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In the award-winning documentary Children Full of Life, a fourth-grade class in a primary school in Kanazawa, northwest of Tokyo, learn lessons about compassion from their homeroom teacher, Toshiro Kanamori. He instructs each to write their true inner feelings in a letter, and read it aloud in front of the class. By sharing their lives, the children begin to realize the importance of caring for their classmates. 
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Trinity College researchers have constructed an artificial neural network model that demonstrates that human intelligence evolved from the need for social teamwork.
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A researcher at the Prado, using high-tech tools, discovered that a copy of the Mona Lisa was most likely painted by someone sitting next to Leonardo da Vinci as he produced his masterpiece.
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Israeli artist Shay Aaron, whose work we first spotted over at booooooom, creates impossibly tiny, handmade clay sculptures of delicious looking treats, most of them on a 1:12 scale. In addition to being mouthwateringly realistic, his tiny food is pretty gorgeous almost good enough to eat
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The automotive industry has evolved. The tech industry has evolved. Heck, the oil industry has evolved (and they’re essentially selling fossils!). So why hasn’t education evolved?We’re still teaching out of textbooks and relatively resistant to technological change. But what do the students think? A terrific video exemplifies just about everything anyone could have hoped to say. The students comments... 'We live in the problem – the best ideas for change are going to come from us. We don’t blame the teachers or the schools themselves for this outdated method – we blame the system. As a group of students stuck in public school long due for an upgrade, we demand change.'
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Melbourne artist Pamela Dale’s work is full of intricate detail: ‘Generally I’m trying to get a feel of the walk-in paradise’, she says. ‘Because these are large scale, you actually walk into them in a sense. You can get sucked into one of the flowers, but when you’re creating them it is like an organic development of shape upon shape and it also has echoes of how nature creates itself, the replication’.
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All popular culture today,” said McLaren, “goes to great lengths to promote the idea that it’s cool to be stupid.” He championed instead the “messy process of creativity” in which struggle, failure and the acquisition of skill and knowledge are valued above instant fame
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Flavorwire has made a series of monthly timelines charting hundreds of fictional birthdays from TV, film, literature, video games, and beyond.
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There are a lot of great educational videos out there. One of the best lists, that David Truss goes back to time and again, was built by Alec Couros and it evolved from a blog post to a wiki page: 90+ Videos for Tech. & Media Literacy. think some real gems are being missed. Here are 5 Educational TEDx Videos that David thinks deserves to be paid attention to.
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Best selling author Seth Godin discusses the failure of our educational model that's built around producing factory workers.
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A torrent of stimulation is just a click or touchscreen away, ensuring that even the slightest trace of boredom can be mitigated through constant screen connectivity. As beneficial as this perpetual connectivity can be, neuroscience has been uncovering some detrimental side effects.
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Stories are powerful. We put together this little demonstration to inspire our people make more emotional connections. Sweet little video!
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Lovely little video from TO-FU a design studio in Japan which specializes in making video and motion graphics.
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This huge drum which was made out of 20,000 pieces of LEGO actually plays out the tune to Star Wars in a piece of marketing that is sure to get fans of both products excited all over the world. It was all done to promote LEGO in Germany.
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Nielsen has come up with a new name for this group based on their digitally-connected behaviors: Generation C. The C stands for “connected,” and the group comprises Americans between 18 and 34 — who are defined by their digital connectivity. They consume media, socialize and share experiences through devices more than other age groups.
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From the fabulous folks at Edudemic: Over the next twenty years, within an increasingly global economy, better technology, less public funding for schools, and more diversity, education in the United States will change dramatically. Here are five areas in education that will be altered in the next two decades.
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Have you ever stopped and wondered what version of the world your beloved dog or cat sees the world in? How is their perception colored and how do they perceive you? Most of us take for granted the gift we are granted with sight, but it may surprise some of you to find out that many animals actually have much better vision than we do.
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Artist Sam Hoh writes... ...my friends at Beef Knuckles approached me to do a bunch of illustrations for their off-shoot zine The Ball Street Journal. I admit, I knew nothing about basketball. The extent of my knowledge was that Shaq became a rapper and Kobe Bryant went out with the singer Brandy. These guys love basketball and wanted to recount their top NBA moments, which were all very interesting stories. At this point my work was pretty rigid, so I wanted to try something brighter and less restrained to reflect the sort of energy found in the game and amongst its fans.
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A light leak, commonly associated with Holga model cameras, is an area within a camera where light is able to seep, or “leak” in, causing the film to over-expose.
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YouTube is easily one of the most powerful Web 2.0 tools for the classroom. However, it had a big stumbling block: inappropriate or unrelated content. YouTube EDU solved a big part of this by creating a curated area for educational content.
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Hats off to the Purdue Society of Professional Engineers team. This weekend, the team broke its own world record for the Largest Functional Rube Goldberg Machine.
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Russian photographer Andrey Pavlov takes insane macro pictures of LIVE ants by spending hours and hours playing with them and posing them to get the perfect shot.
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Visual literacy is a 21st Century Skill that requires students to interpret, use and create media in ways to encourage critical thinking, decision-making, communication and learning. With easy access to copyright-friendly digital images and a growing number of web 2.0 resources for manipulating them, it's certainly worth offering students the option of conveying a message visually.
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Search, links, media sharing, social media, Wikipedia, games, open source etc. are ground breaking shifts in the way we learn, says Donald Clark. Unfortunately, they're not matched by the way we teach. The growing gap between teaching practice and learning practice is acute and growing.
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