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"The new version of Google Earth introduced a feature called Voyager, offering a showcase of guided tours from scientists, nonprofits, and other storytellers and organizations. The tours let you explore a region or multiple locales, through the use of photos, 360-degree videos, and Google Maps Street View, along with text. At launch, there were tours from groups like BBC Earth, Jane Goodall, Sesame Street, and NASA available. Google today announced it's expanding its lineup of tours to include 10 new stories, specifically designed for educational use. Partners on this new effort include National Geographic Society, PBS Education, HHMI Biointeractive and Mission Blue."

"Young children can learn just as much from a story delivered entirely via a digital device as they can from an adult reading a dead-trees version of the same story, according to a new study from researchers at New York University."

"Assign problems, not tasks. Traditionally, people on the business side come up with ideas and hand them to developers who are tasked with turning them into code. Instead, let developers contribute to the solution of business problems. Who knows better how to apply software to your business than people who deeply understand technology? Tolerate failure. Experimentation is the prerequisite to innovation. Create an environment where developers run lots of small experiments and where failure is celebrated rather than punished. Run blameless post-mortems to discover why an experiment failed and what you can learn from that experience. Become obsessed with speed. Startups push new code constantly, every day. Companies can no longer spend months developing new programs. Hunt relentlessly for ways to shave the time it takes to go from "great idea" to working production code. Keep developers close to customers. Remove organizational barriers that separate developers from the people who actually use their software. When developers talk to customers they can deliver better, more useful features in less time. Every organization will embrace the builder's mindset in its own way. But these principles provide a framework for building a world-class software development organization, so you can respond faster to customer needs, adapt to a constantly changing market, and keep up with the Amazons of the world. "

""The best projects, you're the one who has to figure it out and make it work. Because it isn't the teacher's project! Where they tell you everything, it's almost like you already know what's gonna happen. If it's gonna work out perfectly and they give you all the steps, then what's the point of the project?""

"And when young people get regular practice in identifying and monitoring their personal and academic goals, they have a key advantage. They begin to envision their future "possible selves" - as a person, as a learner, and as someone whose work matters in the larger world."

"To help us through our initial fears of recording ourselves, Ginger gave us weekly video challenges. One week, she challenged us to film the first three minutes of class. Another week, she wanted to see a transition time. Sometimes we would film times that related to our professional growth plans. Each week, we'd bring the recordings to staff meetings and watch them together with a partner or small group. Sometimes, Ginger would provide prompts for us to use as we discussed the recordings."

"Creative Commons helps you share your knowledge and creativity with the world. We're helping to realize the full potential of the Internet-universal access to research and education, full participation in culture-to drive a new era of development growth, and productivity."