Astronaut On Space Station Needs A Wrench, So He Prints One
IFL Science
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12/19/14
“‘The socket wrench we just manufactured is the first object we designed on the ground and sent digitally to space, on the fly,’ he adds. It’s a lot faster to send data wirelessly on demand than to wait for a physical object to arrive via rockets, which can take months or even years.“
Teachers Are Among The Biggest Consumers of MOOCs
MIT Technology Review
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12/15/14
“Indeed, for all the focus on the role of MOOCs in higher education, they might have a significant role to play in high schools and below. Teachers are already a big audience (a study of 11 MOOCs offered by MIT last spring found that nearly 28 percent of enrollees were former or active teachers).”
Understanding Pace: Time, Attention, And Boundaries
N+1
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12/1/14
"If in classical modernity people could imagine their lives in intergenerational terms… in late capitalism, turnover is so accelerated that it becomes hard to imagine one’s life course even within a few years, let alone a few generations. This in turn drives a sense of the acceleration of the 'pace of life,' the psychological feeling of always being out of breath — which in turn drives the desire for more labor-saving technology, and technical change."
Word Problems: Teach Them First. They Aid Understanding.
EdWeek
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11/19/14
“Students were more likely to even try to answer a word problem than an equation. Working through narrative problems also made students feel more empowered to explore different methods of solving a problem, rather than following a single sample process.”