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Camilla Elliott

Pearson partners with Makerversity to unveil a classroom of the future at London's icon... - 3 views

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    LONDON 30th January 2013 - Pearson, the world's leading learning company, is announcing a partnership with Makerversity, a making and learning start-up in London, to introduce "The Pearson Lab" - a classroom of the future.
Clay Leben

Crossing Battle Lines - alternate reality game to teach writing - 1 views

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    "...a pedagogical alternate reality game we developed over the course of two years under the aegis of The University of Texas at Austin's Digital Writing & Research Lab. Battle Lines offers a compelling game experience that allows student-players to develop rhetorical, community-building, and digital literacies, crossing boundaries between academic and ludic practices."
Roland Gesthuizen

Berners-Lee: Facebook 'threatens' web future * The Register - 6 views

  • He also warns against Phorm-style snooping and governments that restrict free speech on the web.
  • bemoans the proliferation of net-connected apps on the Apple iPhone and other smartphones
  • "continued grassroots innovation may be the best check and balance against any one company or government that tries to undermine universality."
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  • He briefly warns of cable giants who may prevent the free flow of content across the net.
  • The goal of the Web is to serve humanity. We build it now so that those who come to it later will be able to create things that we cannot ourselves imagine.
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    Tim Berners-Lee has dubbed Facebook a threat to the universality of the world wide web. Next month marks the twentieth anniversary of the first webpage - served up by Berners-Lee at the CERN particle physics lab in Geneva - and in the December issue of Scientific American, he celebrates the uniquely democratic nature of his creation, before warning against the forces that could eventually bring it down. "Several threats to the Web's universality have arisen recently,"
John Pearce

Google Shared Spaces - 1 views

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    A shared space is an easy way for you to share mini-collaborative applications, like scheduling tools or games, with your friends or colleagues. The spaces include a whiteboard as well as planning, productivity, game and polling spaces. It's part of Google Labs
Camilla Elliott

Arizona State University Decision Theater - 4 views

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    Decision Theater is a world-class research facility and decision lab for exploring and understanding decision-making in uncertain times. By using state-of-the-art visualization, simulation and solutions tools, we enable decision-makers to address today's challenges and conquer tomorrow's emerging issues.
Ian Guest

TimeMapper - 5 views

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    "Elegant timelines and maps created in seconds (from the Open Knowledge Foundation Labs)"
Filefisher com

Vicky Sedgwick on Twitter: "A5: Students start at our wiki https://t.co/LNfRTVwgqT... - 0 views

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    #edtech @emerson_glen @vickhviolin gr8 example of a school computer lab start page site! https://t.co/46jqKaAP6k
John Pearce

Kill the Password: Why a String of Characters Can't Protect Us Anymore | Gadget Lab | W... - 1 views

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    "No matter how complex, no matter how unique, your passwords can no longer protect you."
Atif Ameen

How to hide hard drives from my computer - 0 views

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    'How to hide hard drives from my computer' In this tutorial I show you how to remove drives from my computer. You can try this trick in your school computer lab to freak up your teacher by hiding the hard drives of any computer.
John Pearce

3D printing empowers the lab › Opinion (ABC Science) - 1 views

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    "The explosion in 3D printing technology is now empowering those engaged in materials science research, education and commercialisation to do things not previously possible. These advances will have a staggering impact - they will accelerate the thought-to-thing process, delivering practical solutions sooner, but they'll also empower scientists to make unprecedented fundamental advances in science."
Ian Guest

Strava Global Heatmap - 0 views

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    Amazing interactive visualisation of routes cycled/run from the trava database
Ian Guest

Lab Out Loud | Science for the classroom and beyond - 2 views

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    "A podcast, hosted by two science teachers, that discusses science news and science education by interviewing leading scientists, researchers, science writers and other important figures in the field. "
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    Sounds a bit like another coupla guys, but on a different theme? ;-)
Rhondda Powling

Thanks to Amazon, Android Could Overtake iPad by 2016 | Gadget Lab | Wired.com - 4 views

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    Cheap Android tablets, namely from Amazon, could boost Android tablet sales numbers past the current dominating force known as the iPad, according to research firm IDC.
Eric Marcos

MakeyMakey: An Invention Kit for Everyone - 6 views

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    We believe that everyone is creative, inventive, and imaginative. We believe that everyone can create the future and change the world. So we have dedicated our lives to making easy-to-use invention kits. Before we created MaKey MaKey we worked on other creative tools and invention kits such as Drawdio, Singing Fingers, and Scratch.
Roland Gesthuizen

What we learned from 5 million books | Video on TED.com - 1 views

  • Have you played with Google Labs' Ngram Viewer? It's an addicting tool that lets you search for words and ideas in a database of 5 million books from across centuries. Erez Lieberman Aiden and Jean-Baptiste Michel show us how it works, and a few of the surprising things we can learn from 500 billion words.
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    "Jean-Baptiste Michel looks at how we can use large volumes of data to better understand our world."
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