Ontario School's Students Put Tablet PCs to the Test
Brief article describing a pilot probject testing the use of wireless Tablet computers (and supporting infrastructure) in a York Region District School Board school. This being an article from IT Business, much of the text is devoted to the support offered by corporations to get the initiative off teh ground. More...
Life Hacks: Tech Secrets of Overprolific Alpha Geeks
People sometimes wonder why I don't use Moveable Type to get things like trackback. Others wonder why my site is idiosyncratic - wouldn't 'Comment on this Item' be clearer than 'Reflect'? Others gripe about being "dissed" in these pages and think that maybe I should hold back a little. More...
cc.edu voting
The heated discussion I mentioned a few days ago on the Creative Commons Education list (cc.edu) has turned into a vote of sorts, with one side trying to get Creative Commons to endorse licenses restricting use to educational institutions, and another side trying to keep edeucational content open for everyone. More...
Flickr
Roland passed along this link to Flickr, a 'live chat together with social networks that enables people to share media with one another in real time.' After you register, play around filling out your profile and uploading photos. Then, on your main page, click 'Launch Flickr' and the fun begins - a chat area where people show and trade photos. More...
Who Forgot the Learner?
As Charles Churchman pointed out already decades ago, note the authors: "To conceive of knowledge as a collection of information seems to rob the concept of all of its life... Knowledge resides in the user and not in the collection. It is how the user reacts to a collection of information that matters." This forms the basis for this paper's sustained and intelligent criticism of the learning object paradigm as defined by SCOs and SCORM. More...
By Paul Rigg. Technology is transforming the way students learn and while world-class universities such as Harvard University may be less vulnerable than other institutions, digital disruption is inevitable and is already happening, sending universities into decline, according to a keynote speaker at the ‘EnlightED: Reinventing education in a digital world’ conference in Spain. More...
Les modalités d’association des collectivités territoriales à la sélection des sites prioritaires prévus par le "new deal mobile gouvernemental" a été détaillée dans une instruction transmise aux préfets fin juillet. Les premiers projets concernant des zones blanches ou mal couvertes seront sélectionnés dès cet automne. Plus...
Dans les années ’80, l’image de la terre flottant dans le vide spatial a agi comme une prise de conscience collective : voici notre planète, là où nous vivons. Mais au delà de cette prise de conscience, une véritable conscience collective à l’échelle planétaire a besoin de bien d’autres conditions pour se manifester. Plus...
Par Mike Guggemos. Tapez « le futur du travail » dans un moteur de recherche et vous obtiendrez une pléthore d’options et d’opinions parfois contradictoires. Pourquoi ? Principalement parce que ce sentiment mêlé de confusion et d’opportunité est renforcé par l’accélération du rythme des évolutions technologiques. Plus...
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