We look at a massive aircraft, that could revolutionize air travel as we know it, as well as look back at a real-world project that heralded a significant shift even further up in the sky.

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Thus, teachers will not only be familiarized with a unique collection of open digital educational resources, but they will also be trained to link them with innovative pedagogical practices, such as using real world learning activities, implementing resource based and project-based approaches.

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Then we'll close things out with an interview from none other than LeVar Burton, who tells us about the rebirth of Reading Rainbow and how Project Glass and the iPad are making the real world a little bit more like Star Trek.

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ReCaptcha takes a new approach: The project scans and digitizes thousands of pages of real-world text, including old books and the archives of TheNew York Times.

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ReCaptcha takes a new approach: The project scans and digitizes thousands of pages of real-world text, including old books and the archives of The New York Times.

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If you're into supporting real world space technology being used to make science fiction a reality, the crowdfunding project of your dreams has arrived.

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The start up company may come to nothing, but the real world experience he will get and the contacts he will make will be much more useful to him than any MBA project.

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