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I’m the school based technology specialist for Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, where I work to better integrate technology with instruction and help my teachers develop a deeper understanding of what digital technologies can bring to the classroom.

Read on for 12 inspiring women who have big stuff planned for 2012. We can’t wait to watch this year to see what they have in store—for themselves and for the world.

Experiments with art, science, technology, and delightful ideas.

Three hacker schools offer a new model for direct education that sidesteps traditional abstract work and credentialing.

Every year, the biggest ideas in health care are presented at the Mayo Clinic’s Transform conference in Rochester, Minnesota. I was there this year to present a pre-conference workshop with a Continuum colleague on everyday creativity, and another pair of Continuum designers gave a main-stage talk.

Space tourism may seem like an excuse for joy rides for the rich, but in reality it's the start of a new and vital private sector industry that will help develop safer, cheaper and cleaner space travel and result in technology that will lead to broader innovation and discovery.

Resonate is a new platform for networking, knowledge sharing and education bringing together world class artists to drive a forward-looking debate on the position of technology in art and culture.

Pedagogy - one of those words that’s used when people want to sound all academic. So let’s just call it learning practice. Of one thing we can be sure; teaching does not seem to have changed much in the last 100 years.

Released on 11.29.11, INTERNET RISING is a digi-documentary investigating the evolving relationships between the Internet and collective consciousness of humanity. It provokes many questions about ancient and modern paradoxes of life, its pleasures and pains...and the gray area contrasts in between.

ESA and the DLR German Space Center fired a Texus rocket 263 km into space on 27 November to test a new way of handling propellants on Europe’s future rockets.