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Maung Nyeu

A Few Stumbles on the Road to Connectivity - NYTimes.com - 1 views

www.nytimes.com/...-the-road-to-connectivity.html

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shared by Maung Nyeu on 06 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • Maung Nyeu on 06 Jan 12
     
    UbiSlate, another version of Aakash tablet to be introduced next month ($50 approx) while OLPC XO-3 is yet to arrive. This indian company DataWind plans to roll out similar projects in Brazil, Egypt, Panama, Thailand and Turkey. With more roll out, the product may get even cheaper.
Doug Pietrzak

Solar Roads Fix The Grid And Crumbling Pavement | Autopia | Wired.com - 0 views

www.wired.com/...er-grid-and-crumbling-pavement

solar roads revolution!

shared by Doug Pietrzak on 23 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • Doug Pietrzak on 23 Sep 10
     
    I love this idea and thought I'd share it
Adrian Melia

Sanjay Sarma appointed as MIT's first director of digital learning - MIT News Office - 3 views

web.mit.edu/...-of-digital-learning-1120.html

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shared by Adrian Melia on 21 Nov 12 - No Cached
  • Cole Shaw on 21 Nov 12
     
    MIT just appointed a new Director of Digital Learning. I guess edX and the impact of educational technology at MIT has become official and institutionalized--and probably not just a fad.
  • Pearl Phaovisaid on 24 Nov 12
     
    Hats off to MIT. I think they will reap huge benefits from putting an accomplished leader in charge of this endeavor. Not only does this appointment communicate how much value they place on digital learning, but it will likely lead to the development of a coherent vision, comprehensive strategy, and stream-lined effort to push MIT forward in the edtech scene. I haven't seen this same kind of commitment to edtech from Harvard. As HBS professor and author Clay Christensen so eloquently wrote, "you can talk all you want about having a strategy...but ultimately, this means nothing if you do not align those [strategies] with where you actually expend your time, money, and energy. In other words, how you allocate your resources is where the rubber meets the road."
Uche Amaechi

The Internet has not transformed civic engagement... yet - Ars Technica - 0 views

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shared by Uche Amaechi on 02 Sep 09 - Cached
  • If there is any subject that optimists and pessimists love to bang heads over, it's the Internet. To follow the experts, we're either on the cyber-road to utopia or going to alt-hell in an iPhone app handbasket, depending on what day of the week it is.
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      Uche Amaechi on 02 Sep 09
       
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  • Uche Amaechi on 02 Sep 09
     
    Ars Technica's take on the grand question of our time
Garron Hillaire

BBC News - How good software makes us stupid - 1 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...technology-11263559

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shared by Garron Hillaire on 13 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • "No problem - let me just enter that into my sat-nav…"
  • unless drivers pass a formidable test - called "The Knowledge" - they are not allowed to head out onto the roads in one of the iconic vehicles
  • "The particular part of our brain that stores mental images of space is actually quite enlarged in London cab drivers," explained Nicholas Carr, author of The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains
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  • The key to making us concentrate, Mr Carr suggests, is perhaps to make tasks difficult - a theory which flies in the face of software designers the world over who constantly strive to make their programs easier to use than the competition.
  • Mr Carr says that this simple experiment could suggest that as computer software becomes easier to use, making complicated tasks easier, we risk losing the ability to properly learn something - in effect "short-circuiting" the brain
  • Garron Hillaire on 13 Sep 10
     
    An argument that Good Software design is bad for learning
Chris Dede

Digital Learning Council Releases 'Road Map' to Ed. Overhaul - Digital Education - Educ... - 3 views

blogs.edweek.org/...al_learning_council_relea.html

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shared by Chris Dede on 01 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • amy hoffmaster on 01 Dec 10
     
    Education reform using online learning motivated by budget cuts.
  • Chris Dede on 01 Dec 10
     
    One group's take on online learning
Bharat Battu

Tap Fish Dealer - The Daily Show with Jon Stewart - 12/08/11 - Video Clip | Comedy Central - 5 views

www.thedailyshow.com/...video-game-dealers

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shared by Bharat Battu on 13 Dec 11 - No Cached
  • Bharat Battu on 13 Dec 11
     
    The Daily Show takes on iPads educational games and the 'freemium' pay model (free to get a game, costs $ to get desired add-ons and content). They specifically look at the game Tapfish.  Pretty funny - but I think hits the dangers of this model head on
  • Chris McEnroe on 13 Dec 11
     
    Battu!!! You stole my thunder. I wanted to post this but I'm glad you did because I think it is one of the real hazards of education fronting for the products of private companies. We need to be ahead of the curve.
  • Bharat Battu on 18 Dec 11
     
    agreed - I think awareness of this growing model is crucial. But with the increasing occurrence of the pay-for-more mantra in mobile apps (especially those made by big publishers & developers-- even educational apps)--- will small-time efforts (solo developers, non-profits) be able to compete? Is this model reflecting the true nature of app development? It's already hard for small/independent efforts to match the polish and amount of content of stuff made by the 'pros' (big publishers & devs). Is it the constant revenue the big apps are getting from in-app purchases that allows their stuff to rise and stay steps ahead? I wonder if there'll be an obvious and real difference in the quality of free vs paid/pay-to-play apps down the road, enough that certain apps won't even be available in one category or the other.
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