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		<title>William Kamkwamba, TED talk</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 05:14:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Punya Mishra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had written a couple of days ago about William Kamkwamba, a Malawian high school student who built a windmill by looking at pictures in a book. From Bob Reuter&#8217;s website (Keep IT Simple!) I discovered a TED talk that William had given in England, back in July. Incidentally my son pointed out to me [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A boy and his windmill</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 04:27:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Daily Show featured William Kamkwamba, a Malawian high school student who built a windmill by looking at pictures in a book! I have always been a fan of jugaad, the idea of indigenous creativity using the detritus that seems to be a function of our modern world. And this is just an amazing story. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I can resist everything except temptation (or marshmallows)</title>
		<link>http://punya.educ.msu.edu/2009/09/20/i-can-resist-everything-except-temptation-or-marshmallows/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 14:49:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Punya Mishra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you heard of the marshmallow experiment? It is a pretty famous experiment conducted at Stanford back in the 60&#8217;s. Walter Mischel a psychologist conducted this experiment on four-year olds in which the children were given one marshmallow and promised a second marshmallow if only they could wait 20 minutes before eating the first one. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lego based Sudoku &amp; Rubik Cube solving robots</title>
		<link>http://punya.educ.msu.edu/2009/09/15/lego-based-sudoku-rubik-cube-solving-robots/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:46:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Punya Mishra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two robots made entirely using Lego Mindstorms NXT Retail-kit that can solve Sudoku problems and the Rubik&#8217;s Cube! How totally cool is that. LEGO Mindstorms is a line of Lego sets combining programmable bricks with electric motors, sensors, Lego bricks, and Lego Technic pieces (such as gears, axles, and beams). See Wikipedia article on Lego [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jugaad, educational toys from Junk (TPACK at work)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:48:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Punya Mishra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
I had written earlier about the idea of Jugaad, the quintessential Indian idea of situational creativity. One of the masters at this is Arvind Gupta. Check out his website for tons of wonderful science toys and experiments that can be made from stuff we typically throw away. Very cool and a critical part of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Darwin film can&#8217;t find distributor</title>
		<link>http://punya.educ.msu.edu/2009/09/12/darwin-film-cant-find-distributor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 04:44:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Punya Mishra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Telegraph article titled: Charles Darwin film &#8216;too controversial for religious America&#8217;
How sad is that!
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		<title>Tech Trends, Special Issue on TPACK</title>
		<link>http://punya.educ.msu.edu/2009/09/09/tech-trends-special-issue-on-tpack/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:54:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Punya Mishra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[TechTrends is a leading journal for professionals in the educational communication and technology field and is the official publication of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT). The current issue has 5 articles devoted to the TPACK framework (including one by yours truly with Matt and Kristen Kereluik). I am providing titles and key [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mind power: Brain Machine Interfaces</title>
		<link>http://punya.educ.msu.edu/2009/09/06/mind-power-brain-machine-interfaces/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 02:15:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Punya Mishra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine controlling machines, typing text or juggling balls using nothing but the power of thought. What sounds like far-fetched science fiction is gradually becoming possible, providing hope for disabled patients &#8212; and new gimmicks for the computer gaming industry. Read more in Playing With Your Head: The Dawning Age of Mind-Reading Machines
What implications do these [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bringing sensory richness to bleak scientific texts</title>
		<link>http://punya.educ.msu.edu/2009/08/06/bringing-sensory-richness-to-bleak-scientific-texts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 17:45:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Punya Mishra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A while ago I had written about how we use language to capture intangible ideas &#8211; and the risks associated with not paying attention to these intangibles. I had said (though you can read the complete post A different language): 
For instance wine connoisseurs have developed a specialized language (which sadly is quite opaque to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Online physics-based games</title>
		<link>http://punya.educ.msu.edu/2009/07/12/online-physics-based-games/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2009 14:48:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Punya Mishra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Physics Games &#8211; online physics-based games.
Some cool stuff here. For instance check out Demolition City
Online Physics Games
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