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Ok... I am not a gaming person, but if you take the level of detail in the graphics that this company says it can deliver, and combine it with the new LEAP Motion detector I will post next ... wow does this seem to take virtual reality to a new level.

Ok, add this to the graphics company I posted earlier... and I can really see losing yourself in virtual reality.

This article is not about emerging tech directly. However, it discusses how there is an initiative to increase teaching students to be innovators consistent with 21st century learning. When I read this, I thought about all the ways that technology could facilitate this.

This blog entry is about a paper written on how digital learning enhances deeper learning.

This site is a professional development portal in which teachers can upload videos of lessons and get feedback on them.

This article outlines the ways in which teacher utilize social networking.

Schools often work in isolation or from top down directives. This site has some interesting components to its design around methodologies for digitally delivered PD: Individualization, institutional buy-in, top to bottom integration and support.

Did they jump or were they pushed?

I'm not sure that smartphones are the best for backchannel. I think I would like an actual keyboard for something like that. Just saying. I'm thinking of T561 in this case. I would not have like to comment via smartphone on the T561 backchannel.

There's some interesting research implying that students with dyslexia prefer reading novels on smartphones (Jenny Thomson from HGSE is involved). The smaller window isolates smaller chunks of info, waking it easier to focus - seems difficult to me too, but goes to she you never know what could work...

This is a truly dumb set of definitions that of course are being widely publicized by the media (sigh)

"Social Learning: Using social media as part of class. Who said that Twitter was just for Justin Bieber?"

I have revisited this over and over - but each time I realize that no, I'm not hallucinating. They do indeed endorse 1:1 laptop/iPad, as they are "way cooler than stickers." Obviously, they don't have access to the right stickers.

Great talk about an innovation that allows anyone to access a vast array of museum exhibits on the web. Great look into informal learning using the web.

I clicked through some related articles on this one a little bit, and it's worth following up on. I want to know how this treaty plans to address spam and cyberattacks. It is certainly high-time for this treaty to be updated, if it has truly not happened since 1988. The internet is certainly important enough to warrant further discussion, but I feel as if I'm speaking out of turn. I do not know what other treaty exist regarding internet based telecommunication in the UN.

What do Kansas City, Chicago, and Seattle have in common? Extremely fast internet paving the way for ubiquitous computing.

A potpourri of articles about online education compiled by Union Square Ventures as part of their analysis of the education market.

The Knight Center's MOOC on data visualization was a bit smaller than traditional MOOCs (it actually capped enrollment at 2000), but the second version of the same class already has 4000 students registered. It sounds like the professor gave a lot of attention to the students and the projects, and the fact that the numbers went up is a good sign.

Thought provoking analysis of higher ed finances, and the prospects for emerging technology models to help "fix" the broken business model. By William Bowen, former President of Princeton and the Mellon Foundation.

"Language online is now a zero sum game."

True. But japanese expansion was maybe not too much due o the power of internet as much as english. Curious about Chinese given there are already so many dialects.

This is an interesting perspective, thanks for sharing. I was speaking with some friends from Germany and Spain, who explained that English has become much more motivating due to its pervasive existence online. However, mandarin is preferential to higher SES families who want their children to excel in business.

"Omnihours enables you to schedule video-chat meetings with students in your MOOC class. A Linkedin account is required for registration."

Quick BBC audio segment about the experiences of 2 Ethiopian villages with OLPC's new tablets