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Ian Chia 's List: ed_magazine
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Apr 20, 11
"A MAN WITH A CONVICTION is a hard man to change. Tell him you disagree and he turns away. Show him facts or figures and he questions your sources. Appeal to logic and he fails to see your point." So wrote the celebrated Stanford University psychologist Leon Festinger (PDF), in a passage that might have been referring to climate change denial—the persistent rejection, on the part of so many Americans today, of what we know about global warming and its human causes. But it was too early for that—this was the 1950s—and Festinger was actually describing a famous case study in psychology.
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Jun 01, 11
In the United States, many schools are seeing six-year-olds with cell phones. The average UK kid gets their first cell phone at eight. Children's access to mobile devices is staggering, as you can see from the "Learning in the 21st Century: Taking it Mobile!" survey.
For instance, among middle school (6th-8th grade) students:59 percent have a cell phone24 percent have an Internet-enabled Smartphone53 percent have a personal laptop or tablet
A generation of students is growing up with a different level of access to information at their collective fingertips -
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Jun 03, 11
Bigshot VR with CSS 3D Rendering
Explanation of the math & CSS implementation. Open Source. -
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Jun 17, 11
Excellent fashion magazine template
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Jun 17, 11
Interesting search by taxonomy - click on Search bar in top left corner to trigger advance search (BAD UI design - it's non-obvious)
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