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Stephen Downes

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The foot in question is a duck's foot and what the students are doing is creating prosthetic duck feet using 3D printing to serve as feet for real ducks. This is the sort of thing that appeals to me at so many levels: it involves developing real solutions to real problems, it generates inestment in the community and the environment, it's students teaching themselves how to teach themselves, and it helps ducks. And I like ducks.

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