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Polar Sea Ice Cap and Snow – Cryosphere Today – iPhone friendly puts data in your hands

December 17th, 2009
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recent Arctic ice area
recent Arctic sea ice
N. hemispheric ice area
Northern Hemisphere sea ice area
N. hemispheric anomaly
Polar sea ice anomaly
seasonal sea ice
seasonal sea ice trend

Before jumping on the ice-melt bandwagon, we should arm ourselves with the facts. This university science center website offers visual data, both historic and current.

The adaptation to the iPhone demonstrates how education is being changed by hand-held devices. Just this past week, a school in the U.K. gave iPhones to every student. Imagine trying to argue and debate with ubiquitous access to data in the palm of our hands.

Of course, critical thinking skills are still needed to sort through the vast array of opinion and conjecture and to skillfully help others release their death grip on old ideas without losing face.

Posted via web from Dallas’s posterous

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