25th James Bond Movie

Actor Rami Malek is going to play the villain in the newest ‘James Bond’ movie, and he is in final negotiations for the role. The news came after his win at the 2019 Oscars. He will join a list of famous Bond baddies such as Scaramanga and Silva.
The 25th Bond movie in the franchise is called ‘Shatterhands’. Cary Joi Fukunaga is the director and the filming will begin in April 2019. Daniel Craig will play Bond for the last time, and other familiar and famous actors will join him.

Text: Bonfire of the Fleas

Here's a guaranteed surefire method to completely eliminate a flea infestation on your dog or around its doghouse. First, late in the evening, chain your dog to its doghouse. Then, at a safe distance, build a small bonfire and let it bum ovemight near the dog's house. Fleas are insatiably attracted to heat and will soon become enamored of the fire, leave your dog and its environs, jump into the flames, and die. The next day you will find that all of the fleas are gone.

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Research and advances in medicine:
Curious minds work to solve problems

Medical science has made remarkable strides over roughly the past 75 years, beating back many once life-threatening illnesses and helping to extend the life expectancy of a child born in 2016 to nearly 79 years. By all measures, the pace of change appears to be accelerating.

Dr. Lynell Klassen, a researcher and professor of internal medicine at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, tells students they’ve got a lot ahead of them. “This is really an exciting time to be in medicine. All of the possibilities, the potential for understanding and altering our life functionality is greater than it’s ever been in the past,” he said.

- A look at the past

In the 1930s and 1940s, hospitals were full of young people sick and dying of routine infections, from tuberculosis to appendicitis. The group of antimicrobials, which includes antibiotics such as penicillin, changed that – literally overnight. Vaccines ended epidemics of childhood killers such as polio, diphtheria and pertussis, and provided protection against those such as measles and mumps.

Imaging technologies of increasing power and precision – X-rays, CT, MRI, PET scans, portable ultrasound, 3-D mammography, endoscopies with pill-sized devices, have given us the ability to peer into the body, in some instances to the cellular level.

- A peek into the future

The Human Genome Project gave us the blueprints; the next step involves putting that knowledge to use in medicine. The first gene therapy for an inherited disease, a form of blindness, has recently been approved. In the computing realm, scientists are envisioning the future use of artificial intelligence in medicine, as well as technologies such as augmented reality and virtual reality.

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Bilingual Education for the 21st Century

Bilingual education in the 21st century must face the complexity brought about by the freer movement of people, services, and goods that characterizes our more globalized and technological world. In the second half of the 20^th century, bilingual education grew around the world as a way to educate children who didn't speak the state's language or, in some cases, to recapture the heritage language of a group. This in itself was an innovation over the use of bilingual education only to educate the children of the elite.

In the 21st century, however, the complex and dynamic links created by technology and globalized markets, coupled with the importance of English and other “big” languages, challenge our old conceptions of bilingual education. UNESCO in 1953 declared that it was axiomatic that the child's native language be used to teach children to read, but basic literacy, even in one's own language, is insufficient to be a world citizen in the 21st century.

It has been predicted that by 2050, English will be accompanied by Chinese, Arabic, Spanish and Urdu, as the world's big languages, ordered not only with English at the top as it has been up to now, but with an increasing role for the other four “big” languages. Countries throughout the world are providing options to their children to be schooled in two or more languages. The European Union, for example, has recently adopted a policy of “Mother Tongue + 2” encouraging schools throughout the EU to develop children's trilingual proficiency. For those purposes, a model of teaching is being promoted that encourages the use of the languages other than the child's mother tongue in subject instruction. Ofelia Garcia is Professor of Bilingual Education at Teachers College, Columbia University.

What is the future of technology in education?

The future is about access, anywhere learning and collaboration, both locally and globally. Teaching and learning is going to be social. Schools of the future could have a traditional cohort of students, as well as online only students who live across the country or even the world.

Technology can often be a barrier to teaching and learning. I think the cloud will go a long way to removing this barrier. Why? By removing the number of things that can go wrong.

Schoolswill only need one major thing to be prepared for the future. They will not need software installed, servers or local file storage. Schools will need a fast robust internet connection. Infrastructure is paramount to the the future of technology in education.