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Nick Siewert

Make-up school work goes high-tech - Local - The Sun News - 0 views

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K-8 learning Smartboard homework

shared by Nick Siewert on 02 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Nick Siewert on 02 Oct 09
     
    Students are using "Smart bracelets" to carry makeup work from school to home.
  • Nick Siewert on 02 Oct 09
     
    I'm trying to figure out how this is different or value added from just giving every kid a $10 flash thumbdrive.
Uche Amaechi

Cyclopedia Augmented Reality iPhone App Drenches Your World In Wikipedia - Cyclopedia -... - 1 views

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T561 emerging emerging ed tech

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  • Uche Amaechi on 02 Oct 09
     
    Augmented reality, For RLZ!
Margaret O'Connell

IEEE Spectrum: Outsourcing's Education Gap - 0 views

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outsourcing education

shared by Margaret O'Connell on 06 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • Lower-tier colleges and universities in both India and China suffer from passive learning styles. Design and project work is typically absent, the curricula do not focus on problem solving or building project management and communication skills, and there are no internships or other work experience. ”Engineering education is much more theoretically oriented, and students don’t really get this fully blended education that allows them to think outside the box,” says Denis Simon, a professor at the Pennsylvania State University School of International Affairs, who focuses on technology and education in China. ”They haven’t had the interaction with real live engineering that grads here have, so they’re very green when they come into the workplace.”
  • The main problem, though, is the sheer mass of students enrolled in engineering classes. ”When you have 100 students per teacher, you really can’t get hands-on and be interactive,” he says.
Uche Amaechi

Fraser Speirs - Blog - The iPad Project: How It's Going - 2 views

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ipad tablets tech edtech

shared by Uche Amaechi on 27 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • Uche Amaechi on 27 Sep 10
     
    ipad roll out in schools
Uche Amaechi

The best iPad ad (not made by Apple) | Technically Incorrect - CNET News - 3 views

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t561 HT500 ed tech ipad apple tablets

shared by Uche Amaechi on 25 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • Uche Amaechi on 25 Sep 10
     
    Interesting video and snarky article.  Complex technology with a dead simple UI used for learning--or amusement?  Or Both?
Uche Amaechi

Students To Be Subject To Week-Long Social Media "Detox" Experiment - 1 views

www.crunchgear.com/...-social-media-detox-experiment

ed tech technology T561 education Emerging Technology

shared by Uche Amaechi on 10 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • Uche Amaechi on 10 Sep 10
     
    What if...there were not internet?
Maura Wolk

A Bookfuturist Manifesto - Science and Tech - The Atlantic - 1 views

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T561 reform books technology

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  • Maura Wolk on 09 Sep 10
     
    Do you consider yourself a bookfuturist, a bookservative, a technofuturist, all or none of the above? Interesting to decide where you fall, and to think about where educators past, present, and future fall.
Cameron Paterson

A Future Driven by Disruptive Change - 1 views

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t561 disruption

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  • Cameron Paterson on 14 Sep 10
     
    What is "disruptive change"?
Devon Dickau

Google Instant search feeds our real-time addiction - CNN.com - 0 views

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technology education Google search instant knowledge predictive customized

shared by Devon Dickau on 12 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • By providing results before a query is complete and removing the need to hit the "enter" key, Google claims users will save two to five seconds per search
    • Devon Dickau
      Devon Dickau on 12 Sep 10
       
      Two to five seconds to hit Enter?  In a society obsessed with saving time, even mere seconds are perceived as valuable.
  • Web connections have become significantly faster over time
  • Web connections have become significantly faster over time
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  • quick status updates
    • Devon Dickau
      Devon Dickau on 12 Sep 10
       
      Are the speed and brevity of these messages bypassing the potential exploration of a certain topic area in-depth, or is very topic only superficial?
  • many social sites now use our social connections to recommend content to us without the need to seek it out
    • Devon Dickau
      Devon Dickau on 12 Sep 10
       
      Search engines do the work for us.  We don't even need to know how to find the information ourselves these days.
  • What's more, this feature enables truly personalized discovery by taking into account your search history, location and other factors -- Google is essentially emulating social networks by trying to predict what we're looking for without the need to submit a fully-formed search
  • The next step of search is doing this automatically. When I walk down the street, I want my smartphone to be doing searches constantly: 'Did you know ... ?' 'Did you know ... ?' 'Did you know ... ?' 'Did you know ... ?
    • Devon Dickau
      Devon Dickau on 12 Sep 10
       
      Constant delivery of knowledge.
    • Devon Dickau
      Devon Dickau on 12 Sep 10
       
      In thinking about evolving technology in terms of both formal and informal education, I question whether or not constant and immediate access to information is improving or harming individual knowledge.  By this I mean that because we can so easily search for something online, what motivation is there to actually know anything.  If we have Wikipedia on our phones, and know HOW to find it, can't we just spend 30 seconds finding the page and "know" something for topic of conversation, or a test?  What is the point, then, or learning, of retaining knowledge?  I feel that this may be a problem in coming generations.  What knowledge will our students actually feel they need to retain? I took solace in the fact that at least we have to learn and teach HOW to find the information, but with new technologies like predictive and instant searching, it almost seems like that is a skill that will soon become unneeded as well.  We might as well just be physically plugged in to the Internet with access to all information simultaneously. Thoughts from the group?
Uche Amaechi

Obama Meets Netanyahu as Mideast Peace Talks Begin - NYTimes.com - 5 views

www.nytimes.com/...02diplo.html

t561 ed tech obama

shared by Uche Amaechi on 01 Sep 10 - Cached
  • s to define and embrace a comprehensive peace settlement. But he had to begin by join
  • The meetings on Wednesday and Thursday will end 20 months without direct negotiations between the core participants.
  • Mr. Obama’s one-on-one meeting with Mr. Netanyahu in the White House Oval Office — to be followed by meetings between the president and, successively,
  • Uche Amaechi on 01 Sep 10
     
    yada
  • Mitch(ell) Miller on 01 Sep 10
     
    hmmm. interesting. (just testing)
  • quintintanderson on 01 Sep 10
     
    Go Obama Go!
Uche Amaechi

Texting: It's Not Just for Teenagers Anymore - 0 views

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t561 ed tech texting social

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  • Uche Amaechi on 04 Sep 10
     
    More adults text that teenagers
Lisa Estrin

Why the no-fun 'Farmville' is so popular - 0 views

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  • Lisa Estrin on 28 Sep 10
     
    I find it a little disturbing that there's a sense of social obligation to play FarmVille- if you don't play, then your Facebook/Farmville friends suffer. Kind of a sneaky trick.
Devon Dickau

'Chalk and Talk' Colleges Are Challenged by India's Company Classrooms - Technology - T... - 0 views

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higher education college students classrooms technology education international

shared by Devon Dickau on 05 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • The most high-tech classrooms in India are not at a university but at a technology company's training facility.
  • To make up for those perceived deficiencies, Indian companies spent more than $1-billion last year on corporate-training programs for new employees, according to an industry group that has been pushing for change at universities.
  • Each classroom bears the name of a famous innovator—Archimedes, J.P. Morgan, Steve Jobs. In a morning class in the Benjamin Franklin classroom, I observed about 100 students learning the Unix programming language. Each seat had its own PC, and most students had opened a copy of the instructor's PowerPoint presentation and followed along on their own screen, sometimes scrolling back to see what they had missed, sometimes looking ahead.
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  • The trainees, called "freshers" because they are fresh out of college,
  • The trainees said that their undergraduate teaching had been delivered mostly in chalk-and-talk form, with the professor lecturing at the front of the classroom. A few professors had tried PowerPoint, they said, but even that was unusual.
  • "More technology would have meant a lot more knowledge."
  • It turns out, how wired the classrooms are is not the point—the style of teaching is much slower to change than the gear in the rooms.
  • Devon Dickau on 05 Oct 10
     
    Indian college classrooms have not integrated technology into learning and teaching, so private companies - teaching the skills needed to perform in their specific career paths - are taking the lead, showing that universities need to catch up.
Cameron Paterson

Online education evolves - 1 views

www.washingtonpost.com/...AR2010092405983.html

t561 online disruption

shared by Cameron Paterson on 11 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Cameron Paterson on 11 Oct 10
     
    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.
Margaret O'Connell

Internet in 2020 (Graphical representation) - 2 views

www.makeuseof.com/...internet-in-2020

Internet_of_Things future

shared by Margaret O'Connell on 18 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Margaret O'Connell on 18 Oct 10
     
    It's interesting ... I don't like its view of hackers as all bad, however ... I like to think that more and more people will be hacking/programming and it won't be for bad intentions but, rather, for customizations -- software, hardware, and not necessarily full computers ...
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