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  2. Onager (weapon) - Wikipedia

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    Onager (weapon) Onager with a bowl bucket. Sketch of an onager with a sling, a later improvement that increased the length of the throwing arm, from Antique technology by Diels. The onager (UK: / ˈɒnədʒə /, / ˈɒnəɡə /; US: / ˈɑːnədʒər /) [1] was a Roman torsion powered siege engine. It is commonly depicted as a catapult with a ...

  3. Social media - Wikipedia

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    The PLATO system was launched in 1960 at the University of Illinois and subsequently commercially marketed by Control Data Corporation.It offered early forms of social media features with innovations such as Notes, PLATO's message-forum application; TERM-talk, its instant-messaging feature; Talkomatic, perhaps the first online chat room; News Report, a crowdsourced online newspaper, and blog ...

  4. Educational technology - Wikipedia

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    Not to be confused with Distance education, Online machine learning, or Tech ed. Educational technology (commonly abbreviated as edutech, or edtech) is the combined use of computer hardware, software, and educational theory and practice to facilitate learning. [ 1 ][ 2 ] When referred to with its abbreviation, "EdTech", it often refers to the ...

  5. YouTube Kids - Wikipedia

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    YouTube Kids has faced criticism from advocacy groups, particularly the Fairplay Organization, for concerns surrounding the app's use of commercial advertising, as well as algorithmic suggestions of videos that may be inappropriate for the app's target audience, as the app has been associated with a controversy surrounding disturbing and/or ...

  6. Internet of things - Wikipedia

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    According to Lonergan, the term IoT was coined before smart phones, tablets, and devices as we know them today existed, and there is a long list of terms with varying degrees of overlap and technological convergence: Internet of things, Internet of everything (IoE), Internet of goods (supply chain), industrial Internet, pervasive computing ...

  7. Montessori education - Wikipedia

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    Montessori education returned to the United States in 1960 and has since spread to thousands of schools there. Montessori continued to extend her work during her lifetime, developing a comprehensive model of psychological development from birth to age 24, as well as educational approaches for children ages 0 to 3, 3 to 6, and 6 to 12.

  8. Ethics of technology - Wikipedia

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    Technoethics (TE) is an interdisciplinary research area that draws on theories and methods from multiple knowledge domains (such as communications, social sciences, information studies, technology studies, applied ethics, and philosophy) to provide insights on ethical dimensions of technological systems and practices for advancing a technological society.

  9. Jarvis Johnson (YouTuber) - Wikipedia

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    Johnson's YouTube channel was created on October 12, 2006, [10] [11] but he had other jobs before he regularly uploaded to the channel. He has worked as a student assistant then a teaching assistant at the Georgia Institute of Technology, a software developer intern at Radiant Systems, an engineering practicum intern at Google, a software engineer intern and a software engineer at Yelp, and a ...