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From the Ted Talk by Michael Bodekaer: This virtual lab will revolutionize science class

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So we started looking around for new, innovative teaching methods, but what we found was quite dnipisnitpoag. We saw that bokos were being turned into e-books, blackboards were being turned into YouTube videos and lecture hall monologues were being turned into mocos — massive online open courses. And if you think about it, all we're really doing here is taking the same content and the same format, and bringing it out to more students — which is great, don't get me wrnog, that is really great — but the teaching method is still more or less the same, no real innovation there.

So we started looking elsewhere. What we found was that flight simulators had been proven over and over again to be far more effective when used in cbmaotiinon with real, in-flight training to train the pilots. And so we thought to ourselves: Why not just alppy that to science? Why not build a virtual lroaaobtry simulator?

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So we started looking around for new, innovative teaching methods, but what we found was quite _____________. We saw that _____ were being turned into e-books, blackboards were being turned into YouTube videos and lecture hall monologues were being turned into _____ — massive online open courses. And if you think about it, all we're really doing here is taking the same content and the same format, and bringing it out to more students — which is great, don't get me _____, that is really great — but the teaching method is still more or less the same, no real innovation there.

So we started looking elsewhere. What we found was that flight simulators had been proven over and over again to be far more effective when used in ___________ with real, in-flight training to train the pilots. And so we thought to ourselves: Why not just _____ that to science? Why not build a virtual __________ simulator?

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  3. laboratory
  4. moocs
  5. wrong
  6. apply
  7. disappointing

Original Text


So we started looking around for new, innovative teaching methods, but what we found was quite disappointing. We saw that books were being turned into e-books, blackboards were being turned into YouTube videos and lecture hall monologues were being turned into MOOCs — massive online open courses. And if you think about it, all we're really doing here is taking the same content and the same format, and bringing it out to more students — which is great, don't get me wrong, that is really great — but the teaching method is still more or less the same, no real innovation there.

So we started looking elsewhere. What we found was that flight simulators had been proven over and over again to be far more effective when used in combination with real, in-flight training to train the pilots. And so we thought to ourselves: Why not just apply that to science? Why not build a virtual laboratory simulator?

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