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For The 21st Century Enthusiasts: How To Build Powerful Tech-Infused Lesson Plans

(By Katie Lepi) More and more educators are leveraging technology in their classrooms, which is one aspect of being a 21st century teacher helping their students (and probably themselves, too) to develop 21st century skills.  Finding a combination of the most useful devices, web tools, and apps can be a powerful learning tool for your students. But […]

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How Technology Changes Student-Teacher Interaction

Learning technologies change student-teacher interactions in several ways, but there’s one specifically that really stands out and makes the most difference in our classrooms. Technology has an especially strong effect in the 1:1 classroom, since the students are so in touch with their technology. Tony Wagner, the first Innovation Education Fellow at the Technology &

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You love your teeth? Be wary of fast food – Dentist warns

    (By Dotun Onimole)   A Dental Surgeon at Ladoke Akintola University Teaching Hospital (LAUTH), Osogbo, Juliet Ogunlela, said that fast food posed threat to oral hygiene in children. Ms. Ogunlela, who spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria in Osogbo, said diet had a lot of effect on the dental health of humans, especially, children.

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STRIKE: President Jonathan meets ASUU today, union warns against forcefully re-opening schools

  PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan will meet the leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Universities on Monday (today), apparently with a view to resolve the Federal Government-ASUU face-off that has left university gates shut since July 1. But the union said it had got wind of Presidency’s plan to direct that universities be reopened, saying

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Video games can make your brain BIGGER: Playing for 30 minutes a day ‘boosts memory, ability to plan and dexterity’

  While some people might think getting engrossed in a video game is a waste of time, scientists have found they can increase the size of our brains. German researchers found video gaming causes increases in the brain regions responsible for spatial orientation, memory formation and strategic planning as well as fine motor skills. In

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MSSN Laments Insecurity, Poor Education Standard

  Students under the aegis of the Muslim Students’ Society of Nigeria, Lagos State Area Unit, have said Nigeria has nothing to show for the independence it attained 53 years ago. The outgoing President of the youth-based group, Qassim Badrudeen, said this during the annual conference and award conferment on distinguished individuals by the society

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Private School Owners Worry Over Teachers’ Strike

Proprietors of private schools in the South-West have expressed concern over the conflict between the Federal Government and members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities and the consequent strike action that has left varsity gates locked for four months. The private school proprietors appealed to both the ASUU and the Federal Government to urgently

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FUNNY: Student suspended for dressing as a lunatic following a class assignment

A Mount Lebanon High School student took an assignment farther than a hobo on a freight train when he showed up to school dressed as a ragged, dirty homeless vagrant. He took it so far, in fact, that school officials called the cops on him and suspended him from school for two days. If the

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Uganda University requests for Nigerian Lecturers

  A University in Uganda, the Islamic University Mbale, Uganda has requested to the Nigerian authorities for fifty-seven lecturers in various fields. The request is sequel to a bilateral agreement signed between Nigeria and the Republic of Uganda last month. In the agreement Nigeria renewed its pact to assist the East African country with skilled

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