How Millennials are changing the way of learning: the state of the art of ICT integration in education

Millennials generation is changing the way of learning, prompting educational institutions to attempt to better adapt to young needs by incorporating technologies into education. Based on this premise, we have reviewed the prominent reports of the integration of ICT into education with the aim of evidencing how education is changing, and will change, to meet the needs ofMillennials with ICT support. We conclude that most of the investments have simply resulted in an increase of computers and access to the Internet, with teachers reproducing traditional approaches to education and e-learning being seen as complementary to face-to-face education. While it would seem that the use of ICT is not revolutionizing learning, it is facilitating the personalization, collaboration and ubiquity of learning.

How Millennials are changing the way we learn : the state of the art of ICT integration in education

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A complete treatise on the art of retouching photographic negatives and clear directions how to finish & colour photographs.

Mode of access: Internet.

How to make origami; the art of paper folding,

16 sheets of col. paper in pocket.

The art of glass, showing how to make all sorts of glass, crystal, & enamel ...

Mode of access: Internet.

Geodaesia, or, The art of surveying and measuring land made easy : shewing by plain and practical rules, to survey, protract, cast up, reduce or divide any piece of land whatsoever : with new tables for the ease of the surveyor in reducing the measure of land : moreover a more facile and sure way of surveying by the chain, than has hitherto been taught. As also to lay out new lands in America, or elsewhere: and how to make a perfect map of a river's mouth or harbour; with several other things never before published in our language.

Mode of access: Internet.

A concise treatise on the art of angling : confirmed by actual experience; interspersed with several new and recent discoveries, forming a complete museum for the lovers of that pleasing and rational recreation; to which are added prognostics of the weather independent of the barometer; and a new chapter, containing rules, how best to form a competent judgement of the changes that take place, in that useful instrument /

Mode of access: Internet.

The art of angling : or, compleat fly-fisher : describing the different kinds of fish, their haunts, places of feeding, and retirement ; with an account of the generation of fishes, and observations on the breeding of carp, together with directions how to regulate pools or ponds : also the various kinds of baits, and the great diversity of flies that nature produces : to which is added, directions for making artificial flies /

Mode of access: Internet.

A briefe and short instruction of the art of musick, to teach how to make discant, of all proportions that are in use : very necessary for all such as are desirous to attaine to knowledge in the art : and may be by practice, if they can sing, soone to be able to compose three, foure, and five parts : and also to compose all sorts of canons that are usuall, by these directions of two or three parts in one, upon the plain-song /

Principally musical examples.

The art of extempore speaking; or, How to attain fluency of speech,

Mode of access: Internet.

How should I pronounce? or, The principles of the art of correct pronunciation : a manual for schools, colleges, and private use /

Mode of access: Internet.

Applying statistical approaches in the dissection of genes versus environment for asthma and allergic disease

Now that some of the genes involved in asthma and allergy have been identified, interest is turning to how genetic predisposition interacts with exposure to environmental risk factors. These questions are best answered by studies in which both genotypes and other risk factors are measured, but even simpler studies, in which family history is used as a proxy for genotype, have made suggestive findings. For example, early breast feeding may increase the risk of allergic disease in genetically susceptible children, and decrease the risk of 'sporadic' allergy. This review also addresses the overall importance of genetic causes of allergic disease in the general population.

On homology searches by protein Blast and the characterization of the age of genes

Background: It has been shown in a variety of organisms, including mammals, that genes that appeared recently in evolution, for example orphan genes, evolve faster than older genes. Low functional constraints at the time of origin of novel genes may explain these results. However, this observation has been recently attributed to an artifact caused by the inability of Blast to detect the fastest genes in different eukaryotic genomes. Distinguishing between these two possible explanations would be of great importance for any studies dealing with the taxon distribution of proteins and the origin of novel genes. Results: Here we used simulations of protein sequences to examine the capacity of Blast to detect proteins of diverse evolutionary rates in the different species of an eukaryotic phylogenetic tree that included metazoans, fungi and plants. We simulated the evolution of protein genes with the same evolutionary rates than those observed in functional mammalian genes and with among-site rate heterogeneity. Under these conditions, we found that only a very small percentage of simulated ancestral eukaryotic proteins was affected by the Blast artifact. We show that the good detectability of Blast is due to the heterogeneity of protein evolutionary rates at different sites, since only a small conserved motif in a sequence suffices to detect its homologues. Our results indicate that Blast, at least when applied within eukaryotes, only misses homologues of extremely fast-evolving sequences, which are rare in the mammalian genome, as well as sequences evolving homogeneously or pseudogenes.Conclusion: Although great care should be exercised in the recognition of remote homologues, most functional mammalian genes can be detected in eukaryotic genomes by Blast. That is, the majority of functional mammalian genes are not as fast as for not being detected in other metazoans, fungi or plants, if they had been present in these organisms. Thus, the correlation previously found between age and rate seems not to be due to a pure Blast artifact, at least for mammals. This may have important implications to understand the mechanisms by which novel genes originate.