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Failure is a positive act of creativity. Scientists, artists, engineers, and even entrepreneurs know this as adults. But in schools, the notion of failure is complicated. Any practice – athletic, artistic, even social – involves repeatedly failing till one gets the experience or activity right. We need to “keep the challenge constant so players […]
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A new app claims to be able to change the way we read – and instantly turn anyone into a speed reader. It works by quickly flashing words onto the same part of a screen so the eyes do not need to refocus. Its Us inventors claim anyone can reach speeds of 1000 words
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Are you rational and like to live by the rules? Or creative and curious? Now there’s a quiz that will determine why this might be. The idea is that we all have a dominant side of the brain – and this shapes our personality. People who are right-brained tend to be creative, curious and
These sites offer free and paid courses in everything from programming and web design to music theory and graphics 1. CODEACADEMY You would expect a website run by code educators to look pretty slick. Well, that’s exactly the case with Codeacademy. It’s so well designed that you are sucked into its free lessons the moment
(By Alia Al-Ali) I will try my best to make this not-your-typical confidence post. It’s just that the term itself has been so overused making it seem somewhat redundant and useless. Trust me on this one though, it makes the biggest difference. Although I still can be awkward, I don’t take crap from anyone.
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(By Tony Ali) Today more and more teens have cell phones. Teen texting between friends has now overtaken cell phone communications – and every other common forms of interaction. Text messaging has been a vital form of communication emerging from the speedy development of technology. According to a study by PEW Research: Half of teens send
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The Second Edition of the Social Media Week Lagos which hosted Africa’s largest Social Media gathering has just rounded up in the past week. Passnownow.com’s “How Nigerian Secondary School Students are going digital” which was the only Education Focused Event will surely be remembered as one of the highest points of the 2014 Social Media Week in Lagos.
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First Lady, Mrs. Patience Jonathan has said that Nigerians must ensure that a significant percentage of the country’s young people, especially girls, acquire university education. “There is a popular saying that if you educate a man, you educate a person, but if you educate a woman, you educate a nation,” she said during a visit
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Terrified students have fled boarding schools after an attack by suspected Boko Haram extremists in which 43 students were shot and hacked to death and the whole school razed. Students refused to stay overnight in their schools and colleges in the wake of the attack on the Federal Government College in Buni Yadi, Yobe state
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Few things could be as easy as cleaning your teeth – or so you’d think. Apply toothpaste to brush, stick brush in mouth, give the old pearly whites a good scrub, then rinse. It seems, however, that many of us are not doing it properly, for example not spending long enough on the task or
