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A New Research Tool That Can Track One Fish Among Many

Lots of little animals do interesting things scientists can study in the lab, from ants using chemical signals to communicate to zebrafish fighting over mates and status. To study these behaviors, scientists have to keep track of individual animals, and that often means tedious hours spent coding video by hand. New software developed by a team of Spanish researchers aims to automate this task, shifting the work from grad students to computers.

















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Are you getting a little crazy in your classroom?

By Zachary Walker, THE Journal

One of the benefits of living in Singapore is the chance to visit and work in schools like Nan Chiau Primary. Nan Chiau is one of the schools around the world which is building the foundation for amazing learning through the 1:1 initiative that Elliot and Cathleen started there six years ago. Like many teachers, I was resistant to using technology at the start. I didn’t use any technology my first two years in the classroom (except the days my administrator would evaluate me and, for those days, I would throw together a PowerPoint!). Now I am lucky to work with some amazing districts, schools, administrators and teachers around the world who are revolutionizing education. Here are the first three reasons I don’t think I can be a great teacher without using mobile technology in my classroom.

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How technology is changing the rules of time and education

Krishna Bahirwani, DNA India

In a fast-paced world where competition is tough and the time-frames are small, the format of education today is counterproductive. It tries to make a relationship between time spent and knowledge learnt for all students, which is something that cannot be generalised. This relation fails when it comes to actual knowledge learnt because we simply cannot generalise how much knowledge students can absorb in a credit hour. Education is now set to change as college students are now questioning education in terms of time and money spent. “If I had known that my education was going to be worth Rs 4-5 crore and it would take me four years to completem, the way it turned out, I would have spent my money differently” said Rhea Kanuga, a bachelor of fine arts from the Aacademy of Art University, San Francisco.

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Why Do Online Courses Cost More? [Infographic]

By Brian Wallace, Business2Community

Online courses were once very rare, and they catered exclusively to nontraditional students. Now one in five students is taking an online course. But they sometimes end up costing more than a traditional college course, so why bother? There are a lot of perks to taking online courses. Many times, you can take classes whenever it works into your schedule instead of having to show up at your university at a set time. Course materials are often available for you to go back through as needed, which can be great if you’ve forgotten something from the beginning of the semester. There are rules and regulations about everything from the certifications of the person teaching the class to the technology being used. The initial startup costs are making online courses more expensive for now, but as technology and training catch up to the standards, these costs will decline in the future. Check out the infographic linked below for more about the benefits of online college courses.

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Believe the hype: e-learning can revolutionise education in Africa

Natricia Duncan, Guardian

An African permanent secretary once told me that e-learning is the solution for education in Africa. I pointed out that I come from a generation that was schooled without that technology and is extremely well educated. What is vital, I argued, is adequate teacher training. But e-learning is also very important, especially in the internet, technology-driven world we live in. For Africa it can be a valuable tool in improving access to education. For example, to produce textbooks and distribute them across schools is hugely expensive and very difficult. Whereas online access to information such as teaching resources and lesson plans, which can be used to build a curriculum, is cheap and easy once the technology and infrastructure is in place and the teacher is trained to use it.

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Colleges Now Recognize Robotics as Activity for Entrance Credit

by Utah Pulse

Beginning in August 2015, students applying to colleges through the Common Application, a standard entrance application being used by many universities, will be able to select robotics as an activity category that will now receive entrance evaluation credit for their participation in a recognized extracurricular learning activity.

http://utahpulse.com/index.php/features/technology/942-colleges-now-recognize-robotics-as-activity-for-entrance-credit

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