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Francisco G

One Year or Less: Mobiles « 2011 Horizon Report - 0 views

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    According to a recent report from mobile manufacturer Ericsson, studies show that by 2015, 80% of people accessing the Internet will be doing so from mobile devices.
Lizzy D

Ready or Not, here come the e-textbooks... | NMC - 1 views

  • It does say that the physical paper textbook we know and love is not going to disappear overnight, but that now, more than ever, e-textbooks are poised to make a permanent push into the classroom.
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    etextbooks are comming, weather we want them to or not.
Lizzy D

Apple's iPad - Keeping things in perspective | NMC - 0 views

  • People need to stop and ponder for a moment at the iPad before breaking out the harsh critic pens. This is not just v.1.0 of a new piece of hardware, this is the potential dawn of a new type of truly personal computing. Give it a chance.
  • The iPad is a testing ground with the consumers being the tech rats. Once they turn the device loose and see how people use it, you can bet it will be tweaked, upgraded and evolved in ways we probably can't imagine right now. Its an important product because it just might get the masses thinking of computing beyond the mouse and keyboard paradigm.
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    what can this do? people complain about what it cant, but dont stop to think about the potential
Lizzy D

Horizon Markets: Growth of eTextbooks | NMC - 0 views

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    Education, what is the future for eTextbooks in schools?
Lizzy D

E-readers and E-books: Reading the Road Ahead | NMC - 0 views

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    Future for e-books
Honor Moorman

Mobile Access 2010 | Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project - 0 views

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      this is interesting - what do you think?
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    from 2009 to 2010 how techonology use has changed and increased
Christopher Porras

True Believers: Digital Game-Based Learning in the Military - 2001 - ASTD - 0 views

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    This article talks about the impact of training soldiers in the U.S. military with tools such as games, formally known as Game Based Learning.
Christopher Porras

Game-Based Learning: What it is, Why it Works, and Where it's Going - 0 views

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    This article talks about what Game Based Learning is, why it is working for so many people, its current state, and the predicted state it will approach in the upcoming years.
Christopher Porras

Game Based Learning, Serious Games and Simulations Effectiveness Research | Make Games ... - 0 views

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    This article merely provides references to case studies and research papers that have discussd Game Based Learning
Christopher Porras

Game-Based Learning - 0 views

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    This article discusses what Game Based Learning is and how/why it can be applied to the education of both children and adults.
Hunter J

Open Educational Tools: Affordance and educational games - 0 views

  • He coined the term affordance in this way, "The verb "to afford" is found in the dictionary, but the noun "affordance" is not. I have made it up. I mean by it something that refers to both the environment and the animal in a way that no existing term does. It implies the complementarity of the animal and the environment (Gibson, 1986, p. 127)." Furthermo
  • Ecological psychology emphasizes the importance of the environment or ecological niche in cognition, hence it considers cognition as situated. That is, the "what and how" people think depends on the situation they found themselves in.
Lizzy D

An iPad for Everyone: Is the iPad ready for 1:1? - Teach42 - 0 views

  • But the big question still remains, what is its place in education?  Is it the next big killer device?  Another in a long string of fads?  The perfect 1:1 device or a waste of budget?
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      theres speak of all of this "innovation" will it all work?
  • Seton Hill University in Pennsylvania was one of the first to fire up the bandwagon, committing to giving each of it’s 2100 full time students an iPad.
    • Lizzy D
       
      schools are slowly but shurly hopping on board with the e-books
  • George Fox University in Oregon announced that it would give its students a choice between a MacBook or an iPad.
    • Lizzy D
       
      now choices?
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  • Gibbon Fairfax Winthrop High School was the first high school to provide an iPad to each of their 320 students.
    • Lizzy D
       
      will ISA jump onto the bandwagon?
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