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Modern life causes brain overload, study finds - Telegraph - 3 views

www.telegraph.co.uk/...rain-overload-study-finds.html Media Information Brain
shared by Uly Lalunio on 17 Dec 09 - Cached
  • Uly Lalunio on 17 Dec 09
     
    "Experts believe that the information overload could prompt our brains to evolve in a new way. "
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YouTube - Jack Bauer interroga a Santa Claus - 3 views

www.youtube.com/watch Jack Bauer Patriot Act Christmas torture humor Kiefer Sutherland Spanish subtitles
shared by Nick Siewert on 22 Dec 09 - Cached
  • Nick Siewert on 22 Dec 09
     
    Kiefer Sutherland rocks. Santa too.
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The End of the Virtual World -- THE Journal - 3 views

thejournal.com/...-end-of-the-virtual-world.aspx avatar virtual second life teen grid T561
shared by Chris Dede on 02 Sep 10 - Cached
  • Chris Dede on 02 Sep 10
     
    What happens to your teen avatar when the plug is pulled on your virtual world?
  • Margaret O'Connell on 02 Sep 10
     
    That looks like a tragedy that's rooted in bad software architecture - having the Teen software be so different from the main Second Life software that it now has to be shut down ... tsk tsk. I hope Linden Labs has learned from this. It was really interesting to learn how this has been used in education (with specifics about hurdles the teachers had to jump to get it into the curriculum).
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DAWN.COM | Sci-Tech | Google, Skype under fire in India after BlackBerry reprieve - 3 views

www.dawn.com/...fter-blackberry-reprieve-ss-03 communication crackdown
shared by Zachary Wagner on 02 Sep 10 - Cached
  • Zachary Wagner on 02 Sep 10
     
    Worried about security, India threatens to ban messaging services
  • Margaret O'Connell on 02 Sep 10
     
    Articles like that make me glad I live in the USA ... but, then again, "they" are probably monitoring all our messaging. In any case, the article was interesting to me in that it shows, once again, how companies who want to play world wide need to build in more capabilities to their product in order to accommodate government ordinances.
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3-D equipment gives school lessons an added dimension | News for Dallas, Texas | Dallas... - 3 views

www.dallasnews.com/...310dnmet3Dschools.27e7761.html 3-d visualization learning Texas Instruments
shared by Chris Dede on 03 Sep 10 - Cached
  • Chris Dede on 03 Sep 10
     
    Does this type of 3-D aid learning? And what type of research evidence is needed to establish this
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Brain scan: The virtual curmudgeon | The Economist - 3 views

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  • Uche Amaechi on 05 Sep 10
     
    Virtual reality pioneer decries social networks
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Second Thoughts on Online Education - 3 views

bits.blogs.nytimes.com/...d-thoughts-on-online-education 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.
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Smart Phone Adoption Growing Faster Than Expected -- THE Journal - 3 views

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  • Chris Dede on 09 Sep 10
     
    Challenging the classic infrastructure of workstations, laptops, and wires with mobile wireless broadband devices
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Evaluating E-Educators' Evolving Skills - 3 views

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  • anonymous on 10 Sep 10
     
    Free webinar on Sept 23 to discuss skills for on-line faciltators
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Just in time for NY Fashion Week! - 3 views

www.wired.com/...spray-on-fabric technology spray fabric clothes Fabrican
shared by Mitch(ell) Miller on 18 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • Mitch(ell) Miller on 18 Sep 10
     
    Look at what technology can do! The future of school uniforms? ...
  • Margaret O'Connell on 19 Sep 10
     
    I don't think so ...
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Seeing No Progress, Some Schools Drop Laptops - New York Times - 3 views

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  • Uche Amaechi on 20 Sep 10
     
    Article cited in "Disruopting Class". Has anything changed?
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The 5 Keys to Educational Technology -- THE Journal - 3 views

thejournal.com/...to-educational-technology.aspx educational_technology
shared by Ellen Loudermilk on 20 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • Implementation is essential, especially when one understands that educational technology is about affecting particular outcomes.
  • Certainly, these objects have demonstrable value; however, techniques and processes in teaching and learning are at least equally important
  • use of appropriate tools
  • ...4 more annotations...
  • human capabilities are not wholly adequate to the demands of the modern teaching and learning enterprise, and this is where technology as facilitator has a role
  • Demonstrations, illustrations, instruction across learning styles
  • If no improvements are made with the adoption of new technology, then there is no point to utilizing any technology except for the most basic required to obtain that unchanging level of learning
  • need to assess our outcomes, make incremental changes in our methodologies to address shortcomings, then assess again
  • Ellen Loudermilk on 20 Sep 10
     
    The author's top 5 keys to successful education technology... do you agree? Is it missing anything?
  • quintintanderson on 21 Sep 10
     
    One of the more powerful messages I have learned in Stone's class is when you are designing an educational intervention you have to know WHEN to ask the question: what technology, if any, will improve our educational problem? Before you ask this question, the problem should be clearly identified, and the steps to assess if the problem is improving should be laid out. When you have this information, you can then tailor the technology to specifically meet the needs of your current problem. In this way, technology is sort of the means (not the ends!) towards improving education. So, in addition to the author's 5 key factors for educational technology, I would like to add: Is the technology a good fit for addressing our clearly defined educational problem?
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What's going to emerge beyond the emerging technology? - 3 views

www.montrealgazette.com/...story.html smart phones apps progression
shared by Mitch(ell) Miller on 21 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • Mitch(ell) Miller on 21 Sep 10
     
    Doesn't specifically go into educational uses, but it's possible to see where many fit in.
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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.
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Leaving Tumblr for Instapaper - NYTimes.com - 3 views

bits.blogs.nytimes.com/...per-goes-from-hobby-to-startup Instapaper technology
shared by Yang Jiang on 24 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • Yang Jiang on 24 Sep 10
     
    A new project named Instapaper is developed to solve the time and space difference problems in reading on computers.
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The best iPad ad (not made by Apple) | Technically Incorrect - CNET News - 3 views

news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-20017639-71.html t561 HT500 ed tech ipad apple tablets
shared by Uche Amaechi on 25 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • Uche Amaechi on 25 Sep 10
     
    Interesting video and snarky article.  Complex technology with a dead simple UI used for learning--or amusement?  Or Both?
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The US gov't addresses the issues brought up in "Superman" - 3 views

news.yahoo.com/...us_obama Obama education policy waiting for superman
shared by Mitch(ell) Miller on 27 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • Mitch(ell) Miller on 27 Sep 10
     
    As usual, it takes a movie for people to open up to the issues in the world around them.
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