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In computer science, transclusion is the inclusion of part of a document into another document by reference. Some hypertext systems ... support transclusion. For example, an article about a country might include a chart or a paragraph describing that country's agricultural exports from a different article about agriculture. Rather than copying the included data and storing it in two places, a transclusion embodies modular...

Students, have you considered starting an Innovation Club at your high school? Tableteer students and teachers are acting as innovators in schools. You may find common ground with Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Innovation Club members. Who knows, such a club might provide a logical and practical step toward admission to MIT. Mirroring MIT's motto of "mens et manus" ("mind and hand"), the MIT...

DAVE GUSSOW, Times Staff Writer, asks the question, Whatever happened to the paperless office? He then describes less use of paper in a higher ed classroom. Good choice of example. How are Tableteers progressing toward paperless classrooms? Google reports 284,000 entries to a search about paperless classrooms and 40,000 about Tablet PCs and paperless classrooms. I think I'll visit these topics soon. In...

Here's a sobering comment by Bill Jackson. He reviews the importance of parents in the schooling of their children. By itself, this could be another yawn. However, Bill expands on common sense.In a 2001 review of dozens of research studies on this topic, MIT economist Caroline Hoxby reported that the consensus view is that family factors account for about 90% of the education attainment...

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation offer assistance in identifying which practices best prepare students for high school graduation and beyond. They also sponsor research into improving the U.S. education system, especially in high schools.Educators will probably find their assistance refreshing and supportive, not pedantic and preachy.

"Yet another site for math with promises to make math interesting & fun??? Don't we have enough such sites cluttering the Internet?" That hook snagged me. Did it catch you? When I read further, I found out that the publishers also said, "EsumZ.com promises you nothing. We set the stage ..." EsumZ.com is a math tutoring program. This rhetoric makes sense in the overheated...

Aniruddh Patel of the Neurosciences Institute, UC San Diego, discusses what music can teach us about the brain and what brain science reveals about music. I know a seventh grader and a couple of high school students who would appreciate it as a classroom session this fall. I hope all teachers will take the time to listen and watch this fascinating presentation. Thanks for...

Nancy Kober of the Center on Education Policy released A Public Education Primer: Basic (and Sometimes Surprising) Facts about the U.S. Education System. This new report "provides a comprehensive picture" of the nation’s public schools facts about how things have changed, and will continue to change. The report addresses these questions: · Who are the...

Warren Buffett, a can-do person and the second wealthest person in the United States, talks again with Charlie Rose in a three part series of wisdom and comment. The first part of the series aired last night and is available online today. Here is a sample of anecdotes shared. Buffett "loves teaching." He includes comments about how teachers and others helped shape his life....

PEBBLES, a new assistive technology, is revolutionizing the educational and emotional experiences of hospitalized and/or homebound children. PEBBLES unites medically fragile children, hospitalized for protracted periods, with their regular school site. It uses a video-conferencing system to provide a telepresence. A PEBBLES system consist of two child-sized robots capable of transmitting video, audio and documents to each other. Teachers and fellow students come to...