With the increasing popularity of blended learning programs in the classroom, the benefits of combining classroom work with online education are beginning to show read more>>
Assisted Technology for kids with Learning Disabilities is defined as any device, piece of equipment or system that helps bypass, work around or compensate for an individual’s specific learning deficits. Having a visual or aural aid which is consistent can empower a child in working independently. A spokesman for Autism…
With an increasing amount of time being spent online during a child’s free time playing games and web surfing, its only natural that contemporary learning now shares many of these same elements. Programs and apps designed with this overlap in mind have a higher learning curve for engaging children and…
As the product technologies which define our world come and go every few years what is most salient in the future of education is the flexibility of learning programs to adapt. Quick access to the Cloud will be increasingly important as well and at YMI we are watching all the…
An interesting evolution in the use of personal computers and tablets in the classroom is the facilitation of personalizing an individual student’s way of learning. Interactions between students in the same school, or even those in another country, may build collaborations in the educational system even away from the classroom.…
A species of leaf chameleon new to science, measuring less than half the length of a human forefinger, has been discovered in a tiny patch of Madagascar’s highly threatened coastal rainforests.Miguel Vences at the Technical University of Braunschweig in Germany and his colleagues were alerted to its presence by tourists posting photos of the tiny reptiles on the internet.Vences’s Malagasy collaborators, Andolalao Rakotoarison and Alida Frankline Hasiniaina, went looking for it and collected the first sample.Leaf chameleons, from the genus Brookesia, are miniature chameleons the colour of fallen leaves that have been breaking records for their small body sizes in recent years.Read more: www.newscientist.com/article/2447977-tiny-chameleon-spotted-by-tourists-in-madagascar-is-new-to-s...Image: Andolalao Rakotoarison ... See MoreSee Less
