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Wikis Para Todos - Wikispaces Justification Fórum pretende tornar Ginga-Java reconhecido internacionalmente São Paulo - Linguagem para software de interatividade na TV Digital desenvolvido no Brasil pode virar padrão para sistemas de outros países. O Fórum do Sistema Brasileiro de TV Digital Terrestre (FSBTVD) pretende fazer com que o Padrão Ginga-J, ou Ginga-Java, se torne o padrão internacional para interatividade na TV Digital. Na última reunião do fórum, realizada na segunda-feira (25/05), os integrantes decidiram que vão trabalhar com o propósito de obter o reconhecimento da União Internacional de Telecomunicações (UIT, órgão regulador de telecomunicações da ONU) do Ginga J como uma linguagem compatível com middlewares de interatividade de todo o mundo. Middlewares são programas que conectam equipamentos e serviços, como o aparelho de TV, e o sinal de TV digital e seus aplicativos de interatividade. O UIT aprovou no início do mês o padrão Ginga-NCL como regulamentação válida dentro do sistema japonês de TV Digital que o órgão reconhece, juntamente com o padrão norte-americano e o europeu.
Request for Proposal: Literacy Courseware Challenge RFP Summary Congratulations to all of the challenge winners! Minimum Viable Product (MVP) Awards: Solutions, currently in the concept stage, that address a subset of literacy skills and/or academic content for grades 4-8 Supplemental & Comprehensive Solution Awards: Solutions that address a subset of skills or content for grades 4-8 (Supplemental) or most/all skills within a grade or grade band, covering multiple standards (Comprehensive) Systems, Aggregator or Platform Awards: Solutions that track a student's progress across most/all reading and writing skills and recommend discrete solutions from multiple providers to help build skills based on student performance The Impact We Intend to Support Our vision for education is that all students have access to what they need, when they need it. We also believe that mastery of literacy skills is critical to students’ long-term success. The goal of this Challenge is to stimulate development of courseware supporting literacy instruction.
Justification Audiko The interspecies internet Bonobo jams with Peter Gabriel (credit: Peter Gabriel) At TED 2013 Thursday, Diana Reiss, Peter Gabriel, Neil Gershenfeld, and Vint Cerf launched the idea of the “interspecies internet.” Diana Reiss, a cognitive psychologist, has been been teaching dolphins to communicate through an underwater keyboard of symbols that correspond to whistles and playful activities. Through this keyboard, the dolphins learned to perform activities on demand, and also to express their desire for them. “You can’t get more alien than the dolphin. Bonobos-to-humans app concept (credit: Bonobo Hope Great Ape Trust) Peter Gabriel shared a video (see video excerpt below) of a bonobo with a keyboard. As KurzweilAI noted last April, Bonobos at Bonobo Hope Great Ape Trust Sanctuary (see notes under the Gabriel YouTube video) use touch displays to communicate with people. Gershenfeld is known for his work in the internet of things. So what’s next? Maybe the internet of species will happen via Brain-net?
Changing the Elementary Mathematics Curriculum: Obstacles and Challenges Susan Jo Russell TERC 2067 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, Massachusetts 02140 Problem-solving in the U.S. elementary curriculum: Some history There has been an evolution in the definition of what an appropriate problem is for students ages 6-11. For many years in the US, problems for elementary age students consisted of disembodied numbers and operations. A typical textbook would consist of pages and pages of addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division problems. Textbooks have also typically included what we call in the US "word problems" for example: Joan and Jere went to the beach. Some people identify such word problems as "problem solving"; However, many of these word problems are nothing more than computation practice, just like the pages of numerical problems. Educators who teach young children began to reassess the nature of the problems that young children encounter in their mathematics classes. "6 and 6 is 12, put down the 2 and carry the 1; 1 and 2 is 3, and 3 is 6."