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Does Compulsory School Attendance Affect Schooling and Earnings?

by Joshua D. Angrist, Alan B. Krueger , 1990
"... This paper presents evidence showing that individuals' season of birth is related to their educational attainment because of the combined effects of school start age policy and compulsory school attendance laws. In most school districts, individuals born in the beginning of the year start sc ..."
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This paper presents evidence showing that individuals' season of birth is related to their educational attainment because of the combined effects of school start age policy and compulsory school attendance laws. In most school districts, individuals born in the beginning of the year start

SIMPLIcity: Semantics-Sensitive Integrated Matching for Picture LIbraries

by James Z. Wang, Jia Li, Gio Wiederhold - IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence , 2001
"... The need for efficient content-based image retrieval has increased tremendously in many application areas such as biomedicine, military, commerce, education, and Web image classification and searching. We present here SIMPLIcity (Semanticssensitive Integrated Matching for Picture LIbraries), an imag ..."
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The need for efficient content-based image retrieval has increased tremendously in many application areas such as biomedicine, military, commerce, education, and Web image classification and searching. We present here SIMPLIcity (Semanticssensitive Integrated Matching for Picture LIbraries

Technological pedagogical content knowledge: A framework for integrating technology in teacher knowledge.

by M J Koehler , P Mishra - Teachers College Record, , 2006
"... Abstract This paper describes a framework for teacher knowledge for technology integration called technological pedagogical content knowledge (originally TPCK, now known as TPACK, or technology, pedagogy, and content knowledge). This framework builds on Lee Shulman's construct of pedagogical c ..."
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theoretically and in practice, produces the types of flexible knowledge needed to successfully integrate technology use into teaching. Technology and Teacher Education, 9(1) Contemporary Issues in 61 As educators know, teaching is a complicated practice that requires an interweaving of many kinds

education: potential benefits and major

by A. G. Kotousov
"... The intensity of World Wide Web (Web) use in higher education has stimulated a number of serious concerns about the potentially dubious nature of Web based data and information and students ’ ability to evaluate it. Lecturers are also uncertain about the value of the wider information resources on t ..."
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The intensity of World Wide Web (Web) use in higher education has stimulated a number of serious concerns about the potentially dubious nature of Web based data and information and students ’ ability to evaluate it. Lecturers are also uncertain about the value of the wider information resources

Classroom 2000: An Experiment with the Instrumentation of a Living Educational Environment

by Gregory D. Abowd - IBM Systems Journal , 2000
"... One potentially useful feature of future computing environments is the ability to capture the live experiences of the occupants and to provide that record to users for later access and review. Over the last 3 years, we have designed and extensively used a particular instrumented environment, the cla ..."
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One potentially useful feature of future computing environments is the ability to capture the live experiences of the occupants and to provide that record to users for later access and review. Over the last 3 years, we have designed and extensively used a particular instrumented environment

THE EDUCATIONAL POTENTIAL OF THE HIPPARCOS DATA BASE

by J. R. Percy
"... Education is important to professional astronomy; astronomy isimportant toeducation. Since science education in schools and universities is most effective when students use inquiry-based learning with real scientific data and activities, the Hipparcos data base has significant educational potential. ..."
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Education is important to professional astronomy; astronomy isimportant toeducation. Since science education in schools and universities is most effective when students use inquiry-based learning with real scientific data and activities, the Hipparcos data base has significant educational potential

The Educational Potential of Modified Video Games

by Andrew Moshirnia - Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology
"... As the popularity of video game playing has increased, educators have sought to co-opt video games as an instructional tool. However, educational games have made little impact in either the commercial market place or the average game player’s home library. The modification, or modding, of video game ..."
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As the popularity of video game playing has increased, educators have sought to co-opt video games as an instructional tool. However, educational games have made little impact in either the commercial market place or the average game player’s home library. The modification, or modding, of video

Running head: THE EDUCATIONAL POTENTIAL OF THE SIGNING WEB The Educational Potential of the Signing Web

by J. Richards, D. I. Fels, J. Hardman , 2005
"... The recent and rapid development of e-learning can be traced to the humble print-based hyperlink that empowers the World Wide Web. Now a new technique, signlinking, brings hyperlinking to wholly sign language-based web content with similar implications for e-learning in the Deaf community. ..."
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The recent and rapid development of e-learning can be traced to the humble print-based hyperlink that empowers the World Wide Web. Now a new technique, signlinking, brings hyperlinking to wholly sign language-based web content with similar implications for e-learning in the Deaf community.

Does Schooling cause Growth

by Mark Bils, Peter J. Klenow, Robert J. Barro, Jess Benhabib, Mark M. Spiegel - American Economic Review , 2000
"... We are grateful to Yongsung Chang and three referees, particularly the final referee, for useful comments. Saasha Celestial-One provided excellent research assistance. Does Schooling Cause Growth? Barro (1991) and others find that growth and schooling are highly correlated across countries. A model ..."
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is examined in which the ability to build on the human capital of one's elders plays an important role in linking growth to schooling. The model is calibrated to quantify the strength of the effect of schooling on growth by using evidence from the labor literature on Mincerian (1974) returns to education

History and Educational Potential of LEGO Mindstorms NXT

by Mehmet Üçgül
"... Abstract: Educational usage of the robotics has accelerated recently because of educational potential of robotics has been recognized by educators and popularity of international robotics tournaments. Many university and schools prepare technology and robotics related summer schools for children. LE ..."
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Abstract: Educational usage of the robotics has accelerated recently because of educational potential of robotics has been recognized by educators and popularity of international robotics tournaments. Many university and schools prepare technology and robotics related summer schools for children
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