News tagged with clicker
Remote control pushed aside by gesture-sensitive devices
The remote control has never been much beloved. If it's not getting lost or running out of batteries, the device - and its inscrutable buttons - is confusing some family member or acting as a totem in an argument about what ...
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Jan 25, 2012 |
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CBS to buy Web video guide Clicker, elevate exec
(AP) -- CBS Corp. said Friday that it is buying the online video watching guide Clicker.com and making its co-founder the new president of CBS Interactive.
Mar 04, 2011 |
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Researchers Show Why Peer Discussion Improves Student Performance on 'Clicker' Questions
(PhysOrg.com) -- Across the University of Colorado at Boulder campus students are sharing answers, checking their responses to questions against those of their neighbors and making adjustments to those answers ...
Jan 02, 2009 |
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New tool helps teachers use technology more effectively
A University of British Columbia researcher has piloted a tool to help elementary and secondary school science teachers get the most out of new classroom technologies.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Apr 16, 2012 |
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Revamped college science course improves student performance -- in spite of cuts
Students overall performed better – and educationally disadvantaged students generally made even greater strides than everyone else – in an introductory biology course at a university where recent budget woes doubled ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jun 02, 2011 |
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Researchers probe causes of math anxiety
Math problems make more than a few students - and even teachers - sweat, but new brain research is providing insights into the earliest causes of the anxiety so often associated with mathematics.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
May 19, 2011 |
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Interactive teaching methods double learning in undergraduate physics class
(PhysOrg.com) -- Interactive teaching methods significantly improved attendance and doubled both engagement and learning in a large physics class, according to a University of British Columbia study published ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
May 12, 2011 |
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With rewards, Zynga hopes to get you (more) hooked
(AP) -- Beware, if you're among the hordes who wonder where the time went after becoming absorbed in online games such as "FarmVille" and "CityVille." Zynga, the hot Internet startup that created those ever-engrossing ...
Mar 21, 2011 |
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Quizzes key to learning for middle school students
(PhysOrg.com) -- Practice might not always make perfect, but a novel study of Midwestern middle school science students suggests it just might.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Mar 07, 2011 |
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Urine-sniffing dogs: Early detection of prostate cancer
In the February 2011 issue of European Urology, Jean-Nicolas Cornu and colleagues reported the evaluation of the efficacy of prostate cancer (PCa) detection by trained dogs on human urine samples.
Feb 07, 2011 |
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All may not be as it seems: College students, alcohol and sex
College students are less likely to let their female friends engage in risky sexual behavior after a night of drinking alcohol. Recent findings in the journal Communication Education examine how and why college students protec ...
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Aug 25, 2010 |
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Vonage makes free Facebook phone call app
(AP) -- Vonage, a pioneer of home phone service over the Internet, has a new application for the iPhone and Android phones that provides free calls between Facebook users.
Aug 04, 2010 |
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Can you ask a pig if his glass is half full?
Babe may be the most famous sensitive pig in the world but new research from Newcastle University suggests he is by no means the only one.
Jul 27, 2010 |
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