Thursday, March 05, 2015
Colleges are allowing smart phones or laptops in class for taking notes
MUMBAI:With the start of the exam season, students across colleges are busy preparing for papers with the help of apps. Owing to a string of free apps available online that can be downloaded on most smartphones, students are ditching the copious note taking and revision methods and are adopting new age learning methods.
For instance, Ever note, the multi -platform note sharing app, has become immensely popular among students as it allows them to synchronize all their notes across devices.
“In class, I take down notes on the app and later edit it. By doing this, I don’t have go through multiple notebooks to study during exams as all my notes are in one place. If someone misses a lecture, I can just forward my notes to them via the app too,” said Shivani Tyagi , a mass media student.
The trend in India reflects a worldwide movement towards these learning apps.
A 2013 survey by UK based Educational App Store (EAS), a company specializing in integration of mobile learning in schools and colleges, found that 87% of the respondents used their tablets or mobile devices for studying while 50% said that they would download apps recommended by peers and education institutions.
While such numbers might be a long way for Indian students, colleges are warming upto the idea of allowing phones or laptops in class for taking notes.
Some teachers added a cautionary note.
“Students can now type faster than they write. However, technology should remain asupplement, not a replacement i n classrooms,” said Jyoti Thakur, viceprincipal, Jai Hind College.
Hridesh Jain, a CA student makes use of a variety of education apps such as ‘The constitution of India’ or the law dictionary that lists out all laws and actsat the tip of your finger. Dictionary apps too are a must have in student phones these days
While most of these popular apps are created in the US, indigenous apps are not far behind.
Mangesh Karandikar , professor at Mumbai university’s mass communication department developed a series of android apps called ‘Edusanchar,’ which has notes explaining complex communication theory in simple, easy to read formats.
Launched last year, the free android app has crossed 5000 downloads already.
Source | Hindustan Times | 2 March 2015
Magazines more engaging
than television, radio An IMRB study commissioned by the Association of
Indian Magazines throws up some interesting findings on magazines vis-Ã -vis
media like television, radio, internet and newspapers
The Association of Indian Magazines(AIM), the apex body of magazine publishers in India, commissioned leading market research firm IMRB in 2010 to conduct a large survey, covering a sample size of 3,600 over 10
cities. The study released at the Indian Magazine Congress held in Chennai on February 23 and 24, has shown high engagement scores for magazines on all key parameters like ad avoidance ,information seeking, purchase intent and such.
Industry leaders urged AIM to take these findings forward and create an index as a composite score, which would clearly demonstrate the extent to which magazines are engaging, vis-a-vis other media. “That’s exactly what we did,” says AIM President Mitrajit Bhattacharya, adding: “We ran a regression analysis on the same data and came out with weights for individual indices like Mind Measures (weight .59), Ad Avoidance(-.32) etc. and then we created a Composite Index.”
A two-step process was followed to create the Engagement Index. The first step entailed running a regression on a key dependent variable and evaluating the hierarchy of each of the partial engagement indices. The second step required evaluating each medium on the partial engagement indices and arriving at a final Engagement Index.
The study demonstrates that magazines are twice as engaging as television and radio
The Association of Indian Magazines(AIM), the apex body of magazine publishers in India, commissioned leading market research firm IMRB in 2010 to conduct a large survey, covering a sample size of 3,600 over 10
cities. The study released at the Indian Magazine Congress held in Chennai on February 23 and 24, has shown high engagement scores for magazines on all key parameters like ad avoidance ,information seeking, purchase intent and such.
Industry leaders urged AIM to take these findings forward and create an index as a composite score, which would clearly demonstrate the extent to which magazines are engaging, vis-a-vis other media. “That’s exactly what we did,” says AIM President Mitrajit Bhattacharya, adding: “We ran a regression analysis on the same data and came out with weights for individual indices like Mind Measures (weight .59), Ad Avoidance(-.32) etc. and then we created a Composite Index.”
A two-step process was followed to create the Engagement Index. The first step entailed running a regression on a key dependent variable and evaluating the hierarchy of each of the partial engagement indices. The second step required evaluating each medium on the partial engagement indices and arriving at a final Engagement Index.
The study demonstrates that magazines are twice as engaging as television and radio
Source | Daily News
Analysis | 2March 2015
Vedanta - Learn to be Playful
BRAHMA KUMARIS
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Bliss is never the experience when we are high on something or even on someone! Real bliss is the natural bliss of the soul, of the Self, when we are completely free internally .This is freedom from attachment to everything around us, including matter, material things, memories, ambitions, etc. But it's only possible when we see and realise that our attachments are not `in reality' out there! Our attachments are created within our own consciousness. It's not the actual objects or persons that we attempt to attach to.
Detachment doesn't diminish our capacity to `be loving'.It means we no longer `create' the perception and feeling of being burdened by the other, of being dependent on others or being beholden to others. Like everything else, people come and go, they are all there in the dynamic of daily life, part of the fabric of our life, detachment means we cease to make them our source of happiness in life.
The inner state of freedom that gives rise to the feeling of bliss is already there, but it's been suppressed and buried.It has been lost to our day-today awareness. Almost all addiction is the result of an attempt to resurrect, release and taste this bliss, the purest form of human happiness.
Attachment is essentially what makes us take life too seriously simply because we make ourselves slaves to the objects of our attachments.Liberation from attachment frees us to be `playful' in life, in a way that allows our joy and our bliss to shape the energies that we give to others.
Detachment doesn't diminish our capacity to `be loving'.It means we no longer `create' the perception and feeling of being burdened by the other, of being dependent on others or being beholden to others. Like everything else, people come and go, they are all there in the dynamic of daily life, part of the fabric of our life, detachment means we cease to make them our source of happiness in life.
The inner state of freedom that gives rise to the feeling of bliss is already there, but it's been suppressed and buried.It has been lost to our day-today awareness. Almost all addiction is the result of an attempt to resurrect, release and taste this bliss, the purest form of human happiness.
Attachment is essentially what makes us take life too seriously simply because we make ourselves slaves to the objects of our attachments.Liberation from attachment frees us to be `playful' in life, in a way that allows our joy and our bliss to shape the energies that we give to others.
Handshake helps us sniff each other out'
Washington:
PTI
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People sniff their hands twice as much after a handshake to help them pick up chemical signals about others, claims a new research.The number of seconds the subjects spent sniffing their own right hand more than doubled after an experimenter greeted them with a handshake, researchers wrote in the journal eLife.
“Findings suggest people are not just passively exposed to socially-significant chemical signals, but actively seek them out,“ said Idan Frumin, who conducted the study under the guidance of Noam Sobel of Weizmann Institute's Neurobiology department.
“Findings suggest people are not just passively exposed to socially-significant chemical signals, but actively seek them out,“ said Idan Frumin, who conducted the study under the guidance of Noam Sobel of Weizmann Institute's Neurobiology department.
the speaking tree - Raas Leela: Mystical Dance Of The Soul
Pranav Khullar
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The philosophical proposition of “achintya bheda abheda“, establishing a principle of an inconceivable oneness and difference existing simultaneously in nature, is at the heart of the Gaudiya Vaishnava tradition of Chaitanya. Taking the middle path between Shankara's advaita which states that the individual soul and God are one and Madhava's dvaita position that the individual soul and God are eternally separate, Chaitanya suggests that God and his creation are separate yet inconceivably linked, just as the spider and its web, as the Sun and its sunshine, and the nature of this symbiotic relationship is incomprehensible to the human mind.This becomes the cornerstone of devotional theism, with Krishna personifying the Self, whose love is accessible to all jivas or individual souls once they aspire to it. From this tenet flowed the revolutionary Sankir tana movement of Chaitanya, the mass chanting and singing of the name of God. This ecstatic outpouring of love for one's deity in the form of singing and dancing was presented by Chaitanya as the most natural and best sadhana for the seeker. Krishna is Brahmn or Sat-chit-ananda, both the efficient cause and the material cause of the world, and even though He manifests Himself differently to different kinds of seekers, a bhakta alone can enjoy the blissful love of a personal god.
The notion of Krishna as the Supreme deity , the embodiment of the vedantic Self, man ifested itself in the singing of the leela or play of the boy Krishna, and in the resurrection of his playground, Vraja bhumi in Vrindavan. The Gau diya tradition establishes Radha as a symbol of supreme prema bhakti for Krishna, with Jiva Goswami stating it as the highest form of liberation, to which every Vaishnava seeker aspires.Chaitanya and his six Goswamis recreate the charm and aura of Krishna's boyhood at Vrindavana, by seeing Krishna as the highest personal aspect of Godhead.
Just as Vallabhacharya states his theological principle of surrender and grace to God, around the adoration and bhakti-seva of the boy Krishna, as at Nathdwara, through the Pushtimarga, Chaitanya takes the seeker into the magical raas-world of Krishna and the gopis, a mystical dance of the soul, incomprehensible to the worldly mind.
The Gaudiyas bring alive the innermost desire of each seeker to merge with Brahmn, embodied in the madhurya feelings of the gopis towards Krishna. Chaitanya prods the seeker to be like the gopis, wherein complete detatchment from the outer world alone will trigger the inner attachment towards Krishna.The union, separation and reunion of Radha especially , with Krishna, is nuanced in Gaudiya tradition sketching her out as the perfect epitome of this maha bhava, placing her as Krishna's eternal soul-mate at the centre of this theology . The vision of Krishna through the eyes and soul of Radha, is the highest form of bhakti.
Chaitanya also emphasised the need to chant the mahamantra, which would awaken this love for Krishna. And this awakening would be a call to the search for the larger meaning of life. Chaitanya brought the mahamantra chant of Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare hare Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare, from the KaliSantarana Upanishad, to the people, stating ancient vedantic truths through the magnetic persona of Krishna, whom Chaitanya felt personified the Self completely .
Today, March 5, is Chaitanya Jayanti on Holi or Dol Purnima.
The notion of Krishna as the Supreme deity , the embodiment of the vedantic Self, man ifested itself in the singing of the leela or play of the boy Krishna, and in the resurrection of his playground, Vraja bhumi in Vrindavan. The Gau diya tradition establishes Radha as a symbol of supreme prema bhakti for Krishna, with Jiva Goswami stating it as the highest form of liberation, to which every Vaishnava seeker aspires.Chaitanya and his six Goswamis recreate the charm and aura of Krishna's boyhood at Vrindavana, by seeing Krishna as the highest personal aspect of Godhead.
Just as Vallabhacharya states his theological principle of surrender and grace to God, around the adoration and bhakti-seva of the boy Krishna, as at Nathdwara, through the Pushtimarga, Chaitanya takes the seeker into the magical raas-world of Krishna and the gopis, a mystical dance of the soul, incomprehensible to the worldly mind.
The Gaudiyas bring alive the innermost desire of each seeker to merge with Brahmn, embodied in the madhurya feelings of the gopis towards Krishna. Chaitanya prods the seeker to be like the gopis, wherein complete detatchment from the outer world alone will trigger the inner attachment towards Krishna.The union, separation and reunion of Radha especially , with Krishna, is nuanced in Gaudiya tradition sketching her out as the perfect epitome of this maha bhava, placing her as Krishna's eternal soul-mate at the centre of this theology . The vision of Krishna through the eyes and soul of Radha, is the highest form of bhakti.
Chaitanya also emphasised the need to chant the mahamantra, which would awaken this love for Krishna. And this awakening would be a call to the search for the larger meaning of life. Chaitanya brought the mahamantra chant of Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare hare Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare, from the KaliSantarana Upanishad, to the people, stating ancient vedantic truths through the magnetic persona of Krishna, whom Chaitanya felt personified the Self completely .
Today, March 5, is Chaitanya Jayanti on Holi or Dol Purnima.
38,000 cyber fraud cases reported in 4 yrs: Govt
New Delhi:
TNN
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New Delhi: As cyber fraud cases involving Rs 497 crore have been reported by the RBI and CBI in the last four years, telecom and in lecom and information technology minister Ravi Shankar Prasad told Lok Sabha on Wednesday .Several cyber attack techniques are used in engineering these crimes and are normally reported as ATM debit card, credit card, internet banking frauds, Prasad said in a written reply. “As per information provided by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), 10,048, 8,765, 9,500 and 9,362 cyber fraud cases and losses of Rs 38 crore, Rs 67 crore, Rs 78 crore and Rs 60 crore have been reported to the RBI during 2011-12, 2012-13, 2013-14 and April-December 2014, respectively ,“ he said.
In a separate reply , he said: “CBI has also registered 46 cases (14 Preliminary Enquiries) and 32 RCs (Regular Cases) relating to cyber crime in various parts of the country during the last few years that is 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015 (till date).“ In these cases 34 persons have been arrested, he said. “An amount of Rs 90 crore, Rs 158 crore and Rs 6 crore was involved in these cases registered during the year 2012, 2013 and 2014, respectively ,“ Prasad added.
In a separate reply , he said: “CBI has also registered 46 cases (14 Preliminary Enquiries) and 32 RCs (Regular Cases) relating to cyber crime in various parts of the country during the last few years that is 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015 (till date).“ In these cases 34 persons have been arrested, he said. “An amount of Rs 90 crore, Rs 158 crore and Rs 6 crore was involved in these cases registered during the year 2012, 2013 and 2014, respectively ,“ Prasad added.
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