Category: News
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101 Redefined
SEMICIRCULAR rows of benches face the front of the room. A raised platform faces the benches. Anyone who has ever attended college will recognize the setting at once: a lecture hall. Read More New York Times, Education Life Supplement, January 16, 2005
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Life, Reinvented
A group of MIT engineers wanted to model the biological world. But, damn, some of nature’s designs were complicated! So they started rebuilding from the ground up – and gave birth to synthetic biology. Read More Wired Magazine, Issue 13.01 – January 2005
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TEAL Teaching – Technology Enabled Active Learning (TEAL) is transforming physics education
“The scene: the d’Arbeloff Studio Classroom at MIT, which instead of standard-issue academic seating features 13 round tables with chairs. At the tables, first-year students are looking on as lecturer Peter Dourmashkin, a physicist, puts up equations and diagrams on one of the room’s white boards… “ Read More MIT Spectrum, Winter 2004