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Contents contributed and discussions participated by Marium Afzal

Marium Afzal

The Aakash, India's $35 (?) Tablet for Education - 2 views

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    Carrying on from our discussion on OLPC
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Using ICTs in schools with no electricity - 1 views

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    A comment on how to approach bringing educational technology to developing countries
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"Teaching machines" in 1958 - 2 views

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    A look at what was an emerging technology over 50 years ago. It's interesting (not necessarily in a good way) that he's talking about things like immediate feedback and learning at your own pace - things that still haven't penetrated deep enough into the practice of education.
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Blended Learning Demands Big Open Spaces - 2 views

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    Designing a blended learning classroom/school "More significant than the shift from print to digital will be the shift from cohort matriculation to individual progress. Personalized digital learning will increasingly enable competency-based progress-advancement based on demonstrated mastery."
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Publisher's Campaign Brings Physical Books To Life Using Augmented Reality - 3 views

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    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.
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Kindergarten Augmented Reality Tool Gets Performance Boost -- THE Journal - 2 views

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    Logical Choice Technologies has released an update to Letters Alive, an augmented reality education app for kindergarten and preschool. Letters Alive is a reading curriculum for preschool and kindergarten (and grades 1 through 5 for remediation and ESL) that consists of augmented reality-infused animal cards, augmented reality-infused word cards, software, teacher resources, and student activity sheets.
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Technology Vs. Learning: False, Tiresome Either/Or Debate | MindShift - 0 views

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    "No one believes that learners don't need teachers. No one believes that engagement can only be found on a gadget. So why make that false distinction?" Perhaps blended learning is the perfect middle way between the two extremes.
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EdSurge: Mapping The Edtech World, Flipped Classrooms, And More... - 2 views

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    This article almost provides a nice gist of a lot of topics we've touched on in class.
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Transforming Learning…No, Really - 0 views

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    Carrying on from today's discussion on disruptive learning...
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Augmented Identity - 0 views

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    Going back to our class on augmented reality, this article looks at how "augmented identities" might be useful in a classroom in the future
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Customization and motivation - the silver bullets for learning technology? - 1 views

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    "Learning technology is like the Bakken field-a giant untapped resource to dramatically improve productivity. The two breakthroughs most likely to unleash human potential are customization and motivation."
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A Big Step for Gesture-Based Learning? Kinect Connects with Sesame Street - 0 views

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    Going back to some of our earlier classes in which Prof. Dede discussed ways of using Kinect. It'll be interesting to see what choices Microsoft makes with Kinect...
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Visions of Mobile Learning - 1 views

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    A really intriguing collection of where educators think mobile learning/ubiquitous computing are heading towards.
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The Animation Revolution - 0 views

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    "As technology speeds up and our children are raised more and more on video (like YouTube) and video games, they won't have the time or patience for reading, even on a fancy digital device. And they won't want to listen to others reading to them, either (see Audible). We're on a one way street to animation replacing text books."
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Siftables - a step towards 'smart objects'? - 1 views

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    This is a TED talk about a really interesting project at the MIT Media Lab - blocks that can interact with each other and respond accordingly.
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