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Here at Mindjet, we think visualising information rocks — but more importantly, there’s a whole load of scientific proof as to why people find it so much easier to digest and work with information that’s displayed visually, rather than in traditional formats such as documents and spreadsheets.
I’ve scoured the Web to find you these 10 great reasons to hop on the information visualisation train.
Click headline to read more-- Via Chuck Sherwood, Former Senior Associate, TeleDimensions, Inc 
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As German towns work to hide the emptiness, demographers say a similar fate awaits other European countries, with frightening implications for the economy.
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What is the connection between Social Networks and Being Lonely?
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This free lesson by EconEdLink covers Exchange, Exports, Gains from Trade, Imports, Trade, Economics, Social Studies, Gain from Trade, Specialization and Trade
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"Metacognition is a critically important, yet often overlooked component of learning. Effective learning involves planning and goal-setting, monitoring one's progress, and adapting as needed. All of these activities are metacognitive in nature. By teaching students these skills - all of which can be learned - we can improve student learning. There are three critical steps to teaching metacognition:
Teaching students that their ability to learn is mutableTeaching planning and goal-settingGiving students ample opportunities to practice monitoring their learning and adapting as necessary" Via Howard Rheingold, George Por
Dean J. Fusto's comment,
September 3, 2013 10:03 PM
Thanks for sharing this. I don't come across many articles such as this on Metacognition. Great scoop!
Dean J. Fusto's curator insight,
September 3, 2013 10:05 PM
A wonderful and useful skill to teach our students. I haven't come across many articles on metacognition, but found this on Howard Rheingold's Scoop.it page. Enjoy.
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Romany and Traveller songs inspired a century of popular music. Now Sam Lee is searching for the last of them
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INDIA’S diaspora of 25m people is something to behold. In colonial times Indian labourers and traders spread across the world, from Fiji to the Caribbean. Via Mr. David Burton
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Toward a Definition of Fascism
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Burka Avenger is a new Pakistani kids' show about a mild-mannered teacher who moonlights as a burqa-clad superhero. Via Seth Dixon
Seth Dixon's curator insight,
August 4, 2013 1:18 AM
In the new animated series, Burka Avenger, we see intriguing blend of cultures. Globalization does NOT mean that all cultures will become the same. As one geographer said, globalization isn't making all places perfectly flat since it is incredibly bumpy. This NPR podcast shows how the globalization and pop culture can take highly localized and distinct regional twists on common themes. This video trailer shows how a school teacher fights for educational rights for girls when cloaked under the burka. 
Avonna Swartz's curator insight,
August 30, 2013 11:15 AM
What do you think of this? Do you think it will have an impact on how women perceive themselves?
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"Hydraulic fracturing, or 'fracking', is the process of drilling and injecting fluid into the ground at a high pressure in order to fracture shale rocks to release natural gas inside."
Denise Pacheco's curator insight,
December 17, 2013 3:37 PM
Hydrographic Turing puts people in safety and health risks. Because the water is contaminated and because of the oil spills, blow outs, and fires. They put chemicals into the ground in order to make cracks in the earth to collect natural oil, but they use people's land in order to collect the oil. People are complaining about these industries because they now have to buy water every month instead of getting it from their sinks or wells. Not to mention some houses have already blew up or caught on favor thanks to hydro fracturing. They need to put a stop to this, at least do it on land that is not being used and far away from people. 
Jacqueline Landry's curator insight,
December 17, 2013 6:07 PM
The development of gas is important for energy but there are health and safety risks with cracking in neighborhoods. Quality of air and water is important for survival. Nature matters and people matter, they need to find a middle ground.
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Many U.S. public schools, especially those in inner city districts and rural areas, are having trouble recruiting teachers, particularly in math, science, and special education. Baltimore has pioneered a new strategy of hiring foreign educators.
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The last three decades have witnessed a remarkable rise in xenophobic, deeply conservative, and even extreme right-wing parties across much of Europe.
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John Delury, writing in Foreign Affairs, suggests that Chinese economic policy has more to do with morality than with economics.[Many thanks to K.
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I have just told them my priorities for creating a better world. Join me and vote!
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Israel angers Palestinian officials by extending a subsidy scheme to settlements that were illegal until recently, days after peace talks restarted. Via Al Picozzi
Al Picozzi's curator insight,
August 4, 2013 3:24 PM
With the peace process just starting again, will this act derail it as it has done in the past? The settlements in the occupied territority are considered illegal under international law, a claim that Israel denies. Shoudl the US and the international community set in and stop the spread of the settlements oe even get them to be removed? Or shoudl they remain in order to guarantee the security of Israel? It seems that every time peace is talked about in this area, something happens that puts the peace process in danger.
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This Concept Map, created with IHMC CmapTools, has information related to: Learning Theory, zone of proximal development The area of capabilities that learners can exhibit with support from a teacher., Montessori constructivism, Lave & Wenger... Via Ana Cristina Pratas
june holley's curator insight,
August 23, 2013 10:42 AM
Maximizing learning is key to an effective network approach.
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Many developing nations have committed themselves to becoming Knowledge Societies in the near future, approving development plans for horizons extended 10, 15 or 25 years, with a view to substantially change their economies. Via Ana Cristina Pratas
Bill Brown's curator insight,
July 17, 2013 11:22 AM
Given the overwhelming pressure in online content towards English I am unsure that minority languages will succeed in making any significant impact in most areas of online content
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"The country has taken on a bold new strategy in the face of expensive food imports: make farming patriotic and ubiquitous."
Matthew DiLuglio's curator insight,
November 27, 2013 4:34 PM
I have discussed Jamaica with some former classmates of mine, and they informed me that a lot of people are really poor there. They said that the people there were very friendly, and hooked my friends up with some outstanding agricultural products at a really good price, but these people are very poor. I think that because Jamaica was involved in the slave trade, and they didn't really as much of have slaves to do work like the US, but Jamaica was still involved in the slave trade, which ensured the presence of slaves. While the US was building as a country, Jamaica was not thriving as much. I think that the agriculture in Jamaica is (by what my friends say) fabulous as far as illegal crops go, but the agriculture FOR the Jamaicans (such as food) is lacking. I read in the article that a European Development Agency sent money to Jamaica to help them be able to build chicken coops... So the chickens are enslaved too, and doomed to lay eggs or become a Sunday dinner. That is kind of sad. In all truth, I enjoy the taste of meat, but look forward to when meat and plants will be synthesized with no living tissue involved, because, after all, plants are alive too. There are so many things that people have taken from the Earth, without giving anything back. We are approaching the era where people should be more concerned with the environment, and what they can do for the Earth. I think Jamaica should be given new technology that serves synthetic meat and synthetic vegetables, as a way to aid their agricultural and economic situation, rather than money for chicken coops from some pompous European cults. 
Nathan Chasse's curator insight,
February 8, 2014 1:53 PM
The article describes how Jamaica and a couple other Caribbean nations are beginning to focus more on food crops than cash crops. Being dependent on imports for food can be disastrous for these islands when a global food shortage makes prices skyrocket. Being food independent will likely allow Jamaica to increase its net agricultural gains so long as the production and demand for its cash crops of bananas and sugarcane remain high.
Jess Deady's curator insight,
February 18, 2014 12:56 PM
Understanding how other countries survive their everyday lives is an important part of being a civil human being. As shown in one of the clips, a boy is putting on a tie before school and is on his way to eat breakfast. Not only does he have to eat breakfast at home, but he also is eating a stew that he picked the crops for. I could never imagine picking my own food in order to survive life. This scoop is enlightening in many ways.
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Our instincts for privacy evolved in tribal societies where walls didn't exist. No wonder we are hopeless oversharers
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My last two posts discuss two new studies that contradict the Deep Roots Theory of War, which holds that war is ancient and innate. One study concludes that modern-day mobile foragers (also called nomadic hunter gatherers) are far less warlike than Deep Rooters contend. According to the other study, there is vanishingly little archaeological evidence of lethal group violence prior to 10,000 years ago.
Both of these reports support the view of anthropologist Margaret Mead that war, rather than being a “biological necessity,” is a recent cultural innovation, or “invention.” Now I’d like to present results from a new archaeological survey that further corroborates Mead’s view of warfare.
The survey is by Rutgers anthropologist Brian Ferguson, an authority on the origins of warfare. In a 2003 Natural History article, “The Birth of War,” Ferguson presented preliminary results of his examination of early human settlements. He argued that “the global archaeological record contradicts the idea that war was always a feature of human existence; instead, the record shows that warfare is largely a development of the last 10,000 years.”
That conclusion has been corroborated by Ferguson’s new, in-depth survey, which he discusses in “The Prehistory of War and Peace in Europe and the Near East,” a chapter in War, Peace, and Human Nature, a 2013 collection edited by Douglas Fry and published by Oxford University Press. (See also a chapter in which Ferguson critiques an interpretation of archaeological data by Deep Rooter Steven Pinker.) Click headline to read more-- Via Chuck Sherwood, Former Senior Associate, TeleDimensions, Inc
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"Prime Minister David Cameron is 'seriously concerned' about the escalation of tensions on the border between Spain and the British territory of Gibraltar."
megan b clement's curator insight,
October 13, 2013 12:37 AM
"The video explains about Spain and Gibraltar and how they have feuded back and forth with one another and their borders for some time now. Gibraltar has made a articfical reef to mess with the Spainish fisherman and SPain has made travel to Gibraltar nearly impossible and dreadfully long for tourists. Spain understands how essential tourism is to their economy. Until they are able to come to an agreement thei matter is only going to intenisfy more and worsen." 
Elizabeth Bitgood's curator insight,
March 3, 2014 10:55 AM
I was unaware that the UK owned this part of Gibraltar. It seems like a throwback to the UK’s naval policies of the past that they would still to control this point of entry into the Mediterranean. It will be interesting to see how this will be resolved. As it is a dispute between two countries that are both part of the EU.
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Historians analyze historical sources in different ways. First, historians think about where, when and why a document was created. They consider whether a source was created close in location and time to an actual historical event. Historians also think about the purpose of a source. Was it a personal diary intended to be kept private? Was the document prepared for the public? Via Rod Powell
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"Like other young boys of his era, Franklin Roosevelt wears a dress. This studio portrait was likely taken in New York in 1884."
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July 29, 2013 12:46 PM
I show this picture to my classes with the simple prompt: this was a major figure in U.S. history in the first half of the 20th century. Most pick female historical figures and are startled to find out that it was a revered president. This slideshow demonstrates the cultural shift over time that has led to gendered norms on dress in the United States. This article is quite compelling.
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After making the map posted here I realized that its patterns are so odd that it would make an extremely difficult GeoQuiz. Just one question: what does the map show?
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