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Dimitris Tzouris

Diagnosing the Tablet Fever in Higher Education - 10 views

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shared by Dimitris Tzouris on 28 Jan 10 - Cached
  • So it's worth taking a careful look at whether the company will once again create a new category of device that make waves in education -- as it did with personal computers, digital music players, and smartphones -- or whether the iPad and other tabletss might be doomed to remain a niche offering.
  • Mr. Jobs did mention iTunesU twice when listing the kinds of content that could be viewed on the iPad, referring to the company's partnership with many colleges to offer them free space for multimedia content like lecture recordings. But he otherwise focused on consumer uses -- watching movies, viewing photos, sending e-mail messages, and reading novels published by five trade publishers mentioned at the event. That does not mean that the company won't later promote the iPad's use on campuses, though, since it waited until after iPods and iPhones were established before beginning to work more heavily with colleges to promote those in education.
  • the biggest impact of the iPad would be in the textbook market.
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  • only 2 percent of students said they bought an e-textbook this past fall semester.
  • The City University of New York, for instance, is looking closely at encouraging e-textbooks as part of an effort to lower student costs. "At end of the day, it's how do you drive savings for our students, who are feeling a great economic impact," said Brian Cohen, CUNY's chief information officer.
  • If students do buy them and begin to carry them around campus, they could be a more powerful educational tool than laptop computers.
  • Jim Groom, an instructional technologist at the University of Mary Washington, expressed weariness with all the hype around the Apple announcement. He said he is concerned about Apple's policies of requiring all applications to be approved by the company before being allowed in its store, just as it does with the iPhone. And he said that Apple's strategy is to make the Web more commercial, rather than an open frontier. "It offers a real threat to the Web," he said.
  • He also pointed out that several PC manufacturers have sold tablet computers before, which have been tried enthusiastically in classrooms. Their promise is that they make it easy for professors to walk around classrooms while holding the computer, while allowing them to wirelessly project information to a screen at the front of the room. But despite initial hype, very few PC tablets are being used in college classrooms, he said. Now that Apple's long-awaited secret is out, the harder questions might be whether the iPad is the long-awaited education computer.
Ruth Howard

An Idea Worth Spreading: The Future is Networks « emergent by design - 27 views

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shared by Ruth Howard on 18 Mar 10 - Cached
  • It’s now become so incredibly complex and enmeshed, that each of us now has access to EVERY SINGLE PERSON ON THE PLANET in less than 6 steps. Even with billions of people on the planet, we can reach literally anyone in 6 steps. That means we can access anyone’s resources in 6 steps. Their skills, their knowledge, their capital, their influence. Any resource.
  • ANET in less than 6 steps. Even with billions of people on the planet, we can reach literally anyone in 6 steps. That means we can access anyone’s resources in 6 steps. Their skills, their knowledge, their capital, their influence. Any resource.
  • e’ve transitioned past the point of scarcity.
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  • There is no longer such thing as scarcity.
  • There are only misallocated resources.
  • It happened right under our noses
  • strengths “come naturally.”
  • If you have any connection with your strengths
  • My strength is the ability to see patterns. It’s what enabled me to write this post. People call me “insightful.” I have the ability to see stuff that other people don’t see, even when it’s staring them right in the face. (I’ve been calling this process “metathinking,”
  • I started writing about the patterns I was seeing. Explaining trends I was seeing in simple language, distilling down big concepts into words that people could “get.
  • they’ve provided you with a free resource. They’re publicly exposing you to their network.
  • What I did was go to Listorious.com. I looked at all the Top Lists that were interesting to me, and started following every single person who I thought I could learn from. That means I looked through their tweetstream to see if it was filled with potentially useful links to info, and I also clicked through to their personal website.
  • This takes effort and time. It’s work. And it’s unpaid. So why on Earth would you waste your time doing this? Because something interesting happens when you start sending people links to information that they can turn around and apply in the real world,
  • It builds trust. This was literally a revelation for m
  • As I started interacting more with these real life humans in an online space, I couldn’t understand why people were being so nice to me and sharing information with me and providing me with resources.
  • Do you know how this makes me feel? Empowered.
  • All of this free giving and sharing actually does something tremendously valuable. It enables us.
  • It’s networks. The answer is networks. Networks solve the problem of complexity
  • It turns out, life is EXACTLY like a game. If you can access the right resources, you can win. Now here’s the kicker. Everyone can win.
  • complex system can only function with independently acting agents who collaborate.
  • a globally cooperative society, as we’ve assumed. She showed, in practice, that this could actually work.
  • This whole online thing is essentially a simulation – it mimics the actual world
  • Turns out, we’re all actually in this together, all trying to figure out a way that we can all utilize our strengths, connect, collaborate, and survive. If helping each other and building trust is the way to make it work, let’s make it work.
  • Networks self-organize.
  • The point is that we want to build trust
  • What happens when your entire organization of people, as a unit, is a network in itself, but each person also has their personal networks of relationships to draw on, which extend beyond the organization?
  • The world will keep moving. It’s accelerating at an accelerating rate. The ONLY WAY to deal with it is not to cling to the old hierarchies and silos and pride and egos. We have to understand that we can only deal with this as a fully connected system. And the really crazy part is: we already have everything we need to make this happen. It’s already in place.
  • All that needs to change is the mindset.
  • We’ll be flexible, adaptive, and intelligent, because we’ll be able to quickly and freely allocate resources where they’re needed in order to make change.
  • If you think so too, pass it on.
  • I thought that made this an idea worth spreading.
  • It’s an option that seems not only possible, but preferable, and comes with a plan that’s implementable immediately.
  • A missing element, in my view, is a simple way for participants to tangibly contribute to the growth of the network. I would love to see a curated version of Pledgebank.org woven into blogs like EBD, where ideas for enhancing the network could be proposed. These crowdfunding/crowdsourcing elements might spark donations of funds and time to enrich the commons and help the network to grow.
  • Systems – biological, social and economic – are driven by avoiding risk and moving forward. Moving forward is life – no choice. Avoiding risk is the constraints and dangers of the environment – no choice. But life does make a choice.
  • that the transparency provided by social media, especially in its revealing the structure of networks, drives the growth of trust.
  • Ruth Howard on 18 Mar 10
     
    awe and some! Complexity connectivity simplified Blogpost by Vanessa Miemis
Martin Burrett

Neave Planetarium - Interactive star map and virtual sky - 0 views

www.neave.com/planetarium

astronomy science space stars planetarium constellations

shared by Martin Burrett on 07 May 10 - Cached
  • BTerres on 07 May 10
     
    A browser-based virtual planetarium of stars and planets customizable by location (latitude and longitude) and time of day.
  • Martin Burrett on 16 Jul 11
     
    A superb real time flash planetarium. View the stars from any position on Earth. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Science
Jim Farmer

Gigagalaxy Zoom - 39 views

www.gigagalaxyzoom.org/B.html

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shared by Jim Farmer on 29 Dec 10 - Cached
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  • Jim Farmer on 29 Dec 10
     
    Through three giant images, the GigaGalaxy Zoom project reveals the full sky as it appears with the unaided eye from one of the darkest deserts on Earth, then zooms in on a rich region of the Milky Way using a hobby telescope, and finally uses the power of a professional telescope to reveal the details of an iconic nebula.
  • Tero Toivanen on 30 Dec 10
     
    Thanks for sharing! Great resource!
Jim Farmer

Galaxy Zoo: Hubble - 25 views

www.galaxyzoo.org

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shared by Jim Farmer on 29 Dec 10 - Cached
  • Jim Farmer on 29 Dec 10
     
    Help classify galaxies from Hubble photographs. 
William Gaskins

My StoryMaker : Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh - 0 views

www.carnegielibrary.org/...storymaker

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shared by William Gaskins on 08 Feb 11 - Cached
  • My StoryMaker lets you control characters and objects - and creates sentences for you! Once you are done with your story, you can print it out. You cannot go back
  • Cindy Brock on 08 Feb 11
     
    "My StoryMaker lets you control characters and objects - and creates sentences for you! Once you are done with your story, you can print it out. You cannot go back and edit a story once you have ended it but, if you click "yes" when asked to share it with others, you can print it out again by entering the magic number it gives you in the box on the right. Since lack of space forces us to delete story files older than 1 month, please save the .pdf file that prints to your own computer."
  • William Gaskins on 06 Apr 11
     
    "My StoryMaker lets you control characters and objects - and creates sentences for you! Once you are done with your story, you can print it out. You cannot go back and edit a story once you have ended it but, if you click "yes" when asked to share it with others, you can print it out again by entering the magic number it gives you in the box on the right. Since we periodically have to delete the older story files, please save the .pdf file that prints to your own computer."
Steve Ransom

Teenagers, Legal Risks and Social Networking Sites | Lucacept - intercepting the Web - 33 views

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shared by Steve Ransom on 21 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • The majority of teachers have not used SNS in an educational context
    • Steve Ransom
      Steve Ransom on 21 Mar 11
       
      Which is why educators need to help students leverage these new learning spaces for more purposeful uses beyond mere socializing.
mbarek Akaddar

HootCourse - 18 views

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shared by mbarek Akaddar on 09 Jun 11 - Cached
  • HootCourses are held online, using Twitter and Facebook as a virtual classroom space.
Martin Burrett

Knab - Save your money and get back to Earth - 0 views

www.escapefromknab.com/land.html

maths money alien space

shared by Martin Burrett on 05 Aug 11 - Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 05 Aug 11
     
    This is a good maths site where you have to budget and save money to return to Earth... and that alien slime repellent isn't cheap! Site is mainly text based and not the flashiest, but it's useful and fun. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Maths
Martin Burrett

StudyJams - Science - 0 views

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shared by Martin Burrett on 05 Aug 11 - Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 05 Aug 11
     
    A great site with activities, quizzes, videos and even karaoke about every area of the science curriculum. Very useful when introducing new topics. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Science
Martin Burrett

Science Monster - 0 views

www.sciencemonster.com

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shared by Martin Burrett on 10 Aug 11 - Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 10 Aug 11
     
    A beautifully made science site with pages of colourful facts and activities on topics across the science curriculum. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Science
Martin Burrett

Solar System Builder - 0 views

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shared by Martin Burrett on 31 Aug 11 - Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 31 Aug 11
     
    Design a solar system to learn about the planets and gravity work. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/science
Steve Ransom

Education Week: The Classroom Is Obsolete: It's Time for Something New - 17 views

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shared by Steve Ransom on 30 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • The following is a fairly universal list of education design principles for tomorrow’s schools, though it would be tailored to the needs of particular communities: (1) personalized; (2) safe and secure; (3) inquiry-based; (4) student-directed; (5) collaborative; (6) interdisciplinary; (7) rigorous and hands-on; (8) embodying a culture of excellence and high expectations; (9) environmentally conscious; (10) offering strong connections to the local community and business; (11) globally networked; and (12) setting the stage for lifelong learning.
  • we still think that yesterday’s classroom equals tomorrow’s school.
  • These initiatives would not necessarily get rid of classrooms, but instead redesign and refurbish them to operate as “learning studios” and “learning suites” alongside common areas reclaimed from hallways that vastly expand available space and allow better teaching and learning.
Jean Potter

Eyes on the Solar System - 30 views

solarsystem.nasa.gov/eyes

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shared by Jean Potter on 13 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • Jean Potter on 13 Sep 11
     
    requires download but looks like a very cool resource - could use BYOD if your district does not allow downloading
laguna loire

Harry Potter Bedroom - 0 views

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shared by laguna loire on 12 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • laguna loire on 12 Sep 11
     
    Harry Potter is a film that is very popular in the world. Many people have been waiting for this film. Few people who loves this movie and the characters in it. If you are a fan of Potter days, do not complete if you do not have accessory for Harry Potter, such as bedroom furniture and decoration. Here are some of Harry Potter wallpaper murals can be a solution for organizing your room are murals. Despite the impressive numbers in blue with some additional elements of the space more comfortable, especially in combination for the baby's room.
Steve Ransom

melaniemcbride.net » The hidden curriculum of 21st century learning - 23 views

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shared by Steve Ransom on 21 Oct 09 - Cached
  • purposeful social engagement
  • If we regard social media as a pit of narcissism it’s because of the behaviours we’re encouraging within these spaces – not the technologies.
    • Steve Ransom
      Steve Ransom on 21 Oct 09
       
      Yes... we need to lead kids in the notion that they can be more than "I"... that they can be part of and participate in virtual (and physical) communities that can empower them and give them meaningful voice.
  • Are we consumers of each other’s social, cultural or material status or are we participants and contributors in larger projects that benefits us all?
    • Steve Ransom
      Steve Ransom on 21 Oct 09
       
      Being a consumer does have its benefits, but the larger benefits are most certainly found when one contributes and participates with new levels of transparency.
  • Steve Ransom on 21 Oct 09
     
    Great blogpost!
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