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Chinese New Year- What Animal Am I?

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

1931, 1943, 1955, 1967, 1979, 1991, 2003, 2015, 2027), you will probably have these attributes: easy to get along with people, you have a deep sense of curiosity, and you like to learn new things. Zodiac animal: Goat In Chinese culture, the goat represents ''filial piety, purity, and kindness'. If you were born in the Goat year (e.g.,1931,

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India tries coding camps, craft centers and all-girls schools to fight illiteracy

The Hechinger Report

billion people, India is second only to China in population, and will account for 25 percent of the world’s labor pool by 2030. In 2003, the Prerna Girls School began providing a low-cost option that has served over 5,000 girls from impoverished families. “A small project can have a global impact,’’ Daube said. With over 1.3

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Why I’m Optimistic About the Next Wave of Education Technology

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My bet is that by 2040, our children will look back on this period between 2015 and 2030 in education technology much the same way internet historians look to the period 1995 to 2010 as the birth of the commercial web. Although we were convinced that technology could transform education, simple internet access was patchy at best.

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The looming decline of the public research university

The Hechinger Report

share of all research and development funding worldwide dropped from more than a third to barely a quarter from 2003 to 2013, the most recent period for which the figures are available, according to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. China could catch up by 2030 based on current trends. counterparts.