All Blog Posts Tagged 'Internet' (10)

The Health Research Web Project is a collaborative web platform dedicated to research in health sector and created by the COHRED. It focuses on improving healthcare, particularly in developing countries, and it is open to researchers and professionnals working in health sector who want to share information, datas or discuss about management or governance issues related to healthcare.

What it is, more precisely :…

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If you could ask only one person about the limits of computers past, present and future, the right person might be Federico Faggin. Forty years ago Faggin meticulously sketched the blueprint that brought to life the world's first microprocessor, which later sparked the personal computer revolution.

 

After a career dedicated to creating evermore intelligent computer chips, he has turned his attention to…

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This is a video about cultivating resilience and promoting use of Internet and communication technology to spread thoughts and actions for change and sustainable development. It is promoting a report – Carnegie Trust’s …

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At Rhode Island College, a freshman copied and pasted from a Web site’s frequently asked questions page about homelessness — and did not think he needed to credit a source in his assignment because the page did not include author information.



At DePaul University, the tip-off to one student’s copying was the purple shade of several paragraphs he had lifted from the Web; when confronted by a writing tutor his professor had sent him to, he was not defensive — he just wanted to know how… Continue

After over a decade of increasing technology use by youth and parents, there has been no systematic effort to bring a comprehensive and practical tools to parents (see Pew and Kaiser Foundation studies.) While new devices and applications arrive in our homes in increasing speed, parents are still at a loss about organizing the mostly chaotic media lives of kids (see www.mydigitalfamily.org).

As a…

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As Manuel Castells points out, we're living in the age of networks. The properties of networks, social networks, and their intersection in online social networks and online social network services are now essential literacies.… Continue

Vint Cerf is Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist of Google, and is often referred to as 'the father of the internet'. Here he discusses how the internet was designed; the importance of 'net neutrality' and the human experience of the internet. What is less well know is that Vint provided early moral support for the founding of… Continue

RACE or FACE? Bullying , CyberBullying?

How can we guide students in Cyberspace?



Bonnie Bracey Sutton



IWhat are these words in your mind when you first look at them?





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This is from a slide that Frank Worrell presented to the National Academy of Sciences.

What two words come to mind for you?

When you see those words?

Ask your friends.. Think about it.



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