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Can an emerging technology be 'disruptive' and 'emerging' at the same time? Pre-disruption perhaps? Either way, I don't see this hack replacing the bulky, expensive and single use mode of the standard cardiovascular systems, but then again, is't that how these things develop? Imagine a game that actually got your heart moving (ala Nintendo Wii Fitness) while also running a diagnostic analysis on the back end... Still, Donkey Kong has a terrible bedside manner.

Professor Clayton Christensen says, now more than ever, online education is ready for disruption.

This is a very interesting follow-up to the topic we saw a few weeks ago in class!

This blog posting actually references the book we are reading in class - Disrupting Class, and offers some views and an example on the disruptive technology concept.

A A Clay Christensen literally wrote the book on disruption, so it's worth paying attention to him when he talks about where the disruption fueled by the web is going to strike next.

The Aspen Ideas Festival has a host of videos, audio clips and transcripts from the 2012 and 2011 sessions on education and edtech. Topics range from "Will Technology Disrupt the Way We Learn" and Knowledge Exchange: Information's Beautiful Future" to "The MiT Media Lab...Seeding Innovation," "The Next Internet" and "Will Technology Truly Transform Education" a panel with Fiona O'Carroll is executive vice president of the New Ventures/Innovation Group at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and Ted Mitchell,President/CEO of the NewSchools Venture Fund." There's much more...

Very interesting resource thank you for sharing!

State of technology to use in Disruptive innovation

The further along I go, the more I am realizing that we have fully arrived in the information age. For our nation to compete globally - we must get out of the trap of growing media consumers, technology consumers, and information consumers. We must grow a generation of students who not only use technology, but understand technology so that they can become active technology producers, so that they can create, innovate, imagine, and disrupt. Possibly, understanding computer science will be as important as learning to read and write - the new literacy.

A hands-on report with the $35 tablet (Aakash). Interested that they call it a "leap frog" technology, in that it's a modern technology brought into a society that didn't have related legacy technologies to begin with. Relates to our class discussion of 'disruptive technologies'- if a group is starting with nothing at all, the bar can initially be set very low and it's still better than nothing. From there, the only direction to go is up (improvement). The article was also updated with a detailed use report w/ video: http://venturebeat.com/2011/10/28/aakash-35-android-tablet/

This plays off of the Disrupting Higher Ed discussion we had in class this week--talks about how college programs / classes are changing to be more "idea" based and how colleges are adapting to students who have been immersed in technology.

Here is a list of finalists and winners in a number of different categories from product or service to presentation solutions. This is only the list, but searching on their name will give more information. Pearson's Online Learning Exchange (born from my Science Business Unit) was a finalist for new product or service. Enjoy!

article coming out of the Innosight Institute, a think-tank based in San Francisco linked to Clay Christensen's work on disruptive innovation, on how RTTT has "the potential to reset American schools' relationship with technology by encouraging a transformation from a  one-size-fits all schooling model to one that can customize affordably for each student's unique learning needs." linked to the backchannel discussion on 9/4 on possible ways to facilitate positive and effective integration/implementation of edtech

Another fun RSA Animate video -- this one about Steven Johnson's "Where Good Idea From." Possible relevance for thinking not only about tech's role for students, but also how collaboration enabled by technology can yield big -- possibly disruptive? -- ideas among innovators in education.

Via Instapundit: In Technology Review, Michael Fitzgerald reports on an innovate approach to make digital versions of expensive textbooks available to cost-conscious students.

Good synthesis of much of what we studied in T561

I have experienced this first hand. Adults find it cute to watch their young children staring deeply into their cell phones (iphones) as they pop digital balloons, etc. Disruptive? Def. if you are sitting next to this family at a restaurant.

"Legacy costs, ideas and infrastructure have set the table for creative disruption, with technology now offering alternative ways to acquire skills, knowledge, and accolades." This not only talks about transformation among teachers lives (and consequently those of the children thru what the empowered teachers provide) but makes you feel that the way in which teachers are evaluated are taking a whole new stage. More open, more emphasis on its impact and connected. 

An interesting read in light of what we read in Disrupting Class - looking to higher ed as guinea pig for technology implementation in K-12.

A few hidden features in Google Spreadsheets. Useful tools for a teacher who is interested in adding technology without it being disruptive.

This article makes interesting references not only to our resistance to change (disruption), but also our inability to control media and not the other way around. "Human beings are creatures of habit and the introduction of anything new typically raises an eyebrow (at least) or pitchforks (more often). It's a somewhat common theme that is tiresome to me, but one that provokes debate throughout the times." And "There's a macro lesson here: If you think your kid is spending too much time on their iPad and not enough time outside getting some exercise, don't blame the iPad."