Cuddly astronauts M.A.T and K.M.S and two bear colleagues were decked out in custom-made space suits and blasted 19 miles above Earth on a two-hour expedition by local students with help from Cambridge University’s Space Flight science club.
Talk about hands on learning, engaged students, and more awesomeness than most could hope to shake a stick [...]
Another great talk from TED that looks at how the human brain in built to learn.
An interesting development out of Australia as students in Queensland may be forced to have their photos, interests, and aspirations profiled in a massive database meant to help educators keep track of their progress. The idea from Queensland’s Education Minister, Rod Welford, is to collect this data so that schools and teachers can track student [...]
A group of scientists claim to have new evidence that shows the Andes grew 2.5km over a 4 million year span.
Carmala Garzione of the University of Rochester in New York State, US, and colleagues say the sudden rise was caused by a huge layer of dense rock dropping off the underside of the crust that [...]
Amazon Indians from one of the world’s last uncontacted tribes have been photographed from the air, with images released showing them painted bright red and brandishing bows and arrows. The photographs, taken by Survival International near the border between Brazil and Peru, are rare evidence that such groups exist. [via Reuters]
Survival International is a group [...]
Despite all our technological advancements as a species, we still know very little about the other creatures that we share the planet with. Arizona State Universities International Institute for Species Exploration has recently published a list of their top 10 newly discovered species. Most of the additions are new genus and species (a different type [...]
Earth Knowledge is an environmental news portal that aggregates news from around the Internet and plots it on a map of the world. It sports a slick well designed layout, and provides a simple filtering system for different types of environmental news divided into the categories: Biological Diversity, Land, Water and Climate. Each of those [...]
Google is hosting the Google Teacher Academy (GTA) at the Googleplex Mountain View, CA on June 25, 2008. It is a free event where tech savvy educators and professional developers can participate full-day workshop.
The GTA is an intensive, one-day event (8:30am-7:30pm) where participants get hands-on experience with Google’s free products and other technologies, learn [...]
