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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?
Lisa Estrin

Will physical books be gone in five years? - 2 views

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shared by Lisa Estrin on 17 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Lisa Estrin on 17 Oct 10
     
    Brief article about how efficiency of e-books and tablets will make physical books obsolete, particularly in developing countries.
Garron Hillaire

Foursquare: A Glimpse at the Future - 1 views

mashable.com/...future-of-foursquare

technology social personalized

shared by Garron Hillaire on 04 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • As the web and mobile continue to get more personalized, we’re seeing more and more services tailoring their offerings to individual users — Foursquare is no exception. Crowley discussed the possibility of a smarter algorithm that would make customized recommendations based on a user’s checkin history
  • Garron Hillaire on 04 Nov 10
     
    another example of customized experience on the web. Perhaps these algorithms will one day serve educational purposes. Could we transfer from visiting physical locations to visiting learning locations?
amy hoffmaster

IPad a Therapeutic Marvel for Disabled People - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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ipad therapeutic

shared by amy hoffmaster on 30 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Since its debut in April, the iPad has become a popular therapeutic tool for people with disabilities of all kinds, though no one keeps track of how many are used this way, and studies are just getting under way to test its effectiveness, which varies widely depending on diagnosis.
  • “Making things less complicated can actually make a lot of money
  • amy hoffmaster on 30 Oct 10
     
    thoughts on using iPad for people with physical disabilities
Devon Dickau

BBC News - The rights and wrongs of digital books - 2 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...technology-11693222

E-books copyright issues technology

shared by Devon Dickau on 22 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • The latter part of 2010 may mark the point from which future historians date the transition to screen-based reading for literary fiction as well as reference works
  • However, even they are not yet willing to accept that the price of electronic texts is too high, and that readers will not pay the same for a bunch of bits as they will for a bound book, since the market knows that it costs less to send electrons over a network than it does to buy paper, make books out of it and ship the physical objects around the world
  • When you buy an digital copy to read on your e-book reader, phone or laptop all you get is the copyrighted bit, and what you pay for is a licence to have a copy or copies of the text.
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  • Amazon recently announced that it will let Kindle owners "lend" books, but only for two weeks and only once per title.
  • The idea of "intellectual property" deliberately conflates the two and allows politicians to pretend that laws about physical property should extend to digital downloads. We need to challenge this unjustifiable elision if we are to think seriously about copyright and business models in the age of electronics.
amy hoffmaster

Online Project Receives $2.5 Million Grant To Aid Middle School Science -- THE Journal - 0 views

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simulation middle school science

shared by amy hoffmaster on 07 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • the team plans to use the grant money to develop 35 new simulations specifically geared to middle school physical science education. The existing library of simulations targets concepts and applications generally used in high school- and college-level physics courses.
  • The PhET simulations allow us to conduct experiments, with students at the helm, that we wouldn't otherwise be able to stage or model in the classroom."
Chris Johnson

Augmented reality pool. [VIDEO] - 0 views

www.wimp.com/realitypool

augmented_reality video

shared by Chris Johnson on 09 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Chris Johnson on 09 Oct 09
     
    Robotic billiards table set up. Allows users to play through computer controls and allows players using a physical cue to see visual hints about ball trajectories.
  • Chris Johnson on 09 Oct 09
     
    An example of what some people are doing to experiment with robotics (first half of video) and augmented reality (second half).
Megan Johnston

Off the Shelf, Onto the Laptop - Libraries Try Digital Books - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...15libraries.html

digital books libraries reading

shared by Megan Johnston on 15 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Megan Johnston on 15 Oct 09
     
    Interesting article about libraries going digital, talking about how this actually functions in libraries (Boston Public Library being one) and addressing concerns about publishers' rights. I'm sad that at this point nobody really seems to care about the experience of reading a real book with actual pages. What a loss if we ditch physical books altogether.
Marium Afzal

Publisher's Campaign Brings Physical Books To Life Using Augmented Reality - 3 views

www.simplyzesty.com/...o-life-using-augmented-reality

AR

shared by Marium Afzal on 01 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • Marium Afzal on 01 Nov 11
     
    This seems to be a little forced as an application of AR, but I still found it interesting as it may be a crude version of an AR application we may see in the future.
Mary Jo Madda

The Future of "Flex Books" -- On-line textbooks and beyond? - 1 views

www.ck12.org

textbooks technology education learning online

shared by Mary Jo Madda on 08 Oct 12 - Cached
  • Mary Jo Madda on 08 Oct 12
     
    This group provides free and open source materials for K-12 environments. Customizable and aligned to student/teacher needs. Seems like physical textbooks only have a short time left.
Janet Dykstra

Google's Ingress and Location-Based Learning - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Edu... - 0 views

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technology t561 emerging technology augmented reality

shared by Janet Dykstra on 27 Nov 12 - No Cached
  • Janet Dykstra on 27 Nov 12
     
    November 26, 2012, 11:00 am This month Google's Niantic Labs quietly released a location-based game called Ingress that plays with data on multiple levels. The game, currently in invite-only beta, invites players to join either the Enlightenment or the Resistance and move through the physical world hunting "Exotic Matter", and coincidentally generating data and pictures for Google on the way. This looks similar to EcoMobile!
Andrea Bush

Mobile Technology at the US Air Force Academy - 0 views

www.usafa.edu/cper.cfm

Technology education

shared by Andrea Bush on 23 Nov 12 - No Cached
  • Andrea Bush on 23 Nov 12
     
    In an effort to increase meaningful engagement in class, The Center for Physics Education Research (CPER) at the Air Force Academy is developing a "technology based system for monitoring student participation in all classroom activities on a daily basis and providing real-time scoring data to instructors through a mobile device such as an iPad TM, iPod TouchTM, or AndroidTM based device. Students will be rewarded for showing evidence of classroom engagement."
Brandon Pousley

Kyle Parry on Trees and Physical-Virtual Borderlands - 0 views

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berkman center video digital tools nature

shared by Brandon Pousley on 08 Dec 12 - No Cached
  • Brandon Pousley on 08 Dec 12
     
    Berkman Center Video on the implications of integrating digital technologies into traditionally analog worlds in nature. How can they help and how can they distract?
Harvey Shaw

nasty, brutish, and short | theory.cribchronicles.com - 2 views

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social online

shared by Harvey Shaw on 03 Jan 13 - No Cached
  • Harvey Shaw on 03 Jan 13
     
    Been reading about constructivist MOOCs lately (like the T561 virtual community), and ran across this essay from October on the nature of the social contract in a network-connected, physically-disconnected community.
Jeffrey Siegel

Situated Multimedia Arts Learning Lab (SMALL) - 0 views

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Situated Multimedia Arts Learning Lab

shared by Jeffrey Siegel on 10 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • Jeffrey Siegel on 10 Oct 12
     
    Very cool embodied learning experience. Checkout the videos
  • Irina Uk on 12 Oct 12
     
    This is really cool. I think there are opportunities in this for math learning, and maybe even connecting physics to math. For example, I could see embedded learning being used for mathematical modeling, but I have not seen it being done yet.
Arthur Josephson

Artoo- mobile collaborative technology at the bottom of the pyramid - 0 views

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collaborative technology social enterprise India

shared by Arthur Josephson on 11 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • Arthur Josephson on 11 Oct 12
     
    An Indian firm has created a mobile device platform that "empowers social enterprises (at the bottom of the pyramid) to capture, analyze and process information remotely through smartphones / tablets". I think this is interesting in it's bringing mobile collaboration to some of the most remote places, physically and economically.
Mohit Patel

The Rise of Educator-Entrepreneurs: Bringing Classroom Experience to Ed-Tech | MindShift - 7 views

blogs.kqed.org/...lassroom-experience-to-ed-tech

educational_technology

shared by Mohit Patel on 05 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • Maria Anaya on 05 Oct 12
     
    Jack West was my high school physics teacher at Sequoia High School :D He is a great teacher!
Chris Dede

Interest in Online Courses Could Be Peaking - US News and World Report - 2 views

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interest online learning

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  • Chris Dede on 19 Oct 12
     
    The issue
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  • Cole Shaw on 19 Oct 12
     
    This is a really interesting article, and coupled with the edX / Anant Agarwal article below from Douglas, I think it brings up additional questions. Even with all the features that Anant says will be added to edX, I feel like they are all just part of the "convenience" factor and in many cases (like grading, discussion forum), more convenience for the teaching staff than the students. It is convenient for the students to do online labwork instead of going to a physical lab, for example. So I wonder if that type of convenience is enough to convince more students to sign up to MOOCs, or if they have to fundamentally change to add more types of value?
Jared Moore

18 Cool Ways Colleges are Using QR Codes - 1 views

www.onlinecolleges.net/...ys-colleges-are-using-qr-codes

qr_codes mobile cell_phones

shared by Jared Moore on 05 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • Jared Moore on 05 Sep 12
     
    QR codes aren't exactly cutting edge anymore but these are some interesting ways they are bridging physical and digital worlds...at least until something more elegant comes along.
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