by andflywrite | Feb 25, 2016 | BEST LINKS EVER, Science of Learning, Understanding Media
Many have been talking about the impact of miniaturized sensors combined with “awesome” processing power in mobile devices. When there is also a powerful brain-computer interface going beyond our normal conscious interface, new learning tools arise. Kudos to Gary for...
by andflywrite | Feb 23, 2016 | BEST LINKS EVER, Learning Community
Anya Kammnetz writes about a New Jersey HS, that recently provided all the students with laptops and had them stay home and use online apps for learning. One of the apps noted is Schoology, a LMS. In student surveys taken after the event, the feedback was...
by andflywrite | Feb 22, 2016 | BEST LINKS EVER, Embed Resources & Tools
This video is a little like visiting the uncanny valley…something unsettling about it. And also silly at the same time. Sure, it’s another brick in the wall of robot saying “anything you can do I can do better”…the slicing off the pea pod...
by andflywrite | Feb 22, 2016 | BEST LINKS EVER, Embed Resources & Tools
Google Fiber, the FTTH initiative already well underway, has added Huntsville Alabama to their list of installed or installing base of American cities. Huntsville has been suggested as a model for the kind of high tech growth Las Cruces seeks. This meme was especially...
by andflywrite | Feb 16, 2016 | BEST LINKS EVER, Individual Learner
That was something Garrison Keillor said about his fictional town in Minnesota, Lake Wobegon. Here’s a column from Anya Kamenetz, one of our favorite education innovation thinkers. Sort of asks the question of what we can do now to know the individual. In the...
by andflywrite | Feb 13, 2016 | BEST LINKS EVER, Convergence on Target
One thing that’s hard to grasp at times, is how truly gigantic the US is, in terms of cities, towns, and space, and that no one really “has a handle” on all that is happening in the various locales, and “local scenes”. One of PSA 7 core...