In most high schools, the majority of the students own a cell phone. Whatever the rules are at their school about cell phones, students use them. Sometimes they are caught by their teachers, but most of the time, students get away with it.

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The Disadvantages of Letting Students Use Their Cell Phones at School

More than just a super-sized 3DS 3DS XL lands in Europe and Japan a week from now, with North America joining in on 19th August. There’s been a justifiable temptation for some to readily dismiss the new model as a re-scaled 3DS with no actual technological improvements

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3DS XL Represents The Progress of Technology

Outstanding Technology brings visible light communication to phones and tablets via dongle and LEDs Data transmission via visible light is no longer a technological novelty, but it has yet to make its way into consumer’s hands. Japanese firm Outstanding Technology is aiming to change that with its Commulight location system, which relies on a pair of receivers to get smartphones and tablets downloading info using photons instead of radio waves. One dongle is of the USB variety, but since most mobile gadgets lack such a socket, there’s another that plugs into any device’s 3.5mm jack.

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Outstanding Technology Brings Visible Light Communication To Phones and Tablets

The schools of the future will be vastly different in 2020, with more of a focus on Blended Learning according to speakers from some of the top technology companies in the world. Blended learning combines traditional face-to-face classroom methods with computer-mediated activities. Formerly, technology-based materials played a supporting role to face-to-face instruction.

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Schools Of The Future Will Be Vastly Different In 2020

Can you imagine a world without long-term relationships, where people are unable to understand the consequences of their actions or empathise with one another? Such conditions would not only hamper our happiness and prosperity  –  they could threaten our very survival.

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Facebook Addiction Damaging Child’s Brain

In Selayang , the banks of Sungai Gombak have been beautified. We are cleaning up Sungai … The clean-up effort will target pollution sources in Kuala Lumpur and the municipalities of Selayang and Ampang Jaya.

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Saving Sungai Klang | Malaysian Times

Google has announced that it is releasing a new search algorithm that it hopes will better catch people who spam its search results or purposely do things to rank better that are against Google’s publishers guidelines.

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Fighting Web Spam, Google Launches Update Targeting Webspam In Search Results

The Batu caves are an other great spot that you cannot afford to miss. The caves are a religious landmark for the Hindu people of Malaysia

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The EdMedia World Conference on Educational Media and Technology is an international conference, organized by the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE).

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June 26 – 29, EdMedia 2012 – World Conference on Educational Media and Technology

Before I surmise the images, sounds and smells that this festival entails, I feel compelled to share with the reader a nugget of wisdom I carried with me to the Batu Caves on that day, site of the ritualistic denouement where …

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Thaipusam, Batu Caves: A Burdensome Path « Transcending …