So you have an iPad. Or has borrowed it from a kind pal who’s not hugging it at the moment. While you have it, you may want to check out the latest apps for education. iPad-ers are talking about the Solar System – “Take a grand tour of the planets, moons, asteroids, and comets that
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An auction in Paris recently brought out a little-known connection between the English and the French. Among the artifacts to go under the hammer were “Greying, ink-stained notebook fragments” that show Napoleon Bonaparte’s painful efforts to grasp the English language. Let’s forgive ourselves, folks, for those pesky errors that creep into our writing. The great
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What do staff and students on Connect say? The authors have posted their views as well. Students said: It’s good! [1] Connect should be invaluable for making friends and supporting each other, especially within the first few weeks after arriving at the University. [2] It could be the best way for students to socialise and
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Federica Oradini & Gunter Saunders have written this report on what they call “a new way of staying in touch with their friends and classmates through an innovative new social networking site.” The site is named Connect. Started in September 2007, it is meant for the students of University of Westminster. To offset criticism about
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And now to the downside. Psychologists have reported that students who are logged on to Facebook while studying get significantly lower grades. You don’t need psychols to tell you that, right? If one is swotting for a test in the morning and takes 30-second breaks to check FB, even that caped zhu zhu will find
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As I said, first the good news, or in conventional lingo, ‘how Facebook helps students’. [1] Students use FB to form study groups. [2] Some studiously participate in academic groups created by Professors for their classes. Here they take part in discussions, clarify doubts, express ideas. You cannot have a healthier student interaction than that.
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