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Sabita Verma

App Smart - Apps as Guides to New York Museums - NYTimes.com - 1 views

www.nytimes.com/...09smart.html

shared by Sabita Verma on 23 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • Sabita Verma on 23 Nov 10
     
    This article talks about how handheld technologies such as android and iPhones can make the museum experience more educational by providing tour guides. Very few museums currently have apps for this purpose but the trend is growing. The actual museum experience can be much more educational when it is supplemented with self guided tours that handheld technologies can provide.
Chris Dede

Tech advances in the classroom -- baltimoresun.com - 1 views

www.baltimoresun.com/...andheld22nov22,0,6903407.story

handheld testing motivation

shared by Chris Dede on 22 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Ando Endano on 22 Nov 09
     
    Teachers in Baltimore give students hand-held input devices for test-taking (working link)
  • Chris Dede on 23 Nov 09
     
    handheld testing devices for classrooms
Chris Dede

Product-Overview - 0 views

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authoring tools augmented reality handheld learning cellphones

shared by Chris Dede on 25 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Chris Dede on 25 Sep 09
     
    Video on new authoring tools for augmented reality on cellphones and handhelds.
Sabita Verma

Futures of Learning - 2 views

futuresoflearning.org/...ile_experiences_in_art_museums

shared by Sabita Verma on 03 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Sabita Verma on 03 Oct 10
     
    Handheld technologies for museums
Chris McEnroe

curved displays - 0 views

www.macrumors.com/...splays-almost-ready-for-market

technology Education t561 emerging technology

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  • Chris McEnroe on 13 Oct 13
     
    Curved Displays,the possibility of wearable displays, would offer dynamic possibilities for digital classroom design.
Jennifer Hern

If You're Not Seeing Data, You're Not Seeing | Gadget Lab | Wired.com - 0 views

www.wired.com/...augmented-reality

AR augmented_reality

shared by Jennifer Hern on 22 Sep 09 - Cached
  • “augmented reality,” where data from the network overlays your view of the real world
    • Jennifer Hern
      Jennifer Hern on 22 Sep 09
       
      I knew that.
  • developers are creating augmented reality applications and games for a variety of smartphones
    • Jennifer Hern
      Jennifer Hern on 22 Sep 09
       
      Who are these developers? Lots of $$ backing them?
  • embraced a version of the technology to enhance their products and advertising campaigns.
    • Jennifer Hern
      Jennifer Hern on 22 Sep 09
       
      Of course AR has been used to enhance private $$ making industries.
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  • Tom Caudell, a researcher at aircraft manufacturer Boeing, coined the term “augmented reality” in 1990.
  • head-mounted digital display
  • was an intersection between virtual and physical reality
  • he wants to be able to point a phone at a city it’s completely unfamiliar with, download the surroundings and output information on the fly.
    • Jennifer Hern
      Jennifer Hern on 22 Sep 09
       
      Called Anywhere Augmentation.
  • stifled by limitations in software and hardware
  • requires a much more sophisticated artificial intelligence and 3-D modeling applications
  • must become affordable to consumers
  • early attempts have focused on two areas
  • your computer is prominently appearing in attention-grabbing, big-budget advertisements
  • Mattel is using the same type of 3-D imaging augmented reality in “i-Tag” action figures f
    • Jennifer Hern
      Jennifer Hern on 22 Sep 09
       
      Mattel is experimenting with AR... can I get a job there?
  • isn’t truly useful in a static desktop environment, Höllerer said, because people’s day-to-day realities involve more than sitting around all day
    • Jennifer Hern
      Jennifer Hern on 22 Sep 09
       
      Okay... so desktop computers are not for AR tech. People are mobile, so AR should be mobile. But what about people stuck sitting at a desk all day?
  • And that’s why smartphones, which include GPS hardware and cameras, are crucial to driving the evolution of augmented reality.
  • Ogmento, a company that creates augmented reality products for games and marketing
    • Jennifer Hern
      Jennifer Hern on 22 Sep 09
       
      Ogmento... see if they want to hire me, too.
  • movie posters will trigger interactive experiences on an iPhone, such as a trailer or even a virtual treasure hunt to promote the film.
    • Jennifer Hern
      Jennifer Hern on 22 Sep 09
       
      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
    • Jennifer Hern
      Jennifer Hern on 22 Sep 09
       
      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.
    • Jennifer Hern
      Jennifer Hern on 22 Sep 09
       
      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.
    • Jennifer Hern
      Jennifer Hern on 22 Sep 09
       
      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
    • Jennifer Hern
      Jennifer Hern on 22 Sep 09
       
      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
    • Jennifer Hern
      Jennifer Hern on 22 Sep 09
       
      Are you kidding me? Marketing Skittles within an AR game?
  • open API to access live video from the phone’s camera
    • Jennifer Hern
      Jennifer Hern on 22 Sep 09
       
      Need this technology in order to produce AR. iPhone does not have it. Wonder why.
  • live tweets of mobile Twitter users around your location.
    • Jennifer Hern
      Jennifer Hern on 22 Sep 09
       
      I can just imagine what a nightmare this app would be in a classroom full of students with handhelds....
  • Jennifer Hern on 22 Sep 09
     
    Background on Augmented Reality. Reading for 9/14.
Xavier Rozas

Outdoor AR Software Download | Scheller Teacher Education Program - 0 views

education.mit.edu/...OutdoorARSoftware

Augmented reality education Emerging technologies

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  • Xavier Rozas on 13 Sep 09
     
    Start building your own AR experience with this download. I have not tried as I am a Mac
  • Jennifer Hern on 13 Sep 09
     
    Dang! I have a Mac, too. Anyone in class with a PC desktop/laptop and handheld? I'd love to try it out. Let me know.
Jennifer Hern

FT.com / Technology - Smartphones set to become mainstream - 0 views

www.ft.com/...53-11de-a754-00144feabdc0.html

Smartphone handhelds iPhone disrupting_technology

shared by Jennifer Hern on 30 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Analysts say the expansion of the smartphone market will turn a fast-growing but relatively small sector into a more significant contributor to global handset sales volumes.
    • Jennifer Hern
      Jennifer Hern on 30 Sep 09
       
      disrupting technology, anyone?
  • Meanwhile, existing smartphone makers have been able to lower their cost of production since Apple’s initial iPhone thanks to smaller and more sophisticated chips.
    • Jennifer Hern
      Jennifer Hern on 30 Sep 09
       
      I'm guessing Apple is going to be one of those companies that is able to survive a disrupting technology even though they are the current forerunners in the market.
Chris Dede

Survey: Mobile learning at a tipping point | Mobile and Handheld Technologies | eSchool... - 4 views

www.eschoolnews.com/...le-learning-at-a-tipping-point

mobile learning kids project tomorrow survey T561

shared by Chris Dede on 01 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • Chris Dede on 01 Nov 10
     
    survey of kids' thoughts about mobile learning
Jennifer Hern

Essay - Is Technology Dumbing Down Japanese? - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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teaching_with_technology handhelds foreign_language_learning

shared by Jennifer Hern on 08 Nov 09 - Cached
  • A vertically written language seems to be becoming increasingly horizontal. Novels are being written and read on little screens. People have gotten so used to typing on computers that they can no longer write characters by hand. And English words continue to infiltrate the language.
  • Mizumura contends that the dominance of English, especially with the advent of the Internet, threatens to reduce all other national languages to mere “local” languages that are not taken seriously by scholars. The education system, she argues, doesn’t spend enough time teaching Japanese.
  • Jennifer Hern on 08 Nov 09
     
    Is foreign-language software and technology impacting how Japanese learn their own language and negatively impacting their national culture?
Bridget Binstock

Is the iPad changing perspectives on media use in the classroom? | The iPad Classroom |... - 0 views

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technology education Emerging Technology

shared by Bridget Binstock on 27 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • Bridget Binstock on 27 Oct 11
     
    Is it only a matter of time before we will see more fulfillment of major aspects of the Wireless EdTech and National Educational Technology Plan mobile recommendations? I HOPE so! When Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty suggested last September that the time had come for electorate to engage in meaningful debate on the issue of handheld media devices in the province's classrooms, the backlash was swift. The public wanted nothing of it.
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