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Category: (Ubiquitous) Computing

  • mLearning m’bout mHealth

    If there are ways to get get health information out to people over phone, and specifically via SMS – and that is certainly a high risk assessment – why can’t we do the same for K-12? Is this a West/Developing world divide issue? Or something else? I’ve got to wonder. More on this when I…

  • Banning Knowledge Devices

    I’ve been following some of what has been going on in the States around PA trying to pass a law that would ban cell phones from schools. And as absurd as that sounds, it might happen for all I know. But ignoring for a moment all the users, not to mention parents who would all…

  • Classrooms, territory and personal electronics

    This morning, I came across a rather interesting post from Doug Clark on the anatomy of a classroom. In the post he talked about personal space and technology, among many other interesting observations about why the box that is the “modern” classroom is seemingly failing ever more. The first point is about personal space: Classrooms…

  • Fennec Pre-Alpha

    If you have a Windows Mobile phone (I feel for you ;)), you can try the pre-alpha of Fennec now. If you have tried this, I’d like to hear what your experience has been.

  • Giving Google Some Latitude

    Google has been called Big Brother so many times, you’d think that the Big G would be synonymous with another “big g”. So now that Google has a way of not only knowing if you are thinking naughty or nice things, but where you are as well, people are starting to invest in even more…