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Breakthrough product innovations of 2009 - tools, gadgets and toys.

Interesting article on why touch screens are dominating in new technologies--and the basis for why they're more attractive to us.

More than 70,000 school-age children wake up each morning for class and walk as far as the nearest Web-enabled gadget. If that's an iPad or laptop, they may not even need to leave their bed.

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

Sony to connect gadgets to downloadable content to increase loyalty. Also hopes expand service to include 3D TVs, e-books and car batteries.

I guess teachers aren't the only ones that are going to have to worry about competition for their jobs in the future :)

This is interesting, Jason. I found this to be true for pilots as well. Serious gamers seemed to perform really well in the portions of flight school that required complex hand-eye-brain coordination.

Other than equipping students with both iPads and laptops and teaching digital citizenship, it seems like the same old preservationist classrooms with new gadgets

Customized digital textbook with audio and video content appears to make a postive impact in some BSchools, while Faceebook is used to foster a sense community. "The iPad is not seen as the latest fashion gadget, but was chosen because it can prove be extremely useful in the classroom," Delphine Wharmby, H.E.C.'s communication director, said. Genevieve Bassellier, McGill University professor, referring to her students' use of her customized electronic textbook. "They see a huge increase in quality...It gives me more flexibility."

Great examples of technology application in the classroom.

Background on Augmented Reality. Reading for 9/14.

These location based programs are a mixture of awesome and scary.

I was always wondering where the ole A4 came from...

What about providing students iPads so that they purchase textbooks on these devices to save resources for both the students and the school? Can we assume that all students will be comfortable using an iPad, or might there be implications for students with learning differences? What about the socioeconomic gap for students who cannot afford a computer to LOAD the books onto their iPads (even if the iPads themselves were provided)?

Smartphones effecting our brains?  

A nokia future technology video, much like that of the Microsoft one we watched earlier featurying nanotechnology

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday is hearing a case about violent video games and their potential impact on young people.

Interesting article on robot-teachers in Korea. Let's say there are two scenarios: 1. Creating a technology that competes with non-consumption, and 2. Creating a technology that competes with human labor Does the nature of one's advocacy change? Should it? What if it isn't your job that is on the line? What if it is indeed your job? Does this think about you you frame your discourse surrounding such an emerging technology?