Dr Richard Florida, one of the world's leading experts on economic competitiveness, demographic trends and cultural and technological innovation shows how developing the full human and creative capabilities of each individual, combined with institutional supports such as commercial innovation and new industry, will put us back on the path to economic and social prosperity.
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The purpose of the Norwegian Centre for ICT in Education is to contribute to the realization and the development of ICT policy. It shall further cooperate with relevant public and private institutions. The centre will also participate in international cooperation. 
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This post is part of the digital literacy kit you as a teacher should keep handy for rainy days.The focus today is on Powerpoint and Excel.
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Digital Citizenship Guide. The importance of this guide lies in the fact that it provides great tips on digital citizenship for both teachers and students .
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LZ Granderson wonders whether technology has gone from assisting us in our lives to taking over our lives.
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New research suggests that American schoolchildren are becoming less creative. It is sobering to read Kyung Hee Kim’s recent research report documenting a continuous decline in creativity among American schoolchildren over the last two or three decades.
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As if Learnist and Lore weren't enough to keep up with, there's a third social network we wanted to highlight. Capella University' digital learning environment 'SOPHIA' is for 21st century teachers and students.
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When you don't have a place to heat food at the workplace, healthy lunches are a lot more challenging. Here are ideas for healthy brown bag lunches that don't need to be heated for a healthy tasty lunch.
Baily Brindle's curator insight,
April 10, 2013 10:35 PM
Okay, so school luch is not the best food in the world. In fact, it may register as some of the worst. I have had to stand at the salad bar of countless minutes to "possibly" recieve a salad, and I often do not feel very full afterward. So, it makes a good deal of sense that I would be attracketed to idea of bringing a healthy AND filling lunch. I love the selection that this list offers. 
Anna Asp's curator insight,
April 11, 2013 6:07 AM
Another article with recipes of healthy meals. This time, it is focused on lunches that are easy to bring to school or work - prefect for me! There are several salads with tomatoes - the easy cottege cheese salad with Za'atar sounds interesting, as well as the tomato, olive and fresh mozarella sallad with basil vinaigrette - and different pitas and wraps. Seven layer tostadas and the spicy shredded chicken lettuce wraps with avocado salsa sounds delicious, doesn't it? Then there are sallads with grain or quinoa, salads with chicken (like the one with lime, avocado and cilantro - yum!), and pasta salads (man, I am getting hungry just reading these.) Other recipes included shrimp and hummus (but it is not really politically correct to eat giant shrimps because of the extremely bad impact they have on the environment,) roasted asparagus wrapped in ham and slow roasted tomato hummus. This article is one that I am definately coming back to!
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More schools are working to change school culture through programs aimed at improving the social and emotional skills of students.
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TIME's annual salute to sites and services which can keep you entertained and informed, save you time and money -- and maybe even change your life.
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Since public healthcare picked up steam in America we have been able to improve on a variety of treatable aliments, one of the biggest being women’s health. In undeveloped countries, women are fifteen times more likely to die during childbirth than the first world. One of the easiest ways to lower the risk is simple education. Raising awareness of healthy reproductive health and contraception can drastically change women’s health statistics.
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What is amazing about these videos from TED Education besides the fact that they are purely educational and meant to teach hard to grasp concepts is that there is a high professional touch to them. You would spend hours watching them and still never get fed up.
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The Infinite Thinking Machine is back after a summer hiatus. This episode focusing on gamification features a great rundown of learning games and programs, including Minecraft, Gamestar Mechanic, NYC Haunts, and Gamedesk, a game company that recently opened a game-based learning school within a school in Los Angeles.
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Thanks to OnlineUniversities for this list of the Best Pinterest Boards in Educational Technology. Blogs and Twitter aren’t the only social tools out there that can help you keep up with the latest and greatest developments in educational technology.
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No two would ever argue over the importance of Google as a search engine. The first thing that comes into our minds when thinking about conducting an online search is Google. Most if not all of our students use it, but do we all know how to use it correctly to hone in our search quests and get the maximum from it ?
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How to create personalized, annotated, customized maps using Google Maps.
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Foundational to a good team is a mutual vulnerability that results in real, meaningful trust. Teams that trust each other in this way are going to act vastly different than those that don’t. They won’t be corporate robots; they’ll be a group of humans working together to do amazing work.
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It’s not just a stale platitude. If you want to be at peak performance, you have simply got to get a handle on your eating, sleeping, and dietary habits. This applies to business managers as well as Olympic athletes. Innovation in the workplace is fueled by good neurochemical balance in the brain. And this requires doing the right thing for your body.
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Creating presentations and slideshows is a digital skills every 21st century teacher has to have. Presentations have an added value when they are used as a teaching tool in that they get students engaged and hold their attention for a long time.
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The Domtar Corporation today announced the launching of an interactive, educational site The Forest Academy. The edtech tools, introduced a few months ago, has reached a milestone of 25,000 visitors.
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The current structure of the school day is obsolete, most would agree.
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These ten riveting and influential raw videos reveal how the simultaneous spread of video sites like YouTube and mobile video cameras in 2005 enabled eyewitnesses to easily record and share historic events like never before.
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Here are 10 great ideas to impove literacy skills in the classroom. They are simple to play and can be applied to nearly all year levesl. Enjoy.
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Google+, The newest trend? Or the newest flop? Umpf gets to the bottom of this mystery with a little research and reports it’s results with an infographic! The Google+, Ghost Town? infographic does more than just report the Google+ statistics, it compares them to other key social networks.
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