Day: April 26, 2020

INSIDERS OF CORONAVIRUS

By- Garima Yadav 

The establishment of lockdown in India is a big step to fight against the coronavirus. Every day the no. of deaths and patients are increasing even after the imposition of lockdown but is this what a general public demanding?  The ratio is vast between the poor and the rich and each one is facing problems in their own life. But the real problem is being faced by the minorities and the those poor people who earn daily wages to live their life but the lockdown has emerged the surviving issues for them other than just the virus. These people have the shortage of money, lifestyle, facilities and every basic need which is most important in the current situation. According to doctor it is very necessary to wash our hands regularly with soap and clean water but these minorities lack every necessity. They don’t have clean water running through their taps 24/7 nor a proper house to live in so how will these people be saved from this situation?

CORONAVIRUS
CORONAVIRUS

Government has made it so strict that every corner, every border, every highway is locked down with police in charge. There are no proper facilities available for these people to survive through this situation which will lead them to being one of the victims from this corona virus. Recently the lockdown has been extended till May 3rd and this had led the labourers of take a step out of their house. Recently a large group of migrant workers in Mumbai gathered in the streets of Bandra demanding for the permission to move to their native places because living this long is becoming harder for them each day and all they want is to back to their family and at least live the rest of the days with them, they are being helpless right now with no earnings and every day is a challenge for them. Not just in Bandra but also the workers from Ahmedabad and Surat have took the same step.

Currently they are just demanding for some transportation support from the prime minister, that’s all they need. Luckily the exportation of goods and transportation are being considered by the home minister to control the situation of living.

Area 51

By- Deep Dargan

The beginning of Area 51 is directly related to the development of the U-2 reconnaissance aircraft. After World War II, the Soviet Union lowered the Iron Curtain around themselves and the rest of the Eastern bloc, creating a near intelligence blackout to the rest of the world. When the Soviets backed North Korea’s invasion of South Korea in June 1950, it became increasingly clear that the Kremlin would aggressively expand its influence. America worried about the USSR’s technology, intentions, and ability to launch a surprise attack—only a decade removed from the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

area 51
area 51

Making a Myth

U-2 testing began in July 1955, and immediately reports came flooding in about unidentified flying object sightings. If you read the details in a 1992 CIA report that was declassified with redactions in 1998 (and subsequently released nearly in full in 2013), it’s easy to see why.

Many of these sightings were observed by commercial airline pilots who had never seen an aircraft fly at such high altitudes as the U-2. Whereas today’s airliners can soar as high as 45,000 feet, in the mid-1950s airlines flew at altitudes between 10,000 and 20,000 feet. Known military aircraft could get to 40,000 feet, and some believed manned flight couldn’t go any higher than that. The U-2, flying at altitudes in excess of 60,000 feet, would’ve looked completely alien.

The truth is out there

Today, Area 51 is still very much in use. According to Google Earth, new construction and expansions are continuously happening. On most early mornings, eagle-eyed visitors can spot strange lights in the sky moving up and down. No, it’s not a UFO. It’s actually the  semi-secret contact commuter airlines using the call-sign “Janet”,that transports workers from Las Vegas’s McCarran Airport to the base.

As for what’s happening these days in America’s most secretive military base, few know for sure. Merlin has some educated guesses, including improved stealth technology, advanced weapons, electronic warfare systems and, in particular, unmanned aerial vehicles. Chris Pocock, noted U-2 historian and author of several books about the matter, told Popular Mechanics he thinks classified aircraft, more exotic forms of radio communication, directed energy weapons, and lasers are currently under development at the base.

 

Digitalization and Cybercrime

By- Rhythm

In this digital world when crime gets digitalized nothing worse can happen. A famouse case of “Nth room” was exposed in South korea recently. Nth room case is a digital sexual crime case that occurred on the application ‘Telegrame’ from 2018-2020.

cyber security

The ‘Nth Room’ refers to the name of the Telegram chat rooms where the videos of these women were circulated. Reports reveal that as many as 200,000 people were participants in these chat rooms with more than 70 women being the victim including minors.

Reportedly, one of the suspects, Cho Jo Bin also known as “Doctor or Baksa (baksa- doctor in Korean) would lure young women with offers of part-time jobs or modeling offers and then blackmail them with their personal information to create sexually explicit videos of themselves.

Many male idols, actors, politicians, businessman are said to be member of these chat rooms. The ‘Baksa’ aka Cho Jo Bin has been arrested by the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency on 20th march 2020.

The Seoul police have been probing the Nth Room case since September 2019. So far, the cops have got 15,000 names of people who used the Nth Room chatrooms. But police said that many people shared one chatroom, so the number of users could be higher.

More 2 million people signed the petition to reveal the identity of ‘Baksa’ ( his identity has been revealed now) and now more than a million people are signing the petition to reveal all the members of these chatrooms.

WHAT HR CAN LEARN FROM MARKETING WHEN IT COMES TO A SEAT AT THE TABLE

If human resources professionals want a seat in the boardroom, they need to think strategically. It’s a simple lesson in theory, but there’s a deep, entrenched “non-strategic” history holding HR leaders back—even when they make the right moves and say the right things, they face questioning about the value of “fluffy” HR from other business leaders that they have to overcome.
Yes—the HR profession has made huge strides in its quest to be seen as a strategic force rather than a backroom support function, but there is still room for improvement. In 2012, a survey by Ortus found that out of 595 board members at FTSE 50 companies, just five came from an HR background.
What’s the solution? Thinking holistically and dealing with the cool hard facts rather than intuition (though intuition is still incredibly important) can help alleviate the “fluffy” perception of HR, and give talent management leaders equal footing with finance, IT and marketing—marketing in particular. While the CFO and CIO have rarely had to fight for their place at the table, marketing only recently became a strategic arm of the business.
Here, two major lessons HR can learn from the journey of marketers to the table:

Think Big with Brand Strategy

While marketing has always been about the “brand” of the company, this part of their role has become increasingly important in the age of social media and radical transparency. Consumers want to interact with companies they like, not just products they like.
By the same token, HR’s success is increasingly attached to the public perception of the company. People don’t just get a job for a steady paycheck—they want to make an impact and find a purpose. If HR leaders view their day-to-day through the lens of building an innovative, people-focused brand, they are much more likely to attract top talent, as well as retain and engage current star employees. More engaged employees leads to better business results.

Understand the Facts of Human Behavior

Human behavior is at the center of both marketing and HR’s success. For marketing, successfully messaging a product leads to someone purchasing that product. For HR, successfully creating an engaging and respectful workplace leads to more productive, thoughtful employees.
The key difference is that marketing has long recognized and capitalized on its ability to analyze human behavior and linked it to business performance. Marketers increasingly understand who the ideal customer is, and how to reach them. It’s time for HR to do the same.
HR records are ripe with data that can predict performance, increase engagement, improve retention and more. An analytical talent management strategy not only directly impacts the bottom line—a Deloitte study found that companies using sophisticated data analytics see 30 percent higher stock market returns than the S&P 500—but HR teams are four times more likely to be respected by their counterparts for data-driven decision-making.

The Central Role of HR

In an employee-driven market landscape, people are a company’s greatest asset. The determiner of “people” success, HR, is thus far more than the service and compliance department it has been painted as for decades. But HR needs to prove its value.
By taking a couple pages from the marketer’s book, HR leaders will earn themselves a well-deserved seat at the executive table.

Teaching Strategies for Facilitating Essay Revisions

Much of the schoolwork you assign falls in to two categories: It’s either a “practice” exercise that allows for revisions, or it’s a “final” exercise, like an exam, that’s weighted a little more heavily and the grade of which counts a little more.
Today on TeachHUB.com, frequent contributing writer Jordan Catapano, an Engish instructor in the suburbs of Chicago, addresses the “practice” type of schoolwork for which teachers can request multiple revisions.
The types of revisions that Jordan suggests include these simple steps:
  • Give Students Their Assignments Back with Timely Feedback
  • Tell Students about the Opportunity to Revise
  • Students Must Conference with a Teacher
  • And More!

Jordan gives a prescient summation of his article: “When the revision process is completed, the students who volunteered for this option come out a little stronger and more confident. They completed their work, opted for additional feedback, and made adjustments to turn their original into something better. Ultimately, those students come away with a better understanding of their weaknesses and strengths. Plus, when similar tasks come their way in the future, they’re better equipped to successfully tackle them.”
How do you do revisions in your class?
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How to Get a Teaching Job in Today’s Economy
Finding any job in this economy can be difficult, and for potential teachers, it’s even more difficult. Teachers looking for jobs are up against both seasoned veterans and rookies for a coveted position.
Recently on TeachHUB.com, frequent contributor Janelle Cox, herself a seasoned educator, took a look at the top ways that educators can put themselves ahead of the job-seeking pack.
Janelle’s tips include:
•    Be willing to move
•    Substitute teach
•    Get letters of recommendation
•    And more!
All in all, by using the techniques listed out today, your search for a good job will be that much easier.
Do you have any tips on how to find a teaching job in today’s economy?

Teaching Strategies to Help Students Stay Focused

Getting kids to focus is one of the most important yet most difficult tasks we as educators face. Without concentration, even the most basic of skills can’t be taught; meanwhile, studies have shown that elementary students have an attention span of 15 minutes. Heck, even adults have an attention span of only 20 minutes.

So what teaching strategies can we use to get and maintain focus within the classroom? Today on TeachHUB.com, frequent contributing writer Janelle Cox, herself a seasoned elementary educator based in Upstate New York, looks at several teaching strategies to use when attempting to get kids to focus.

Janelle’s ideas include:

  • Use interactive modeling
  • Reflect with others
  • Share with others
  • Get students moving
  • And more!


Janelle sums up her article like this: “When used effectively, these five teaching strategies can help students learn to stay focused. With everything in life, it will take time and practice, but if you teach your students to use these strategies they will be able to increase their ability to remain focused.”

Do you have any tips or suggestions on how to help students stay focused? Please share your ideas, we would love to hear your thoughts.

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10 Things to Do Now to Prepare for Back to School
Although your school’s doors may have closed for the summer, and you’re likely focused on June, July, and August, it’s never to early to start thinking about your triumphant return to the classroom at the end of the summer (not a popular notion today, probably).
Today on TeachHUB.com, frequent contributing writer Janelle Cox, herself a seasoned educator based in upstate New York, explains that tackling some of those topics ahead of time can save you lots of time (and relieve a little stress) when the fall arrives.
Janelle’s ideas include:
•    Order school supplies
•    Make copies
•    Create a bulletin board
•    And more!
In summation, Janelle notes: “It’s great to get a jumpstart on the following school year so you don’t have to spend the summer thinking about work. Take your summer vacation and spend it on yourself, relaxing and unwinding from the school year.”
How do you prepare for the next school year? Do you wait until the fall or get a jumpstart before summer break?

Quick Guide to Singapore Math Modeling

How often do your students ask to do the word problems in the math assignment first?
How often do your students feel successful and confident with problem solving and computation?

If your answers are rarely or never, you’re not alone. Math is one of the most challenging subjects to inspire confidence and enthusiasm in your students. But it doesn’t have to be this way.

Try this intro method to Singapore Math to see how it can change how you and your students think about math.

Understanding the Every Student Succeeds Act

Government reforms have long been a part of the educational atmosphere, and it continues to this day. Back in December, 2015, President Obama signed into law the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), which effectively ends the controversial No Child Left Behind act.
Even Obama foes like Paul Ryan, Speaker of House, noted, “This is the biggest rewrite of our education laws in 25 years.” So the bill’s importance cannot be underestimated.
As school districts begin to dissect the ESSA, today on TeachHUB.com, frequent contributing writer Jordan Catapano, himself a seasoned English teacher based in Chicago, takes an in-depth look at ESSA. His article today includes:
  • What’s In the Bill
  • How ESSA Affects Us And Our Students
  • And More!

Jordan sums up his article thusly: “As teachers, we can anticipate further changes over the next few years as states tinker with how best to adopt the standards and testing measures they find most suitable. And –naturally – once we have everything figured out, it will likely change again. “
What do you think about the Every Student Succeeds Act? Share your observations with our community!
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Classroom Management: 10 At-School Vacation Ideas
With most of the U.S. under perpetual subarctic conditions right now, lots of kids and teachers alike are getting a dash of cabin fever – impatience is at an all-time high, noise levels break decibel records, and the blanket of cold darkness is making everyone feel fatigued and ornery.
So why not take a vacation? Haha you think, it’s not easy for a busy teacher to get away and book a last-minute trip to paradise, much less think about preparing detailed, eleventh-hour lesson plans for a substitute.
Well with a little creativity, you can bring the white sand to your whiteboard: Today on TeachHUB.com, frequent contributing writer Janelle Cox explains how to use your classroom management skills to beat the seasonal blahs. Janelle’s ideas include:
•    Plan a Fun Day Indoors
•    Visit a Museum
•    Travel in Time
•    And More!
Remember, you’re not the only one affected by this miasma of cold weather – your schoolchildren are feeling its ill affects too. Plan accordingly, and your students will thank you. And in the meantime, think spring!

Ed Tech: Closing the Digital Divide

For all students, becoming fluent with the use of technology is critical to ensuring their future job opportunities. Yet there exists a troubling technology disparity: a significant number of U.S. students, especially those in low-income households, do not have access to a computer or an Internet connection in their home. This “digital divide” makes 1:1 programs even more essential.

School districts with 1:1 technology programs, which offer each student access to a computer throughout the school day, are best positioned to close the technology gap and to allow all learners to become fluent with technology. This article will take a brief look at the statistics behind the technology gap and provide a possible answer to this problem.

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PBS Kids Island: Website of the Week

Getting stranded on a desert island just got educational, thanks to PBS Raising Readers’ Kids Island.
Every few months, I search for the latest websites for young children. My own children loved Sesame Street and predictability of the show, so I started at the source

Teaching Strategies for Vocabulary Expansion

Vocabulary, most teachers and professionals realize, is the cornerstone of a well-rounded education. Think about it for a moment, if you will: Without a well-constructed sentence using the right words, an essay, story or poem cannot be completed.

With that important word-worthy aspect in mind, today on TeachHUB.com, frequent contributing writer Janelle Cox, herself a seasoned educator on the East Coast, issues several worthy teaching strategies for increasing students’ vocabularies, noting that instructing vocabularies requires indirect exposure to words as well as word strategies.

Janelle’s teaching strategies include:

  • Inventive Vocabulary
  • Word Awareness
  • And More!


In summation, Janelle notes: “Effective vocabulary learning means you must provide students with multiple exposures to words and their meanings. If you can get students to be interested in playing with words now then, you have won half the battle of creating students who love words throughout their lifetime.”

Do you have any teaching strategies for vocabulary expansion that you would like to share with us?

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The Magic Phrase as a Teaching Strategy
All too often, educators fall into a rut of “Don’ts” when attempting to carry out a lesson plan: “Don’t use commas there. Don’t bore your audience with that intro. Don’t settle for a three-point thesis. Don’t use that quotation there.”
But veteran teacher and frequent TeachHUB.com contributor Jordan Catapano notes that a better way to achieve the desired outcome is to use the phrase “next time” when providing feedback: “Don’t write a generic introduction, write a personal story next time. Don’t put commas there, but use Comma Rule we discussed in class next time. Don’t shout out the answer, but please raise your hand when you think of something next time and I’ll call on you.”
Catapano intones that by giving students a solid idea of what their next behavior expectation is, they will have something definitive to strive toward.

Using Classroom Games to Teach about the Continents

In this technology-driven era when they world can seem so small, with important events of the world available to us (and our students) 24/7, understanding how the world works is of the utmost importance.

So it goes without saying that the brunt of instructing kids on events of importance happening around the world falls often on the shoulders of their teachers. With that enormous task at hand, today on TeachHUB.com, frequent contributing writer Janelle Cox, herself a seasoned educator based in Upstate New York, takes a look at some classroom games designed to introduce kids to the seven areas of land that populate the world.

Janelle’s ideas include:

  • Hiding a Stone
  • The Snake
  • And More!


Janelle sums upper her article thusly: “These are just three examples of the types of intercontinental games that you can play in your classroom, to help solidly any new information that is cross-cultural. Playing these games will help reinforce any new knowledge that is learned, and they are a fun way to get your students excited about learning new things!”

Do you have any fun international games that you play in your classroom?

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Classroom Overcrowding: It’s Not Just a Numbers Game

In my nearly 20 years teaching in my district, we’ve had several occasions to protest, trying to make our board of education sit up and take notice. One button read “Grossmont Students Lose With Class Size of 34 to One.” It’s black printing on a bright yellow button. I have it pinned to my bulletin board.
Now, I’d give almost anything to have 34 students in my classroom. This year, I have 40 in every single section (that’s five sections … 200 kids.) I’m sure one or two may drop eventually, but it’s October, and so far, nobody’s jumped shipped.
When I tell colleagues that I have 40 students per section, the first reaction is disbelief. Surely I’ve counted wrong? No, afraid not.
In my son’s elementary school, things aren’t much better. He is in third grade, and has 30 little souls in his classroom. Two teachers share the contract for his classroom, and they do an outstanding job. Still, handling 30 8-year-olds is a feat, and trying to teach them something? Well, miracles happen every day.
With this disturbing trend, schools, teachers and most importantly students are learning the devastating effects of overcrowded classrooms.

WHAT HR CAN LEARN FROM MARKETING WHEN IT COMES TO A SEAT AT THE TABLE

If human resources professionals want a seat in the boardroom, they need to think strategically. It\’s a simple lesson in theory, but there\’s a deep, entrenched \”non-strategic\” history holding HR leaders back—even when they make the right moves and say the right things, they face questioning about the value of \”fluffy\” HR from other business leaders that they have to overcome.
Yes—the HR profession has made huge strides in its quest to be seen as a strategic force rather than a backroom support function, but there is still room for improvement. In 2012, a survey by Ortus found that out of 595 board members at FTSE 50 companies, just five came from an HR background.
What\’s the solution? Thinking holistically and dealing with the cool hard facts rather than intuition (though intuition is still incredibly important) can help alleviate the \”fluffy\” perception of HR, and give talent management leaders equal footing with finance, IT and marketing—marketing in particular. While the CFO and CIO have rarely had to fight for their place at the table, marketing only recently became a strategic arm of the business.
Here, two major lessons HR can learn from the journey of marketers to the table:

Think Big with Brand Strategy

While marketing has always been about the \”brand\” of the company, this part of their role has become increasingly important in the age of social media and radical transparency. Consumers want to interact with companies they like, not just products they like.
By the same token, HR\’s success is increasingly attached to the public perception of the company. People don\’t just get a job for a steady paycheck—they want to make an impact and find a purpose. If HR leaders view their day-to-day through the lens of building an innovative, people-focused brand, they are much more likely to attract top talent, as well as retain and engage current star employees. More engaged employees leads to better business results.

Understand the Facts of Human Behavior

Human behavior is at the center of both marketing and HR\’s success. For marketing, successfully messaging a product leads to someone purchasing that product. For HR, successfully creating an engaging and respectful workplace leads to more productive, thoughtful employees.
The key difference is that marketing has long recognized and capitalized on its ability to analyze human behavior and linked it to business performance. Marketers increasingly understand who the ideal customer is, and how to reach them. It\’s time for HR to do the same.
HR records are ripe with data that can predict performance, increase engagement, improve retention and more. An analytical talent management strategy not only directly impacts the bottom line—a Deloitte study found that companies using sophisticated data analytics see 30 percent higher stock market returns than the S&P 500—but HR teams are four times more likely to be respected by their counterparts for data-driven decision-making.

The Central Role of HR

In an employee-driven market landscape, people are a company\’s greatest asset. The determiner of \”people\” success, HR, is thus far more than the service and compliance department it has been painted as for decades. But HR needs to prove its value.
By taking a couple pages from the marketer\’s book, HR leaders will earn themselves a well-deserved seat at the executive table.
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Teaching Strategies: Notes on Being a Tough Educator

Today on TeachHUB.com, contributing writer Jordan Catapano takes a look at that rare breed of educator, the “tough” teacher. You know the type. Tough teachers:
  • Assign lots of homework.
  • Set High expectations for academic performance.
  • Refuse to let students go to the bathroom.

But “tough” teachers also know how to push kids to get them to exceed expectations. After all, a hard-hitting educator benefits his pupils the most, because in turn, tough students are created — resilient students, able to tackle any problem, or brave any criticism.
Learn about the benefits of being considered (and the teaching strategies related to being) a tough teacher >>

Halloween Classroom Activities for Any Grade

Always a popular article no matter the season, this perennial favorite gives teachers fun new ways to sneak in some spooky lessons and ghoulish learning.
Writing always lends itself naturally to Halloween-time activities. After all, Edgar Allen Poe was the master of horror writers that all try too emulate. Today, we offer up Spooky Story Ideas and How-to Halloween writing as ways to incorporate macabre ides.
WE also invite you to create your own legion of “mad scientists” with some Halloween-themed science lessons.Teaching human anatomy? Have students make blood as you teach about the role each one plays in the human body.
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In this month’s issue of TeachHUB magazine, we take a humorous look at the “technological” innovations of yesteryear like the ditto machine. We also instruct educators on what to do when modern technology fails, and our podcast offers up valuable tips on how to get the most out of upcoming teacher conferences.
Did you know TeachHUB magazine is FREE? It is, and it’s a terrific resource designed to help you become a better educator.
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