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Melinda Waffle

Cognitive Surplus: The Great Spare-Time Revolution | Magazine - 6 views

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  • Melinda Waffle on 07 Jun 10
     
    "we also have a third drive. We do things because they're interesting, because they're engaging, because they're the right things to do, because they contribute to the world. The problem is that, especially in our organizations, we stop at that second drive. We think the only reason people do productive things is to snag a carrot or avoid a stick."
Dave Truss

A Recipient in the Sharing Revolution « - 6 views

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shared by Dave Truss on 14 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Sharing, and sharing online specifically, is not in addition to the  work of being an educator.  It is the work.
  • Dave Truss on 14 Oct 10
     
    I still haven't come to terms with what exactly the power of our networks mean for concepts like "cheating" - I am sure there are some who might view what I did as dishonest. I like to think it offers insight into what personalized learning could look like and how doing the same old assignments, the same old way, is not good enough.
Angela Maiers

» Learning & the Brain: Resources for Educators   « Brain Fitness Revolution ... - 1 views

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  • Angela Maiers on 21 Jul 08
     
    Brain Based Education
Ruth Howard

High Scalability - High Scalability - The Amazing Collective Compute Power of... - 4 views

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shared by Ruth Howard on 20 Feb 10 - Cached
  • Earlier we talked about how a single botnet could harness more compute power than our largest super computers. Well, that's just the start of it. The amount of computer power available to the Ambient Cloud will be truly astounding.
  • By 2014 one estimate is there will be 2 billion PCs. That's a giant reservoir of power to exploit, especially considering these new boxes are stuffed with multiple powerful processors and gigabytes of memory. 7 Billion Smartphones By now it's common wisdom smartphones are the computing platform of the future. It's plausible to assume the total number of mobile phones in use will roughly equal the number of people on earth. That's 7 billion smartphones. Smartphones aren't just tiny little wannabe computers anymore either. They are real computers and are getting more capable all the time.
  • One Google exec estimates that in 12 years an iPod will be able to store all the video ever produced.
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  • But all the compute power in the world is of little use if the cores can't talk to each other.
  • Inductive chargers will also make it easier to continually charge devices. Nokia is working on wireless charging. And devices will start harvesting energy from the surroundings. So it looks like the revolution will be fully powered.
  • . Literally billions of dollars are being invested into developing a giant sensor grids to manage power. Other grids will be set up for water, climate, pollution, terrorist attacks, traffic, and virtually everything else you can think to measure and control.
  • . Others predict the smart grid could be 1,000 times larger than the Internet.
  • Clearly this technology has obvious health and medical uses, and it may also figure into consumer and personal entertainment.
  • What if instead smartphones become the cloud?
  • In the future compute capacity will be everywhere. This is one of the amazing gifts of computer technology and also why virtualization has become such a hot datacenter trend.
  • It's out of that collective capacity that an Ambient Cloud can be formed, like a galaxy is formed from interstellar dust. We need to find a more systematic way of putting it to good use.
  • Ruth Howard on 20 Feb 10
     
    digital citizenship headed for the clouds...
Dean Mantz

Blogging About The Web 2.0 Connected Classroom: When We Will Start Our Egyptian Revolut... - 5 views

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  • Dean Mantz on 17 Feb 11
     
    Great blog post reflection on events in Egypt 
John Marr

History Now. In This Issue - 5 views

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shared by John Marr on 19 Jul 11 - Cached
  • HISTORY NOW is a quarterly online journal for American history teachers and students, launched in September, 2004. All issues are archived below: Issue One, September 2004: Elections Issue Two, December 2004: Primary Sources on Slavery Issue Three, March 2005: Immigration Issue Four, June 2005: American National Holidays Issue Five, September 2005: Abolition Issue Six, December 2005: Lincoln Issue Seven, March 2006: Women's Suffrage Issue Eight, June 2006: The Civil Rights Movement Issue Nine, September 2006: The American West Issue Ten, December 2006: Nineteenth Century Technology Issue Eleven, March 2007: American Cities Issue Twelve, June 2007: The Age Of Exploration Issue Thirteen, September 2007: The Constitution Issue Fourteen, December 2007: World War II Issue Fifteen, April 2008: The Supreme Court Issue Sixteen, June 2008: Books that Changed History Issue Seventeen, September 2008: Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressive Era Issue
  • John Marr on 19 Jul 11
     
    Quarterly journal from Gilder Lehrman Institute on particular history topics.
David Hilton

Constructivism - 0 views

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  • Heath Sawyer on 25 Mar 09
     
    Links, research and readings on constructivism
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  • David Hilton on 04 May 09
     
    Constructivist theories grew out of the work of a couple of Russians around the time of the Russian Revolution. It is radical subjectivism dressed up as science, and has no scientific credibility whatsoever. It is used by radical educators to push their barrow that nothing the teacher knows is worth the student learning and that all knowledge is innate. It's bullsh*t. Theories like this rot are part of the reason that the bottom has dropped out of Western education and we have a generation who can't write. This should be resisted by any educator with an interest in educational excellence.
  • Ken Stanton on 04 May 09
     
    David, back up your argument. If you think this is junk science, then be a real scientist and substantiate your claim. I'm a very objective thinker and will listen and gladly debate this with you, but having studied this and used it, I'm skeptical of your dissent. It is the only thing that has gotten me through our failed education system, not the reason the system has failed (unless your argument is that our system is failing due to lack of use of constructivist approaches).
  • David Hilton on 13 Jun 09
     
    Constructivism is a prime example of the dangers of deductive reasoning. Instead of starting with evidence from observed reality which the scientific method dictates (inductive reasoning) constructivism starts with theories and then makes the evidence fit the theory or else dismisses it and rationalises it away. It's the same type of thinking that has gotten all ideologues into trouble throughout history, whether it's the Spanish Inquisition, the Nazis, the hippies or the recent Wall Street bankers who drove our economy off a cliff. Any true system of thought must start with the real world as its beginning, or else it's just a bunch of people making stuff up and then defending it despite all evidence to the contrary until the weight of truth destroys them and usually the institutions they've taken over.
Jason Heiser

1763-1788 American Revolution Places - Clipart ETC - 0 views

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  • Jason Heiser on 25 Aug 09
     
    Revolutionary period clip art
Tony Searl

Weblogg-ed » Digital Inclusion - 1 views

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shared by Tony Searl on 30 Aug 09 - Cached
  • There will be a revolution when more and more students get their hands on some of these devices and start using them in the classroom.
    • Tony Searl
      Tony Searl on 30 Aug 09
       
      DER NSW addresses this with 220,000 laptop rollout for all year 9 to 12 students
Victor Hugo Rojas B.

The Interactive Whiteboard Revolution - A place for conversations that promote effectiv... - 28 views

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shared by Victor Hugo Rojas B. on 09 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Victor Hugo Rojas B. on 09 Oct 09
     
    A place for conversations that promote effective teaching with IWBs
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