Older teens and Net Geners spend more than 20 hours per day using media. This is accomplished not by not sleeping but with considerable multitasking, which peaks at seven simultaneous activities for older teens.
Should K-12 districts be afraid of GoogleApps for students? - Home - Doug Joh... - 1 views
Generation 'Text': FB me - CNN.com - 0 views
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preferred media choices differ dramatically across generations: For children, it's television; for tweens, it's video games; for teens, it's texting and social networking; and for Net Geners and Gen Xers, it's being online. And for Boomers, it's, of course, back to television.
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interesting article discussing the difference in media choices across generations and the ramifications of these differences
Epoch Times - UCLA to Research Education Uses of Social Networking Sites - 0 views
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The school is partnering up with Health Net of California to tap into social networking sites in order to inform teenage users how to effectively use health care.
Gaming Tech Aids Scientists Building Virtual Synthetic Chromatophore: Scientific American - 0 views
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"Ninety-five percent of the energy that life on Earth requires are fueled by photosynthetic processes." Scientists are building virtual simulations to better understand how these processes work.
Why Games Are (Good) For Learners - 0 views
VC Funding for education - 2 views
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Very interesting opinions on why current educational institutions fail to both engage and teach students.
'Dull' teaching damaging video games industry - 1 views
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"Leading figures from the UK video games industry have criticised the teaching of computer studies in schools, claiming it puts pupils off from pursuing computer science degrees at university..."
Big brains for video games - Cosmic Log - msnbc.com - 1 views
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"Does playing video games improve your brain? Or do bigger brains make it easier to learn video games? Psychologists say they can predict how well you'll do on a video game by looking at the size of just three little structures inside your brain. If those structures are bigger, you'll probably catch on more quickly and do better."
SlingPlayer video app goes 3G on iPhone - CNN.com - 0 views
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I saw a guy playing an XBox video game that was loadd onto his console in Denver at Logan airport using a service like this. Very cool service that suspect will only continue to grow over the next year. Certainly this innovation in networked entertainment delivery has potential in the education sector.
Fans run the TV show marathon, cram episodes on DVD - CNN.com - 1 views
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I have never puled a marathon viewing of this magnitude, but I have to admit that I did download season 1-3 of Lost onto my iPod a couple of years ago and watched over 6 hours of shows on the tiny screen on a flight from Boston to Rome. The show certainly is engaging and is best appreciated and understood when watched in rapid succession.
Faster Maintenance with Augmented Reality - 0 views
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Article discusses a MIT/Columbia project currently underway that uses AR systems to assist Marines during difficult repairs to weapons systems and vehicles. The test found that mechanics could perform the repairs in half the time when using AR assistance versus the more traditional text-based repair manual. I would be very interested in seeing how more AR in classroom seetings in physics and math might accelerate learning.
Virtual museum guide - 0 views
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I wonder if this will encourage or discourage trips to the museum. If you can get the experience virtually, why not view it from home?
A Story About Motivation - Peter Bregman - Harvard Business Review - 0 views
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Some participants received five dollars, some fifty cents, and some were asked to do it as a favor. How hard did each group work? The five dollar group dragged, on average, 159 circles. The fifty cents group dragged 101 circles. And the group that was paid nothing but asked to do it as a favor? They dragged 168 circles.
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I think this seriously overlooks the notion that we do so often what we get paid to do - so its not just the money, its the rarity of the experience. Would these people drag so often if they were asked to do this favor 5 days a week?
Courthouse News Service - 1 views
Wi-Fi Turns Arizona Bus Ride Into a Rolling Study Hall - NYTimes.com - 3 views
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Turning buses into mobile hotspots. What happens when you 'connect' erstwhile unconnected parts of the day? This article doesn't really ask that question, although it touches on it in its last sentences. Also, presumably most of the kids had data capable phones and could text etc; what is different about access via laptops?
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What about the social elements they are missing out on? The difference about access via laptops is the speed and ability to be more efficient compared to a phone. The capabilities of a laptop provide more opportunities for students to be productive/non-productive. This doesn't require them to be connected, however, I wonder what would happen if teachers start to hold students accountable (unintentionally) for using their connected time more wisely?
BBC News - Technology impacts on education - 0 views
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From the abacus to the Apple Mac, technology has constantly changed the way we learn. BBC World Service programme Digital Planet, explored three of the many unique initiatives in education technology in this article.
BBC News - When the tech becomes unfriendly - 0 views
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As Safer Internet Day emphasises ways for people to avoid trouble online, BBC News looks at what is behind so-called griefing and cyber bullying.
Really? - The Claim - 3-D Movies Can Induce Headaches and Sickness - Question - NYTimes... - 2 views
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Do 3-D interfaces cause headaches? Potential trouble for immersive visuals as 3-D interfaces require unnatural eye movements which may result in visually induced motion sickness. More popcorn please.
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I didn't end up with any ill effects, but I noticed that your inability to focus on objects on different levels of the 3D plane is unnerving. Often there would be interesting flora in the foreground, and because it's in 3D, you want to look at it but you can't focus your eyes on it.
iPad: The Future of Education? - 0 views
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An opinion from Kera Murphy at Boston's Tech Superpowers. She points out that the lack of multitasking on the device (an omission many are complaining about) may actually be an advantage when trying to focus easily-distracted kids and teens. She wonders whether the limitations of the device will prevent it from being a useful content creation device.
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