
BeatBots creates robots for research, therapy, and entertainment.
Microsoft is conducting research on the possible educational benefits of playing video games.
On October 28, 2008, after several years of legal wrangling, Google, the Association of American Publishers (AAP), and the Authors Guild reached a settlement agreement concerning Google’s scanning of copyrighted works. The scanning of these works has been done in cooperation with research libraries throughout the United States. The settlement agreement requires court approval by the presiding judge in the U.S. District Court in New York because the case was brought as a class action suit on behalf of selected copyright owners.
In this web-based survey, 578 leading Internet activists, builders, and commentators and 618 additional stakeholders (1,196 respondents) were asked to assess thought-provoking proposed scenarios for the year 2020.
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