Android and iPad apps for language teachers

A new study lends credence to what you’ve probably always suspected: social media is having a pretty negative effect on teenagers — Instagram and Snapchat being the worst culprits. The study, published today and called “Status of Mind,” was conducted by researchers for the Royal Society for Public Health in the UK. The researchers surveyed 1,479 British youths ages 14-24, asking them how they felt the different social media networks effected their mental health. They took in several factors such as body image, sleep deprivation, bullying, and self-identity.

The results suggest the two worst social media networks for kids are Instagram and Snapchat, as they had terrible scores for body image, bullying, and anxiety. Twitter and Facebook weren’t much better, though. YouTube was the only one that apparently inspired more positive feelings than negative ones.

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Die Entdecker der Stagefright-Lücken melden sich zurück und legen zwei weitere kritische Schwachstellen offen, über die Android-Geräte angreifbar sind.

Joshua Drake, der Vizepräsident von Zimperium, legt nach und zeigt zwei weitere kritische Lücken in verschiedenen Bibliotheken von Android-Geräten auf. Davon sollen alle Android-Versionen betroffen sein.

Über die Schwachstellen können Angreifer Geräte abermals mittels präparierter MP3- und MP4-Dateien kompromittieren, eigenen Code ausführen und etwa Smartphones in Wanzen verwandeln. Die Angriffswege sind dabei vielfältig, warnen die Sicherheitsforscher und Angreifer können Geräte über eine präparierte Webseite oder App entern.

Zimperium versichert, dass es noch keine Übergriffe gegeben hat. In ihrer Mitteilung zu den neuen Lücken erläutern die Sicherheitsforscher, dass sie das stetig überwachen.

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http://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet/?tag=Stagefright

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Viele Unternehmen betreiben einen WLAN-Router in Geschäften oder auf Messen und übersehen dabei ein Sicherheitsproblem: Per WPS-Taste kann sich jedermann unerlaubt Zugang zum WLAN verschaffen.

Green screen is a cinematographic technique that allows video editors to add a variety of visual effects to their videos. These effects include : adding virtual backgrounds, superimposing subjects over animated backdrops, placing a subject on another shot and many more. Green screen technology has been widely used in weather and movie industry. But now with the emergence of apps such as the ones below, everyone can use this technology to create engaging clips and presentations. As Do Ink explained “

Green screen technology is used in the movies to make it look like the actors have landed on an alien planet, and it's used on TV to make it look like your local news announcer is standing in front of an animated weather map. The green screen effect works by combining images from multiple sources into a single video. These images can come from photos or videos in your camera roll, or from the live video camera. “ere to edit the content.

The Creative Classrooms Lab project (CCL) brought together teachers and policy-makers in eight countries to design, implement and evaluate 1:1 tablet scenarios in 45 schools. The project produced learning scenarios and activities, guidelines and recommendations to help policy-makers and schools to take informed decisions on optimal strategies for implementing 1:1 initiatives in schools and for the effective integration of tablets into teaching and learning. The project, funded by the European Commission’s Lifelong Learning Programme, was coordinated by European Schoolnet, involved 10 partners and ran from April 2013 to May 2015.

"The problem with banning mobiles in schools is that it runs the risk of not giving young people the space to get stuck into technology. We want our kids to code and become digital creators, not to just be passive consumers. "