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What is the most interesting thing you have seen or read in the news in the last week? It can be serious or amusing! 
I am SO SICK of having to sort through all the spin in American news, just to get the facts about what’s going on. Not to mention, American news NEVER talks about things outside of the US… Is there something online perhaps a youtube channel or something that covers world news with a minimum spin/bias?
I travel a lot, so daily news emails from the BBC or NYT stack up. Is there any website which will deliver a weekly world news wrap-up?
I have been looking for many months to see how my sons Kindergarten class has been preparing him to use the internet let alone a computer. I have been trying to work with him at home, and I found that most of what he is learning at school is just grammar through computers. I find this to be a good start, but I was wondering how far the district will take the online learning to the next level. I remember how I learning through the University of Phoenix online, and I have to say that was one of the best online experiences I ever seen. I was trying to find something similar for my 5 year old, and I have to say that I found one of the best software yet, Blackboard. “Putting learners at the center – so you can attract them, help them achieve and keep them – is as important as ever. It’s also harder than ever. Why? You name it. Diverse learners. Economic uncertainty. Increased competition and accountability demands. And while there’s plenty of trial and experimentation, the results are often unclear. Blackboard Learn™ can help by providing a foundation for engaging and assessing your learners inside and beyond a classroom.” (Excerpt from Blackboard.com) This is the fundamental statement in today’s learning environment. Teachers need to be able to engage the students in such a way, that they will continuously want to learn. The video I put out a while back about the way students learn today, is so true, and Blackboard is finding the way to our children. I can only imagine that if we are able to take this technology to the point where we can all learn from many teachers around the world, the amount of knowledge gained can change the world. With China progressing at an astronomical rate, and more people in China than in the USA, How do we compete? We need to give our children every advantage to progress their thinking. We can’t justify the old way of learning nor teaching. Technology is whats going to help fuel our children’s future, as long as the education system changes its thinking. We, as parents, also need to change our thinking, and help our children learn more about technology. If we start at home the schools will have no choice but advance their curriculum. What is your take on the education system of today? Is it teaching our kids to be thinkers and innovators? Is it leaving our children behind the rest of the world? Let me know your thoughts.
I am a highschool student and i need a current world news to report. Can you please give me some ideas what news would fit a highschool student like me? It’s better if it’s something interesting. Hope I helped
Back in 2005 my life changed dramatically. My wife and I found out that I had a ruptured disc that was going to need surgery. What was even more exciting was that we also found out that my wife was pregnant with our second child. This is what you can say was probably the heaviest point of my life. I was weighing in at 310 lbs. I didn’t know what to do. A year later after we had our second child, my wife said to hell with it. She said we were going to join weight watchers, and go all out. There was one catch that she asked from me. That was that we both go to different meetings. I agreed and started my weight loss transformation in August 2007. Once I started we decided to remove all the food that we had purchased and start to buy food that was on plan. We started noticing two major differences. The first was that we were spending about the same in terms of groceries, and our food was lasting longer. We were actually eating all the food we purchased. This also showed us that we were going out less, and when we were we ate differently. We started eating smaller portions which meant cheaper prices on our meals. We learned that the amounts of food we were eating was enough for a whole family. After two years the challenge has been trying to keep going after my goal. I have been trying to reach my goal of 220 and it has not been easy after 2 years. What you have to understand is that anything worth attaining in life is never easy. What has made this journey easy is my wife, kids, and the new iPhone Weight Watchers application. This application has helped me to get all my points calculated, and has taken away any excuse to making my life easy. I have also taken on more workouts since I know that diet alone can’t get me all the way to my goal. I am happy to say that after 2 years, I have dropped 50lbs. and I am continuing towards my goal. I always remember what a wise man once told me, and he continues to tell me this today. “Invest now.” (by David, My Father) These two words are the biggest driving force in my life that can be attributed to everything in my life. That is what I am doing with Weight Watchers. I am investing now in myself to reap the rewards later in life. Keep investing!
Just think, when you first started school how many computers where in your school, and how many kids knew how to use them. Not only that, how many teachers knew how to use and fix them when something went wrong. When I went to school, we did have a computer lab with about 25 computers and they were all Mac based computers. The computers were used to teach us how to type, and had very remedial programs like Math Blaster and Oregon Trail. These programs were the start for many children on computer. I consider myself very lucky, when the first computer my father brought home was a Tandy “Trash” 80. I was about 6 or 7 years old. This computer laid the ground work for my brother and I to start learning how to program. We both took to it very quickly inventing and learning with Basic. Back in the 80s if you mentioned Basic people looked at you like you were crazy. From there we started learning more and more about computers, but also how they worked from the inside out. I was very fortunate to have an education about computers at such an early age. What was unfortunate, is how my knowledge of computers would actually hurt my knowledge in school. I would want to use my computer to help me with all my tasks and reports. Back then there was no Internet, but I could use it for word processing. The trouble was my teachers did not like that. They wanted me to write everything by hand. Today, my son, who is 5, is still learning to write everything in hand, but they are also teaching them to write. When I saw his class room, I thought man these computers are old. I understand that the computer power needed to run the programs that they need are not that high, and I like the fact that he is learning to type. The future of his schooling is not necessarily going to belong to the schools he attends. Its going to reside in the amount of effort I put into teaching him the things that schools won’t. For instance, I think it is vital to teach our children about credit. How many people would have loved if they would have learned about credit in grade school. By College it was already too late. That is when we all got flooded with the offer of free stuff to fill out a credit application. Another aspect of learning that I will need to teach is how to study. The schools here in Texas teach to a state test. The test is a joke. What good is it to teach a child by jumping around from chapter to chapter to try to build their basis, when all they had to do was teach from first chapter to last chapter. I will teach my children how to study. I will also teach my children how to think for themselves and to get ahead. They have every opportunity, and I will give and show them every tool to master their goals. This is my promise to them.
This could be a newspaper, a broadcast, or a source that sends emails concerning news. Anything that is reliable and neutral, and covers all important world topics. EVERY news source has a bias of some kind. Total neutrality and total reliability are impossibilities.
This could be a newspaper, a broadcast, or a source that sends emails concerning news. Anything that is reliable and neutral, and covers all important world topics. Everything else is biased, one way or the other. But since they all have their own spin on things, which makes them all right at different times. So I read to the big ones on the internet (AP, BBC, CNN, MSNBC, FOX) and make my own conclusions.
I need to watch a world news program for two days for my social studies class. I only know NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams, but I need much more! Thanks!
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