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17 Feb 2016 Hindustan Times (Mumbai) HT Correspondent ■ hteducation@hindustantimes.com Build your own app with Google Zoom Bookmark Share Print Listen Translate If you’re a student with a great idea for a mobile app, here’s your chance to make money. AdMob, Google’s mobile advertising platform specifically designed for mobile apps, is inviting entries for the 2016 AdMob Student App Challenge. ISTOCK Winners will visit Google’s headquarters in California. The winning app will feature on the Google Play Store. To compete, applicants need to register their team of not more than five people. If you are looking for other students to join your team, you can visit collabfinder.com. The second step is to build your app. Once this is done, it’s time to promote the app so that people can see it and start using it. Then, submit the app to Google play Store or Apple’s App Store. After approvals, send your mobile app to Google by using a form available at www.google. com/admob/mo...

There’s an app for that Zoom Bookmark Share Print Listen Translate BEYOND BOOKS To prepare for the upcoming board exams, Class 12 science students are using mobile apps and YouTube channels that break down experiments, have quizzes and question banks, and aid last-minute revision Students often use websites for question banks. Apps for study are a great idea, but it does depend on how one uses them. If not used sensibly, it can be a big source of distraction as well. MANJU NICHANI, principal of KC College, Churchgate With her Class 12 board exams just a few weeks away, Sharanya Hegde, a student from New Horizon Public School, Airoli, is busy with last-minute revision. To help jog her memory, she has traded in textbooks for technology. IMAGESBAZAAR “I watch videos related to my math and physics syllabus on YouTube,” she says. “Since I need to work harder at physics, I use videos on Khan Academy for topics on integration, and professor Pradeep Kshetrapal’s YouTube channel f...

More Than 90 Percent Of College Students Prefer Reading Paper Books Over E-Books By  Katherine Derla , Tech Times | February 5, 7:30 AM Like Follow Share Tweet Reddit SUBSCRIBE A four-year survey found that 92 percent of university student still choose reading on paper instead of screen. E-books are definitely much cheaper, which is the main reason why most students get the digital copies instead of the traditional paper versions. (Photo : Francisco Osorio | Flickr) Researchers asked more than 420 university students from the U.S., Slovakia, Japan and Germany in 2010 and 2013. They found that 92 percent preferred paper books instead of e-books. The survey was part of the book research from American University's linguistics professor Naomi Baron who penned  Words Onscreen: The Fate of Reading in a Digital World. In 2010, the team found that 92 percent of college students in the U.S. favored the paper book version over the e-book version. About 95 percen...

OPINION  »  OPEN PAGE Published: February 16, 2016 00:20 IST | Updated: February 16, 2016 00:20 IST   February 16, 2016 Plagiarise and be damned — a brain perspective Tiny Nair Just copying and not thinking out-of-the-box may hamper some of the creative brain functions Japanese medical articles are some of the best in terms of research worth, but when it comes to English grammar use, they could be dicey. And that’s precisely what helped me pin down the culprit. An article written by an Indian author, sent to me by the journal editor for review, reminded me of the odd grammar I had seen before. The local author had not even taken the trouble to correct the grammar. Most of the article was copied; it was a clear case of plagiarism by any reckoning. My son was sitting on the other side of the table doing his homework, my wife trying to convince him something. His high-pitched voice in defence caught my attention: “Teacher told us to co...

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10 Days. 1000 Books : International Book Giving Day 14th February is Valentine's Day. But did you know that it is also  International Book Giving Day ?  International Book Giving Day’s focus is on encouraging people worldwide to give a book to a child on February 14th. Pratham Books is collecting 1000 books in 10 days as a run up to the International Book Giving Day. We are making some book love potion and we need your help to create it. BOOK LOVE POTION 1.  Find a campaign on Donate-a-Book  that needs some book love potion. 2.  Add a dash of your book love * to the mix (Rs.250 = 6 books, Rs.500 =12 books) 3. A book parcel gets created by Pratham Books and sent to a library across India. 4. Children open your book love parcel and dive into a magical world of stories. Can we collect 1000 books in the next 10 days? Let's together convert the 'joy' of reading to a 'love' for reading.  Donate-a-Book  today! *If you...

After experiencing uncountable attacks on major government websites by Chinese hackers, various liabilities have been revealed of Indian Cyberspace. Taking some vital steps against cyber-attack, Indian Government is all set to launch its own operating system. The new operating system is an updated version of India’s own OS dubbed as ‘Bharat Operating System Solution’ or BOSS. A senior official of Indian Government told that the new and updated operating system,  BOSS OS  will replace all other operating systems available in the market and will be made available by this month end. It is considered that new operating system will be giving tough competition to other operating systems like Microsoft Windows, which is currently dominating Indian operating system market. The newly and highly improved version of operating system,  Bharat Operating System Solution  (BOSS) is developed by Pune-based organisation ‘Centre for Development of Advanced Computing’ ( C-DAC )...