even including boosting brain functions like memory and learning
#FTC Proposes Stricter Guidelines on Food Ads for Children The Federal trade commission has proposed sweeping new guidelines that could push the food industry to overhaul how it advertises cereal, soda pop, snacks, restaurant meals and other foods to children.
a communications professor at the University of Arizona who studies the marketing of children food. his forces Toucan Sam to be associated with healthier products.
Jon Shane, a professor in the Department of Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration at John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
Now they are back in every community, with the best even waving money at graduates.
Led by professor Keith Martin, the team actually printed viable retina cells, using an inkjet printer, of all things.
but eventually professor Martin and his team believe that their process will be capable of 3d printing#retinal#grafts tailored for individual patients.
Paul Wilcox, professor of ultrasonics at Bristol University s faculty of engineering,#told#The Sunday Times: The obvious way of doing it is to have an ultrasonic transducer in the corner of the windshield that would excite waves at around 30khz to bounce across the windshield.
The classroom will learn you. Buying local will beat online. Doctors will use your DNA to keep you well.
and adaptive learning technologies. IBM believes the technologies will be developed with the appropriate safeguards for privacy and security,
Here s some more detailed description and analysis on the predictions The classroom will learn you Globally,
But IBM believes the classrooms of the future will give educators the tools to learn about every student,
and student behavior on electronic learning platforms##and not just the results of aptitude tests.
which students are at risk, their roadblocks, and the way to help them. IBM is working on a research project with the#Gwinnett County Public schools in Georgia,
the 14th largest school district in the U s. with 170,000 students. The goal is to increase the district s graduation rate.
And after a $10 billion investment in analytics IBM believes it can harness big data to help students out.##
##You ll be able to pick up problems like dyslexia instantly, ##Meyerson said.####If a child has extraordinary abilities,
#A solar-powered 3d printer that prints glass from sand Marcus Kayser s Solar Sinter project When Markus Kayser, a design student,
talked to physics professors, and learned about a process in which sand, heated to its melting point,
##It s a playground to simulate real cyber attacks, ##he said while seated in the##attack room##a computer nerd s paradise,
a law professor specializing in drones and robotics.####If you want to compete in logistics and delivery,
##With face-reading software, a computer s webcam might spot the confused expression of an online student
##The Never Ending Image Learner (NEIL) program is being run at Carnegie mellon University in the United states. The work is being funded by the US Department of defense s Office of Naval Research and Google.
##said Abhinav Gupta, assistant research professor in Carnegie mellon s Robotics Institute.####They also include a lot of common sense information about the world.
humans will need still to be part of the program s learning process, according to Abhinav Shrivastava, a Phd student working on the project.##
##People don t always know how or what to teach computers, ##he said.####But humans are good at telling computers
#Elementary school students in Finland to learn coding Teaching programming is part of an effort to encourage the development of tech skills at an early age.
In the near future, elementary school students in Finland could be adding coding and programming to their nightly homework routine.
Following in#the footsteps of neighboring country Estonia, Alexander Stubb,#the Finnish Minister of European Affairs and Foreign Trade, says that teaching basic programming skills to young kids in the classroom
is on the country s radar.#####It would be a great idea to have coding as a voluntary
##Bringing coding to students is something we are very aware of, but it would probably take awhile to get it up and running.##
Estonia rolled out a similar program for elementary school students in 2012, with 20 schools across the country testing a program called#Progetiiger.
The software teaches everything from basic logic to Java and C++ for older students. Finland is emerging as one of the hottest new startup hubs in the world,
##We all know that learning to code is one of the most hyped skills right now and for good reason,
#some schools already require students wear them as bracelets that sensors can pick up to#deter truancy.
A few months back, Professor Mark Post in Maastricht cultured and grew beef muscle cells from which that##Googleburger##was made.#
##Professor Post said. That#Economist#story also mentions that the##world s appetite for meat is forecast to rise by 70%by 2050.
Video)##In the TED Talk video below, Behrokh Khoshnevis, a professor of Industrial & Systems Engineering at the University of Southern California (USC), demonstrates automated construction,
U s. embassies around the world this fall are hosting weekly discussions for students enrolled in free online courses, called MOOCS, in partnership with Coursera, the Silicon valley-based platform with over 5 million users.
a 21-year-old student studying business at a Catholic university in La paz, Bolivia. She started the MOOC Camp in September,
meeting weekly with other students who were taking#Foundations of Business Strategy, a Coursera course taught by Michael Lenox at the University of Virginia s Darden School of business.
And the embassy is following up with a business plan competition for local students, with an#ipad#Mini as the prize.
##I thought this would be a great opportunity to work with Bolivian students and get them exposed to American-style education.##
which helps international students go to U s. colleges. For its part, Coursera is providing training resources for facilitators.
It will be tracking students success through the platform. The idea is that people will find it easier to persist
Increasing student success through this so-called##blended learning##approach is pretty important for Coursera and the other MOOC platforms.
Globally, 90%of those who enroll in the online courses created by professors at universities like Stanford, Pennsylvania State university, Wesleyan,
and it ll be interesting to see how the American liberal arts approach to classroom discussion flies in such settingsespecially
Imke Hoehler, an inductrial design student at Germany Muthesius Academy of Fine arts has turned a lot of heads with her thesis project, the Dropnet fog collector.
but Canadian design student Thomas Row gives us an idea of what it may look like.
Millercoors director of sustainability. he learnings and savings in the first two years of the pilot project farms were significant cumulative 270 million gallons of water reduced.
Last year, Harvard university researchers led by engineering professor Robert Wood introduced the first Robobees, bee-size robots with the ability to lift off the ground
A coauthor of that report, Harvard graduate student and mechanical engineer Kevin Ma, tells Business Insider that the team ison the eve of the next big development.
Brian A. Barsky, a University of California, Berkeley, computer science professor and affiliate professor of optometry and vision science who coauthored the paper, says it's like undoing
He s deputy director of the company s#Institute of Deep Learning, a Chinese equivalent to#Google s X Labs. A team to turn the unthinkable to reality,
masters student Jonathan Cheseaux said in a release. Companies like Facebook and Google are looking into using drones
We need to prepare students for jobs that don t yet exist using technology that hasn t been invented to solve problems we don t even know are problems yet.
Teacherless classroom Frey says he was approached once by Google to collaborate on a project to deliver educational resources to Africa.
With this in mind, the notion of a teacherless classroom became more and more intriguing. It wouldn t be without precedent, Frey noted.
Professor Roger Barlow from the University of Huddersfield is part of a team researching thorium power generation.
and Dow chemical. The batteries are based on research that company cofounder Christine Ho began as a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley,
He works out religiously, is the school s students council president and spends eight to 10 hours a day at school.
says John Sorensen, a professor of sociology at Brock University in St catharines, Ont.,who specializes in human-animal relationships.
says Stanley Coren, professor emeritus of psychology at the University of British columbia and author of#The Wisdom of Dogs.
#Department of education shuts down for-profit Corinthian Colleges Federal regulations are designed to make sure that colleges that don t offer a good value to students,
don t get student aid money. Corinthian Colleges will put 85 of its U s. campuses up for sale and close the remaining dozen under an agreement with the U s. Department of education.
It has more than 70,000 students across North america. It s the largest-ever college, by enrollment, to be shut down in this way.
and attendance and grade changes, of students. This was part of compliance with federal regulations designed to make sure that colleges that don t offer a good value to students,
don t get student aid money. When Corinthian didn t fully respond, in June, the Department of education placed a three-week hold on financial aid payments to Corinthian.
The cash freeze was a big problem for the college, which had underlying financial difficulties.
We are pleased to have reached an agreement with ED that helps protect the interests of our students, employees and other stakeholders, Jack Massimino,
This agreement allows our students to continue their education and helps minimize the personal and financial issues that affect our 12,000 employees and their families.
It also provides a blueprint for allowing most of our campuses to continue serving their students and communities under new ownership.
Current students have a number of choices. For those who stay on at campuses that are closing
Some students will also be offered refunds or the opportunity to transfer, and their loans may be discharged.
For example, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is suing ITT Educational Services, a chain with 135 campuses and 55,000 students in 40 states.
The CFPB s allegations include predatory lending and misleading students about their job prospects. ITT has filed a motion to dismiss this lawsuit.
an MIT professor who founded and leads the Fluid Interfaces research group developing the prototype,
Harvard Law Professor Lessig s ability to raise large sums from both wealthy tech luminaries and the general public shows broad support for making elected officials less beholden
Subhasish Mitra, a professor who worked on the project. We now know that you can build something useful with carbon nanotubes,
and Internet billionaires have promised to overhaul the clunky path to a diploma. We need to take
but Udacity stated, It should take a working student about six to12 months to complete without having to take time off.
So, how s the quality of the degree compared to a traditional diploma? To test this out,
where learning and memory are regulated. The study, which used an animal model, found that over-expression of the TLX gene resulted in smart, faster learners that retained information better and longer.
Understanding the link between this gene and the growth of new neurons or neurogenesis is an important step in developing therapies to address impaired learning
and memory associated with neurodegenerative diseases and aging. The new research was published June 9 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Ph d.,lead author of the study and a neurosciences professor at City of Hope. In our study, we manipulated the expression of this receptor by introducing an additional copy of the gene
the region of the brain associated with learning and memory. Abstract of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences paper The role of the nuclear receptor TLX in hippocampal neurogenesis and cognition has begun just to be explored.
the TLX transgenic mice exhibited enhanced cognition with increased learning and memory. These results suggest a strong association between hippocampal neurogenesis and cognition,
as well as significant contributions of TLX to hippocampal neurogenesis, learning, and memory y
#Mobile can drive down healthcare costs and improve care Jawbone, wearable technology for a healthier lifestyle.
The team, led by Professor Daniela Rus, has introduced thebakeable robots in the hope that they lead to a variety of self-assembling designs that function on their own and fold together like origami.
#Classcraft a new way to teach students by turning the classroom into a giant role-playing game Classcraft Shawn Young,
and refining Classcraft, his classroom-based role-playing game for the past three years, and he says it creates a collaborative
and supportive learning environment that can help turn around students who are failing. Currently a free service, Classcraft will introduce a pay structure this fall that embraces the free-to-play model more commonly seen in mobile apps and online games like League of Legends and Runescape.
especially when they realize that the students will be buying gear and pets for their Classcraft avatars on itunes. Playing in class If you re a gamer,
being in Shawn Young s physics classroom sounds like a blast. At the start of class, his students come in
and check their stats on the screen projected at the front of the room. When the bell rings, its time for a random event,
like a pupil s game character dying, or it could be something goofy like someone getting up to sing.
This helps focus the students, Young told Gamesbeat during a video call, asthe second they get into class,
and collaboration and will give hit damage to students who lack focus or misbehave. Students can gain powers specific to their character class by levelling up,
and they can use these to help and protect their teammates (or themselves), activating them live as events that unfold in the classroom.
The teacher can track all this activity in Classcraft, or, as in Young s case, the kids can use their laptops to interact with it in real-time.
Young s students are playing by his rules, but the chance to turn things in their favor is always there.
and the students can get pretty creative with them. There s one power, Teleport, where you can leave the class for 2 minutes,
If a pupil s hit points run out, they die. They then face a punishment that a roll of the die determines
Students don t typically respond happily to punishments. But they are. It s weird. Transforming the classroom through collaboration Young had the Classcraft idea in his head for several years before acting on it.
Before making it he tried various ways of getting kids to collaborate better in class,
Our whole system of pupil rewards is based on individual assessments he says, and that s not useful for them.
That really transforms the classroom. The history teacher Ricardo Higuera teaches seventh grade world history in a rural corner of Southern California called Thermal.
Nearly all the students in his middle school are eligible for free or reduced school lunches. Higuera s been trialling Classcraft for the past 4 months
and he s thrilled with how it s making his students care about their grades.
Before, some of my more apathetic students wouldn t care if they failed a quiz.
I pride myself in running a smooth, fun classroom even before Classcraft but I ve noticed a huge tick in the pulse of the class
Middle school, medieval world history I mean, how cool is that to play a World of Warcraft-like game as you re learning about samurai
and encouraging a classroom dynamic rooted in collaboration. The first year I did started this, I it mid-year,
what makes you a good learner. Participating well in class doing your work, collaborating. It really rewards that.
Classcraft permeates every aspect of school for Young s students. They get XP for doing well in sports or helping each other after school.
They even tidy the classroom in the hope of leveling up quicker. They become obsessed with becoming a better learner,
says Young. They just don t know about it. Carrot on a stick Not everyone is convinced fully of Classcraft s merits as an educational motivator.
N y.,who has a different take on gamifying the classroom. I don t really look at competition as a good thing in the classroom,
Noschese told me over Skype. At least, he believes, not when kids are striving to earn rewards in a game.
It sends the wrong message that it s not the learning that s important but the game aspect.
And I don t think that laying a game over the classroom is really going to fix that scenario.
and describes using a video of NBA star Kobe Bryant jumping over a pool of snakes embedded below to spark a lab-based session where students try to answer the question,
As students level up, they ll get gold coins as part of their reward. They can use these to customize their character s look.
whether there would be a cap on the amount of money that students could spend. They cant spend that much money,
Classcraft will have a premium version charged at a rate of $4 per student per year. That way, pupils can still access the customizable features,
but it will be the teachers who hold the keys to the gold. There will still be a free version of Classcraft without microtransactions available come September,
Higuera thinks his students will love the opportunity to customize their characters but doubts whether many will actually do it.
and will give students more immediate ownership of the game. German and Spanish translation will add global appeal to a system which Young says he always intended being an international concern.
Students as young as 8 and as old as 20 are already playing the game,
it does provide an innovative and unique way of capturing those pupils that might otherwise shrug their way through school.
For students whose grades are suffering because they re not engaged or they re not motivated.
said Roberto Malinow, MD, Phd, professor of neurosciences and senior author of the study. Scientists optically stimulated a group of nerves in a rat s brain that had been modified genetically to make them sensitive to light
DNA-templated synthesis allows researchers without a lot of expensive equipment to more quickly evaluate all the potential small molecule interactions that could occur from a library of building blocks. single student with only minimal equipment
the country largest organisation of farmers and ranchers, is drawing up a code of conduct, saying that farmers own
and Stanford Computer science professor Eric Roberts. Demand is also booming for the less expensive Micro Colleges that teach programming skills like Davinci Coders near Boulder, Colorado,
At the moment, there just aren enough instructors to teach all the students who want to learn. Many schools are torn currently between either limiting the number of CS degrees they give out,
Dr. James C. Perry, Professor of Pediatrics at University of California San diego and Director of Electrophysiology and Adult CHD at Rady Children Hospital in San diego explains,
including those of memory and learning. Lennart Mucke, the director of the Gladstone Institute of Neurological disease, said:
and perhaps nly half require students to use a laptop or tablet. But, she added,
Initially, ten pairs will distributed at UC Irvine this month to third-and fourth-year students in the operating room and emergency room departments.
In August, another 20 to 30 pairs will go to first-and second-year students, for use in anatomy labs, the medical simulation center, the ultrasound institute,
assistant clinical professor of emergency medicine at the UCI medical school and head of the Glass program there.
The school curriculum includes mock sessions between students and patient actors, which are recorded by several cameras in the room that can how only gross movements,
ike whether the student is facing the patient, unconscious eye rolls from the student doctor, head rolls.
and the student can watch the recording later. Right now, Wiechmann said, the video/audio and communication capabilities of Glass are the primary functions being used by the school,
and material breakthroughs in the laboratory of applied chemistry professor Tatsumi Ishihara that could raise the capacity (how much electric charge can be delivered at a certain voltage) of those early dual carbon batteries.
Said the university s Professor Sottos, Vascular delivery lets us deliver a large volume of healing agents which,
In Harvard professor Clayton Christensen 1997 management classic The Innovator Dilemma, he coined the term disruptive innovation.
From vital signs scanners to solar classrooms, mosquito patches to aerial robot photography, it is helping meaningful projects come to life.
Professor David Hinde of the Australian National University told I Fucking Love Science. As with other transuranium elements, ununseptium is highly unstable,
#Fewer high school graduates enroll in college after graduation The proportion of high school students in the U s. who go on to college rose regularly for decades
when 70.1 percent of new graduates had gone on to college. alling college enrollment indicates that upward mobility may become more difficult for working-class and disadvantaged high school graduates,
and students who would have worked their way through college a few years ago, and added that many parents in the past paid for college by refinancing mortgages, an alternative no longer available to many families.
The bureau reported that 51 percent of the high school graduates who did not go on to college had jobs by October
The bureau said the estimated 65.9 percent figure for high school graduates who went on to college could be off by as much as 2. 4 percentage points in either direction.
Still, there seems to be little doubt that the long-term trend of more and more high school graduates going to college has halted, if not reversed.
Last year, Lewis and her students showed they could print the microscopic electrodes and other components needed for tiny lithium-ion batteries.
It could also be used as a learning tool to teach the illiterate to read d
The app costs $49. 95 a month per household and is compliant with federal health privacy regulations. ur culture of learning, innovation,
and to achieve the necessary cost reductions by teaching students online and awarding degrees based on competency.
Peter Hugill, a Texas A&m professor who at the time was president of the Texas Conference of the American Association of University Professors,
the public reaction suggested that defenders of the status quo had fallen out of step with students, their parents, and taxpayers.
Nationally, a 2011 Pew study found that 57 percent of prospective students believed a college degree no longer carries a value worth the cost.
announcing a bachelor degree in information technology costing students just under $10, 000 in tuition and fees.
Moreover, they point out, a number of the new offerings charge students $10, 000 but do not actually reduce their schoolscost of instruction and materials.
These otherwise valid critiques ignore the fact that Perry requested only that 10 percent of public undergraduate degrees meet the $10, 000 standard,
More important, the $10, 000 degree programs that reduced the price charged to the student but not the cost incurred by the school did not employ the means Perry specified online learning and competency-based exams.
and the Texas Higher education Coordinating Board (THECB) just launched the ffordable Baccalaureate Program, the state first public university bachelor degree combining online learning and competency-based standards.
and allows students to receive credit for as many competencies and courses as they can master each term.
According to THECB website, students arriving ith no prior college credits should be able to complete the degree program in three years at a total cost of $13, 000 to $15, 000.
Students who enter having already satisfied their general education requirements can complete the degree in two years,
students and their parents have taken on historic student-loan debt. Total student-loan debt has risen to $1. 2 trillion,
for the first time ever exceeding total national credit-card debt. In the past, the debate over the college tuition and debt crisis has produced calls to action on two fronts
First, federal taxpayers have been asked to pay more through subsidizing student loans so that students can borrow more to pay inflated tuitions.
Second, state taxpayers have been asked to pay more in order to increase state subsidies for education. But today, with the $10, 000 degree, universities themselves are beginning to lower the tuition
and fees they charge students, parents, and taxpayers. Finally, the ground is beginning to shift.
director of MIT Picower Institute for Learning and Memory and senior author of the paper.
and General electric wants to lead the way A 20-year-old Indonesian student has helped General electric save considerable sums of money in development
And it also about learning and gathering data. And I can also make tooling that can use more conventional manufacturing. t not just about making a final part,
and learning, and we need to figure out what our role is, and if we are investing as much as we should be.
Gamified mobile apps, all manner of e-books and classroom analytics tools are just a few of the business models attracting venture capital dollars in the $5. 4 billion K-12
an education researcher and professor at Stanford university. eople in district offices in schools have a really tough job.
and tens of millions of dollars intheir bid to translate increasingly expensive college courses into cheaper online formats.
Mounting student debt and constant tuition increases contribute to demand for higher education hacks, but reliable revenue streams have been hard to come by for ed tech entrepreneurs.
Already there is no shortage of startups that have landed products in K-12 classrooms, netting large sums of capital in the process.
San mateo-based Edmodo has raised $40 million to help students and teachers communicate online. In Bellevue, Washington, elementary math curriculum provider Dreambox Learning has secured $32 million
and the backing of Netflix CEO (and education reform advocate) Reed Hastings. Meanwhile, Classdojo, based in San francisco,
has amassed $10 million for its classroom analytics designed to help teachers improve student behavior. Others
The proliferation of mobile technology is used often as a selling point for entrepreneurs hoping to get their products into classrooms.
But Khosla said there one major hitch in the vision for software-powered classrooms: A lack of necessary hardware. he biggest challenge is said access,
He said the Education Foundation is working with local teachers on classroom pilots to try out startup products in a realistic environment.
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