India framing national mission for ICT in education

futuregov.asia - The Government of India is developing a National Mission on ICT aiming to create a national IT platform connecting all schools, providing students and teachers with opportunities to collaborate and share knowledge.

How Should You Act on Social Media When Applying to Grad School?

mashable.com - Many of us have cleaned out our Facebook profiles or Googled our names before applying to a job. After all, 90% of hiring managers will check an applicant’s social media accounts. But what about when you’re applying to school? Do the same rules apply?Our Twitter Advice Column, #MashAdvice , will help you navigate digital questions related to relationships, productivity, fitness and more. Answers will come from your fellow digital natives who most likely have first-hand experience with the very same issues.





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Social media's window on the animal kingdom

articles.philly.com - Nature-watching - an outsider’s hobby, right?Geese crisscross the sky, eagles nest all over Pennsylvania and New Jersey, hawks and falcons are on their way, and elk whistle ghostly in Benezette.But birders, hunters, conservationists, and animal enthusiasts of all furs are also turning to Twitter, Facebook, blogs, apps, and a proliferation of “hawk cams” and “eagle cams” to get their beast on. Here, as in so many realms of human life, social media help people build communities around shared interests.

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The Complete Guide To Twitter Hashtags For Education

teachthought.com - What is a hashtag?A word or phrase preceded by a “#.”How do hashtags work?Twitter can be a busy place with lots of tweets–and thus lots of “noise.”A #hashtag is a way to aggregate tweets that are appended with a hashtag. Picture it like a magnet that attracts all messages categorized by that topical word or phrase.Who can use hashtags?Anyone. When you tweet and want your message to be part of a larger conversation beyond your followers, add a relevant hashtag from the list below to the end of your message, and you’ll automatically reach anyone who is monitoring the same hashtag.





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Amazon Snaps Up Online Math Instruction Company TenMarks To Help It Make Education Apps

techcrunch.com - Amazon has announced plans to snap up online education company TenMarks . The company offers an online math curriculum currently, and Amazon VP of Kindle Dave Limp says that together, “Amazon and TenMarks intend to develop rich educational content and applications, across multiple platforms, that we think teachers, parents and students will love.”TenMarks was founded in 2008 and has raised debt funding several times over the last few years.

8 Girls Who Dream Big For International Day Of The Girl 2013

huffingtonpost.com - In honor of International Day Of The Girl this Friday, here are the faces of eight young women from around the world whose dreams for the future will inspire you.The beautiful photo series was commissioned by The Girl Effect (a movement created by the Nike Foundation) as part of their declaration for the United Nations to prioritize young women in their goals to fight global poverty. The argument?





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This week: Three points for effective use of open data

zunia.org - The open government and open data movements are all about empowering citizens, users, and movers-and-shakers by increasing their access information, data and their government. This week we have three major points about how to best take advantage of the doors that opening.Number one comes from The Guardian’s Policy Hub: involve the public in open policymaking, not just in the implementation. Many of the new open government initiatives focus around service delivery, but much less has been centered on opening the process for forming the policy in the first place.

Canada needs an online education strategy

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Australia and the U.K. have established national strategies for online education where competition is not the driving force

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Your Brain Online: A Review Of The Neuroscience MOOC from Coursera - moocnewsandreviews.com

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In Professor Idan Segev’s outstanding neuroscience MOOC , Synapses, Neurons and Brains on Coursera, students learn how electrical activity in a single nerve cell link to more sophisticated brain functions.

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25 Awesome Social Media Tools Your Brand Should Be Using [INFOGRAPHIC]

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The Social Media Strategies Summit Blog gives you all the up to date information in anything related to social media.

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