1,000 Years of Scientific Texts From The Islamic World Are Now Online

Between the 9th and 19th centuries, Arabic-speaking scholars translated Greek, Latin and even Sanskrit texts on topics such as medicine, mathematics and astronomy, fostering a vibrant scientific culture within the Islamic world. Some of the most influential texts are now available at the Qatar Digital Library.

The library, a joint project of the British Library and the Qatar Foundation, offers free access to 25,000 pages of medieval Islamic manuscripts. Among some of the most significant texts are The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices (1206 A.D.), which was inspired by an earlier, 9th-century translation of Archimedes' writings on water clocks. Devices such as the "Elephant Clock" (pictured below) were the most accurate time-keeping pieces before the first pendulum clocks were built in the 17th century by the Dutch scientist Christiaan Huygens.

The Guardian: Doctor Who's new web game aims to teach children programming skills

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/oct/20/doctor-who-web-game-bbc-programming-coding

Latest attempt to make coding fun for kids involves rescuing a Dalek and exploring the unscreened world of Sontar.

Doctor Who’s latest adventure sees him teaming up with a Dalek and trying to save the universe, but also teaching children some early computer programming skills.

This isn’t a TV show, however: it’s a game due to launch on Wednesday 22 October on the broadcaster’s CBBC website. The Doctor and the Dalek includes voice narration from current Doctor Peter Capaldi, and a new story by Phil Ford, who has written for the TV show.

The free web game is aimed at 6-12 year-olds, and involves freeing a battered Dalek from a ship of Cybermen, then building it back up to full strength through puzzles based on the programming elements of the new English computing curriculum.

Children will be combining instructions to accomplish a given goal, using variables to alter behaviour, exploring repetition and loops, and using their logical reasoning skills in order to rebuild the Dalek.

More at: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/oct/20/doctor-who-web-game-bbc-programming-coding

STEM Metrics Interactive Website

The Outlier Research Group at the University of Chicago have identified eight variables that are at work in inclusive STEM high schools. Those variables include: 

• staff foundations, 
• personalization of learning, 
• problem based learning, 
• rigorous learning, 
• school community and belonging, 
• career technology and life skills, 
• external community, and 
• essential factors. 

All of these variables can be explored further at their interactive website.

The Feynman Lectures on Physics free online

Caltech and The Feynman Lectures Website are pleased to present this online edition of The Feynman Lectures on Physics. Now, anyone with internet access and a web browser can enjoy reading a high quality up-to-date copy of Feynman's legendary lectures.

However, we want to be clear that this edition is only free to read online, and this posting does not transfer any right to download all or any portion of The Feynman Lectures on Physics for any purpose.

This edition has been designed for ease of reading on devices of any size or shape; text, figures and equations can all be zoomed without degradation.

http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/

The Ultimate Directory Of Free Image Sources by Dan Leeman

The Edublogger spent some time categorizing our favorite sources for free images and organizing them in such a way as to help you find what you’re looking for. 

http://www.theedublogger.com/2014/07/09/the-ultimate-directory-of-free-image-sources/

Ireland International Conference on Education (IICE-2014)

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Ireland International Conference on Education (IICE-2014)
April 28-30, 2014, Dublin, Ireland
www.iicedu.org

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The IICE is an international refereed conference dedicated to the advancement of the theory and practices in education. The IICE promotes collaborative excellence between academicians and professionals from Education.

The aim of IICE is to provide an opportunity for academicians and professionals from various educational fields with cross-disciplinary interests to bridge the knowledge gap, promote research esteem and the evolution of pedagogy. The IICE 2014 invites research papers that encompass conceptual analysis, design implementation and performance evaluation. All the accepted papers will appear in the proceedings and modified version of selected papers will be published in special issues peer reviewed journals.

The topics in IICE-2014 include but are not confined to the
following areas:
*Academic Advising and Counselling
*Art Education
*Adult Education
*APD/Listening and Acoustics in Education Environment
*Business Education
*Counsellor Education
*Curriculum, Research and Development
*Competitive Skills
*Continuing Education
*Distance Education
*Early Childhood Education
*Educational Administration
*Educational Foundations
*Educational Psychology
*Educational Technology
*Education Policy and Leadership
*Elementary Education
*E-Learning
*E-Manufacturing
*ESL/TESL
*E-Society
*Geographical Education
*Geographic information systems
*Health Education
*Higher Education
*History
*Home Education
*Human Computer Interaction
*Human Resource Development
*Indigenous Education
*ICT Education
*Internet technologies
*Imaginative Education
*Kinesiology & Leisure Science
*K12
*Language Education
*Mathematics Education
*Mobile Applications
*Multi-Virtual Environment
*Music Education
*Pedagogy
*Physical Education (PE)
*Reading Education
*Writing Education
*Religion and Education Studies
*Research Assessment Exercise (RAE)
*Rural Education
*Science Education
*Secondary Education
*Second life Educators
*Social Studies Education
*Special Education
*Student Affairs
*Teacher Education
*Cross-disciplinary areas of Education
*Ubiquitous Computing
*Virtual Reality
*Wireless applications
*Other Areas of Education
- You can submit your research paper at http://www.iicedu.org/IICE-2014%20April/Paper%20Submission.html

or email it to papers-2014@iicedu.org


Important Dates:
*Research Paper, Student Paper, Case Study, Report Submission Date: January 30, 2014
*Extended Abstract (Work in Progress) Submission Date:  January 25, 2014
*Proposal for Workshops Submission Date:  January 20, 2014
*Notification of Workshop Acceptance/Rejection:  January 31, 2014
*Posters Proposal Submission Date: January 25, 2014
*Notification of Posters Acceptance/Rejection: January 30, 2014
*Notification of Extended Abstract (Work in Progress) Acceptance/Rejection: February 01, 2014
*Notification of Research Paper, Student Paper, Case Study, Report Acceptance/Rejection: February 10, 2014
*Camera Ready Paper Due: February 28, 2014
*Early Bird Registration (Authors and Participants): December 30, 2013 - March 15, 2014
*Late Bird Registration Deadline (Authors only): March 16, 2014 - March 30, 2014
*Late Bird Registration Deadline (Participants only): March 16, 2014 - April 14, 2014
*Conference Dates: April 28-30, 2014

For further information please visit IICE-2014 at www.iicedu.org

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