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Teacher: iPAD’s Not Convenient to our School
Last night we got this email from a teacher friend with his take on Apple’s new education initiative with iBooks 2 and iPad textbooks.This teacher works at a private K-12 school. Most families who send their kids there are pretty well off.This teacher is also responsible for recommending technology purchases for the school. His take on Apple’s iPad textbooks? They’re not good enough yet. He points out that if a school is going to make a big technology purchase, it’s just as important that students are able to create content (write papers, etc.) as consume it (textbooks). He also says e-textbooks are already available on PCs and they’re just as good, if not better, than…
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Evaluation and Observation in Education
An observation is strictly objective statement of what you see. There is no opinion to be stated in your observation. For example, “The teacher read the story XXX to the group of 4 children, A,B, C, and D. After reading each page, she showed the picture to the children. Children A and B sat quietly looking at the teacher and the pictures. Child C looked at the pictures sometimes, and sometimes played with her shoelaces. Child D never looked at the book and looked out the window during the entire activity.
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Cannibal stars inside the Milky Way
Astronomers have spotted the first cannibal stars ever discovered in the heart of our Milky Way galaxy, using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. Also known as blue stragglers, cannibal stars drain life away from other stars and seem to remain younger than the stars they destroy. The so-called vampire stars seem to move slowly toward neighboring stars to suck in gas from them. That is why they look hotter, younger and bluer. According to National Geographic News, cannibal stars are routinely found in dense star clusters, where stars have many chances to feed off each other. The new discovery, however, has unveiled blue stragglers in a dense region of stars and gas surrounding the Milky Way’s…
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Unique Colorful view of the Milky Way
The US space agency NASA has released a unique composite image of the center of the Milky Way galaxy in celebration of the International Year of Astronomy 2009. The composite image commemorates the 400 years since Galileo first turned his telescope to the heavens in 1609. NASA’s Great Observatories — the Hubble Space Telescope, the Spitzer Space Telescope, and the Chandra X-ray Observatory — have collaborated to produce an unprecedented image of the central region of our Milky Way galaxy. NASA officials said experts from the three observatories assembled the final never-before-seen image from large mosaic photo surveys taken by each telescope. Each telescope’s contribution is presented in a different color: – Yellow represents the…
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Our Galaxy Milky Way’s true colors
Astronomers at the University of Pittsburgh say they have determined the exact color of the Milky Way Galaxy as it is seen from other far away galaxies. Findings indicate that the Milky Way is redder than most spiral galaxies but when combined with its blue arms its overall color is white. “The best description I can give would be that if you looked at new spring snow, which has a fine grain size, about an hour after dawn or an hour before sunset, you’d see the same spectrum of light that an alien astronomer in another galaxy would see looking at the Milky Way,” Jeffrey Newman told the state-funded BBC. In order to do the…
Teacher: iPAD’s Not Convenient to our School
Last night we got this email from a teacher friend with his take on Apple’s new education initiative with iBooks 2 and iPad textbooks.This teacher works at a private K-12 school. Most families who send their kids there are pretty well off.This teacher is also responsible for recommending technology purchases for the school. His take on Apple’s iPad textbooks? They’re not good enough yet. He points out that if a school is going to make a big technology purchase, it’s just as important that students are able to create content (write papers, etc.) as consume it (textbooks). He also says e-textbooks are already available on PCs and they’re just as good, if not better, than…
Evaluation and Observation in Education
An observation is strictly objective statement of what you see. There is no opinion to be stated in your observation. For example, “The teacher read the story XXX to the group of 4 children, A,B, C, and D. After reading each page, she showed the picture to the children. Children A and B sat quietly looking at the teacher and the pictures. Child C looked at the pictures sometimes, and sometimes played with her shoelaces. Child D never looked at the book and looked out the window during the entire activity.
Cannibal stars inside the Milky Way
Astronomers have spotted the first cannibal stars ever discovered in the heart of our Milky Way galaxy, using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. Also known as blue stragglers, cannibal stars drain life away from other stars and seem to remain younger than the stars they destroy. The so-called vampire stars seem to move slowly toward neighboring stars to suck in gas from them. That is why they look hotter, younger and bluer. According to National Geographic News, cannibal stars are routinely found in dense star clusters, where stars have many chances to feed off each other. The new discovery, however, has unveiled blue stragglers in a dense region of stars and gas surrounding the Milky Way’s…
Unique Colorful view of the Milky Way
The US space agency NASA has released a unique composite image of the center of the Milky Way galaxy in celebration of the International Year of Astronomy 2009. The composite image commemorates the 400 years since Galileo first turned his telescope to the heavens in 1609. NASA’s Great Observatories — the Hubble Space Telescope, the Spitzer Space Telescope, and the Chandra X-ray Observatory — have collaborated to produce an unprecedented image of the central region of our Milky Way galaxy. NASA officials said experts from the three observatories assembled the final never-before-seen image from large mosaic photo surveys taken by each telescope. Each telescope’s contribution is presented in a different color: – Yellow represents the…
Our Galaxy Milky Way’s true colors
Astronomers at the University of Pittsburgh say they have determined the exact color of the Milky Way Galaxy as it is seen from other far away galaxies. Findings indicate that the Milky Way is redder than most spiral galaxies but when combined with its blue arms its overall color is white. “The best description I can give would be that if you looked at new spring snow, which has a fine grain size, about an hour after dawn or an hour before sunset, you’d see the same spectrum of light that an alien astronomer in another galaxy would see looking at the Milky Way,” Jeffrey Newman told the state-funded BBC. In order to do the…
Cont..Invisible event in Space-Time gap
This video simulates the time cloaking device developed by Cornell University researchers. A ball is trying to pass through a green beam of laser light without being detected. Two short pulses of red laser light change the color of the green light, and since different colors travel at different speeds, a gap is opened in the beam exactly when the ball is passing through. Then the opposite manipulation closes the gap, and two other pulses change the light back to green. Hence, the ball manages to go through the beam without getting detected…
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Cannibal stars inside the Milky Way
Astronomers have spotted the first cannibal stars ever discovered in the heart of our Milky Way galaxy, using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. Also known as blue stragglers, cannibal stars drain life away from other stars and seem to remain younger than the stars they destroy. The so-called vampire stars seem to move slowly toward neighboring stars to suck in gas from them. That is why they look hotter, younger and bluer. According to National Geographic News, cannibal stars are routinely found in dense star clusters, where stars have many chances to feed off each other. The new discovery, however, has unveiled blue stragglers in a dense region of stars and gas surrounding the Milky Way’s…
Unique Colorful view of the Milky Way
The US space agency NASA has released a unique composite image of the center of the Milky Way galaxy in celebration of the International Year of Astronomy 2009. The composite image commemorates the 400 years since Galileo first turned his telescope to the heavens in 1609. NASA’s Great Observatories — the Hubble Space Telescope, the Spitzer Space Telescope, and the Chandra X-ray Observatory — have collaborated to produce an unprecedented image of the central region of our Milky Way galaxy. NASA officials said experts from the three observatories assembled the final never-before-seen image from large mosaic photo surveys taken by each telescope. Each telescope’s contribution is presented in a different color: – Yellow represents the…
Our Galaxy Milky Way’s true colors
Astronomers at the University of Pittsburgh say they have determined the exact color of the Milky Way Galaxy as it is seen from other far away galaxies. Findings indicate that the Milky Way is redder than most spiral galaxies but when combined with its blue arms its overall color is white. “The best description I can give would be that if you looked at new spring snow, which has a fine grain size, about an hour after dawn or an hour before sunset, you’d see the same spectrum of light that an alien astronomer in another galaxy would see looking at the Milky Way,” Jeffrey Newman told the state-funded BBC. In order to do the…
Cont..Invisible event in Space-Time gap
This video simulates the time cloaking device developed by Cornell University researchers. A ball is trying to pass through a green beam of laser light without being detected. Two short pulses of red laser light change the color of the green light, and since different colors travel at different speeds, a gap is opened in the beam exactly when the ball is passing through. Then the opposite manipulation closes the gap, and two other pulses change the light back to green. Hence, the ball manages to go through the beam without getting detected…
Invisible event in Space-Time gap
Pentagon-sponsored scientists at Cornell University have invented a time cloaking device that makes an entire event invisible for a very short period of time. According to a study published in Thursday’s edition of the journal Nature, the new device interrupts the flow of light that reaches us from events for a fraction of a second, thus making them invisible for just an instant. “Our results represent a significant step towards obtaining a complete spatio-temporal cloaking device,” says the study, led by Moti Fridman of Cornell University, which is located in Ithaca, New York. The scientists have used a method to generate a lens of both light and time, which splits light, creating a gap where…
Kuwait’s first solar energy station: PAAET
The Public Authority for Applied Education and Training (PAAET) in collaboration with PACE-Pan Arab Consulting Engineers, announced their intention to provide a State-of-the-Art design to set-up a solar energy station experimental project, which will be located in the College of Basic Education (CBE) Campus in Ardiyah; adjacent to Jaber Al Ahmad Stadium. PACE, a leader in the architectural consultancy field with over 43 years of experience is designing it’s unique project, which will produce one Mega Watt of Solar energy, which reflects its committed approach to sustainable renewable energy sources and green building applications. The Campus consists of 32 buildings built on an area of 450,000 sqm, with an open roof space of 40,000sqm.
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Geo-Political Nature of the Persian Gulf
After years of U.S. threats, Iran is taking steps which suggest that is both willing and capable of closing the Strait of Hormuz. On December 24, 2011 Iran started its Velayat-90 naval drills in and around the Strait of Hormuz and extending from the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman (Oman Sea) to the Gulf of Aden and the Arabian Sea. Since the conduct of these drills, there has been a growing war of words between Washington and Tehran. Nothing the Obama Administration or the Pentagon have done or said so far, however, has deterred Tehran from continuing its naval drills. The Geo-Political Nature of the Strait of Hormuz Besides the fact that it is…
Kuwait’s first solar energy station: PAAET
The Public Authority for Applied Education and Training (PAAET) in collaboration with PACE-Pan Arab Consulting Engineers, announced their intention to provide a State-of-the-Art design to set-up a solar energy station experimental project, which will be located in the College of Basic Education (CBE) Campus in Ardiyah; adjacent to Jaber Al Ahmad Stadium. PACE, a leader in the architectural consultancy field with over 43 years of experience is designing it’s unique project, which will produce one Mega Watt of Solar energy, which reflects its committed approach to sustainable renewable energy sources and green building applications. The Campus consists of 32 buildings built on an area of 450,000 sqm, with an open roof space of 40,000sqm.
Touchscreen Classpad for Learning
NEW DELHI: Rohit Pande, a graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and Indian Institute of Management-Calcutta comes back to his alma mater to launch his latest innovation Classpad. With his academic background Rohit, is plans to make education accessible to each student according to one’s own merit and intellect. Classpad facilitates personalized and interactive learning in the classroom and makes education accessible to every student according to his/ her individual intelligence level and talent. Using the Classpad, teachers can transfer class work to the students’ tablet, share their own content instantly and conduct tests/ assessments. Students can also give undivided attention to class lessons, attempt assessments and get results to further enhance their…
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