This demo -- from Pattie Maes' lab at MIT, spearheaded by Pranav Mistry -- was the buzz of TED. It's a wearable device with a projector that paves the way for profound interaction with our environment. Imagine "Minority Report" and then some.
"Speaking at LIFT 2007, Sugata Mitra talks about his Hole in the Wall project. Young kids in this project figured out how to use a PC on their own -- and then taught other kids. He asks, what else can children teach themselves?" This reminds me, in some ways, of the model John Seeley Brown used at Xerox.
How many teachers are this enthusiastic, well-prepared, or facilitated? What principles are responsible for the inspirational power of this presentation? Should inspiration be part of education?
but it is still a lecture, and only a few of us, about 2%, learn well from even great lectures. The trick is to design activities that help learners discover this. But the fact that 2% do learn to mimic the lecture, as you note, with more or less success, is precisely why lecture is so difficult to supplant. That 2% represents the faculty and those who lead the institutions they work in......
"At TED2009, Tim Berners-Lee called for "raw data now" -- for governments, scientists and institutions to make their data openly available on the web. At TED University in 2010, he shows a few of the interesting results when the data gets linked up."
"Gary Flake demos Pivot, a new way to browse and arrange massive amounts of images and data online. Built on breakthrough Seadragon technology, it enables spectacular zooms in and out of web databases, and the discovery of patterns and links invisible in standard web browsing."
"Gary Flake demos Pivot, a new way to browse and arrange massive amounts of images and data online. Built on breakthrough Seadragon technology, it enables spectacular zooms in and out of web databases, and the discovery of patterns and links invisible in standard web browsing."
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