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Bruce Gorrill

Local schools try to cope with a cell phone invasion - 0 views

  • Anderson said cell phones are getting a second look at the senior high. As the phones have become more pervasive and more powerful, teachers and administrators have begun to look at ways they can be used as tools to enhance education rather than disrupt it. Students with Internet-capable phones have access to the district's Infinite Campus student management system, to check assignments, contact teachers and manage their school life online, he said. Mobile communications are an ever-growing part of what students have to cope with and manage, he said. "It's appropriate to bring that into our curriculum." While more and more students carry more and more powerful mobile phones, those who remain unconnected have one fewer option than they did several years ago. There's no point in a student keeping a few coins in his pocket in case he needs to use a pay phone - coin-operated phones have left the buildings. "I don't think they'd know how to use one," Anderson said.
Chris Hafner

Starbucks to use QR codes for payment from smartphones! - 3 views

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    Starbucks to use QR codes for payment from smartphones!
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    so does this mean that in the future our payments for everything could be done with a mobile device? No more carrying tons of cards in a wallet???
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    At some point I hope. A different proprietary swipe system is used in Japan by a majority of the population for day to day transactions. The reason why I like this is simple: The technology is not specialized, proprietary or restricted in any way. The Japanese system requires secured chips imbedded in cell phones (or their cases) belonging to a system that everyone uses through their banks. This system simply uses your credit card transmitted through a bar code.
Chris Hafner

smart phone - 5 views

That's actually what keep's us ahead of most of the rest. ;-) As for a forum... aren't there TED forums? I'll go look.

technology smartphone education

Peter Hess

iSchool - 2 views

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    energetic young entrepreneur making a case for mobil learning. heard him speak on 'future of education' webcast. provided lots of great ideas for apps that kids can use. I will see if I can get the archive of the talk.
Bruce Gorrill

iPad As.... - 1 views

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    Good organized site for apps to help you do things on the ipad
Bruce Gorrill

SCVNGR - 0 views

Bruce Gorrill

2010 October - feature: do schools need ICT? - 2 views

  • Our schools are now a desert swept with the winds of yesterday's technology; meanwhile our students can be found drinking from an oasis of smartphones, smart apps and smart interfaces. They have answers to questions we haven't even dared to ask. They outsmart us at every turn.Teenagers upgrade their mobile phone every 12 months. Even the socially disadvantaged are one step ahead of their school's ICT. That's not a problem. That's a huge opportunity schools should grasp. It's an
  • pportunity to save money and upgrade our thinking about ICT.
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    Long on the problem - short on the solutions. the Luddites need to know how these tools can be used in classrooms. good wake up call though.
Chris Hafner

Google Goggles - 0 views

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    Alright... this one is a pretty serious technology. How useful is it... I'd love to show you many many examples but here's just one. If I didn't happen to know George W. Carver pretty well I would have used my google goggles on Marilyn's mystery figure (tested and verified) to take a look at his picture and tell me his name! This is only the beginning
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