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  • Innovate Online – What’s up on take up?

    Sarah Lohnes and Charles Kinzer have an article in the new edition of Innovate that I think is very timely. One of the things that nobody who is “old school” can ever even hope to predict is what the younger generations truly want today, to say nothing of what they want a few years from…

  • Hole in the wall computing

    I just saw this on Daily Planet – The Hole in the Wall – some amazing work is being done there. Looking at constructivism and all manner of social learning. There is also a PBS story about it online as well as a Business Week Online story there available as well. Kids will teach themselves…

  • Let’s go to the iTunes U Store

    I wonder if they will sell hoodies here (iTunes MIT Bio). This should be a good way to get some best practices established for podcasting and a way to gain support for the process if some bean counter out there needs to see if there is someone else doing it (not wanting to take the…

  • Connectedness Foodchain

    This is an interesting find from C|Net who wrote a bit on the PEW Study that found that there are three major types of adult technology users in the US. I would think that, at least for North Atlantic users, this information is the same for other countries as well. If you need more proof…

  • Google Effect

    One of the things that edtech people often hear coming from keynotes is that Google is a great saviour for the inquiring minds of our students. Students are now able to ask a wide range of questions and get results (that still have to be filtered mind you) that they can use almost right away.…