You don't have to be a scientific anymore to explore planets. On this interactive NASA website, you can be a Martian citizen or just get an anonymous tourist visa. Welcome to the age of virtual exploration.
TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) is a private nonprofit foundation known for its online conferences devoted to what it calls ideas worth spreading. From 2005 to 2009, three $100,000 prizes were awarded annually to help its winners realise a chosen "wish to change the world".
Marc Prensky is a worldwide speaker and writer on education and technology. In this letter, he calls for a new curriculum for the twenty-first century and encourages teachers to move to the "new" pedagogical paradigm - not just asking students to answer test questions, but to solve real problems on their own and with their peers.
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In this ICT (information and communications technology) video, we look at Augmented Reality, in which your computer screen becomes a magic mirror. The idea is to use a camera and a black and white marker to transmit real-time information about an objects angle and spatial position. This way, real elements (the desktop, hands and marker) are mixed in with virtual elements. Unlike a mirror, though, the image appearing on the screen inverts right and left, which makes orientation a little more complicated. This video looks at various illustrations of this technology which has a high potential in education.
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