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Digg Labs: visualize the web using Digg Labs' projects: 365, Pics, Arc, BigSpy, Stack, & Swarm

Digg Labs: visualize the web using Digg Labs' projects: 365, Pics, Arc, BigSpy, Stack, & Swarm

Second Life Creator Linden Lab downsizes

MacArthur is creating 30 new learning labs in libraries and museums across the country

A great Rube Goldberg contraption created by Syyn Labs - fantastic!

CBSS / supported text: Readability removes clutter (graphics, ads, buttons, etc.) around what you're trying to read on the world wide web

CBSS / supported text: Readability removes clutter (graphics, ads, buttons, etc.) around what you're trying to read on the world wide web

John Seely Brown: "Even when children are high achievers and facile with new technology, many seem gradually to lose their sense of wonder and curiosity, notes John Seely Brown. Traditional educational methods may be smothering their innate drive to explore the world. Brown and like-minded colleagues are developing the underpinnings for a new 21st century pedagogy that broadens rather than narrows horizons. John Seely Brown, former chief scientist at Xerox, has morphed in recent years into the "Chief of Confusion," seeking "the right questions" in a range of fields, including education. He finds unusual sources for his questions: basketball and opera coaches, surfing and video game champions. He's gathered insights from unorthodox venues, and from more traditional classrooms, to paint quite a different picture of what learning might look like. The typical college lecture class frequently gathers many students together in a large room to be 'fed' knowledge, believes Brown. But studies show that "learning itself is socially constructed," and is most effective when students interact with and teach each other in manageable groups. Brown wants to open up "niche learning experiences" that draw on classic course material, but deepen it to be maximally enriching. In basketball and opera master classes, and in architecture labs, he has seen how individuals become acculturated in a "community of practice," learning to "be" rather than simply to "do." Whether performing, creating, or experimenting, students are critiqued, respond, offer their own criticism, and glean rich wisdom from a cyclical group experience. Brown says something "mysterious" may be taking place: "In deeply collective engagement in processes...you start to marinate in a problem space." Through communities of practice, students' minds "begin to gel up," even in the face of abstraction and unfamiliarity, and "all of a sudden, (the subject) starts to make se

The Education Arcade: MIT's lab to move learning games fwd: authentic, engaging play that teaches

Overview is sofware that analyzes documents and creates visualizations of aggregates of the contents.

Lifelong Kindergarten: Developing new technologies that expand the range of what people can design, create, and learn

graph the usage of terms published in books between 1800 and 2000