by andflywrite | Mar 8, 2016 | BEST LINKS EVER
Article from New Yorker on something called AltSchool which innovates learning approaches with an emphasis on cloud tools. Inside, the space has been partitioned with dividers creating several classrooms. The décor evokes an IKEA showroom: low-slung couches, beanbags,...
by andflywrite | Mar 8, 2016 | BEST LINKS EVER
As with most things bureaucratic, affordable access through the FCC Lifeline program has moved ahead in fits and starts, and one of those starts happens today when FCC announces their proposal for $9.25 a month subsidy for internet access to poor households. Any such...
by andflywrite | Mar 8, 2016 | BEST LINKS EVER
Where are students, both young and older, going to physically be when using online tools for learning? If students don’t need to be warehoused in a central building all school-day, where will they go, or stay? When Learning can happen anyplace with good...
by andflywrite | Mar 1, 2016 | BEST LINKS EVER, Capturing Imagination, Convergence on Target, Individual Learner, Learning Community
One of the tricky situations for online learning is to help learners adopt the most effective identity for learning. Obviously, if one thinks one “isn’t good at school” one will be handicapped at learning, and alas, many kids from poverty background...
by andflywrite | Feb 27, 2016 | BEST LINKS EVER, Capturing Imagination, Understanding Media
It’s here, and we are apparently going to have a lot of adjustments to make, and insights to arrive at, before we are “up to speed on VR”. Here’s two current articles, one in The Verge, and one from LCSN talking about Googles VR project Tango,...
by andflywrite | Feb 25, 2016 | BEST LINKS EVER, Science of Learning, Understanding Media
One can assume there will be a lot more of this real time sensing of our body, including the brain, and that there will applications we are unable to imagine today that could arrive in the near and midterm. Wikipedia on “Brain – Computer...
