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Comment Mini-Games (Score 1) 349

There are hundreds, thousands maybe millions of mini-games out there. I believe what you need are mini-games for different areas of education, that will help students use what they are learning and understand what it's good for.

For example a physics game that has objects which all have standard properties and which are put into different situations. Easiest one could be you have the ground with a gravity constant (maybe the earth's or the moon's), a propulsive device with a customizable force, an object with properties like weight, size, etc. Goal is to input a formula that uses the right properties and that let's the ball fly into a target.

I find it would be especially helpful in math to see the applications of that you're learning.

So yes, if done properly e-learning is a viable and valuable option.

Comment Just in case (Score 1) 115

Even if we do succeed to convince them not to vote for this shit, it's high time for a public network accessible by anyone for free. A true peer network. The technology is there. What's missing is a public (non-government, fully democratic) body that agrees on open standards, tech ( network structure, access, protocols, etc.) to create a network that mostly (of course the optimal would be completely) bypasses anything that can be controlled by government (ISPs, DNS servers, etc.) . These should be optimally applicable by anybody (even those who are not tech savvy) aka. the general population.

Just a thought...

Submission + - Theoretical shoe inserts could power your gadgets (nature.com)

Anon8---) writes: First published on nature.com, a process called electrowetting using conductive droplets could provide 10 watts of juice to smartphones and other gadgets as you walk. So far Tom Krupenkin and Ashley Taylor have been able to produce a few milliwatts of power along tiny channels a few millimetres wide. They have patented the idea and are now concentrating on scaling up the device and designing a shoe to contain it.

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