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Wednesday March 19, 2008 William Mitchell Webcast Professor of Architecture and Media Arts and Sciences, William Mitchell talks about the City Car project, a new transportation ecosystem - prototypes of which are on display at the MIT Museum. Mitchell holds the Alexander W. Dreyfoos, Jr. (1954) Professorship and directs the Media Lab's Smart Cities research group. He was formerly Dean of the School of Architecture and Planning and Head of the Program in Media Arts and Sciences, both at MIT. He will be speaking along with some of the graduate students who designed the prototypes

Archived video of "The Role of New Technologies in a Sustainable Energy Economy" originally broadcast 10/25/06

Technology-based forces of “disruptive innovation” are gathering around public education and will overhaul the way K-12 students learn—with potentially dramatic consequences for established public schools, according to an upcoming book that draws parallels to disruptions in other industries.

The book does hold out hope that established school organizations can adapt to disruptive innovation.

Like the leaders in other industries, the education establishment has crammed down technology onto its existing architecture, which is dominated by the “monolithic” processes of textbook creation and adoption, teaching practices and training, and standardized assessment—which, despite some efforts at individualization, by and large treat students the same, the book says.

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WASHINGTON -- There is a way to save both time and gas when behind the wheel.UPS drivers steer with a strategy: right turns are the way to go.UPS dispatchers map out directions on tablets known as DIAD boards. IBSYS.ad.AdManager.registerPosition({ "iframe": false, "addlSz": "", "element": "ad_N20006F.2C5B", "interstitials": false, "beginDate": "", "endDate": "", "getSect": "", "name": "square", "qString": "", "width": "300", "height": "250", "section": "", "useId": "13736555", "interactive": false, "useSameCategory": false, "topic": "", "swSectionRoot": "", "useZone": "", "type": "DOM" }); Every route is designed to take right turns whenever possible.UPS says left turns are less efficient because there is more idle time involved while you're waiting for oncoming traffic or a traffic signal.

n addition to saving time, making right turns also saves gas. Idling in a left hand turn lane can burn a lot of fuel.By going right, UPS has already saved 31,000 metric tons of C02.

Technology is an integral and growing part of daily living in the twenty-first century. The challenge, then, for teachers, is to use technology effectively in classrooms to help students take ownership for learning and develop the practical and critical thinking skills necessary to better understand the world around them.

To meet this challenge, teachers can use an emerging technology tool, GPS receivers, and an emerging GPS-based activity, geocaching, to transform their classrooms from teacher-centered environments to exciting, empowering, exploratory environments that focus on student engagement in the learning process.