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Uly Lalunio

What's Augmented Reality's Killer App? - 2 views

www.technologyreview.com/...23515

Augmented Reality AR

shared by Uly Lalunio on 30 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Uly Lalunio on 30 Sep 09
     
    Augmented reality (AR), which involves superimposing virtual objects and information on top of the real world, may be coming to a phone near you.
Margaret O'Connell

Second Thoughts on Online Education - 3 views

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online

shared by Margaret O'Connell on 09 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • Certain groups did notably worse online. Hispanic students online fell nearly a full grade lower than Hispanic students that took the course in class. Male students did about a half-grade worse online, as did low-achievers, which had college grade-point averages below the mean for the university.
  • A policy issue raised by the study, Mr. Figlio said, was whether a shift to online education will serve to widen the achievement gap between the best students and others.
  • “But what we are saying is that there’s no free lunch” in the drive to online education, he said.
  • Maura Wolk on 09 Sep 10
     
    I get really nervous about these "shifts" when they become sensationalized. Despite our insistence that students are not created equal, we keep searching for the one-size-fits-all solution to education, and in this era that solution is bolstered by anything containing the word DIGITAL. How much socioemotional development will students lose if this trend increases over time? How do we provide for human relationships, mentors, even confrontation and conflict resolution when we are all hiding behind computer screens? It has to be about more than convenience.
Garron Hillaire

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

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

brain learning software education google neuroscience

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
Maura Wolk

Clifford Stoll: Why Web Won't Be Nirvana - Newsweek - 0 views

www.newsweek.com/...the-internet-bah.html

internet

shared by Maura Wolk on 24 Sep 10 - Cached
  • When most everyone shouts, few listen
  • Computers and networks isolate us from one another. A network chat line is a limp substitute for meeting friends over coffee.
  • Maura Wolk on 24 Sep 10
     
    A break from all our optimistic reading to check in with a pessimist.
Britt Harris

When K-12 Moves to the Cloud - ReadWriteCloud - 2 views

www.readwriteweb.com/...en-k-12-moves-to-the-cloud.php

cloud computing education

shared by Britt Harris on 01 Sep 10 - Cached
  • Britt Harris on 01 Sep 10
     
    How will the Cloud Disrupt Education?
Jessica O'Brien

A 3D computer animation of the axillary lymph node dissection (ALND) procedure on Vimeo - 1 views

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shared by Jessica O'Brien on 03 Sep 10 - Cached
  • kshapton on 03 Sep 10
     
    The first (or at least most comprehensive!) 3D visualization of this kind of surgical procedure; arguably these kinds of animations are superior to 2D animations for showing anatomy. Next step for education: interactive surgical media?
  • Jessica O'Brien on 05 Sep 10
     
    These kind of videos would be helpful for medical students to watch in their surgery clerkship before observing a particular surgery, especially since anatomy curriculum has been shortened and cut throughout national medical school programs.
Chris Dede

Smart Phone Adoption Growing Faster Than Expected -- THE Journal - 3 views

thejournal.com/...wing-faster-than-expected.aspx

smartphones computers competition

shared by Chris Dede on 09 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • Chris Dede on 09 Sep 10
     
    Challenging the classic infrastructure of workstations, laptops, and wires with mobile wireless broadband devices
Natalie Hebshie

Your Brain on Computers - Series - The New York Times - 1 views

topics.nytimes.com/...index.html

technology brain parenting focus research

shared by Natalie Hebshie on 07 Sep 10 - Cached
  • Natalie Hebshie on 07 Sep 10
     
    A series of NY Times articles from a few weeks
Margaret O'Connell

ARM Chips May Spread Into Everyday Items - NYTimes.com - 3 views

www.nytimes.com/...20arm.html

ARM Internet_of_Things hardware

shared by Margaret O'Connell on 21 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • This is the so-called Internet of Things, when all sorts of everyday objects will have tiny chips placed inside them and gain the ability to process information and talk to the Web.
  • ARM chips, by contrast, are made by a handful of contract chip manufacturers and cost 65 cents to $20 each.
  • ARM executives agree that the future is with the billions of coming things — cars, refrigerators, TVs, clothes, buildings — that will have full-blown chips or at least Web-ready sensors inside them. In many cases, they say, these things will need the lowest-power chips possible because they will be out in the world and away from a plug. Energy has replaced horsepower as the prime concern, and it is here, ARM executives said, that the company’s skills will really shine.
  • Margaret O'Connell on 21 Sep 10
     
    I especially love the last quote of this interesting article: "... Now, it's all about penetrating these weird markets that we can't even fully fathom yet." Maybe the ARM chip will be behind a disruptive innovation - it's fun to think about the possibilities
  • Chris Dede on 26 Sep 10
     
    We have a reading on "ubiquitous computing" later in the semester that gets into these fascinating issues and how they might affect education.
Mohammad Hussain

The hole in the wall - 2 views

www.ted.com/...he_child_driven_education.html

computer education

shared by Mohammad Hussain on 13 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • Mydhili Bayyapunedi on 14 Sep 10
     
    Here is a follow up on this topic of how children learn best when collaborating - this time in a formal setting - http://spotlight.macfound.org/blog/entry/student-centered_learning_in_the_digital_age/ These studies/examples push further the question around technology and if that can replace a teacher. Its perhaps really hard to answer that question with one answer for the various kinds of learning spaces.
  • Mohammad Hussain on 08 Nov 10
     
    Children can teach themselves; education in non-traditional way; child driven education.
Devon Dickau

Classroom iPad Programs Get Mixed Response - Wired Campus - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

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higher education education technology college students ipad classroom

shared by Devon Dickau on 21 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • At those early-adopter schools, iPads are competing with MacBooks as the students' go-to gadget for note taking and Web surfing.
  • the iPad's technological limitations—its inability to multitask and print, and its limited storage space—have kept students dependent on their notebooks. "That's the problem with the iPad: It's not an independent device,
  • really excited about the technology but have not been "pushing the capabilities" of the device.
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  • Seton Hill University, which gave iPads to all full-time students, are working with the developers of an e-book app called Inkling to come up with new ways to integrate the iPad into classroom instruction
  • he faculty at Indiana University has formed a 24-member focus group to evaluate iPad-driven teaching strategies.
  • Devon Dickau on 21 Sep 10
     
    What about providing students iPads so that they purchase textbooks on these devices to save resources for both the students and the school? Can we assume that all students will be comfortable using an iPad, or might there be implications for students with learning differences? What about the socioeconomic gap for students who cannot afford a computer to LOAD the books onto their iPads (even if the iPads themselves were provided)?
Natalie Hebshie

BBC News - Pi record smashed as team finds two-quadrillionth digit - 1 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...technology-11313194

pi computation calculation infinite

shared by Natalie Hebshie on 17 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • Natalie Hebshie on 17 Sep 10
     
    Can't quite wrap my brain around this one entirely but it sounds interesting and brain-y.
Margaret O'Connell

Body Sensing Comes to Smartphones - NYTimes.com - 2 views

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sensing health

shared by Margaret O'Connell on 18 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • John Stivoric, chief technology officer, says the company has been working closely with Apple and Google, to develop its smartphone application. It opens the door to allowing a person to monitor a collection of the 9,000 variables — physical activity, calories burned, body heat, sleep efficiency and others — collected by the sensors in a BodyMedia armband in real-time, as the day goes on.
  • The smartphone, though, is full-fledged computer in hand. “It’s a dashboard for the human body, a great viewer into what your body is doing on the fly,”
  • Margaret O'Connell on 18 Oct 10
     
    Compelling for educational uses, particularly science and health (but the price has to come down some first).
Uche Amaechi

Virginia schools to test social studies on iPads | MacNN - 1 views

www.macnn.com/...his.be.the.future.of.textbooks

technology Emerging Technology learning education t561

shared by Uche Amaechi on 30 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • P Parson on 07 Oct 10
     
    I worked in Newport News, VA and around that time the current governor was huge with technology initiatives and this school district benefited greatly from this. I see now that they are still being used for projects like this. My concern with Virginia is that they will gladly try technology in schools, but the use of the technology is not always practical. If a person goes on the VDOE website, they will see the state touting their advances in the use of technology. They are calling themselves a leader in online testing, for example, but their 'bragging' points all reflect how the technology has made life easier for all the adults and not necessarily the children. It is the exact same thing that was on paper now on the computer screen: http://www.doe.virginia.gov/testing/online_testing/index.shtml
Joe Prempeh

ED-MEDIA 2011-World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications - 1 views

www.aace.org/edmedia

conference educational_technology multimedia telecommunications hypermedia

shared by Joe Prempeh on 11 Oct 10 - Cached
  • Joe Prempeh on 11 Oct 10
     
    Taking place in June 2011 in Portugal, would be a great place to showcase your research! From the website: "ED-MEDIA - World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications is an international conference, organized by the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE)."
Chris Dede

How technology can reinvigorate the education system -- Federal Computer Week - 2 views

fcw.com/...m-shelton-education-qanda.aspx

USDoEd NETP technology education T561

shared by Chris Dede on 08 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Chris Dede on 08 Oct 10
     
    High ranking US Department of Education official talks about the importance of technology and the role of the National Ed Tech Plan
Eric Kattwinkel

Content Matters | Wired Science | Wired.com - 1 views

www.wired.com/...content-matters

shared by Eric Kattwinkel on 07 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Just as all those Baby Einstein DVDs backfired, we’re just beginning to learn that arcade video games seem to produce reliable and persistent cognitive benefits:
  • The brain, as always, is a category buster. It excels at shredding our neat preconceptions and abstract classifications. We like to speculate about technology in general, about the neural effects of television and computers and tablets, but these tools are only incidental
  • Eric Kattwinkel on 07 Oct 10
     
    Jonah Lehrer on surprising effects of tech on cognition
Margaret O'Connell

Another platform for teaching programming to our students - 0 views

www.adafruit.com/index.php

Processing programming Scratch

shared by Margaret O'Connell on 07 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • Learn computer programming the easy way with Processing, a simple language that lets you use code to create drawings, animation, and interactive graphics. Programming courses usually start with theory, but this book lets you jump right into creative and fun projects. It's ideal for anyone who wants to learn basic programming, and serves as a simple introduction to graphics for people with some programming skills.
  • Margaret O'Connell on 07 Nov 10
     
    Scratch isn't the only game in town :-) Note that I've already posted about App Inventor here (which is another "dive right in" programming environ)
Yang Jiang

British Kids Log On and Learn Math - in Punjab - NYTimes.com - 1 views

www.nytimes.com/...25iht-teach25.html

Online technology educational_technology education

shared by Yang Jiang on 27 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • LONDON — Once a week, year six pupils at Ashmount Primary School in North London settle in front of their computers, put on their headsets and get ready for their math class. A few minutes later, their teachers come online thousands of kilometers away in the Indian state of Punjab.
Garron Hillaire

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

bits.blogs.nytimes.com/...-at-599-embargo-until-midnight

kno tablet technology education college

shared by Garron Hillaire on 12 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • 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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