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Wired.com Goes Creative Commons: 50 Great Images That Are Now Yours - 1 views

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open-source creativecommons

shared by yeuann on 08 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • Wired.com photographers have the enviable job of shooting the coolest stuff and most intriguing people in the technology world. Now we’re giving away many of those photos to you, the public, for free. Beginning today, we’re releasing all Wired.com staff-produced photos under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC) license and making them available in high-res format on a newly launched public Flickr stream.
yeuann

How the Kindle Fire Could Make 7-Inch Tablets Huge | Gadget Lab | Wired.com - 0 views

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7-Inch tablets

shared by yeuann on 04 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • If you’ve been living under a rock and haven’t heard the news, Amazon debuted its $200 7-inch tablet, the Kindle Fire, this week. Make no mistake: It’s no iPad. There’s no front-facing or rear-facing camera, and it’s only got 8 GB of storage. But it’s not meant to be an iPad. It’s a completely different kind of tablet, designed for the pure consumer. That is, it’s designed for consumptive behavior: reading, listening to music, watching video content. The lack of local storage isn’t an issue, either; it’s meant to take advantage of the cloud with services like Amazon’s $80 yearly Prime service, as well as Amazon Cloud Drive. And the smaller form factor makes it extra portable, easy to whip out on the bus or the subway (much like a Kindle).
yeuann

Q&A: Bill Gates on Flying Cars, the Malaria Epidemic, and Article-Writing Robots | Wired Magazine | Wired.com - 0 views

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education learning

shared by yeuann on 22 Apr 13 - No Cached
  • Wired: You’re interested in massive open online courses and have championed Salman Khan’s videos. If these had been around when you were young, would it have affected your schooling? Gates: No. For a highly motivated learner, it’s not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made it not secret. It just made knowledge easy to find. If you’re a motivated enough learner, books are pretty good. Now, if you’re the kind of person who gets stuck on Chapter 5 and will give up if you don’t have someone to answer questions, don’t try and pick up the Feynman lectures on physics. That’s true whether it’s online or offline. A MOOC is an attempt to gather a group and encourage students, almost like a typical classroom, forcing you to interact during the lecture so that it kind of wakes you up and keeps you engaged. A hyperlearner doesn’t have to have those things.
yeuann

Sifteo Cubes Are Building Blocks for Geeks | Gadget Lab | Wired.com - 0 views

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learning mobile apps

shared by yeuann on 12 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • LEGOs and Lincoln Logs are for Luddites. Sifteo cubes are the new building blocks. Each cube has a 128-pixel color LCD screen, wireless connectivity, a 32-bit ARM microprocessor, and an accelerometer that responds to tilting and stacking. You can arrange them to create everything from vocabulary puzzles to building challenges, all of which can be enjoyed by as many people as you can crowd around the coffee table.
  • Sifteo founders Jeevan Kalanithi and David Merrill previewed the cubes at TED 2009 when they were grad students at MIT. The cubes debuted at CES this year. The design marries classic tactility with new hardware and software. “Sifteo cubes are the first gaming solution to deliver truly hands-on play,” Merrill said. “[The cubes combine] the latest in embedded computing and sensing technology with a timeless play style.”
  • yeuann on 12 Aug 11
     
    Fascinating! Enhancing mobile learning with tactile and spatial play. I was thinking how we could adapt iPhones or iPads to fit together like what we do for children's building blocks or mahjong tiles... Do watch the video too!
yeuann

Know-It-All App Lets You Learn Without Thinking | Game|Life | Wired.com - 1 views

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learning education

shared by yeuann on 16 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • Do you struggle to remember the periodic table of elements, but have no trouble recalling all of the Pokemon? Can’t find that French vocabulary word you crammed on the airplane to Paris, but still remember all the words to “We Didn’t Start the Fire?” The reason we struggle with remembering some things and have trouble forgetting others, some experts say, might not be simply because some things are fun and others are boring. It could be because, paradoxically, we learn better when we’re not concentrating.
yeuann

Kill Your Meeting Room - The Future's in Walking and Talking | Wired Opinion | Wired.com - 1 views

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mobile learning meeting

shared by yeuann on 11 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • Sending information in advance has obvious benefits, including more time for: research, formulating ideas, and asking other people about their points of view to inform a better discussion. Perhaps more significantly it allows those who are naturally quiet or introspective to contribute more meaningfully.
  • I’m not arguing that we should ditch technology in the workplace, or for our meetings. Technology has its place in work; of course it does. But as with all things, technology should be there to support human connection — not get in the way of it.
  • yeuann on 11 Mar 13
     
    How to match the right technology to the right goal for a given meeting
yeuann

Tuition at Learn-to-Code Boot Camp Is Free - Until You Get a Job | Wired Business | Wired.com - 1 views

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education learning

shared by yeuann on 16 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • In a few months, another graduating class of college students will stumble out into an unforgiving job market weighed down by staggering debt. But one school in one of the hottest hiring markets in the country is flipping the script on student loans: until you get a job, you don’t pay.
  • yeuann on 16 Mar 13
     
    We have the flipped classroom... now we have the flipped student loan! 
casey ng

Your Google Drive Files Can End Up in Ads | Cloudline | Wired.com - 1 views

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shared by casey ng on 05 May 12 - No Cached
  • casey ng on 05 May 12
     
    Store file in google drive give google right to reuse our content? Need to monitor how google react to our precious files.
Ashley Tan

Google Beefs Up Apps Script for Docs | Cloudline | Wired.com - 5 views

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google apps script docs

shared by Ashley Tan on 03 May 12 - No Cached
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  • Ashley Tan on 03 May 12
     
    For NIEfolio team, and Yeu Ann in particular, to take note.
yeuann

Harvard-MIT's edX Brings Research Focus to Cloud Ed | Cloudline | Wired.com - 0 views

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learning instructional web feedback research

shared by yeuann on 08 May 12 - No Cached
  • While edX shares the common theme of scaling the online experience to very large groups, it adds an important component lacking from the various Stanford spin-offs, namely research.
  • EdX partners will be doing more than putting content online, they will be studying how people learn in these environments in an effort to improve both classroom and online learning.
  • yeuann on 08 May 12
     
    According to this article, the most significant factor is not the scaling of online instruction (which isn't a new thing already) _but_ the ability for educators to study how people learn in various environments. Timely and accurate feedback is an essential component, not only for students, but also for educators, in improving the quality and relevancy of education for smaller groups. Personally, I think that the rise of massively open online courses (MOOCs) will ironically lead to a huge increase in the number of customized and localized courses tailored for niche sub-groups. Instead of seeing a huge dissemination of one-size-fits-all education, we will see an increasing diversity of different educational strategies, similiar to how the diversity of an ecosystem increases when its geographic size increases. It's a very exciting time for educators out there indeed...
yeuann

The Future of Context: Mobile Reading from Google to Flipboard to FLUD | Epicenter | Wired.com - 0 views

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mobile learning reading iphone apps

shared by yeuann on 10 Dec 11 - No Cached
  • yeuann on 10 Dec 11
     
    In retrospect, I think we'll see this as an important moment in the history of media, as well as the history of the smartphone. After all, if there's a single feature that's always distinguished smartphones from "dumb" handsets, it's this: Smartphones are built for reading as well as talking, for literacy as much as audibility.
yeuann

'Twine' Seeks To Tie Up The Smart Environment | Epicenter | Wired.com - 1 views

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mobile learning cloud computing

shared by yeuann on 29 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • A pair of MIT Media Lab alums have come up with a do-it-yourself kit for making smart environments. David Carr and John Kestner, partners in the industrial design firm Supermechanical, have developed a small, durable, inexpensive remote sensor node, and an easy-to-use web app that turns data from the sensor node into timely information. The system, dubbed Twine, lets you tie everyday objects into your digital life.
  • Twine is a palm-size block of rubber that contains a WiFi node, temperature sensor and accelerometer. It’s powered by two AAA batteries or a mini USB connection. And it has a port where external sensors can connect. The initial external sensors are a magnetic switch, moisture sensor and a breakout board for building your own sensor. Supermechanical is also considering an RFID reader, pressure sensor and current sensor.
  • yeuann on 29 Nov 11
     
    Wonder how we can use this for e-learning purposes...
yeuann

Amazon Builds World's Fastest Nonexistent Supercomputer | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com - 0 views

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mobile apps learning cloud computing

shared by yeuann on 23 Dec 11 - No Cached
  • yeuann on 23 Dec 11
     
    I've been thinking. If the highest level of e-learning is augmentation of existing teaching and learning capabilities, then why not investigate cloud supercomputers - the logical extrapolation of today's cloud computing. Imagine the learning possibilities if students could easily run simulations using real-world data to investigate real-world phenomena or even social ones, to see what would happen if you tweaked certain environmental / historical conditions. Then teachers could use the various simulated outcomes as a starting point for discussion purposes - e.g. if everyone on earth had a car, what would happen to the earth's temperatures in the next few years? and then ask further questions from there using fundamental principles. Less time spent on tedious models, and more time spent observing systems interactions, may help make the next generation of It sounds like a very high-level concept, but I think a practical example is when I used the speech-to-text convertor feature of an English dictionary app on my iPhone to help a boy learn how to pronounce words correctly. It turned a boring dictionary into a fun interactive game for him, and he learnt a few new words along the way. Just some food for thought this holiday season. Merry Christmas!
yeuann

In Digital Age, Sourcing Images Is as Legitimate as Making Them | Raw File | Wired.com - 1 views

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learning images

shared by yeuann on 07 Feb 12 - No Cached
  • yeuann on 07 Feb 12
     
    Intriguing insights into the changing nature of image uses in culture, and possibly education
yeuann

Jobs Was Right: Adobe Abandons Mobile Flash, Backs HTML5 | Gadget Lab | Wired.com - 0 views

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mobile apps html5

shared by yeuann on 10 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • yeuann on 10 Nov 11
     
    Goodbye, Flash...
yeuann

Need To Create? Get A Constraint | Wired Science | Wired.com - 0 views

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learning creativity

shared by yeuann on 14 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • One of the many paradoxes of human creativity is that it seems to benefit from constraints. Although we imagine the imagination as requiring total freedom, the reality of the creative process is that it’s often entangled with strict conventions and formal requirements. Pop songs have choruses and refrains; symphonies have four movements; plays have five acts; painters still rely on the tropes of portraiture.
  • yeuann on 14 Nov 11
     
    Interesting insight into the nature of creativity...
yeuann

Everything You Thought You Knew About Learning Is Wrong | GeekDad | Wired.com - 1 views

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apps learning memory education

shared by yeuann on 31 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • Taking notes during class? Topic-focused study? A consistent learning environment? All are exactly opposite of the best strategies for learning.
  • yeuann on 31 Jan 12
     
    How can we improve our e-learning apps to maximize learning effectiveness?
yeuann

Where Are the Educational Apps for Adults? (GeekDad Weekly Rewind) | GeekDad | Wired.com - 0 views

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apps learning education

shared by yeuann on 31 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • yeuann on 31 Jan 12
     
    Interesting food for thought. What kind of educational apps would adults be looking for? Or are there new domains of educational apps that adults haven't thought of, but if we make it, they will come? 
yeuann

Ice Cream Sandwich: Hands-On With Google's New Android OS | Gadget Lab | Wired.com - 0 views

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mobile google android

shared by yeuann on 18 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • In all, Ice Cream Sandwich is a generous complement of clever features. The OS immediately elevates any phone past other Android competitors that may be considered for purchase. Voice dictation still falls far behind iOS, but aside from that and the vastly better selection of apps available for iOS, Android is easily just as enchanting to use, and markedly more robust.
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