touching screens has seeped into people’s day-to-day existence more quickly and completely than other technological behaviors because it is so natural, intimate and intuitive.
natural user interface uses ingrained human movements that do not have to be learned.
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.
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."
This is going to bring out the inner nerd in everyone....
The Layar browser (video above) looks at an environment through the phone’s camera, and the app displays houses for sale, popular restaurants and shops, and tourist attractions
Where does this information come from? Who creates this information? Selected sources/companies who pay to have their information posted? A whole new competitive marketing strategy in the making.
it’s not truly real-time: The app can’t analyze data it hasn’t downloaded ahead of time.
I can only imagine crowds of people walking the streets staring at their apps, running into people and lamp posts, not to mention getting run over by cars... I think this technology might weirdly affect the health insurance industry.
You know more, you find more, or you see something you haven’t seen before.
this is supposed to be the advantage of using AR from a commercial perspective... it is still self-centralized.
Nokia is currently testing an AR app called Point & Find, which involves pointing your camera phone at real-world objects and planting virtual information tags on them
This can be a really cool feature for teachers if they have a closed-group option. If you are part of the large network, there is all sorts of things people might plant that you don't want to see or know about... Another thought, if there is a closed-group option, perhaps this will create a whole new way of drug trafficking and helping illegal organizations hide information from authorities.
the hardware is finally catching up to our needs
Nvidia Tegra, a powerful chip specializing in high-end graphics for mobile devices.
place (real) Skittles on the physical map and shoot them to set off (virtual) bombs
At those early-adopter schools, iPads are competing with MacBooks as the students' go-to gadget for note taking and Web surfing.
the iPad's technological limitations—its inability to multitask and print, and its limited storage space—have kept students dependent on their notebooks. "That's the problem with the iPad: It's not an independent device,
really excited about the technology but have not been "pushing the capabilities" of the device.
Seton Hill University, which gave iPads to all full-time students, are working with the developers of an e-book app called Inkling to come up with new ways to integrate the iPad into classroom instruction
he faculty at Indiana University has formed a 24-member focus group to evaluate iPad-driven teaching strategies.
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)?
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?