Posts Tagged ‘ technology ’

I can’t figure out what to make of the Kno. If you haven’t heard of it yet, it’s an e-reader. But not like the iPad, not like the Kindle, and not like the myriad of competing Android-based tablets in the marketplace today. The Kno is aimed straight at education, and is designed to replicate...
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Everyone’s favorite kicking-boy lately is Microsoft, and it’s easy to see why. Mobile is a disaster, Bing is having issues catching Google, the slate/tablet revolution started by Bill Gates has bypassed Windows … in so many ways Microsoft just feels so yesterday. Last week Microsoft execs clarified how they view their business, and how...
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This is smart, timely, and wonderfully well-said:
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This is a great teacher. By using less information than most he encourages kids to actually learn – and not be content with being trained. Enjoy:
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Crazy, but wow:
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I am almost finished my Masters degree in Educational Technology at UBC … just one course to go. Actually less, since I’m more than half-way through the last course. Here’s the major paper that I wrote for ETEC 530, my current course. The basic thesis? Constructivism, the current hottest paradigm in education du jour,...
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I was thinking about technology the other day at a Learning Series Alliance conference put on by Intel in Las Vegas. Teachers are at one time the biggest problem and the greatest asset for any transformation project in education. That’s simply because people are the biggest problem and greatest asset for any organizational change...
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Here’s one from the “Seriously, you didn’t think this was a bad idea?” files: the Lower Merion School District of Ardmore, Pennsylvania, has been accused of remotely activating the webcams in its students’ laptops issued through their 1:1 program without the students’ knowledge or consent. While the case has yet to see a courtroom,...
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This video is a little slow and repetitive … but in 3 minutes it gets the message across: online learning is not correspondence learning on a computer. (Or … it should not be!)
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ScrollMotion’s been tapped to transmogrify textbooks published by McGraw-Hill, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and every standardized test-taking student’s favorite, Kaplan. . .  . If you’ve over-analyzed the iPad keynote as much as we have, by now you’ve probably gotten the distinct sense that something felt like it was missing. One of those things, apparently, were...
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“Most eBook readers, for whatever reason, are priced at about the level of a low-end netbook, which proves to be a significant barrier,” Mitchell said. “A tablet that is both an eBook reader and a netbook-like device would make it much more attractive to your everyday user. Plus, interactivity will bring new content and...
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Analysts estimate it has sold 3 million Kindles, and Amazon says it now sells six Kindle books for every 10 printed copies of books that are available in both formats. via Apple’s own approach to iPad e-books could confuse – BostonHerald.com.
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What you’re seeing in the industry’s reaction to the iPad is nothing less than future shock. For years we’ve all held to the belief that computing had to be made simpler for the “average person.” I find it difficult to come to any conclusion other than that we have totally failed in this effort....
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The bet is roughly that the future of computing: 1. has a UI model based on direct manipulation of data objects 2. completely hides the filesystem from the user 3. favors ease of use and reduction of complexity over absolute flexibility 4. favors benefit to the end-user rather than the developer or other vendors...
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We are no longer just consumers of content, we have become curators of it too. If someone approached me even five years ago and explained that one day in the near future I would be filtering, collecting and sharing content for thousands of perfect strangers to read — and doing it for free —...
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