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BBC News - Digital textbooks open a new chapter - 0 views

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textbooks digital censorship intelligent tutoring

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  • South Korea, one of the world's highest-rated education systems, aims to consolidate its position by digitising its entire curriculum.
  • Preliminary results from a US military "digital tutor" project suggested the time needed to become an expert in information technology could be reduced from years to months, said the White House.
  • An unscrupulous government could relish the fact that everything a child learns is controllable through one, easily manipulated, digital portal.
  • Garron Hillaire on 19 Oct 11
     
    South Korea initiative for digital textbooks - good news?
Garron Hillaire

NYU Professor to Implant Camera in Head to Broadcast a Live Stream to Museum in Qatar -... - 1 views

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professor nyu education technology

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  • Students long have complained about teachers with eyes on the backs of their heads. A New York University photography professor is going one further by implanting a camera in the back of his head.
  • The project is being commissioned by a new museum in Qatar. But the work, which would broadcast a live stream of images from the camera to museum visitors, is sparking a debate on campus over the competing values of creative expression and student privacy.
  • Garron Hillaire on 16 Nov 10
     
    eyes in the back of your head? One teacher thinks this is good idea.
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Is handwriting becoming a lost art? | wausaudailyherald.com | Wausau Daily Herald - 1 views

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education handwriting technology

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  • "Soon, cursive will only be used for your signature,"
  • The diminishing use of cursive handwriting often is used as a bellwether for the increased influence of technology in education and in society as a whole
  • Garron Hillaire on 15 Nov 10
     
    Technology instead of hand writing? ok.
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Transformative Education Technologies in Asia 2010 | Articles | FutureGov - Transformin... - 0 views

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education transformative technologies

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  • A new study on the role of transformative technologies in Asian tertiary education reveals the critical technologies being prioritised by campus administrators – as well as why. Surprise findings demonstrate that conventional e-learning systems are being superseded by newer technologies aimed to deliver “pedagogical transformation”.
  • Garron Hillaire on 15 Nov 10
     
    I did not buy the article to get the details, but this paper seems pertinent to this course.
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Education Technology News: Fedora Scholarship Program to Proliferate Open Source Techno... - 0 views

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technology education open source

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  • The Fedora Project announced the opening of the 2011 Fedora Scholarship program, an award that recognizes the contributions of college and University students toward the project
  • Recipients will receive $2,000 per year for each of the four years that they attend college or university.
  • Garron Hillaire on 15 Nov 10
     
    Fedora to provide scholarship. Incentive to contribute to open source technologies for high school students. Perhaps getting high school students engaged in open source projects is a means of putting the medium of technology into the learners hands.
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Online Masters Program Focuses on Free Software - Yahoo! News - 0 views

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online masters program education technology learning

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  • the Free Technology Academy (FTA) and the Free Software Foundation (FSF) just announced this week that they've teamed up on an online Master's Program in Free Software and Free Standards
  • Garron Hillaire on 12 Nov 10
     
    Online masters program in free software. This seems like a good idea.
Garron Hillaire

Kno Tablet to Debut at $599 - NYTimes.com - 2 views

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kno tablet technology education college

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  • We already knew that the Kno, a tablet computer designed for college students, would be bigger and heavier than Apple’s iPad. It will also be pricier.
  • “When you do the math, it actually pays for itself and still saves $1,300 in digital textbook costs,” he said.
  • To be sure, the Kno is not just a fancy e-reader. It is also a platform that will allow students to take notes, manage projects and organize their college lives.
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Give your keyboard the boot? Microsoft patents foot interface - 1 views

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Human Computer Interface technology educational_technology

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  • Microsoft's research into a "foot-based user interface" seemed somewhat novel in 2006, when I first wrote about the project. Now that the company has released its Kinect full-body motion control system for the Xbox 360, the idea of controlling a machine with your feet seems like only part of the picture.
  • Despite the fact that it seems outdated, or at least partial, the patent actually could be a notable win as the Redmond company expands the concept of motion-based interfaces beyond its video-game console into more general-purpose computing.
  • Garron Hillaire on 11 Nov 10
     
    This could be used as an alternate means of interacting with computers. From an educational standpoint this does not appear to be dated, but rather creating opportunities for people with limited means of motion.
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App Organizes the World Inside Your Smart Phone  - Technology Review - 0 views

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app technology social mobile

shared by Garron Hillaire on 10 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • Facebook encourages us to create a social network including everyone we know
  • Much of these communications is increasingly channeled through one device: the smart phone
  • "We're building your true social network from all of your services on the phone, and your [social] graph grows with every new message,"
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  • Aro is currently in a closed beta and is available only for Android phones (you can apply to join here), but an iPhone app is in the works
  • Garron Hillaire on 10 Nov 10
     
    Pulling together a social media experience on your mobile phone. This might be work that could lead to educational platforms on the mobile device in the US.
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The Situation - Television Tropes & Idioms - 0 views

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television social technology wiki content management

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  • Google pulled all their ads on October 26th, due to TOS violations on the part of the wiki and forums — specifically "adult and mature content" on pages that carried Google Adsense ads. These ads provided far and away the majority of the site's operating budget.
  • Turn off anonymous editing in the wiki. This is so that we can tell Google, "See, we do have standards, and we can identify and take action against people who violate them." This has already been implemented.
  • Segregate "adult and mature content" behind some sort of barrier that you will have to explicitly agree to go through. This has been implemented
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  • Nofollow tags will be attached to outbound links on wiki pages. This is an invisible-to-users tag that tells the Ad Server "The following link goes somewhere that isn't us. Don't hold us responsible for their content."
  • Garron Hillaire on 08 Nov 10
     
    TV Tropes is being very transparent about creating a moderation system for the content. This is in response to loosing advertising dollars from Google. It is interesting to see the outline for their model of moderating content. Some of these elements could be used in a web 2.0 environment for education
Garron Hillaire

Education Week's Digital Directions: Calif. Department of Ed. Now on iTunes U - 1 views

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education educational_technology iTunes

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  • iTunes is not just a website used to download the latest pop song, it's also providing educators with free resources for professional development.
  • Schools will be able to offer educators free professional development resources that are produced primarily by districts and private education institutions throughout the state, O'Connell said.
  • Adams said the content will continue to grow as long as people continue to contribute information.
  • Garron Hillaire on 07 Nov 10
     
    teacher developer available for free web 2.0 style on iTunes.
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Education Technology News: M State Utilizes EON Reality Software - 0 views

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technology education online university

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  • M State will be using EON Reality, Inc., software to commence its instructional program with a three dimensional interactive content.
  • EON Reality, Inc., provides interactive three dimensional software
  • It is critical in instructional content development to have the Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) design the instructional component alongside a 3D developer who can then create and integrate the interactive digital content within a wide range of learning applications
  • Garron Hillaire on 07 Nov 10
     
    Online college M State is offering 3D interactive instructional content
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What we can learn from procrastination : The New Yorker - 2 views

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procrastination time behavior productivity

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  • even Nobel-winning economists procrastinate!
  • “each morning for over eight months I woke up and decided that the next morning would be the day to send the Stiglitz box.”
  • Academics, who work for long periods in a self-directed fashion, may be especially prone to putting things off: surveys suggest that the vast majority of college students procrastinate
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  • dragging our heels is “as fundamental as the shape of time and could well be called the basic impulse.”
  • Most of the contributors to the new book agree that this peculiar irrationality stems from our relationship to time—in particular, from a tendency that economists call “hyperbolic discounting.”
  • Viewed this way, procrastination starts to look less like a question of mere ignorance than like a complex mixture of weakness, ambition, and inner conflict.
  • instead of trusting themselves, the students relied on an outside tool to make themselves do what they actually wanted to do.
  • Garron Hillaire on 06 Nov 10
     
    an interesting article on procrastination. Perhaps worth reading to better understand our own behavior and the behavior of future students we attempt to engage. There is a not a direct technology angle here, but it would be important to think about this topic when looking at technologies for the classroom.
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HOW TO: Calculate the ROI of Your Social Media Campaign - 0 views

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socialmedia social roi

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  • First the bad news: If you’re going to calculate the ROI of your social media campaign, you’re going to have to know math.
  • In fact, a recent survey by Econsultancy found that 47% of the companies it surveyed said they were “not able to measure” their campaigns and that “the jury is still out” on the value gained from their social media investment.
  • The most important formula in social media is your Customer Lifetime Value (CLV)
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  • Many people use 10% of their CLV as a starting point for their Allowable Cost Per Sale
  • Garron Hillaire on 06 Nov 10
     
    ROI on social media. I find it interesting that when measuring a social market there are no social indicators that are valued. Does it make sense to slice social media into dollars and sense? I understand why you would need to justify it, but I am not sure that the greatest value of social media is driving traffic.
Garron Hillaire

Zapping the Brain Improves Math Skills : Discovery News - 1 views

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zapping brain education technology

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  • THE GIST A mild electrical current improves a person's ability to learn math skills. The effect lasts up to six months. The technique could help students learn other skills besides math as well.
  • electrical
  • ctrical c
  • Garron Hillaire on 04 Nov 10
     
    This sounds like a disruptive innovation. Zap the brain!
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IPad a Therapeutic Marvel for Disabled People - NYTimes.com - 2 views

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ipad therapeutic technology

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  • Owen, 7, does not have the strength to maneuver a computer mouse, but when a nurse propped her boyfriend’s iPad within reach in June, he did something his mother had never seen before.
  • Over the years, Owen’s parents had tried several computerized communications contraptions to give him an escape from his disability, but the iPad was the first that worked on the first try.
  • ver the years, Owen’s parents had tried several computerized communications contraptions to give him an escape from his disability, but the iPad was the first that worked on the first try.
  • Garron Hillaire on 04 Nov 10
     
    an example of technology providing access to a child that previously did not connect with computers
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OnInnovation: Visionaries thinking out loud ™ - A video oral history project ... - 1 views

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visionaries learning innovation

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  • Innovation 101 is a unique and dynamic online education module that uses oral history interviews and assets of the Henry Ford's OnInnovation resource for active teaching and learning.
  • Garron Hillaire on 04 Nov 10
     
    Here is an online learning module about innovation. I have not run through the course, but I might do it just to get an online learning experience
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Foursquare: A Glimpse at the Future - 1 views

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technology social personalized

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  • 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?
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The Supreme Court tries to figure out what Madison would have thought about Postal 2. -... - 1 views

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court supreme technology video games violence

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  • The state of California is attempting this morning to defend a 2007 law banning the sale or rental of violent video games to anyone under 18
  • Ten minutes into the argument, Morazzini is barely visible beneath all the blood spatter. He's been assailed for the statute's vagueness, its overbreadth, and for the state's failure to show that playing violent video games is any more likely to engender violence in children
  • Garron Hillaire on 04 Nov 10
     
    Video Games, Violence, Ban Question: Is there a coin here? Do educational video games sit on the opposite side of violent video games? If video games are good for instruction then are violent video games also instructing violence? Perhaps existing violent games are not following good educational design and therefore are bad at instructing violence (which is good)?
Garron Hillaire

Will Wright Takes the Sims to Current TV with Bar Karma | Magazine | Wired.com - 1 views

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technology social television

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  • Earlier this month, Current TV announced its new tv series, Bar Karma, scheduled to debut in the first quarter of 2011. Created by game designer Will Wright, known for his popular video games including The Sims and SimCity,  Bar Karma’s production model promises to provide a high level of audience involvement with the show
  • Garron Hillaire on 02 Nov 10
     
    Interactive tv Perhaps educators could have an impact if they coordinated?
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