Think 'World Builder' (beaut recent short film about a holograph) and beam up power of ten, gobsmacking virtual technology merges science art technology-hear molecules!Endless possibilities for medicine yes but incredible for design, music too. Makes me wonder about spiritual dimensions...
e-rgonomic: Es por eso, es que celebro, destaco y suscribo el Manifiesto de Digital Humanities de la División de Humanidades y el Centro para Humanidades Digitales de UCLA.
Story HighlightsChristensen, Horn: Federal spending on schools is set to jumpThey say it would be a big mistake to use money to let failing schools resist changeCo-authors: Federal money should go to innovators challenging traditional waysThey say technology should be used to create new forms of schooling
The most likely result of this stimulus will be to give our schools the luxury of affording not to change.
Fourth, direct more funds for research and development to create student-centric learning software. Just a fraction of 1 percent of the $600 billion in K-12 spending from all levels currently goes toward R&D. The federal government should reallocate funds so we can begin to understand not just what learning opportunities work best on average but also what works for whom and under what circumstance. It is vital to fund learning software that captures data about the student and the efficacy of different approaches so we can connect these dots.
Appellate Court Overturns Blackboard Patent; Blackboard To Press On
By David Nagel07/27/09
[Updated 3:22 p.m. with comments from John Baker of Desire2Learn.]
Blackboard's patent on learning management system technologies has been overturned by the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. The court ruled Monday in favor of Desire2Learn and invalidated some claims in patent No. 6,988,138, also known as the "Alcorn patent" or the "138 patent." But the saga will continue.
Today's decision invalidated claims 36 through 38 of the Alcorn patent and upheld a lower court's invalidation of claims 1 through 35--all of the claims for which Blackboard had been suing Desire2Learn in this particular case
But Blackboard is continuing its litigation against Desire2learn on other intellectual property issues involving patents that the company has been granted since the Alcorn patent.
Me aprovecho del brillante trabajo de Bruce Branit (verdaderamente impresionante el corto World Builder) [alt1040] para anunciar otro brillante trabajo, pero que además de sorprender la imaginación promete generar una reacción en cadena de sinapsis neuro-digitales. Me refiero al nuevo trabajo de Alejandro Piscitelli:
“Nativos Digitales, Dieta cognitiva, Inteligencia Colectiva y Arquitecturas de la Participación”.
(Santillana - 2009).
En nativos-digitales.com.ar el autor adelanta que el texto estará compuesto de 3 partes:
- I. Los nativos digitales, una nueva clase cognitiva.
- II. Educando a los nativos digitales en espacios de afinidad.
- III. Gestionando los contextos de cambio caóticos en los que vivirán los nativos digitales.
Compendio de los capítulos que tiene este trabajo:
o Cap.01 Nativos Digitales
o Cap.02 Nuevos Formatos
o Cap.03 Videojuegos
o Cap.04 TV inteligente
o Cap.05 Generación Einstein
o Cap.06 Alfabetización Digital
o Cap.07 Docentes 2.0
o Cap.08 Educ.ar
o Cap.09 Software social
o Cap.10 Par a Par
o Cap.11 Cambios masivos
o Cap.12 Mediacions Tecnológicas
A
little known fact about Einstein is that when he was young he did extremely
poor in school. His grade school teachers told his parents to take him
out of school because he was "too stupid to learn" and it would be a waste
of resources for the school to invest time and energy in his education.
The school suggested that his parents get Albert an easy, manual labor
job as soon as they could.
Instead of following the school's advice, Albert's parents bought him a
violin. Albert became good at the violin. Music was the key that helped
Albert Einstein become one of the smartest men who has ever lived. Einstein
himself says that the reason he was so smart is because he played the violin.
He loved the music of Mozart and Bach the most. A friend of Einstein, G.J.
Withrow, said that the way Einstein figured out his problems and equations
was by improvising on the violin.
Another example of how rhythm orders
movement is an autistic boy who could not tie his shoes. He learned how
on the second try when the task of tying his shoes was put to a song. The
rhythm helped organize his physical movements in time.
Classical music from the baroque period causes the heart
beat and pulse rate to relax to the beat of the music. As the body becomes
relaxed and alert, the mind is able to concentrate more easily. Furthermore,
baroque music decreases blood pressure and enhances the ability to learn.
Music affects the amplitude and frequency of brain waves, which can be
measured by an electro-encephalogram. Music also affects breathing rate
and electrical resistance of the skin. It has been observed to cause the
pupils to dilate, increase blood pressure, and increase the heart rate.
Mozart's music and baroque music, with a 60 beats per minute
beat pattern, activate the left and right brain. The simultaneous left
and right brain action maximizes learning and retention of information.
The information being studied activates the left brain while the music
activates the right brain. Also, activities which engage both sides of
the brain at the same time, such as playing an instrument or singing, causes
the brain to be more capable of processing information.
According
to The Center for New Discoveries in Learning, learning potential can be
increased a minimum of five times by using this 60 beats per minute music.
Dr. Lozanov's system
involved using certain classical music pieces from the baroque period which
have around a 60 beats per minute pattern. He has proven that foreign languages
can be learned with 85-100% efficiency in only thirty days by using these
baroque pieces. His students had a recall accuracy rate of almost 100%
even after not reviewing the material for four years.
Group 1 was read the words with Handel's Water Music in the background.
They were also asked to imagine the words. Group 2 was read the same words
also with Handel's Water Music in the background. Group 2 was not asked
to imagine the words. Group 3 was only read the words, was not given any
background music, and was also not asked to imagine the words. The results
from the first two tests showed that groups 1 and 2 had much better scores
than group 3. The results from the third test, a week later, showed that
group 1 performed much better than groups 2 or 3.
One simple way students can improve test
scores is by listening to certain types of music such as Mozart's
Sonata for Two Piano's in D Major before taking a test. This type of
music releases neurons in the brain which help the body to relax.
William Balach, Kelly Bowman, and Lauri
Mohler, all from Pennsylvania State University, studied the effects of
music genre and tempo on memory retention. They had four groups learn vocabulary
words using one of four instrumental pieces - slow classical, slow jazz,
fast classical, and fast jazz.
Surprisingly, the results showed that
changing the genre had no effect on recall but changing the tempo decreased
recall.
One key ingredient to the order of music from the baroque and
classical periods is math. This is realized by the body and the human mind
performs better when listening to this ordered music.
George recognized that Saul overcame his problems
by using special music. With this story in mind King George asked George
Frederick Handel to write some special music for him that would help him
in the same way that music helped Saul. Handel wrote his Water Music for
this purpose.
Dr. Ballam goes on to say that, "The human mind shuts down
after three or four repetitions of a rhythm, or a melody, or a harmonic
progression."
Bob Larson, a Christian minister and former rock musician,
remembers that in the 70's teens would bring raw eggs to a rock concert
and put them on the front of the stage. The eggs would be hard boiled by
the music before the end of the concert and could be eaten. Dr. Earl W.
Flosdorf and Dr. Leslie A. Chambers showed that proteins in a liquid medium
were coagulated when subjected to piercing high-pitched sounds
Rock
music was played in one of the boxes while Bach's music was played in the
other box. The rats could choose to switch boxes through a tunnel that
connected both boxes. Almost all of the rats chose to go into the box with
the Bach music even after the type of music was switched from one box to
the other.
She found that the plants
grew well for almost every type of music except rock and acid rock. Jazz,
classical, and Ravi Shankar turned out to be the most helpful to the plants.
However, the plants tested with the rock music withered and died. The acid
rock music also had negative effects on the plant growth.
One cannot deny the power of music. High school
students who study music have higher grade point averages that those who
don't. These students also develop faster physically. Student listening
skills are also improved through music education. The top three schools
in America all place a great emphasis on music and the arts. Hungary, Japan,
and the Netherlands, the top three academic countries in the world, all
place a great emphasis on music education and participation in music. The
top engineers from Silicon Valley are all musicians. Napoleon understood
the enormous power of music. He summed it up by saying, "Give me control
over he who shapes the music of a nation, and I care not who makes the
laws" .
Mozart's music and baroque music, with a 60 beats per minute beat pattern, activate the left and right brain. The simultaneous left and right brain action maximizes learning and retention of information. The information being studied activates the left brain while the music activates the right brain. Also, activities which engage both sides of the brain at the same time, such as playing an instrument or singing, causes the brain to be more capable of processing information.
Generate QR codes that can be read by smartphones. These codes can link to URLs, brink up text, SMS, or a phone number, and much more. Amazing possibilities.
La Scienza Della Prosperità è la versione moderna (rivista per il XXI secolo) di "The Science Of Getting Rich", il capolavoro di Wallace D. Wattles che ha ispirato la produttrice cinematografica australiana Rhonda Byrne a realizzare 'The Secret'.
One final comment, a funny one. On Monday, in my "Twenty-First Century Literacies" class where laptops are required for a whole range of experiments and inclass collaborative work, I caught one of my students with his laptop open and with a book propped secretly inside it, reading away in his book when he should have been paying attention. So maybe that's the next class, "Should Professors Allow Students to Use BOOKS in the Classroom Devised for Computer Learning?" I'm being facetious but that's the point. A book is a technology too. How and when we use any technology and for what purpose are the questions we all need to ask.
Do you see the difference? "Computer learning" doesn't exist. In 2011, it exists less than it did a decade ago and, in a few years, that phrase won't exist at all. Students learn. Computers are tools for all kinds of things, from checking the Facebook page, to making notetaking easier, to being fact checking or calculating devices that can take a class to a more sophisticated level to interactive social networking devices that can either distract a class or allow for new forms of group collaboration. There are many other uses as well. The point is that most profs have (a) simply "adapted" (as a colleague told me recently) to computers without understanding the intellectual and pedagogical changes they can enable; or (b) resigned themselves to their present, gleefully or resentflly; or (c) made them into a pedagogical tool; or (d) all of the above.
The point isn't that the class has to be designed for "computer learning" but that there are different forms of learning available with a device and profs should be allowed to determine if they want to facilitate and make use of those different forms of learning or not.
This article examines current developments in the field of CAI. The field of CAI has been driven by two major recent developments. One being the technological possibilities in the software field commonly referred to as "Web 2.0". The other being a strategic paradigm shift from closed to open innovation in many companies. Both developments lead to a new form of CAI which have been analyzed in detail and named Open CAI 2.0. This paper discusses the benefits and challenges for software providers and users arising from this new evolutionary step of CAI
Hugh McGuire, the founder of LibriVox.org, the terrific crowd-sourced audiobooks service. We'll talk Web 2.0, books, learning, and more in the context of thinking about education.
"I do bookish R and D on the web. I build webby things, and find out if people like them. I also write and speak often enough about media, publishing, the web, technology, mass collaboration, online community-building, open culture, copyright, in places like Huffington Post, Forbes.com, and O’Reilly Radar. I’m also editing an O’Reilly book about the future of publishing."
Join me Wednesday, May 11th, for a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com webinar with Hugh McGuire, the founder of LibriVox.org, the terrific crowd-sourced audiobooks service. We'll talk Web 2.0, books, learning, and more in the context of thinking about education.