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In the 20th Century, meaningful education was all about learning your ABCs. Today, it’s centered on Alphas, Betas and C++.

http://readwrite.com/2013/05/31/programming-core-skill-21st-century…

“I believe public libraries should move away from being ‘houses of knowledge’ and move more towards being ‘houses of access.’ This is what the public is asking for and we are here to serve them.”

http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2013/05/in-the-digital-age-what-becomes-of-the-library/…

Before engineers can make a machine that truly mimics a human mind, scientists still have a long way to go in modeling the brain’s 100 billion neurons and their 100 trillion connections.

http://neurosciencestuff.tumblr.com/post/52017651140/4-hurdles-to-making-a-digital-human-brain

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Writing can serve as a calming, meditative tool. Stream of conscious writing exercises, in particular, have been identified as helpful stress coping methods. Keeping a journal, for example, or trying out free-writing exercises, can drastically reduce your levels of stress.…

With eduClipper, users can share individual eduClips (or pieces of content) or eduClipboards (collections of content) with colleagues or students, while cross posting or embedding that content on other social platforms or sending them through email.

http://techcrunch.com/2013/06/02/educlipper-launches-its-pinterest-for-education-to-bring-better-crowdsourced-curation-sharing-to-the-classroom/

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Implementing some kind of self-assessment is a very good thing, as it enables learners to judge the quality of their work.

http://www.teachthemenglish.com/2013/05/5-steps-to-using-self-assessment-in-the-classroom/

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