Practiced skills, and a constellation of expert knowledge, made the photograph shown here from today’s New York Times possible. An exciting new phase of education lies ahead, when educators make the leap to clustering open online materials around timely and topic ideas instead of only curriculum sequences. By clicking the highlighted phrases below, you can experience a rough example of how compelling this learning in the moment will be. (Be sure not to miss the getting out safely video, if you ever fly, and don’t be annoyed by the beginning ad, which pays to deliver the knowledge.):
Skills and knowledge were applied by:
- pilot Sullenberger who knew what to expect from his aircraft’s structure
- choosing the landing procedure
- pilot Sullenberger in gliding the plane on to the surface of the Hudson River,
- by the crew, and some passengers as well, getting everyone out safely,
- by river craft crews who sped to the rescue.
Divers, crane and barge crews, structural experts and other successfully lifted the huge aircraft up through floating ice.
The NY Times report adds: “The left engine, which had been torn off, had not been recovered by early Sunday. In a briefing on Saturday night, Kathryn O. Higgins of the National Transportation Safety Board investigators believed they had identified its location.”
