…across oceans, and address individual student needs. It is these traits, far more profound than mere portability, that demonstrate the real advantages digital texts can offer. With this issue, we…
…to contribute individual portions of a solution to a complex mathematical problem? Or design and integrate individual parts or systems to a grand, crowdsourced engineering problem. I’ve long purported that…
…learning by guided exploration of real and virtual worlds. Instead of being told, students can be guided to discover for themselves how the world works. Compelling and personal immersive environments…
…will be available for doctors and patients within two years.3 These rapid developments in genetics will radically affect individual health decisions, national political debates, and human ethical concerns. Open any…
…infrared camera. The infrared camera, in just one simple shot, captured the salient and subtle details that reveal very complex physics, which I still do not understand. What is the…
…these processes are often concurrent and intertwined. Reasoning about a thermal phenomenon requires calculations based on a synthesis of knowledge from all three. A hand calculator alone won’t do the…
…past. It provides a number of useful lessons about the gradual progress of educational technology. It can also teach us about the conditions that support technology adoption. As many people…
…setup. When you go to that page, you can view the page source to see the JavaScript code. If you have Firebug, it can also be used to view the…
For a while I have been asked whether or not an MW simulation can be made to run directly within a browser page instead of a pop-up window. Several collaborators…
…to demonstrate the phenomena. In addition, a super-strong gravitational field is applied to accelerate the gravitational effect (you might have heard from someone that the gravitational effect is not important…