Getting Healthy For The New Year
As I approach the third flight of stairs at my high school, I have to pause just to catch my breath. It’s embarrassing. That’s why I’m making my resolution to exercise in the New Year.
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Young People Put A Human Face On Data
Big data. Everyone has a slightly different definition of this new buzzword.
Rick Smolan, former photographer for National Geographic and TIME Magazine and the author of The Human Face of Big Data, defined the term for us like this:
“When you take several different sources for information and you overlap them and you look for patterns in the data… It’s a little bit like watching the planet develop a nervous system. …All of us walking around with our smartphones, we’ve become human sensors. So we’re all feeding data back into this growing mass of databases, and the ability to collect data, process it, visualize it and react to it in real time is something the human race has never had before.”
Choosing Walking Over Driving
For the next few months, I’m planning to stay as far away from cars as possible.
How One School District Cut Suspensions In Half
Suspending and expelling students has become commonplace in many states including California. Recent records show more than 700,000 students suspended and 18,000…
Learning In The Young Lion’s Lair
The phrase “I don’t give an F-Bomb” resonates throughout high school hallways every day, especially in Oakland public schools. Which…