Leave it to the Wizards of Cupertino to upstage everyone in the tech industry with a new iPhone model that blows away anything on market or on the horizon from their competitors.
During a special unveiling event in San Francisco Apple revealed the latest version of their flagship mobile device that boasts upgrades across the board. The new model is 18% thinner and 20% lighter than the iPhone 4S. It also comes equipped with a laundry list of impressive hardware stats:
LTE Connectivity.
An A5 chip.
An 8 Megapixle Rear-Camera and a 720p HD Front-Facing Camera.
Battery life that is second-to-none and offers 8 hours of 3G talk time, 8 hours of 3G browsing, 8 hours of LTE browsing, 10 hours of Wi-Fi browsing, 10 hours of video playback, 40 hours of music, playback, and 225 hours of standby time.
All of this comes in a completely redesigned chassis and will run iOS6. Unlike competitors who revealed their slate of next-gen smartphones last week, Apple is clear with pricing and availability. The iPhone 5 will be available on Sept. 21 and will retail for $199 for the 16GB model with a 2-year service contract.
I had been retired for about 18 months and not enjoying myself. My wife would travel to go to work and leave me alone with a TV and my two dogs. This was certainly not how I wanted to spend my “golden years”. After working over 51 years in education in the United States and Egypt I had few plans on how best spend my idle hours. Frankly, I was bored and frustrated.
Fortunately very close to my house they were building a new school. I decided to look into this possible opportunity....
Podcasts have become a new way of learning. As teachers, leaders, childcare providers etc, we must commit to being lifelong learners. Today it is easier than ever to learn by listening to colleague’s, veteran and even new to the profession, by turning on a podcast. A podcast allows you to listen and learn in the car, while you are working, at the gym, on an airplane and even out on a walk. There are thousands of podcasts out in the world today and when it comes to early childhood and...
(Note: The following is the first installment of a three-part series based on my upcoming book, Calming Student Stress in K-12 Classrooms: Mindfulness, Meditation, and Other Strategies to Reduce Anxiety and Enhance Learning, due out by Rowman & Littlefield in early 2024).
Despite coming out of the pandemic and returning to in-person learning, stress, anxiety, and trauma remain prevalent in the classroom. For example, according to a...
The Samurai were fierce warriors of Feudal Japan (we’re talking 1100 to 1800s). They lived during times of constant fighting, whether between warring lords in Japan or against invading enemies, such as the Mongols.
Samurai had to be incredibly sharp, focused, centered, calm, and ready to leap into action at any moment. This explains why they were drawn to the practice of Zen Buddhism and training the mind through meditation.
Today, the enemy or constant threat isn’t so much...
Mindfulness in the k-12 classroom has been shown to improve school-related skills, such as executive functioning, social-emotional skills, working memory, sustained attention, and self-regulation (see Mindfulness in the Classroom).
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Educators, you have probably heard the term, mindfulness, thrown around a lot at this point. You...
I have recently retired as a school administrator after 51 plus in education. I have been reading about a lot of new administrators who are all ready burning out, feel overwhelmed, overworked, and under compensated. I was fortunate to have worked in more than a dozen schools and similar number of other educational positions. I worked in seven states and two countries. My point in saying this as I changed jobs, I had to thoroughly investigate each one before accepting the new assignment. ...