EdTech
Why Learning is Like the First 10,000 Feet after Takeoff
Seneca was a little off when he said if you are everywhere at once, you are nowhere. Digital learning changes that.
Dumb Research Supports a Dumb Argument
The WSJ hosted a now tired debate: does the Internet make us smarter or dumber?
11 Important Blogs: Teachers & Technology
These are the ten education and technology blogs not to miss. I missed this meme because I was traveling, so I've added one more to make it eleven.
An iPhone OS Lesson for Edu Apps
On our way to solving the $750 billion education applications puzzle, have we stopped to think about whether we are creating more of the same, or new ways of packaging information, that completely alter education deliverables? It's not the latter.
Edu-Triumvirate: Mobile, Context, Adaptive Curriculum
Lessons in e-learning and blended methods from Hwang Gwo-Jen, Ph.D, Chair Professor, Graduate Institute of Digital Learning and Education, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology and Liu Gi-Zen, Associate Professor, Dept. of Foreign Languages & Literature, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
VC Funding of Ed Set to Boom
VC Investments blogger Rafael Corrales believes VC dollars into education are set to soar, but let's remember there's a bureaucracy set up here.
Different Country, Different Apps
Using technology to play music is a lesson first in how to use technology, but second, in how to do what the rest of the world is doing.
Iterative Development
Qualcom technologist Marie Bjerede wonders if the top-down reform model doesn’t work, why there’s not more iterative development: In the software world, we address this dilemma through an iterative development model. That is, we assume that when we are thinking about what users might need or how they will…
Ten Global Trends in ICT and Education
Robert Hawkins, Senior Education Specialist at the World Bank, spoke at the MIT LINC Conference about the 10 global trends in ICT and Education. It's a must see for teachers, edupreneurs, administration and thinkers.
Not Change for Games, But Games for Change
A non-profit that seeks to use video games to tackle education issues, poverty and human rights is having a four day festival at Parsons School of Design from May 24-27 in New York City.