Asthey say whatever God’s dream about man may be, it seems certain it cannot come true unless man cooperates. So cooperative learning has always been more effective by many reasons: developing and sharing a common goal is much easy way because you can contribute your understanding of the problem:questions; insights and solutions. You can respond to, and work to understand, others’ questions, insights and solutions. You are accountable to others, and they are accountable to you, you are dependent on others, and they depend finally each of you brings strengths to a group.

You take responsibility for a share of the tasks and carry them out on time and in case you if you have little experience or feel ill-prepared for, or even think others would do better.you can be sure that you will always get certain help and support.

No doubt adults, children and even babies – all of us have the ability to grow and adapt to daily challenges in life. The fact is the twenty-first century promises to be “the century of brain.” The above technologies and other advances will enable us to shed light on the problems of the human mind. The time has come for us to apply the results of brain science research to improving education as a social technology. There is “art of changing the brain” that comes down to some things that we have always known. Practice and meaning are the most important parts of this art, but of course the student will not practice in a meaningful way unless she cares. Ultimately it is the learner that is in control. The teacher can arrange the conditions and the challenges in ways that engage the learner, but still we must have faith in learning itself.

“Three principles from brain research: emotional safety, appropriate challenges, and self constructed meaning suggest that a one-size-fits-all approach to classroom instruction teaching is ineffective for most students and harmful to some.”

There are no two children are alike. An enriched environment for one is not necessarily enriched for another.

No two children learn in the identical way.
In the classroom we should teach children to think for themselves.
One way is to group children so they are talking to each other, they are asking questions of each other, they are learning to be teachers. One of the most important concepts for a 5 year old to know is that he or she can teach because you have to understand something to teach it.”

You can vote here your opinion about online online schools. Do people see the benefits of online learning getting the most out of online college experience? According to CCA consulting, nearly 50% of higher
education institutions currently engage in some type of online learning. Academic and professional organizations agree that using web-based learning environments can offer sound pedagogical benefits. According to researchers from Cornell University, “the web provides significant new functionality in transmitting information to the student and providing forums for exchange”.

[polldaddy poll="3450120"]

Nobody can swim like a fish. But how fish swim? Many fishes swim by contracting and relaxing a succession of muscle blocks, called myomeres, alternately on each side of the body, starting at the head and progressing down toward the tail. The alternate shortening and relaxing of successive muscle blocks, which bends part of the body first toward one side and then toward the other, results in a series of waves traveling down the fish’s body. The rear part of each wave thrusts against the water and propels the fish forward.

[youtube="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_VJ_0wORbM"]

This type of movement is quite clearly seen in the freshwater eel. Because movement of the head back and forth exerts drag, which consumes additional energy and slows travel, a great many fishes have modified this snakelike motion by keeping the waves very small along most of the length of the body, in some cases showing no obvious movement at all, and then increasing them sharply in the tail region. It is the end of the traveling waves that moves the tail forcefully back and forth, providing the main propulsion for forward motion. A simpler form of tail propulsion is seen in such inflexible-bodied fishes as the trunkfish, which simply alternates contractions of all the muscle blocks on one side of the body with those on the other side, causing the tail to move from side to side like a sculling paddle.

Some of the predatory bony fishes are the fastest swimmers; they can cruise at speeds that are between three and six times their body length per second and may be able to reach 9 to 13 body lengths per second in very short bursts. Some fishes, such as the blenny, which has been timed at 0.8 km/hr (0.5 mph), swim very slowly; others, such as the salmon, which may reach a sustained speed of 13 km/hr (8 mph), move much faster; and it has been estimated that tuna may reach speeds of 80 km/hr (50 mph), and swordfish, 97 km/hr (60 mph).

In search of Math practice site I’ve found the perfect one that can help to make it both perfect and fun. This is www.ixl.com/ that offers an unlimited math questions in more than 1,000 topics, students improve their skills and confidence and always have new challenges to meet. You can get started right now.

There is KidsNumbers.com as well that is offering the absolutely free math resource designed by teachers, specifically for students and children of all ages. A place where students can practice all aspects of math, including addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, in a fun and pressure free way.

Math Foundations is a cutting edge, free 12 week program that will help build the foundation your student needs to do well with mathematics.

‘We report the design, synthesis, and assembly of the 1.08-Mbp Mycoplasma mycoides JCVI-syn1.0 genome starting from digitized genome sequence information and its transplantation into a Mycoplasma capricolum recipient cell to create new Mycoplasma mycoides cells that are controlled only by the synthetic chromosome. The only DNA in the cells is the designed synthetic DNA sequence, including “watermark” sequences and other designed gene deletions and polymorphisms, and mutations acquired during the building process. The new cells have expected phenotypic properties and are capable of continuous self-replication.’

[youtube="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKZ-GjSaqgo"]

For 15 years, J. Craig Venter has chased a dream: to build a genome from scratch and use it to make synthetic life. Now, he and his team at the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) in Rockville, Maryland, and San Diego, California, say they have realized that dream. In this week’s Science Express (www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/science.1190719), they describe the stepwise creation of a bacterial chromosome and the successful transfer of it into a bacterium, where it replaced the native DNA. Powered by the synthetic genome, that microbial cell began replicating and making a new set of proteins.

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/328/5981/958

Genomics: Synthetic Genome Brings New Life to Bacterium
Elizabeth Pennisi

Whether you’re young or old person there is always time to study, especially now when you can do it right online, to learn Biology for instance. Studying biology gives you the opportunity to advance human knowledge and understanding in today’s world, in order to make a difference to tomorrow’s. However I don’t think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

[youtube="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9WtBRNydso"]

There are facts you might be dont know:
97% of people getting a new pen, write firstly their first name.
Deers love to eat bananas the most.

Approximately 10% of people in the world are left-handers.
Every person need an average of 7 minutes to become asleep.
Each time while you’re licking a postage stamp you get 1 / 10 calories.
Language of chameleon is twice longer as himself.
Ants never sleep.
World population in 5000 BC was 5 million people.
If the Earth rotated in the opposite direction the year would have two days less.
The largest recorded hailstone fell on the Koffeyvill (Kansas, USA). It’s weight was almost 700 grams.
An ostrich egg should be boiled for at least 40 minutes.
From 1 gram of gold can be pulled up 3,5 km long wire.

[youtube="http://www.youtube.com/v/Mszlckmc4Hw&hl"]

This short, an eight-minute animation, demonstrating various biological mechanisms that occur within a white blood cell, was created in NewTek LightWave 3D and Adobe After Effects for Harvard biology students

You live and learn. At any rate, you live, right? Well, there are Free Online Schools if you don’t know yet. Many universities and colleges have decided to make course materials, including lectures, tests, notes and readings, available for free on the Internet. Visiting education-portal.com/ you can find many schools, which include world-class institutions like MIT and UC-Berkeley, that can be taken by people around the world who want to get the incredible opportunity for learning.

A handful of world-class universities and colleges have decided to offer free courses, assignments, and lectures via the World Wide Web, using a variety of means that include streaming video, podcasts, and downloadable lecture notes as well.

Here is the list of some of the most respected of these schools:

University of California at Berkeley
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Tufts University
Stanford University
Yale University
University of Notre Dame
Carnegie Mellon University
University of Washington
Johns Hopkins University
New York University
Berklee College of Music
Vanderbilt University
Gresham College
Open University (United Kingdom)
Utah Valley State College
Utah State University