Carrying on from our discussion on OLPC

A comment on how to approach bringing educational technology to developing countries

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.

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."

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.

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.

"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.

This article almost provides a nice gist of a lot of topics we've touched on in class.

Carrying on from today's discussion on disruptive learning...

Going back to our class on augmented reality, this article looks at how "augmented identities" might be useful in a classroom in the future

"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."

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...

A really intriguing collection of where educators think mobile learning/ubiquitous computing are heading towards.

"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."

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.