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Nothing moves faster than technology. No other sector has seen as much rapid change and development in such a short space of time, and education technology is no exception.
Faster, more powerful computers, cheap and accessible tablet devices and innovative learning resources have opened the door to a world of possibility in learning.
Around the world, students are learning by playing games and watching videos online, textbooks are being published as interactive ebooks and massive, number crunching computers are working out the best way to tailor learning to the individual.
But FE, it seems, is a little late to the party.
It?s clear, though, that emerging technologies are at least on the mind of FE Minister Matthew Hancock, who tweeted in January: ?There?s much more to do to take advantage of new technology delivering skills.?
Hopefully the minister, the proud owner of an A-level in IT, can pass his enthusiasm on to the
rest of the sector.
To help you on your way, our resident tech expert, Dan Duke brings you a dummy?s guide to four of the biggest new trends in learning technology.
Big data is the idea that data mining ? the automatic processing of large databases to find useful patterns ? and analytics can help us develop a better understanding of learners? behaviour,
allowing us to shape education and frameworks around them on a much more personal level.
One suggestion imagines students using online learning systems that deliver bespoke content and assessments at the same time as measuring and collecting data about the learning process, like how quickly they are completing particular tasks or what kind of additional resources they used in study.
At the end the teacher can use the software to create an analysis of the learner?s ability and progress, and from this they can tailor learning materials to suit the ability of the student.
If this process is then carried out with a whole classroom, a whole school or a whole country, the data can be used to get insight into student performance and which learning approaches work best.
Instead of waiting for end-of-year exams, teachers could continually analyse knowledge and performance and understand what methods work for which learners.
Data analysis like this could offer much more detailed and valuable insights than traditional methods.
This one sounds exotic but it?s pretty straightforward really, and it?s certainly not a new trend in education.
In its simplest form gamification means the incorporation of game elements into non-game settings.
In the classroom this can mean anything from using actual game design and development as a method of organising the learning framework, to introducing a simple points system that motivates learners by creating a competitive atmosphere.
Educators have been using interactive, game-based learning for a long time but the huge uptake of console and online gaming in recent years has prompted a rethink of how gamification can help improve learning.
Most modern computer games include an achievement system, a series of goals and tasks that exist outside of the game?s normal structure and narrative. This idea has been brought into the classroom, rewarding learners for achievements outside of the regular grading systems.
Many online learning resources have badge systems, where a learner earns a particular badge for reaching a certain level or completing a set number of tasks around a given topic, motivating the learner and allowing them to easily track their own progress.
This same technique is being introduced in classrooms and training schemes to great effect.
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow very large-scale, and often free, participation in training via the internet.
MOOCs allow hundreds and even thousands of people all over the world to?get access to further and higher education that they otherwise wouldn?t have access to.
The term MOOC was coined in 2008 but many of the ideas behind the concept have existed since long before the ?digital age?.
In the late 1800s thousands of people were enrolling in correspondence courses and in the 1920s millions of draftees were being trained for war by watching films created by the US military.
MOOCs gained a lot of publicity last year due to high profile MOOC project founders and contributing institutions, as well as large financial investment in a push to make e-learning much more sustainable and scalable.
Their real feature is the huge student to teacher ratio, especially in comparison to traditional college or school courses.
This ratio would be impossible to recreate in a regular classroom so MOOCs offer a great opportunity to save resources.
Moocs not only overcome physical and geographical boundaries, they also allow many learners, unable to afford traditional pathways, access to specialised education.
Flip teaching is a broad term that refers to any use of technology that supplements classroom learning so that a teacher can spend more time interacting with learners rather than lecturing them.
It?s commonly done using video lessons, produced by the teacher or a resource provider, for students to watch outside of class time.
Originally developed in the 1990s, flip teaching saw the computer as an exciting new tool to help improve the quality of education by allowing learners who studied independently to be coached, instead of lectured.
The learner studies the topic independently, outside of the classroom and then applies that knowledge through problem solving and practical work in class.
This method transforms the traditional role of the teacher ? they no longer teach the initial lesson but instead become a tutor, able to guide the student if they are stuck.
Flip teaching allows for more time to do engaging work in class, avoiding long lectures where learners lose interest, and increases interaction time with the teacher.
The students also get to study the video lessons in their own time so it is likely they will choose to do so when they are more alert and ready to take in new information.
And, even if they do miss something, using video lessons lets them rewind and catch up on anything they didn?t understand the first time around.
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Source: http://feweek.co.uk/2013/02/22/guide-to-fe-learning-tech/
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Diabetes was once considered as a hereditary health problem, but today diabetes is also a top ranking lifestyle disease. But it?s not end of the road for those with diabetes; change in diet, lifestyle and discipline can help you control diabetes and can even reverse the symptoms. Dr. Shalini Jaggi, Senior Consultant with Action Diabetic Centre and head nutritionist with Perfect Wellness and Dr. Saritha Rajiv shares with us some vital lifestyle tips that diabetics can add to their life. *Images courtesy: ? Thinkstock photos/ Getty Images
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Yeni
Recently, a bi-partisan group is attempting to create a ?path to citizenship? for illegal immigrants. Many in our community (and country) support such a plan ? I do not.
Of course I?m biased. I?ve spent tens of thousands of dollars on fees, wiped away more tears than one can count, and have had my motives questions all to follow the rule of law and have Yeni and I keep within the bounds of legal immigration.
As most know, Yeni is Colombian. She?s also very funny, very attractive, and an amazing artist. The important part here is that Yeni is a Colombian citizen.
Although she had family here (US Citizens) and had visited previously under tourist visas, Yeni came to the US most recently under a work Visa. By trade and education, she?s a Microbiologist, and she initially came here to work for the University of Michigan / VA in research.
It took many years for her to learn a skill that allowed her to gain legal entry to the United States. She sacrificed a lot, risked a lot, and did actions according to the rule of law.
Today, Yeni studied for her citizenship test (it?s coming up this week). I guarantee you Yeni knows more about being a citizen than 60% of US Citizens.
Right now, without hesitation, my non-US Citizen wife can tell you how many representatives there are in the House of Representatives. She knows the terms of Congressman, Senators, the President.
She can name the Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, the Speaker of the House, the President, the Vice-President. She knows their political affiliations.
She can name our US Representative to congress.
Yeni can name two wars fought by the US in the 1800s. Two in the 1900s. She can name several reasons why we had a civil war, as well as discussing the Emancipation Proclamation.
Yeni knows about the flag, can tell you how many amendments there are to the US Constitution, who wrote the Constitution, and can name several tribes of Native Americans habiting the land before the colonists.
She also can discuss the rule of law.
To pass her citizenship test, Yeni must know that the rule of law dictates:
I guess she?ll be forced to lie to that question; because clearly there is no rule of law.
A path to citizenship for illegal immigrants?
Let?s first start by removing the rule of law.
Source: http://www.fredposner.com/esposa/1341/rule-law-immigration/
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New research will help shed light on role of Amazon forests in global carbon cycle
Tuesday, January 29, 2013The Earth's forests perform a well-known service to the planet, absorbing a great deal of the carbon dioxide pollution emitted into the atmosphere from human activities. But when trees are killed by natural disturbances, such as fire, drought or wind, their decay also releases carbon back into the atmosphere, making it critical to quantify tree mortality in order to understand the role of forests in the global climate system. Tropical old-growth forests may play a large role in this absorption service, yet tree mortality patterns for these forests are not well understood.
Now scientist Jeffrey Chambers and colleagues at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have devised an analytical method that combines satellite images, simulation modeling and painstaking fieldwork to help researchers detect forest mortality patterns and trends. This new tool will enhance understanding of the role of forests in carbon sequestration and the impact of climate change on such disturbances.
"One quarter of CO2 emissions are going to terrestrial ecosystems, but the details of those processes and how they will respond to a changing climate are inadequately understood, particularly for tropical forests," Chambers said. "It's important we get a better understanding of the terrestrial sink because if it weakens, more of our emissions will end up in the atmosphere, increasing the rate of climate warming. To develop a better estimate of the contribution of forests, we need to have a better understanding of forest tree mortality."
Chambers, in close collaboration with Robinson Negron-Juarez at Tulane University, Brazil's National Institute for Amazon Research (Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amaz?nia [INPA]) and other colleagues, studied a section of the Central Amazon spanning over a thousand square miles near Manaus, Brazil. By linking data from Landsat satellite images over a 20-year period with observations on the ground, they found that 9.1 to 16.9 percent of tree mortality was missing from more conventional plot-based analyses of forests. That equates to more than half a million dead trees each year that had previously been unaccounted for in studies of this region, and which need to be included in forest carbon budgets.
Their findings were published online this week in a paper titled, "The steady-state mosaic of disturbance and succession across an old-growth Central Amazon forest landscape," in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
"If these results hold for most tropical forests, then it would indicate that because we missed some of the mortality, then the contribution of these forests to the net sink might be less than previous studies have suggested," Chambers said. "An old-growth forest has a mosaic of patches all doing different things. So if you want to understand the average behavior of that system you need to sample at a much larger spatial scale over larger time intervals than was previously appreciated. You don't see this mosaic if you walk through the forest or study only one patch. You really need to look at the forest at the landscape scale."
Trees and other living organisms are key players in the global carbon cycle, a complex biogeochemical process in which carbon is exchanged among the atmosphere, the ocean, the biosphere and Earth's crust. Fewer trees mean not only a weakening of the forest's ability to absorb carbon, but the decay of dead trees will also release carbon dioxide back into the atmosphere. Large-scale tree mortality in tropical ecosystems could thus act as a positive feedback mechanism, accelerating the global warming effect.
The Amazon forest is hit periodically by fierce thunderstorms that may bring violent winds with concentrated bursts believed to be as high as 170 miles per hour. The storms can blow down many acres of the forest; however, Chambers and his team were able to paint a much more nuanced picture of how storms affected the forest.
By looking at satellite images before and after a storm, the scientists discerned changes in the reflectivity of the forest, which they assumed was due to damage to the canopy and thus tree loss. Researchers were then sent into the field at some of the blowdown areas to count the number of trees felled by the storm. Looking at the satellite images pixel by pixel (with each pixel representing 900 square meters, or about one-tenth of a football field) and matching them with on-the-ground observations, they were able to draw a detailed mortality map for the entire landscape, which had never been done before.
Essentially they found that tree mortality is clustered in both time and space. "It's not blowdown or no blowdown?it's a gradient, with everything in between," he said. "Some areas have 80 percent of trees down, some have 15 percent."
In one particularly violent storm in 2005, a squall line more than 1,000 miles long and 150 miles wide crossed the entire Amazon basin. The researchers estimated that hundreds of millions trees were potentially destroyed, equivalent to a significant fraction of the estimated mean annual carbon accumulation for the Amazon forest. This finding was published in 2010 in Geophysical Research Letters. Intense 100-year droughts also caused widespread tree mortality in the Amazon basin in 2005 and 2010.
As climatic warming is expected to bring more intense droughts and stronger storms, understanding their effect on tropical and forest ecosystems becomes ever more important. "We need to establish a baseline so we can say how these forests functioned before we changed the climate," Chambers said.
This new tool can be used to assess tree mortality in other types of forests as well. Chambers and colleagues reported in the journal Science in 2007 that Hurricane Katrina killed or severely damaged about 320 million trees. The carbon in those trees, which would eventually be released into the atmosphere as CO2 as the trees decompose, was about equal to the net amount of carbon absorbed by all U.S. forests in a year.
Disturbances such as Superstorm Sandy and Hurricane Katrina cause large impacts to the terrestrial carbon cycle, forest tree mortality and CO2 emissions from decomposition, in addition to significant economic impacts. However, these processes are currently not well represented in global climate models. "A better understanding of tree mortality provides a path forward towards improving coupled earth system models," Chambers said.
Besides understanding how forests affect carbon cycling, the new technique could also play a vital role in understanding how climate change will affect forests. Although the atmospheric CO2 concentration has been rising for decades, we are now only just starting to feel the effects of a warming climate, such as melting glaciers, stronger heat waves and more violent storms.
"But these climate change signals will start popping out of the noise faster and faster as the years go on," Chambers said. "So, what's going to happen to old-growth tropical forests? On one hand they are being fertilized by some unknown extent by the rising CO2 concentration, and on the other hand a warming climate will likely accelerate tree mortality. So which of these processes will win out in the long-term: growth or death? Our study provides the tools to continue to make these critical observations and answer this question as climate change processes fully kicks in over the coming years."
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By Richard N. Velotta, Las Vegas Sun
Lawmakers from across the country are contemplating whether it?s worthwhile to move into a domain that?s been almost exclusively Nevada?s since 1949 ? legalized sports wagering.
But a top Las Vegas race and sports book director says that even if other states cleared the numerous legal and legislative hurdles to offer betting on sports in their states, it probably wouldn?t have a big effect on Nevada.
The issue of legalizing sports wagering was a topic of a panel discussion Saturday at the three-day meeting of the National Council of Legislators from Gaming States. The organization?s winter meeting at the Rio in Las Vegas is being attended by about 100 lawmakers and regulators from 21 states, a Canadian province and Washington, D.C. Representatives of several American Indian tribes that operate casinos also are attending.
New Jersey is the state most likely to move in on Nevada?s territory after the state?s voters overwhelmingly approved a constitutional question that would enable gamblers to place sports bets at New Jersey?s horse tracks and in Atlantic City casinos.
New Jersey voters approved the measure in 2011, and Gov. Chris Christie signed a constitutional amendment in January 2012 to pave the way for sports betting this month. The state decided not to challenge a federal law enacted in 1992 that makes it illegal for people to bet on professional and amateur athletics.
The Professional Amateur Sports Protection Act gives Nevada, Oregon, Montana and Delaware exemptions from the law. Although Nevada is the only state with legal sports books, the three others were grandfathered in because they had laws on their books to allow football betting in conjunction with lotteries and contests.
Christie said New Jersey would continue to move toward licensing sports books, and the NCAA and the four major professional sports leagues filed a suit in federal court to block New Jersey?s plans.
Most of the panelists in the session of the National Council of Legislators from Gaming States supported state efforts to get into the sports book game.
Donn Mitchell, chief administrative officer of St. Louis-based Isle of Capri, said sports wagering offers another ?hook? to get customers to come to a casino.
?Why does the federal government say you can?t have it anywhere except Nevada?? Mitchell asked. ?New Jersey is asking that question and rightfully so. It needs to be challenged.?
Alan Koslow, a lawyer with the Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based Becker & Poliakoff law firm, said while sports books don?t generate a high percentage of revenue for a casino?s bottom line, it does generate gross revenue in hotel rooms, food, beverages, shows and shopping.
?I talked with an executive at Wynn (Resorts) who said the biggest weekend by far at the Wynn Las Vegas properties is the Super Bowl weekend,? Koslow said. ?They?re coming here to have a good time, and they?re having a good time.?
Art Manteris, who oversees the sports books at 17 Station Casinos properties in Las Vegas, said the ban on sports wagering in most states diverts money to illegal offshore Internet casinos. Manteris, who lives in Boulder City, said he has a hard time reconciling that what he does for a living is illegal just across the Colorado River in Arizona.
He said the horse racing industry shot itself in the foot years ago when it didn?t attempt to get sports wagering legalized at tracks. Today, the horse-racing industry is dying, and it lost an opportunity to bring a new generation of young gamblers to the track.
Manteris thinks that if sports wagering were legalized in other states, it wouldn?t hurt Nevada?s industry. He said that like the perceived threats of riverboat gaming and tribal casinos to Las Vegas in the past, legalized sports wagering elsewhere would broaden the market and attract more people to the city.
?On Super Bowl weekend, where would you rather go: Las Vegas or some other place that may have a casino that has sports betting?? Manteris said.
In 2011, Nevada?s 216 sports books took $2.9 billion in wagers, but about 95 percent of that was returned to gamblers who won. The state wins about $10 billion in gaming a year, but of that, only about $150 million comes from sports wagering.
Only one panelist took an opposing viewpoint on encouraging states to legalize sports betting.
Former U.S. District Attorney Michael Fagan, now of the St. Louis-based Center for Advanced Prosecution, said states should be wary of the hidden costs of any form of gambling.
?If you think it?s something that can be regulated, you have to devote resources to it,? Fagan said. ?You?ll need to be able to investigate corruption and fraud and allegations that inevitably occur with sports wagering.?
Fagan said he has seen studies show that jurisdictions that allow sports wagering spend $3 for every dollar they make from gamblers on investigations and the social costs of problem gambling associated with sports betting.
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