Group items tagged consumption - HGSET561

The American Diet: 34 Gigabytes a Day - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com - 1 views

bits.blogs.nytimes.com/...erican-diet-34-gigabytes-a-day

information consumption

shared by Ashley Lee on 14 Dec 09 - Cached

Ashley Lee on 14 Dec 09

This article is not directly related to education, but it gives you a sense of how much information youth today might be consuming. An average American consumed 34 gigabytes per day in 2008. From the executive summary: 'In 2008, Americans consumed information for about 1.3 trillion hours, an average of almost 12 hours per day. Consumption totaled 3.6 zettabytes and 10,845 trillion words, corresponding to 100,500 words and 34 gigabytes for an average person on an average day. A zettabyte is 10 to the 21st power bytes, a million million gigabytes. These estimates are from an analysis of more than 20 different sources of information, from very old (newspapers and books) to very new (portable computer games, satellite radio, and Internet video). Information at work is not included.'

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">This article is not directly related to education, but it gives you a sense of how much information youth today might be consuming. An average American consumed 34 gigabytes per day in 2008. From the executive summary: 'In 2008, Americans consumed information for about 1.3 trillion hours, an average of almost 12 hours per day. Consumption totaled 3.6 zettabytes and 10,845 trillion words, corresponding to 100,500 words and 34 gigabytes for an average person on an average day. A zettabyte is 10 to the 21st power bytes, a million million gigabytes. These estimates are from an analysis of more than 20 different sources of information, from very old (newspapers and books) to very new (portable computer games, satellite radio, and Internet video). Information at work is not included.' </div>

...

Cancel

English-Teaching Robots To Terminate Jobs in South Korea - 0 views

thenextweb.com/...-terminate-jobs-in-south-korea

ESL Teaching Korea Technology Robots

shared by Jason Outlaw on 23 Nov 10 - No Cached

Jason Outlaw on 23 Nov 10

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?

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">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?</div>

...

Cancel

Blackboard Supports Sharing of Digital Learning Objects -- Campus Technology - 0 views

campustechnology.com/...-digital-learning-objects.aspx

technology education T561 learning

shared by Maung Nyeu on 20 Oct 11 - No Cached

Maung Nyeu on 20 Oct 11

Education Technology Company blackboard says it will support the publishing, sharing, and consumption of educational resources across its platforms.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Education Technology Company blackboard says it will support the publishing, sharing, and consumption of educational resources across its platforms.</div>

...

Cancel

What's Mine is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption - 4 views

www.collaborativeconsumption.com

shared by Uche Amaechi on 16 Aug 10 - Cached

How 3.6 Zettabytes of Data Gets Consulmed - 1 views

gizmodo.com/...ettabytes-of-data-get-consumed

data consumption technology education

shared by Brigham Hall on 11 Dec 09 - Cached

Brigham Hall on 11 Dec 09

A breakdown of how much data an average American consumes a day.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">A breakdown of how much data an average American consumes a day.</div>

...

Cancel

More Schools Embrace the iPad as a Learning Tool - NYTimes.com - 2 views

www.nytimes.com/...05tablets.html

shared by Chris McEnroe on 05 Sep 11 - No Cached

- Chris McEnroe on 05 Sep 11
  
  "It's not about a cool application," Dr. Brenner said. "We are talking about changing the way we do business in the classroom." This is a useful sound bite but this article is a quagmire of the issues facing education. Advocates who would rather spend the money on teachers are speaking into the wind politically but they are also not speaking to the point being raised by the event the ipad purchase or the opportunity to advance learning. Good teaching rests on good, personalized relationships as well excellent management. ipads help with both but the danger in not articulating that more clearly is the fear that ipads (or some such thing) will replace teachers. There are those who love the idea of ipads not as an enhancement to learning but as a way to drive up teacher production. That idea and the fear of it distracts from matter of using technolofy to enhance learning.
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"It's not about a cool application," Dr. Brenner said. "We are talking about changing the way we do business in the classroom." This is a useful sound bite but this article is a quagmire of the issues facing education. Advocates who would rather spend the money on teachers are speaking into the wind politically but they are also not speaking to the point being raised by the event the ipad purchase or the opportunity to advance learning. Good teaching rests on good, personalized relationships as well excellent management. ipads help with both but the danger in not articulating that more clearly is the fear that ipads (or some such thing) will replace teachers. There are those who love the idea of ipads not as an enhancement to learning but as a way to drive up teacher production. That idea and the fear of it distracts from matter of using technolofy to enhance learning. </div>
  
  ...
  
  Cancel
- Stephen Bresnick on 05 Sep 11
  
  Really well said, Chris. I was reading the article and couldn't help but chuckle at the quote, "this is this could very well be the biggest thing to hit school technology since the overhead projector," said by the teacher Mr. Wolfe. The quote communicated volumes about Mr. Wolfe's underlying assumption that good teaching rests on good gadgetry, as if the overhead projector was once a panacea for all that ailed education in the 1970s, but that now there is a new panacea, the iPad. I have heard an interesting criticism of use of the iPad in the classroom that I would like to share. Namely, that it is a device designed almost exclusively for the consumption of media, but that it provides little if any opportunity for collaboration. Yes, there are a ton of cool apps in the App Store and the number will continue to grow, and yes, some of them will be pretty darn neat. But without the ability for students to collaborate and create, there is little evidence that this is, in itself, a transformative educational technology, just a faster and more colorful way for students to do the same things they have been doing. I get a bit uncomfortable when I see teachers get really excited about the tools of technology and all of their cool capabilities without thinking about which problems these technologies might be able to solve. So many people are fixated on technology as an end, as if dropping this new gadget in the classroom will, by itself, solve all problems. iPads are really great, but this might just be a case of the tail wagging the dog.
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Really well said, Chris. I was reading the article and couldn't help but chuckle at the quote, "this is this could very well be the biggest thing to hit school technology since the overhead projector," said by the teacher Mr. Wolfe. The quote communicated volumes about Mr. Wolfe's underlying assumption that good teaching rests on good gadgetry, as if the overhead projector was once a panacea for all that ailed education in the 1970s, but that now there is a new panacea, the iPad. I have heard an interesting criticism of use of the iPad in the classroom that I would like to share. Namely, that it is a device designed almost exclusively for the consumption of media, but that it provides little if any opportunity for collaboration. Yes, there are a ton of cool apps in the App Store and the number will continue to grow, and yes, some of them will be pretty darn neat. But without the ability for students to collaborate and create, there is little evidence that this is, in itself, a transformative educational technology, just a faster and more colorful way for students to do the same things they have been doing. I get a bit uncomfortable when I see teachers get really excited about the tools of technology and all of their cool capabilities without thinking about which problems these technologies might be able to solve. So many people are fixated on technology as an end, as if dropping this new gadget in the classroom will, by itself, solve all problems. iPads are really great, but this might just be a case of the tail wagging the dog.</div>
  
  ...
  
  Cancel
...

Cancel

Group items tagged