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The World Bank has launched a global conversation on social media centered around a question: what it will take... to end poverty? ... for your family to be better off? This week, people from around the world are sharing ideas on what it will take to get more girls in school.
Youthink! asked people on Facebook and Twitter to weigh in on whether they prefer e-readers to books. See how students are benefiting from e-readers in Africa .
I am in Phaplu, a small mountain town, which is more developed than most other towns in Solukhumbu. There is an airport, and a road that reaches the town. This is also where Sir Edmund Hillary, who was among the first to reach the summit of Mt. Everest, has set up a hospital.
In a recent interview, Robert Hawkins, executive producer of the EVOKE game, said that one of the issues which inspired the game's creation was "the need to reform education to create 21st century skills and move away from rote."
Have you ever felt you're not learning much in school? I certainly had that problem, although I have to admit that was mostly because of an unfortunate tendency to daydream...the one thing I did learn was how to lie, but that's only because I went to a really strict school where you had to be quick with excuses for things like why you were late, or weren't wearing your school blazer and other such terrible misdemeanors.
