On the Agenda – Week 25, 2013
Take 1 – Nature
@PLOSONE Crowd sourced bird observation show that grebes now prefer California over the northern Pacific coast.
@NWF Agricultural pesticides linked to widespread invertebrate biodiversity loss.
@topsciencenews Scientists date prehistoric bacterial invasion still present in today’s plant and animal cells
Take 2 – EU
@QS_pressoffice KU Leuven sees new horizons for Erasmus exchange programme.
@EARTOBrussels Agreement on Horizon2020 in sight after late night deal on EU budget
@DennisAbbott European Commission publishes report on improving the quality of teaching
Take 3 – Social Media
@jwordsmith blogging and Skyping taught in Grade 1 in Windsor, Ontario
@USNewsEducation Raising funds for college requires marketing and social media savvy. How to do that? Try crowdfunding to pay for school
@Edudemic How do students really benefit from using social media?
…and this week on ScienceGuideEU
@ScienceGuideEU: A 16-year-old girl made algae biofuel even more sustainable. “If you use my processes, you don’t need any chemicals.”
@ScienceGuideEU: Knowmad Society wants to reinvent education: Schools shape society, so how do we teach purposively for social change?
