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It's hard to deny that 3D printing has the ability to change the world -- especially after learning about a two-year-old girl who gained the use of her arms with the aid of a 3D-printed robotic exoskeleton (she calls them her "magic arms").
ENGADGET: Inhabitat's Week in Green: Eindhoven's Evoluon Center, folding compact cars and the best of 3D printing
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Researchers at Duke University have discovered that, despite strong belief to the contrary, mice do have basic vocal learning ability, allowing them to keep pitch, or to you and me -- sing.
ENGADGET: Alt-week 10.13.12: is the Universe a simulation, cloning dinosaurs and singing mice
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States need to create and support a system that is coherent from the definition of the standards to the assessments in place to measure competency on an as-needed basis and from the ability to reorganize staffing to the integrated student information and learning management systems built around this approach.
FORBES: Clearing the Path for Learning
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Learning to negotiate a hard-bargain without being ingratiating and without trading power for sympathy is not beyond the ability of women.
FORBES: Negotiation is a Skill and Neither Gender is "Better"
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The Galaxy Note 10.1 offers the functionality and precision of a pen and paper on a 10.1-inch large display, which will enable people to amplify their creativity, productivity, and learning ability.
ENGADGET: Samsung's Galaxy Note 10.1 coming worldwide this month, UI shown off on YouTube
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Wide-ranging, flexible and broad learning, the kind we encourage in high-school and college, may actually be in tension with the ability to develop finely-honed, controlled, focused expertise in a particular skill, the kind of learning that once routinely took place in human societies.
WSJ: What's Wrong With the Teenage Mind?
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For example, Codecademy is facilitating the ability to learn to code online through bite-size lessons (even Mayor Bloomberg is famously learning).
FORBES: Digital Literacy: New Literacy?