The 20 most-watched TEDx talks so far News X marks the spot: This week’s TEDxTalks Each week, TEDx chooses four of our favorite talks, highlighting just a few of the enlightening speakers from the TEDx community, and its diverse constellation of ideas worth spreading. Below, give this week’s talks a listen. Fighting Duchenne muscular dystrophy: Dr. Benjy Seckler at TEDxBerkshires Potential medicines, especially for rare genetic diseases, take years to […] Global Issues 4 TEDxTalks on how the world could end today (but, chances are, won’t) Well, it’s December 21st, 2012, in EST time zones and, if you’re reading this, the world has not ended. Apple poised to bring important changes to its iBook platform Apple may be poised to announce changes coming to iBooks, and perhaps eBook publishing, sometime this month. In particular, we believe the announcement may have important reverberations for textbook publishers and buyers. According to a report by All Things Digital published Monday, the company is planning a media event in New York to make a "media-related," not hardware-related announcement. Further, sources for TechCrunch claimed the announcement will focus on "improvements to the iBooks platform," and the event will supposedly be more geared towards the publishing industry (not necessarily consumers). Apple has recently highlighted the ability of its iBooks platform to include sound, video, and other features by offering a free eBook of The Yellow Submarine. And based on information from our own sources, we believe the announcement could likely involve support for the EPUB 3 standard, which enables a wider variety of multimedia and interaction features.
10 TED talks about the beauty - and difficulty of being creative Maths Worksheets 9 Places to Sell Your Children's Book...Besides Bookstores You've published a children's book! Congratulations! Whether you're traditionally published or you self-published, this is a huge accomplishment. But now the real hard work begins: selling. Surprisingly, many many places other than bookstores can help you sell your book. Direct from the author. Specialty catalogs. Museums and other gift stores. School visits. Library conferences. Education/teacher conferences. As a fundraiser. At street fairs and other outdoor events. Through gift stores in your hometown.
The 100 Most Influential Books Ever Written (book) The 100 Most Influential Books Ever Written: The History of Thought from Ancient Times to Today (1998) is a book of intellectual history written by Martin Seymour-Smith, a British poet, critic, and biographer.[1] The list included the books such as, Upanishads, Hebrew Bible, I Ching, Kabbalah, Candide, The World as Will and Idea, among others. See also[edit] References[edit] Jump up ^ Seymour-Smith, Martin (1998). External links[edit] The list How DO We Learn Math? What makes it possible to learn advanced math fairly quickly is that the human brain is capable of learning to follow a given set of rules without understanding them, and apply them in an intelligent and useful fashion. Given sufficient practice, the brain eventually discovers (or creates) meaning in what began as a meaningless game.— Keith DevlinShould Children Learn Math by Starting with Counting? It seems obvious that our children must have a wide range of experience with real world objects before counting, addition, or subtraction mean anything to them. But are other topics, such as calculus, better learned as abstract rules — as a game that we play with symbols? To teach effectively, I need to understand how students learn. I Learn by Discovery Collect lots of experiences.Notice patterns or trends.Develop mental metaphors to explain the patterns, and postulate rules from the metaphors.Test the rules against future experiences. I Learn by Constructing a Logical Framework
50 Tricks to Study Better, Faster and with Less Stress Studying isn’t one task, it’s many. You may need to memorize facts or just understand the basics. You might need a broad conceptual base, or just skills. To add even more variety, each person has different learning styles and preferences. No one tool is the right one. **Authors Note: I realize this article is fairly long, so you may want to bookmark it to finish it later** 1) Visualization The idea here is that you want to put abstract information into a picture. I’m not a huge fan of this method, but sometimes brute force is required. Take two ideas and ask yourself how they relate. Take a more complex idea and compare it to a simpler one. Draw it out. Most people take notes in a linear fashion, writing one statement after the next. A bit more efficient than rote memorization is to use mnemonics. This is an advanced memory technique. A variation of the link method, this one helps you memorize numbers. Another technique that works well with holistic learning is retracing.
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