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Born in 1982, Emmanuel Malin lives and works in Paris. He starts studying architecture and urbanism; which leads him to a 90° change of direction as he discovers medical and scientific illustration. This discipline helps him improve his sense of details, and polish his personnal style and universe. 
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The tech gap begins at home, where boys get their first computers and video game consoles at a younger age than girls and are more likely to play with toys that build spatial reasoning skills, like Lego. It continues in schools, where female students voice less confidence in math, science, and computing, and it persists in the corporate world.
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In the middle of an industrial park just outside of Stockholm is one of Sweden’s top-performing schools – Kunskapsskolan Tyresö. It is part of a network of 33 Kunskapsskolan schools in Sweden – all funded by a public school voucher system (Sweden has a national voucher model), and has no tuition, accepting students on a first-come, first-served basis.
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Digital storytelling, the practice of combining narrative with digital content, is gaining more ground in the educational field.Many schools and educational centres all around the globe are including learning method in their curriculums and the results are really promising : more of students engagement and a bigger degree of motivation.
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Dear old dad. We don’t know about you, but we’ve taken an unofficial office poll and decided that fathers are some of the toughest people in the world to shop for. It’s not that they’re picky — far from it, in fact. It’s just that most dads go out and buy the things that they really want, and don’t really desire much outside of that. If you, like us, experienced a mild panic when you realized that Father’s Day is less than a week away, have no fear; we’ve rounded up some interesting gift options!
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The Personalize Learning Toolkit includes resources that can help your school or organization personalize learning for all of your learners. You need this toolkit to:
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It is amazing how technology has changed the whole world giving rise to new forms of education we never thought of. Our students are more digitally focused than any time before. They spend more time interacting with their mobile devices than they do with their parents or close relatives.
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Information graphics or “infographics” are graphic visual representations of information, data, or knowledge. Infographics help us absorb facts and figures in the most effective way possible. They come in extremely handy when you need to explain complex information, numbers or data rather quickly and effectively.
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What is Graphic Facilitation? It’s taking information, whether from discussion, someone’s notepad or an annual report, and transforming it into something visual, organised and accessible. It’s finding the right mixture of words, illustration and design to capture a subject and make it memorable.
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Why should you integrate the internet into your curriculum? How do you plan meaningful web-based activities? How do you build a Professional Learning Community? What free tech tools are available for teachers and students? The Beginner's Guide to 21st Century Teaching and Learning, designed for the digital immigrant, will answer these and many more of your questions, hesitations and fears surrounding integrating the internet and technology into your curriculum. It serves as a technology handbook for teachers ready to harness technology as a teaching and learning tool.
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A recent research paper sheds light on several ways in which educational games can facilitate the learning experience and benefit the student.
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Album covers are the creative designs that are placed on the released audio recording product of a band or performing artist. These covers do not only show what their music is all about, but also express what it feels like to be part of music. And since it would be wonderful to have a glimpse of what artistry can do when blended with the tune of a song, here are 20 tasteful and creative album cover designs used by their corresponding bands and performing artist:
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Whether you’re a new or seasoned Twitter user, you likely come across confusing hashtags that probably look like a bunch of nonsense. The # symbol, called a hashtag, is used to mark keyword or topic in a Tweet. Any Twitter user can categorize or follow topics with hashtags.Those hashtags (usually) mean something and are a great way to get a tweet to appear in search results or discussion monitoring.
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Wondering how to use Google’s new Knowledge Graph? The resulting panels to the right of the main results are meant to move research beyond simple data retrieval into deeper topics. At the same time, the new tool could serve as a better way to use key words. The new sidebar shows key facts that users might want when they run specific types of queries, such as people, animals, and geographic locations. How can this tool be used for student searches? Here are some ideas.
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Beginning with early Atari and Nintendo video games, the 8-bit aesthetic has been a part of our culture for over 30 years. As it moved through the generations, 8-bit earned its independence from its video game roots. The idea of 8-bit now stands for a refreshing level of simplicity and minimalism, is capable of sonic and visual beauty, and points to the layer of technology that suffuses our modern lives. No longer just nostalgia art, contemporary 8-bit artists and chiptunes musicians have elevated the form to new levels of creativity and cultural reflection.
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German photographer Menno Aden has shot a series of Berlin interiors from an unconventional viewpoint: looking down from the ceiling.
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Born in 1970 in New York City, Matthew Cusick now lives in Dallas, Texas where he uses maps and other materials to create sublime collages.
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Nowadays many pupils, when given a research task, immediately might think to themselves, “I’ll just Google that.” Internet search engines (of which Google is only one of many) are powerful tools but many pupils use only a fraction of the power of them, and then can also have difficulty finding the information specific to the task. There are many resources now available to help in developing pupil skills in searching more effectively using online search engines.
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From Cool Cat Teacher's Blog: After researching over a thousand Twitter Tools for the Twitter Tools Book I came across many tools that tried to add value by presenting a different way to visualize or analyze your tweets.
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The Alliance for Excellent Education (the Alliance), founder and producer of Digital Learning Day, is pleased to share the first in its series of digital learning papers entitled, Culture Shift: Teaching in a Learner-Centered Environment Powered by Digital Learning. Via Steven Engravalle
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Unwrapping the key attributes that transform principals into effective technology leaders in their schools and in their districts.
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Modern leaders and organisations are rediscovering the power of Stories. Narrative approaches are beginning to be used in Education, Business, Social Care & Health Care to develop reflective & communication skills & appreciation of diverse views.
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The Internet's reach is so pervasive, it feels as though it has always been around. The reality is that the web is still in its infancy, and we don't really understand the risks it poses to our mental health. In fact, various experts, such as Larry D. Rosen, a psychologist and author of "iDisorder," believe that personal gadgets are making us mentally ill and are exacerbating other problems such as narcissism, depression or obsessive-compulsive disorder
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