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Inside the classroom of the future

Tomorrow’s classrooms will be collaborative workspaces, featuring 3D printers  “immersive “ work stations and hybrid  textbooks in which content is generated on the fly.  By Mark Piesing

In  the classroom of the future, small groups of children work messily together on a number of “expeditions”  to create amazing machines out of LEGO , scan seashells to be printed in  3D to help them explore under the sea, and tell them their own stories using sound.

By using the latest technology , such as 3D printers, fully  immersive work stations – which are rather like working on two screens with one of them a touch screen projected onto the table in front of you- and hybrid text books, it’s hoped that teachers and publishers will be shifted from being providers of information to being supporters and  prompters of the learning experience.

The hybrid textbook is much like a traditional textbook with text and  pictures but also connects to a world of students -, teacher and publisher – generated digital  material with the wave of a smartphone over an invisible watermark.

Its creator Hewlett Packard believes  that this will help the students of today prepare for their own future  in the knowledge economy- if in a rather controlled way that keeps parents and teachers happy.

Education can be innovative and international, and publishers can find new ways of delivering material in the future.

 

Author:  Mark Piesing 

Source: Frankfurt Show Daily

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Summer Schools

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Corporate, Professionals, Teachers, Training & Conferences

Gamifying books and content on mobile devices

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Almost every book tells a story- it has its storyline, it conveys a plot. Traditional school books are founded on a method which is nothing else than a path, a trail leading to knowledge. With this correlation in mind, the publisher may start  to explore the possibilities of moving the reader and making the quest for knowledge  more appealing.

The Mobile Bite

Education has always associated with books. Whether we are talking about traditional textbooks, fiction or non-fiction used in the learning process, or highly specialist publications, books and the reception of the knowledge they contain is the cornerstone of the educational process. Relishing the possibilities of content digitalization often pushes managers to take risky and ambitious endeavors such as getting rid of the paper format and go 100 % digital. It was a lesson learned for Newsweek’s American edition, who is 2013 gave up a  paper I a favor of online only. You cannot change readers’ habits entirely in a year or even a decade. You need to do it step-by-step. Educational publishers must be really cautious about that. Not because of the students who probably will manage mobile technologies, but because of the teachers who are the key drivers for implementing new technologies at schools.

Since the paper format is still alive, the question is: how to use mobile devices wisely to enhance our readers’ experience? Some people from the Y generation or from the so-called Z generation treat paper books as vintage. These readers can be lured to books only with the mobile bite. In the case of educational publications, the possibilities of improving learning outcomes and personalizing the teaching process given by digitalization cannot be underestimated.

Gamification  is the application of game elements and digital game design techniques to non-game problems, such as business and social impact challenges.

 

Source: Frankfurt Show Daily – October 2015

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Publishing 2020: The next 5 years

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If one thing defines the last five years in publishing, at least in English, I’d argue it’s retail consolidation, writes Michael Bhaskar. That Amazon carried on growing and dominated ebooks is unarguable.

Too many books

What about the next five years? What will be the defining change? I’d pick out two dynamics to watch-take your pick. The first involves a surplus of available product. There are too many books published is hard to dispute. With more than a million new titles in English alone, there is already a wealth of books.

A monopoly on certain must-have titles is still pretty safe bet to bring people in. But something has to give. A new focus on selection, filtering systems, recommendation engines, imprints as stores of editorial judgement, publisher brands as selectors will come into play.

Pricing, copyright, marketing, everything is and will be shaped by the fact publishing is the ultimate saturated market. Publishing across the board will become more curated.

Secondly, I think we’ll see the ongoing after-effects of retail consolidation. This drives a move towards bigger and  smaller publishers. While the middle has struggled for some time, we are entering a new era of supergiants. Penguin Random House and the merger of Nature with Springer are two examples of how the big are getting bigger.

Centralisation and fragmentation

But just as the internet and the fast, connected world promotes scale and centralization, so it also allows for and encourages fragmentation.

If you’d  have asked me what the biggest trends were likely to be over the next five years in 2010, I would have undoubtedly said ebooks, apps and digital publishing. The next five years then are about the ongoing waves from this centralization which  transforms the balance of power and unleashed an unprecedented flow of content.

We will see a new super league of publishing giants emerge, on a new scale adapted for a world of digital media, big retail and austere government spending.

 

Source: Frankfurt Show Daily – Magazine

Professionals, Teachers, Training & Conferences

All kids deserve the best, wherever they grow up!

Linda Cliatt-Wayman has spent her career working in low-income, low-performing schools — the same Philly schools she grew up in. In her TED Talk, she shares her approach to doing right by kids who deserve the best.
If you’re going to lead, lead. “What happens in a school and what does not happen in a school is up to the principal, I am the principal, and having that title required me to lead.That meant stepping up and taking charge.I was not going to be afraid to address anything that was not good for children, whether that made me liked or not.”

So what? Now what? “There were many excuses for why Strawberry Mansion was low-performing and persistently dangerous,” says Cliatt-Wayman. “Only 68 percent of the kids come to school on a regular basis, 100 percent of them live in poverty, only one percent of the parents participate, many of the children come from incarceration and single-parent homes, 39 percent of the students have special needs.Teaching was centered around small groups of students to try and ensure they got their needs met in the classroom.”

If nobody told you they loved you today, you remember I do, and I always will. “If someone asked me my real secret for how I truly keep Strawberry Mansion moving forward, I would have to say that I love my students and I believe in their possibilities unconditionally. When I look at them, I can only see what they can become, and that is because I am one of them,” says Cliatt-Wayman. My reward for being non-negotiable in my rules and consequences is their earned respect. I insist on it, and because of this, we can accomplish things together,” she says.

We have to make sure that every school that serves children in poverty is a real school — a school that provides them with knowledge and mental training to navigate the world around them,” Cliatt-Wayman concludes.

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Top 10 ways to become a Successful Businessman

How To be A Success  

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10) You must be passionate about what you’re trying to achieve.   With passion, both your team and your customers are more likely to truly believe in what you are trying to do.

9) Focus intensely on your opportunity. The companies suffer from doing too many things at the same time rather than doing too few things very well. Stay focused on the mission.

8) Success only comes from hard work. Behind every overnight success lies years of hard work and sweat. People with luck will tell you there’s no easy way to achieve success—and that luck comes to those who work hard.

7) The road to success is going to be long, so remember to enjoy the journey.  Everyone will teach you to focus on goals, but successful people focus on the journey and celebrate the milestones along the way.

6) Trust your gut instinct more than any spreadsheet.There are too many variables in the real world that you simply can’t put into a spreadsheet. Spreadsheets spit out results from your inexact assumptions and give you a false sense of security.

5) Be flexible but persistent. Every entrepreneur has to be agile in order to perform. You have to continually learn and adapt as new information becomes available. At the same time you have to remain persistent to the cause and mission of your enterprise.

4) Rely on your team.It’s a simple fact: No individual can be good at everything. Everyone needs people around them who have complementary skill sets. Entrepreneurs are an optimistic bunch of people and it’s very hard for them to believe that they are not good at certain things. It takes a lot of soul searching to find your own core skills and strengths. After that, find the smartest people you can who complement your strengths.

3) Execution, execution, execution. Unless you are the smartest person on earth, it’s likely that many others have thought about doing the same thing you’re trying to do. Success doesn’t necessarily come from breakthrough innovation but from flawless execution. A great strategy alone won’t win a game or a battle; the win comes from basic blocking and tackling.

2)Be honest and show integrity.  Honesty and integrity are two qualities which need to be at the core of everything we do.

1) Appreciate your success by giving back. Don’t ever forget this part, arguably the most important part, of defining yourself as a true success. By the time you achieve your success, lots of people will have helped you along the way. You’ll learn, as I have, that you rarely get a chance to help the people who helped you because in most cases, you don’t even know who they were.

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Fun facts about CLOUDS

The weather is changed! There are mostly cloudy and rainy days. Let’s find out some facts about clouds!

Those fluffy puffs in the sky that sometimes look like UFOs, sometimes ducks but mainly whatever your imagination tells you.

Here are a couple of fun facts about them that you might find interesting:

  1. It takes somewhere between a few minutes and an hour for clouds to be created.
  2. Other planets in our solar system also have clouds.
  3. The classic white cloud is known as “cumulus”.
  4. Hindus and Buddhists believe that cumulus clouds are the spiritual cousins of elephants. 
  5. There is an official international Cloud Committee. 

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Idiom Of the Week

Did you know?  

Students seem idioms as the most difficult part while studying English.

But, they can very easily study the meaning step by step and use in everyday conversation.

So, here is the idiom definition.

To keep your chin up – When someone tells you this, they’re showing their support for you, and it’s a way of saying “stay strong,” you’ll get through this. Don’t let these things affect you too badly.