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Walkit.com — The urban walking route planner

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Green Vegans – Welcome EmotionSense New Schemas for Mapping Pedagogies and Technologies - Ariadne ar In this article I want to reflect on the rhetoric of 'Web 2.0' and its potential versus actual impact. I want to suggest that we need to do more than look at how social networking technologies are being used generally as an indicator of their potential impact on education, arguing instead that we need to rethink what are the fundamental characteristics of learning and then see how social networking can be harnessed to maximise these characteristics to best effect. I will further argue that the current complexity of the digital environment requires us to develop 'schema' or approaches to thinking about how we can best harness the benefits these new technologies confer. The Tension between Web 2.0 and Education So my primary interest is to focus on the educational aspects of new technologies and in particular what might be appropriate 'schema' for describing the ways in which technologies are being used. Realigning New Technologies to Pedagogy A Pedagogical Framework for Mapping Tools in Use

Calendar Template Photo 2015 A vegetarian diet is better for the environment | The Vegetarian Society Eating a vegetarian diet is one of the best things you can do to stop climate change – it’s also delicious and loads of fun! The population is set to rise to over 9 billion by 20501, we are consuming the planet’s natural resources faster than the Earth can replenish them. By 2050 we’ll need the equivalent of three planets resources2 to meet our current needs. A vegetarian diet uses less water. It takes far less water to produce plant protein than meat. Look for these trademarks to make your shopping easier References [1] “After adjustment for sex and age, an average 2,000 kcal high meat diet had 2.5 times as many GHG emissions than an average 2,000 kcal vegan diet.” Scarborough, P., Appleby, P.N., Mizdrak, A. et al. [2] “poultry emerges as the least water intensive, with between 2,390 and 3,900 litres of embedded water in each kg food” calculation based on figures published in EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT Science and Technology Options

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