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The world’s most sleep-starved students

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Sleep deprivation is a significant hidden factor in the underachievement of school pupils, according to a global study.

Thomas Adam Johnson‘s insight:

Interesting not only to see who is most sleep deprived, but also the percentage of students that are deprived.

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Share This With All the Schools, Please

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Every Friday afternoon Chase’s teacher asks her students to take out a piece of paper and write down the names of four children with whom they’d like to sit the following week. The children know that these requests may or may not be honored.

Thomas Adam Johnson‘s insight:

This is such a powerful article.  Every teacher should read it to remind themselves what is really important in life.  The strategy that this teacher uses to find out who is liked, shunned, upset, popular, and so forth is so simple, effective, and easily reproducible.

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Robots Act, Dance and Play Music with Human Movements > ENGINEERING.com

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Guy Hoffman discusses the methods he uses to create robots that act like humans.

Thomas Adam Johnson‘s insight:

In this TEDx talk Hoffman explains that humans enjoy robots that make mistakes more than robots that are perfect and scripted. We see the development of his robots to something that seems like I would enjoy having in my own home playing my iPhone/iPod music. Really cool.

See on www.engineering.com

 
 

30 Places to Find Open Data on the Web

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Finding an interesting data set and a story it tells can be the most difficult part of producing an infographic or data visualization. Data visualization

Thomas Adam Johnson‘s insight:

I was trying to find sources for interesting data and stats (statistics).  This appeared to be an excellent consolidation of resources.

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