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Stephen Bright

'Confusometer' app gets rave reviews from U of T computer science students - thestar.com - 0 views

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    website that links to a lecturer's laptop giving a score for how many students are confused - a 'confusometer'. Students can click the 'understood' button if they understand the followup explanation. Works with iPhone, laptop or tablet browser. 
Tracey Morgan

Princeton Invention: 3D Sound from Ordinary Laptop Speakers - 0 views

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    Princeton Invention: 3D Sound from Ordinary Laptop Speaker
Nigel Robertson

Nicholas on Peru | One Laptop per Child - 1 views

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    Negroponte responds to the OLPC criticism by the Economist.
Nigel Robertson

DHQ: Digital Humanities Quarterly: Designing Choreographies for the New Economy of Atte... - 0 views

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    The nature of the academic lecture has changed with the introduction of wi-fi and cellular technologies. Interacting with personal screens during a lecture or other live event has become commonplace and, as a result, the economy of attention that defines these situations has changed. Is it possible to pay attention when sending a text message or surfing the web? For that matter, does distraction always detract from the learning that takes place in these environments? In this article, we ask questions concerning the texture and shape of this emerging economy of attention. We do not take a position on the efficiency of new technologies for delivering educational content or their efficacy of competing for users' time and attention. Instead, we argue that the emerging social media provide new methods for choreographing attention in line with the performative conventions of any given situation. Rather than banning laptops and phones from the lecture hall and the classroom, we aim to ask what precisely they have on offer for these settings understood as performative sites, as well as for a culture that equates individual attentional behavior with intellectual and moral aptitude.
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    "The nature of the academic lecture has changed with the introduction of wi-fi and cellular technologies. Interacting with personal screens during a lecture or other live event has become commonplace and, as a result, the economy of attention that defines these situations has changed. Is it possible to pay attention when sending a text message or surfing the web? For that matter, does distraction always detract from the learning that takes place in these environments? In this article, we ask questions concerning the texture and shape of this emerging economy of attention. We do not take a position on the efficiency of new technologies for delivering educational content or their efficacy of competing for users' time and attention. Instead, we argue that the emerging social media provide new methods for choreographing attention in line with the performative conventions of any given situation. Rather than banning laptops and phones from the lecture hall and the classroom, we aim to ask what precisely they have on offer for these settings understood as performative sites, as well as for a culture that equates individual attentional behavior with intellectual and moral aptitude."
Nigel Robertson

The Failure of One Laptop Per Child - 0 views

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    Audrey Watters analyses the recent statements that the OLPC project has failed because test scores have not increased.
Nigel Robertson

From Fear to Facebook: review - 0 views

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    Review of book on implementing OLPC in the class. Interesting paragraph on boundary issues - by giving kids a laptop, school was impinging on home life and parental decisions on whether their kids should have  alaptop at home.
Nigel Robertson

Plan Ceibal - Monitoring & Evaluation report on Social Impact 2009 - 0 views

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    Uruguay does OLPC and gives laptop to every child. What change has it brought? Link from M Brechner, ALTC 2011 Keynote.
Nigel Robertson

Uni students told to switch off laptops, smartphones during lectures | Stuff.co.nz - 0 views

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    Interesting nes article on the banning of devices by a lecturer at UoW
Nigel Robertson

Chromebook controversy: 'Every parent should be concerned' about web-enabled school lap... - 1 views

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    Fear and loathing - this time regarding students accessing the Internet at home on Chromebooks.
Nigel Robertson

Interview with Charlie Reisinger of Penn Manor | Opensource.com - 1 views

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    One school district goes open source. Short report.
Nigel Robertson

Audience Response Systems | Turning Technologies - 0 views

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    Commercial student response system using students mobile devices, laptops etc.
Stephen Harlow

mokik - mokik is a mobile clicker educational system that allows instructors to use a l... - 1 views

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    Primarily an attendance register with ARS functionality, but limited to 100 Bluetooth and Java equipped cellphones.
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