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Kahoot! | Learning Games | Make Learning Awesome!

Kahoot! | Learning Games | Make Learning Awesome Hi, we are Kahoot! We are on a mission to unlock the deepest potential of each and every learner, of all ages and in all contexts, and we do that by making learning fun, magical, inclusive, engaging and shareable through games. We want to improve education all over the world and help everyone – of any age, aptitude or circumstance – unleash the magic of learning. Our founding principles are  Social, Play and Learning . Driven by our mission, we’ve built a game-based platform that creates an emotional, playful, engaging and truly social learning environment. Instead of looking down into their textbooks or devices, learners are encouraged to look up while playing and connect with each other – we call it a ‘campfire moment’. For us, engagement is about unlocking everyone’s potential. It means bringing that student from the back of the class to the front and letting everyone become the classroom superhero. How it all started So, where did
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Kahoot! | Learning Games | Make Learning Awesome!

Kahoot! | Learning Games | Make Learning Awesome Hi, we are Kahoot! We are on a mission to unlock the deepest potential of each and every learner, of all ages and in all contexts, and we do that by making learning fun, magical, inclusive, engaging and shareable through games. We want to improve education all over the world and help everyone – of any age, aptitude or circumstance – unleash the magic of learning. Our founding principles are  Social, Play and Learning . Driven by our mission, we’ve built a game-based platform that creates an emotional, playful, engaging and truly social learning environment. Instead of looking down into their textbooks or devices, learners are encouraged to look up while playing and connect with each other – we call it a ‘campfire moment’. For us, engagement is about unlocking everyone’s potential. It means bringing that student from the back of the class to the front and letting everyone become the classroom superhero. How it all started So, where did
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How to Build a Successful Team - Business Guides - The New York Times

How to Build a Successful Team - Business Guides - The New York Times : Once you have a simple plan, you have to keep reminding your team of the priorities, even if it can feel repetitive. People often have to hear something a few times before they truly remember it. Marc Cenedella, chief executive of TheLadders.com, a job search site, shared a good rule of thumb: “You say something seven times and they haven’t heard you,” he said. “Until they start making jokes about how often you repeat it, they haven’t internalized it.”�
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The Miss America Emails: How The Pageant’s CEO Really Talks About The Winners

The Miss America Emails: How The Pageant’s CEO Really Talks About The Winners : (Update: The board suspended Haskell on Friday, hours after an open letter from 49 former Miss Americas called for top-level resignations, adding, “The Board will be conducting an in-depth investigation into alleged inappropriate communications and the nature in which they were obtained. In addition, the Board wishes to reaffirm our commitment to the education and empowerment of young women, supporting them in every way possible.”)
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We already know blockchain’s killer apps – Hacker Noon

We already know blockchain’s killer apps – Hacker Noon : The first plastic credit card was issued in 1958. The magnetic stripe was introduced in 1970. By the mid-70s credit cards were totally pedestrian and ubiquitous in American society. How many people who transact with credit cards can explain what magnetism even is? Forget about knowing how their credit scores work.
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mmm Learn to code in 2018, get hired, and have fun along the way

Learn to code in 2018, get hired, and have fun along the way First Month: The Big Picture Big question to answer:  How do computers, the internet and websites work? How can I build a website? Understand the Feynman Technique  so you really learn over the course of the next 5 months instead of just using your short term memory. How Does the internet work:  this  from LearnCode.academy and  this  from thenewboston. The best overview of Computer Science:  Crash Course Computer Science Follow  this Harvard course  on youtube. This is just pure gold from probably the best computer science instructor. No need to do the exercises. How to use the command Line:  this  by Zed Shaw. How to build a website/get a domain/and have it up and running:  LearnCode.academy video . How does HTML, CSS and Javascript fit together:  FrontendMasters course on web development . Only up to and including section on Javascript. Learn to build websites with Bootstrap. Start with  this  then go to the  Boot
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How Bots and Cyborgs Spread Misinformation: A Data Scientist Finds 5,000 Bots in 72,000,000…

How Bots and Cyborgs Spread Misinformation: A Data Scientist Finds 5,000 Bots in 72,000,000… : In this article, I have demonstrated how it is readily possible to identify social bots and cyborgs on both Twitter and Facebook using information entropy and then to find groups of successful bots using network analysis and community detection. Given the extreme risks of disinformation and propaganda being spread through social media, it is our hope that this approach, along with the work of other researchers, will enable greater transparency and help protect democracy and the authenticity of online discourse. I invite researchers who wish to collaborate on studies of these data sets to request access to become collaborators on our data project hosted on data.world.
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How to Convince Someone When Facts Fail - Scientific American

How to Convince Someone When Facts Fail - Scientific American : From my experience, 1 keep emotions out of the exchange, 2 discuss, don't attack (no ad hominem and no ad Hitlerum), 3 listen carefully and try to articulate the other position accurately, 4 show respect, 5 acknowledge that you understand why someone might hold that opinion, and 6 try to show how changing facts does not necessarily mean changing worldviews.
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Yanis Varoufakis: 'Bitcoin is the perfect bubble, but blockchain is a remarkable solution' | WIRED UK

Yanis Varoufakis: 'Bitcoin is the perfect bubble, but blockchain is a remarkable solution' | WIRED UK : To understand what Varoufakis means by the political nature of money, consider how governments respond to financial crises. When a major financial crisis occurs, it is usually caused by the failure of widespread and interconnected debts. Once these debts fail, what happens is that a large part of the money supply effectively disappears. With this money gone, governments have a choice whether to replace it or not. Choosing not to replace it through the creation of new money (inflation) becomes a political decision with political repercussions. As Varoufakis suggests, “effectively you are choosing to shift the burden of a crisis onto the debtors and usually the weakest and poorest of debtors. So effectively you are redistributing power and wealth against the weaker members of society.”
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