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Category: (Ubiquitous) Computing

  • Two edges of mobile

    As I’m cutting through emails, tweets and stared items in my reader, I’m finding that a whole pile of stuff happened while I was “gone”. One of the things that I remember “starting” before I left was something about Pennsylvania banning, or trying to ban cell phones (and other mobile devices) in schools. I remember…

  • Da GBU on Txting

    After I spotted the new paper on texting last night, I noticed this morning that another one of the blogs that I read had picked up the same story, and had added a nice collection of pro/con articles: Positive studies on the effect of text messaging on student’s writing skills: Texts ‘do not hinder literacy’…

  • More on mHealth

    You can’t say anymore that mobile devices are not going to change the world – m<whatever> is here, and it starts with health. The UN has released a report – mHealth for Development: The Opportunity of Mobile Technology for Healthcare in the Developing World. The NYT has a nice writeup, but the kicker is: The…

  • Teens/Twenty Somethings, Sex and Tech

    While this is not as relevant to the instructors that I work with, it is certainly something that impact students from Jr. High to the end of their undergraduate degree. “This” of course is sex. Many parents/teachers/admins are terrified of technology, not because of how it might be used to cheat on exams, but rather,…

  • Ubergadget rollouts

    THE has an article today about another “smart phone in the classroom” rollout and some of the issues that it might raise. All these rollouts are starting to sound like the PDA trials of the start of the decade. The PDA, which was the precursor to the ubergadget had everything going for it at the…