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Students purchasing AP tests today through Friday, please see Mrs. Whitaker before school or during 4th period lunch only. Next week sales will resume with Mrs. Muse.

Sign up in the Career Center for Ohlone or Chabot’s Assessment Testing. ONLY students who have already done their online application and are part of Early Decision will be able to test at Logan.

By Ronnell Coaster, Courier Staff Writer

Two classes from James Logan High School's Marketing and Management Academy went to Oakland yesterday for competition and trade fair. The M&M Academy is a class strictly about business and are for those who serious about starting their own business. This class gives you a feel of the real world.

The two teams from Logan were CaliNights, a Teen Night Club that is strictly for teens only, And Tastee Cakepops, who sells various baked goods. Teacher Wilbert Richberg and the M&M Academy has had a great year so far and returned from Oakland with several awards.

By Billy O'Keefe
McClatchy-Tribune (MCT)

Bioware wants everyone to enjoy "Mass Effect 3," which is why it's instituted options that allow players to enjoy it purely as a third-person shooter (with all role-playing upgrades and moral crises handled automatically) or a role-playing game (in which you still must fight, but against a considerably more generous difficulty curve).

But if you've been with the "Mass Effect" trilogy from the beginning and have no desire to play its closing chapter in a compromised state, let there be no confusion: Everyone is invited to play, but "ME3" was very much still made for you.

By Patrick May
San Jose Mercury News (MCT)

SAN JOSE, Calif. — It's midmorning and the faces of the students in Tim Wesmiller's religious studies class are bathed in the baby-blue glow of their iPad screens.

Instead of sitting in rigid rows of desks staring at a blackboard, as they would in a typical classroom, kids huddle in groups to brainstorm and blog about Indian culture. Lessons flash from tablets to digitalized white board and back. The "lecture" is a blend of YouTube videos and interactive maps. There's very little paper and no sign of chalk.

Faculty and students in this two-year iPad pilot project at Archbishop Mitty High School say this is the future of education.

From wikipedia:
Donella H. "Dana" Meadows (March 13, 1941 Elgin, Illinois, USA - February 20, 2001, Hanover, New Hampshire) was a pioneering American environmental scientist, teacher and writer. She is best known as lead author of the influential book The Limits to Growth, which made headlines around the world.

Born in Elgin, Illinois, Meadows was educated in science, receiving a B.A. in chemistry from Carleton College in 1963, and a Ph.D. in biophysics from Harvard in 1968. After a year-long trip with her husband, Dennis Meadows, from England to Sri Lanka and back, she became, along with him, a research fellow at MIT as a member of a team in the department created by Jay Forrester, the inventor of system dynamics as well as the principle of magnetic data storage for computers. She taught at Dartmouth College for 29 years, beginning in 1972.

Visit the Donella Meadows Institute.

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