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Doug Blandy

The Madness of Crowds and an Internet Delusion: You Are Not a Gadget - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...12tier.html

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shared by Doug Blandy on 13 Jan 10 - Cached
  • Doug Blandy on 13 Jan 10
     
    From the 1/12 edition of the NY Times. "Mr. Lanier, a musician and avant-garde computer scientist - he popularized the term "virtual reality" - wonders if the Web's structure and ideology are fostering nasty group dynamics and mediocre collaborations. His new book, "You Are Not a Gadget," is a manifesto against "hive thinking" and "digital Maoism," by which he means the glorification of open-source software, free information and collective work at the expense of individual creativity."
Ed Parker

Colleges Dream of Paperless, iPad-centric Education | Gadget Lab | Wired.com - 0 views

www.wired.com/...ipad-textbooks

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shared by Ed Parker on 06 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Three universities are getting pumped to hand out free iPads to students and faculty with hopes that Apple’s tablet will revolutionize education.
  • “Those big, heavy textbooks that kids go around with in their backpacks are going to be a thing of the past,” said Mary Ann Gawelek, vice president of academic affairs at Seton Hill
  • For textbooks, students can currently access about 10,000 e-textbooks through a third-party company called CourseSmart, which includes titles from the five biggest textbook publishers.
  • ...9 more annotations...
  • The iPad may succeed where Amazon’s Kindle DX failed.
  • Much of my learning comes from a physical interaction with the text: bookmarks, highlights, page-tearing, sticky notes and other marks representing the importance of certain passages — not to mention margin notes, where most of my paper ideas come from and interaction with the material occurs,” Aaron Horvath
  • the iPad is fast, sports a colorful touchscreen and supports enough apps to cater to a broad audience of students
  • Seton Hill, George Fox and Abilene Christian said that in addition to giving students iPads, they would train teachers to integrate mobile web software and iPad apps into their curricula.
  • George Fox’s iPod Touch program wasn’t the greatest success, because it turned out that the iPod Touch wasn’t the primary device students were bringing to the classroom.
  • the iPad’s bigger screen will change that.
  • Bill Rankin, a professor of medieval studies at Abilene Christian, called the iPhone program the “TiVoing of education,” because the iPhone was giving students the information they need, when they want it and wherever they want it.
  • “This is really about people re-imagining what books look like — re-imagining something that hasn’t really been re-imagined in about 550 years,” Rankin said.
  • “We’re challenging them to design features that would take full advantage of photos and texts and HTML5. There’s an academic component to that — forcing students to think differently about how information is distributed and presented to readers.”
Eric Schiff

10 Reasons Why Apple iPad Is Highly Qualified for Enterprise Role - Mobile and Wireless... - 1 views

www.eweek.com/...ied-for-Enterprise-Role-193599

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shared by Eric Schiff on 07 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Eric Schiff on 07 Apr 10
     
    Interesting take on iPad purposing in the corporate world - has implications for educational computing across the spectrum of transmedia application opportunities.
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