Flat Connections Global Project

3rd place video in the Flat Connections Global Project 16-1 awards

Second place winner in the Flat Connections Global Project 16-1

The first place winner! HS student Lauren B from DeForest Area HS in Wisconsin USA created this video for the Flat Connections Global Project 16-1

Makerspaces--also sometimes called hackerspaces--can be any area where people gather to make and create. These spaces often include 3D printers, but do not necessarily have to. In makerspaces, people...

Travel on Amtrak, on the Northeast Corridor route, and you pass through the heart of the mid-Atlantic post-industrial landscape. Baltimore, Wilmington, Philadelphia, Trenton, Newark: these cities once made everything from rope to steel to transistors, taking raw materials from the heartland and transforming them into products for export.

They've long served as communal gathering spots, but these civic institutions are becoming gateways to technological tinkering. Please consider disabling it for our site, or supporting our work in one of these ways Subscribe Now > If you could ask Ben Franklin what public institution he would like to visit in America today, I bet he would say the public library.

By Ulrik Christensen | Contains excerpts of Ulrik's guest segment on the Innovation Navigation broadcast by the Wharton School's Business Radio in November of 2014 How can adaptive technology in e-textbooks truly change the dynamic of learning in college?

Libraries are one of the fastest-evolving learning spaces. As many resources move online, and teachers require students to collaborate more and demonstrate their learning, librarians are trying to keep up. Some are even spearheading the changes. Public libraries have led the effort to provide access to 21st century technologies and learning resources, but now university and K-12 libraries are beginning to catch up.

3D printers and Maker Spaces are officially "cool" in library circles at the moment. A whole new website, Maker Librarian, was launched just this week. Senior people are talking about them for big cities libraries and I am aware of at least one that has been purchased.

The maker movement is a global, DIY movement of people who take charge of their lives, solve their own problems and share how they solved them. And it's growing in schools that are searching for more authentic learning experiences for their students.

Key Themes of This Report 10% of Americans own a smartphone but do not have broadband at home, and 15% own a smartphone but say that they have a limited number of options for going online other than their cell phone.

Workers participating in a bring your own device policy expect the same corporate data access on their personal devices as on company-owned machines. IT should come up with a measured approach toward BYOD users that balances accessibility and security.

Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) polices are increasingly popular as a way for companies to let workers use the hardware they like best and are most productive with. But according to a new study from Cisco, that not be the best way to think about BYOD.

Cynthia Hudson-Vitale is digital data outreach librarian, email: chudson{at}wustl.edu Jennifer Moore is GIS and data projects manager; anthropology librarian; program faculty in International Area Studies, email: j.moore{at}wustl.edu , at Washington University-St.

A report from the Alliance for Excellent Education and the Mozilla Foundation details how a MacArthur-supported initiative to expand use of digital badges can improve learning and outcomes for students and adults. The digital credentials represent an individual's skills, interests, and achievements.

this is a very useful website for a short synopsis.

This is helpful for group 5!

Great blog!