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Education reform using online learning motivated by budget cuts.

One group's take on online learning

ePortfolio? What is that? What about your backpack with all of your books and notebooks?"

Ever wonder how Facebook feed works?  The Daily Beast did some experiments to find out...

Interesting look at a few sites and technologies targeted toward college students to "assist" them in learning and studying. The question is...are these actual beneficial to students or is the focus simply on making money for the companies producing these sites?

Mixing social media and academic learning may be difficult

For things you've always wanted to know about the web but were afraid to ask-

a fun read

This is awesome! Thanks for sharing.

Augmented Reality at Disney World.

ARTLAB+ is a digital media studio that gives local teens the opportunity to become integral members of a design team. They create new visitor experiences at the Hirshhorn, taking their inspiration from its permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. ARTLAB+ designers hone crucial twenty-first century skills as they make videos, animations, wikis, games, podcasts, and more. By the end of every project session, the design team has created a unique product that enriches the museum experiences of other visitors and showcases each teen's creative growth. After-school, weekend, and weeklong ARTLAB+ workshops are held year-round to accommodate a wide variety of schedules. We welcome all teens, regardless of experience. Looks like a great way to help introduce twenty-first century skills- BB

This is really cool- combining mobile, situated learning in the real world, with creative group projects, and letting kids direct their own active, learning 'flow'.. Can this scale up to schools (or after-school programs), without access to museum artifacts and mobile devices?

We are working on student texting in the Oneville project so this article is very relevant. Especially since texting has surpassed the doodling and passing notes around class.

Time wasters in whose opinion?

Interesting connection between texting and doodling. Will boredom persevere no matter what?

Really interesting study about how technology can help treat social anxiety disorders.

Another interesting AR app.

Interesting article on robot-teachers in Korea. Let's say there are two scenarios: 1. Creating a technology that competes with non-consumption, and 2. Creating a technology that competes with human labor Does the nature of one's advocacy change? Should it? What if it isn't your job that is on the line? What if it is indeed your job? Does this think about you you frame your discourse surrounding such an emerging technology?

Extending yesterdays topic on AR, here is an app developed in the Netherlands which is a bit different than others in the field. Check out the video linked here. 

"Six Stages of Platform Adoption": UNBRIDLED EXPECTATIONS UNIMAGINATIVE CONTENT MIGRATION REALITY CHECK EMPOWERMENT OF THE NAY-SAYERS CREATIVE CONTENT DEVELOPMENT PLATFORM MATURATION & VINDICATION OF THE VISIONARY