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Hey all, not really a Tertiary thing but thought you might be interested... "Rotorua has embarked on a bold plan to equip all of its pupils with personal learning devices - connecting all of them to the internet and creating a New Zealand-first "e-learning community".

Useful timeline stretching back to pre-email days.

Not read yet but could be useful.

Don't read, do! Using the Raspberry Pi to learn computer science.

"Brute computing force alone can't solve the world's problems. Data mining innovator Shyam Sankar explains why solving big problems (like catching terrorists or identifying huge hidden trends) is not a question of finding the right algorithm, but rather the right symbiotic relationship between computation and human creativity."

"This comprehensive collaborative learning workshop guide, developed from the ELI 2009 Fall Focus Session, contains a resource list and five workshop modules intended to reduce some of the extensive work involved in assembling the components and curriculum for such a program."

"Brown University announced Monday that it had 'Gone Google'... tools like Google Apps, ... could, in some cases, mitigate the need for a full-fledged LMS."

A rash of note sharing services are developing, some 'official', some not, some for profit, some not. Has some of the usual 'terrible' quotes embedded.

Hackers at the famous MIT Media Lab have built an open-source Chrome browser extension that uses the Microsoft gesture-based controller Kinect to navigate around tabs and Web pages.

As we increasingly move toward an environment of instant and infinite information, it becomes less important for students to know, memorize, or recall information, and more important for them to be able to find, sort, analyze, share, discuss, critique, and create information. They need to move from being simply knowledgeable to being knowledge-able.

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