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Lee-Anne Patterson

me and my iPhone (and the larger potential for learners) - NeverEndingSearch - Blog on ... - 0 views

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blog Joyce Valenza iphone mobile_learning review news

shared by Lee-Anne Patterson on 23 Jan 09 - Cached
  • Lee-Anne Patterson on 23 Jan 09
     
    blog post from Joyce Valenza about her iPhone - it transends the gadget style post because she links in stuff for education. Where will mobile tech stop?
Wes Bolton

Curiosity Cabinet - 53 views

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science physics demonstrations chemistry

shared by Wes Bolton on 09 Jan 15 - No Cached
  • Wes Bolton on 09 Jan 15
     
    A scientist's curiosity cabinet of gadgets, gizmos, devices demonstrating scientific principles.
Bob Rowan

Cloth Addiction: the microfiber cloth that has changed my life | ZDNet - 65 views

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iPad reviews cleaning tablet

shared by Bob Rowan on 09 May 12 - No Cached
  • Bob Rowan on 09 May 12
     
    suggested as good cleaning cloth for ipads or other electronic devices
Marc Patton

GeekBeat. TV - Gadgets, Tech News, Reviews and Podcasts! - 1 views

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Technology Media_Resources

shared by Marc Patton on 29 Jun 12 - Cached
  • Marc Patton on 29 Jun 12
     
    Geek Beat is one of the world's most recognizable tech news brands, delivering a daily news show hosted by Cali Lewis at least three times a week, as well as a weekly LIVE show every Friday at 3pm CST co-hosted by Cali and John P.
anonymous

Is Real Educational Reform Possible? If So, How? | Psychology Today - 3 views

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education reform psychology

shared by anonymous on 21 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • Children come into the world intensely motivated to learn about the physical, social, and cultural world around them; but they need freedom in order to pursue that motive.  For their first four or five years of life we generally grant them that freedom. During those first few years, without any teaching, they learn a large portion of what any human being ever learns. They learn their entire native language, from scratch. They learn the basic practical principles of physics. They learn psychology to such a degree that they become experts in how to please, annoy, manipulate, and charm the other people in their environment.  They acquire a huge store of factual knowledge.  They learn how to operate the gadgets that they are allowed to operate, even those that seem extraordinarily complex to us adults.They do all this on their own initiative, with essentially no direction from adults.
  • anonymous on 21 Nov 11
     
    "Children come into the world intensely motivated to learn about the physical, social, and cultural world around them; but they need freedom in order to pursue that motive."
Sydney Lacey

Quick guide to the Motion Chart Gadget - Gapminder.org - 5 views

www.gapminder.org/...motion-chart

shared by Sydney Lacey on 16 Jul 12 - No Cached
  • Sydney Lacey on 16 Jul 12
     
    data, presentation, visualization, Google, graphs, charts
Daniel Meyer

Supercharge Google Drive With These Clever Third-Party Apps | Gadget Lab | Wired.com - 121 views

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google apps

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  • Supercharge Google Drive With These Clever Third-Party Apps
  • Daniel Meyer on 19 Mar 14
     
    Great add on for Google Drive
Wolverhampton CLC

Play.com (UK): DVDs, Music CDs, MP3s, Video Games, Books, Electronics & Gadgets - Free ... - 0 views

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shared by Wolverhampton CLC on 15 Sep 09 - Cached
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      Wolverhampton CLC on 15 Sep 09
       
      Here is the search bar
Tracy Tuten

Reading and the Web - Texts Without Context - NYTimes.com - 28 views

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sme NYTimes technology Web 2.0 critic mashup

shared by Tracy Tuten on 08 Apr 10 - Cached
  • In his deliberately provocative — and deeply nihilistic — new book, “Reality Hunger,” the onetime novelist David Shields asserts that fiction “has never seemed less central to the culture’s sense of itself.”
  • Mr. Shields’s book consists of 618 fragments, including hundreds of quotations taken from other writers like Philip Roth, Joan Didion and Saul Bellow — quotations that Mr. Shields, 53, has taken out of context and in some cases, he says, “also revised, at least a little — for the sake of compression, consistency or whim.”
  • It’s also a question, as Mr. Lanier, 49, astutely points out in his new book, “You Are Not a Gadget,” of how online collectivism, social networking and popular software designs are changing the way people think and process information, a question of what becomes of originality and imagination in a world that prizes “metaness” and regards the mash-up as “more important than the sources who were mashed.”
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  • Mr. Lanier’s book, which makes an impassioned case for “a digital humanism,” is only one of many recent volumes to take a hard but judicious look at some of the consequences of new technology and Web 2.0. Among them are several prescient books by Cass Sunstein, 55, which explore the effects of the Internet on public discourse; Farhad Manjoo’s “True Enough,” which examines how new technologies are promoting the cultural ascendancy of belief over fact; “The Cult of the Amateur,” by Andrew Keen, which argues that Web 2.0 is creating a “digital forest of mediocrity” and substituting ill-informed speculation for genuine expertise; and Nicholas Carr’s book “The Shallows” (coming in June), which suggests that increased Internet use is rewiring our brains, impairing our ability to think deeply and creatively even as it improves our ability to multitask.
  • Steven Johnson, a founder of the online magazine Feed, for instance, wrote in an article in The Wall Street Journal last year that with the development of software for Amazon.com’s Kindle and other e-book readers that enable users to jump back and forth from other applications, he fears “one of the great joys of book reading — the total immersion in another world, or in the world of the author’s ideas — will be compromised.” He continued, “We all may read books the way we increasingly read magazines and newspapers: a little bit here, a little bit there.”
  • Tracy Tuten on 08 Apr 10
     
    Highly insightful and developed argument for how Web 2.0 is changing how we process information, learn, and develop opinions. 
Stan Golanka

Reading and the Web - Texts Without Context - NYTimes.com - 49 views

www.nytimes.com/...21mash.html

shared by Stan Golanka on 08 Feb 11 - Cached
  • It’s also a question, as Mr. Lanier, 49, astutely points out in his new book, “You Are Not a Gadget,” of how online collectivism, social networking and popular software designs are changing the way people think and process information, a question of what becomes of originality and imagination in a world that prizes “metaness” and regards the mash-up as “more important than the sources who were mashed.”
    • Stan Golanka
      Stan Golanka on 08 Feb 11
       
      Core discussion topic? From this, I see a few discussion issues: 1. Do we prize "mash-ups" more than original work? Who is "we" in this? 2. If the answer to #1 is "yes," then the next question is: is this good or bad? 3. Finally, if the answer is "bad" to #2, what place do "mash-ups" have, and how do we help our students see the value in original work?
  • Web 2.0 is creating a “digital forest of mediocrity” and substituting ill-informed speculation for genuine expertise;
    • Stan Golanka
      Stan Golanka on 08 Feb 11
       
      How do teachers help students rise above this "digital forest of mediocrity"?
  • Mr. Johnson added that the book’s migration to the digital realm will turn the solitary act of reading — “a direct exchange between author and reader” — into something far more social and suggested that as online chatter about books grows, “the unity of the book will disperse into a multitude of pages and paragraphs vying for Google’s attention.”
    • Stan Golanka
      Stan Golanka on 08 Feb 11
       
      If Johnson's predictions are true, is this necessarily bad? How much of this concern is "nostalgia"? What would be lost from an academic p.o.v, and what migh be gained?
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  • Instead of reading an entire news article, watching an entire television show or listening to an entire speech, growing numbers of people are happy to jump to the summary, the video clip, the sound bite — never mind if context and nuance are lost in the process; never mind if it’s our emotions, more than our sense of reason, that are engaged; never mind if statements haven’t been properly vetted and sourced.
    • Stan Golanka
      Stan Golanka on 08 Feb 11
       
      Should teachers "fight" this, or embrace it? Can summaries/sound bites ever be appropriate for academic discussions?
  • And online research enables scholars to power-search for nuggets of information that might support their theses, saving them the time of wading through stacks of material that might prove marginal but that might have also prompted them to reconsider or refine their original thinking.
  • Digital insiders like Mr. Lanier and Paulina Borsook, the author of the book “Cyberselfish,” have noted the easily distracted, adolescent quality of much of cyberculture. Ms. Borsook describes tech-heads as having “an angry adolescent view of all authority as the Pig Parent,” writing that even older digerati want to think of themselves as “having an Inner Bike Messenger.”
    • Stan Golanka
      Stan Golanka on 08 Feb 11
       
      Can teachers moderate this attitude? Does our (adults) use/non-use of technology help breed this attitude?
  • authors “will increasingly tailor their work to a milieu that the writer Caleb Crain describes as ‘groupiness,’ where people read mainly ‘for the sake of a feeling of belonging’ rather than for personal enlightenment or amusement. As social concerns override literary ones, writers seem fated to eschew virtuosity and experimentation in favor of a bland but immediately accessible style.
    • Stan Golanka
      Stan Golanka on 08 Feb 11
       
      Does this ring true to educators? Are social concerns and literary conerns opposites? How does web publishing affect "literary" publishing, as opposed to "non-literary" publishing?
  • However impossible it is to think of “Jon & Kate Plus Eight” or “Jersey Shore” as art, reality shows have taken over wide swaths of television,
Donald Luck

The Good Enough Revolution: When Cheap and Simple Is Just Fine - 37 views

www.wired.com/...ff_goodenough

technology use

shared by Donald Luck on 02 Dec 09 - Cached
  • Donald Luck on 02 Dec 09
     
    Limited capabilities are often what is needed. The 20/80 rule
Martin Burrett

Google Shared Spaces: Yes/No/Maybe Gadget - 2 views

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survey tools quiz google shared

shared by Martin Burrett on 17 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 17 Jul 11
     
    Make a online 'yes/no/maybe' survey with this clever tool from Google Labs. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+&+Web+Tools
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