1950s vs. NOW: Did Mid-Century Futurism Flop?
AdultsCreativityFuture...What kind of future did the people of the 1950s predict? Did people get the tech they wanted?
Why the Future of Cars is Electric
AdultsConstructionFuture...Electric cars are now ready to take over thanks to advances in battery technology and their inherent benefits: torque, handling, maintenance.
What we're learning from online education
TeachersEducationFuture...Daphne Koller is enticing top universities to put their most intriguing courses online for free -- not just as a service, but as a way to research how people learn. With Coursera (cofounded by Andrew Ng), each keystroke, quiz, peer-to-peer discussion and self-graded assignment builds an unprecedented pool of data on how knowledge is processed.
4 Online Education Trends for 2014
TeachersFutureTeacher CafeLearning on the go, learning at the speed of need, gamification and videos are the leaders in new educations trends of 2014.
Significant Decision to Apply New Learning Trends in Education
TeachersFutureTeacher CafeArticle by Claudia Glab-Link
Redefining the Role of the Teacher: it's a Multifaceted Profession
TeachersFutureTeacher CafeJudith Taack takes a closer look at what being an educator really means. In the article she explains how teaching should be considered a trade rather than a profession and she addresses how culture has changed and so should teaching.
Highlights from Google's First Online Education Conference
TeachersFutureTeacher CafeGoogle's first ever online education conference started with the simple question, "How do we prepare the students of today to be the digital leaders of tomorrow?" A series of presenters offered their answers to that very question.
Does The Current Education Model Make The Grade?
TeachersEducationTeacher Cafe...A panel of experts discuss issues with education and what the future may hold. Watch the debate and have your own discussions with colleagues.
Robot Tutors
TeachersFutureTeacher Cafe...Virtual teaching, is it here? With robots acting as tutors and class assistants the days of TA's and undergrads answering emails and questions from students may be coming to an end. Meet Watson, a robot that is able to answer emails and questions.
Hey Buddy, Can You Give Me a Hand?
AdultsFutureMachine Learning...Are We Doomed? Boston Dynamics' Unsettling Robot Dog SpotMini Can Now Open The Door
The Plane of the Future
AdultsFutureTechnology...What's Actually the Plane of the Future looks like?
Will we ever be able to teleport? - Sajan Saini
AdultsScienceTechnology...Is teleportation possible? Could a baseball transform into something like a radio wave, travel through buildings, bounce around corners, and change back into a baseball? Oddly enough, thanks to quantum mechanics, the answer might actually be yes... sort of! Sajan Saini explains.
China's Amazing Water Canal | China's Future MEGAPROJECTS: Part 2
AdultsConstructionFuture...South-to-North Water Transfer Project: The huge populations filling China's northern megacities have a shortage of the single most necessary resource for life: water. To solve that problem, the Chinese will soon be moving 44.8 billion cubic meters of fresh water each year from the wetter South to the dryer North.
Jing-Jin-Ji, A MEGALOPOLIS | China's Future MEGAPROJECTS: Part 1
AdultsConstructionFuture...Jing-Jin-Ji: China is in the midst of a construction spree unparalleled in human history. These are the Megaprojects that will lift China into the future. China wants to make its capital, Beijing, the center of the world's largest supercity, by merging three provinces into one continuous megalopolis of 130 million people.
Stretchy Batteries Are Coming... Here's How They Work
AdultsFutureTechnologyResearchers have developed a way to make a battery and its casing stretchy, enabling future advancements in wearable electronics.