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Minimalist movie poster assignment is another great visual metaphor assignment Thx to Tom of Bionic Teaching

This is a terrific article on NASA's use of virtual reality to train astronauts. A lot of the focus of VR is on skills training, but the article makes it clear that one of it's key roles is to give the astronauts a feeling of familiarity with the environment and to help them develop the right intuitions for working in a weightless environment. "There's a great advantage in just feeling as though the environment isn't entirely new. 'It means everything. It's not hard to realize that just beyond that thin little visor is instantaneous death. It's oblivion,' Wheelock said." E-learning (including VR) can prepare us far better than traditional instruction for such situations (indeed, the idea of teaching it in a classroom is laughable). So - to answer the traditional objection to e-learning - I wouldn't want to employ an astronaut (or a pilot, or a brain surgeon) who didn't use e-learning.--oldaily

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What Necessary Adult Skills Were You Never Taught Growing Up? Eric Ravenscraft, LifeHacker, 2015/03/02 Doug Belshaw flags this article in LifeHacker asking people to comment on the life skills they never learned growing up. As one commenter says, "I just realized, this entire article boils down to 'give Lifehacker ideas for future articles'." But hey, why not? In any case, the comments section is filled with ideas for good life lessons. Here's a sampling: basic hygiene habits like flossing/brushing teeth, taking showers, shaving, cosmetics, and hairstyling. education on how to have constructive relationships basic finance. My parents handled everything and didn't teach me about budgeting at all how to exercise or be physically fit emotional intelligence. Being able to communicate exactly how I feel instead of sticking my head in the sand knowing a little bit about car repairs and maintenance how to wear makeup how to handle repeated failure. How to be content with doing "alright", not "outstanding" in life how to cook Sensing a theme?

"If you want to protect yourself from big corporations, use the SA clause. That makes sure anyone committed to openness can still use it, from the little people to a big business, but corporations who do not contribute thei work and their improvements back, even for you to use those improvements commercially, won't be able to. And they will always need to add value to it, and share that value with everyone, because the original is already available from you. And if a big business is really open and uses your work, you also get the credit and the economic benefits that come from reputation."

Icon stories -- see Romeo and Juliet