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The amazing Touchpad-Equipped TI-Nspire technology

The amazing Touchpad-Equipped TI-Nspire technology

The new TI-Nspire technology responds to different learning styles of students, by allowing multiple representations of the same problem, linked dynamically. View and explore multiple representations of a problem with a single technology. The TI-Nspire family has menus similar to those of your computer and lets you work in an innovative and intuitive, [...]
A LGBT school will be created in Brazil

A LGBT school will be created in Brazil

A school for young LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender) will be created from March 2010 in Campinas (93 km de SP and the second biggest metro area in this state), through an agreement with the Sao Paulo State. The space will promote technical courses for young people between 12 and 18 who seek classes of artistic expression, graphics and scenic [...]
Classroom Learning is Better than Online Education

Classroom Learning is Better than Online Education

Distance learning, a fairly recent trend in educational systems, suffers from a basic handicap – communication between mentor and student. Not that this kind of learning system shuns the more vital and dynamic interaction between teacher and learner, it is just that the very nature of distance learning poses limitations in implementing the full and [...]
Is Student Feedback Effective in Distance Learning?

Is Student Feedback Effective in Distance Learning?

Giving feedback is essentially the same whether it is done over a distance education system or personally in a face-to-face manner. The objective is the same, as well as the content of the feedback. Both strategies rely on the same fact that some feedback will be given and that the sharing of advice is both important and imperative. Both are a form [...]