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Summary Community science is experiencing a small revolution with many new projects, some of which combine modern computer science with human creativity and games. In FoldIt, players can fold and design proteins, and create suitable ligands for them. In DrugIt they can create small molecules for target structures and thus, gain direct insights into drug development concepts and support the process directly. The best results from the game are analyzed by researchers and might even be published. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Low literacy levels make social participation and equal opportunities more difficult. A significant proportion of the German working population is confronted with reading and writing problems in everyday life. This article provides suggestions for sensitizing students to this heterogeneous target group and offers concepts and methods for tailored instruction that integrates consumer-oriented topics and basic literacy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The introduction of PCs, laptops, tablets, etc. into the classroom enables a variety of new teaching settings. "Being online", "apps", "games", "chatting" - these are terms that have become an integral part of young people's language usage. The implementation of Classcraft picks up the pupils in their living environment and leads to an increased motivation to learn and work due to the computer game character. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

From 22-25 October 2013, the European Conference on Information Literacy took place in Istanbul. Participants arrived not only from Europe but from all over the world. The conference was organized by the Department of Information Management of Hacettepe University of Ankara and by the Department of Information and Communication Science of Zagreb University. The main issue of the conference was the teaching of information literacy in libraries and in Higher education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]