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PBS ‘Digital Nation’

Frontline aired a special this week called Digital Nation. You can watch it online at http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/digitalnation/view/

It runs about 90 minutes, but it offers a great glimpse of the issues surrounding being “wired” from how it affects kids brains, to education, and to what may be in store for the future.

January 2010 Employee Party

Here are some pics from the Employee Party we had earlier in the month.

SuperGeeks Bowling Night

Here are a couple of pictures from the SuperGeeks Bowling Night.
SG bowling
SG nachos

Different ways of learning

Research into learning retention rates (National Training Laboratory Institute for Applied Behavioral Science from “Different Ways of Learning”) has proven:

Teaching Method Knowledge Retention
See/Hear – Lecture 5%
Reading 10%
Audio Visual / Video 20%
Demonstration 30%
Discussion Group 50%
Practice by Doing 75%
Teaching Others 90%
Immediate application of learning in a real situation 90%

Pole-dancing robots?

The Kinetica Art Fair in London showcases art including carnivorous lampshades and pole-dancing robots.