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Category: (Ubiquitous) Computing

  • More thoughts on the Info Pyramid

    Stephen Downes noticed my post among others yesterday with regards to the info pyramid. He commented that there was “still no learning” even though I offered an alternative. In my defense, I am of the mind that one can learn from just about anything, but more to the point, the consumption of information at home…

  • Info pyramid

    There are pyramids for everything that suggest ways and means to be the best at whatever they are describing, but this one from Wired caught my attention for “optimal consumption of media”. It might just be me, but I would think that it would be far more valuable to have at the base of the…

  • mLearning should be the way

    U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan says schools and colleges should deliver course content to the cell phones that students use to talk and text every day So reports eSchool News… “I don’t think we’ve had any real negative push against it or anyone refusing to use it,” Campbell [coordinator of learning resources and extended education…

  • Portugal’s Technology Integration

    Huffington Post is not usually a place where I would normally look for a edtech story, but somehow I came across this one by Don Tapscott. Tapscott points out that Portugal was suffering in 2005 until the government decided to make sure that students had access to the ‘net. The kicker to the success of…

  • Sixth Sense Devices – Minority Report Interface bar none

    This is certainly the coolest way to think about these natural movement interfaces – all you need to be able to do is project onto a surface. In high light areas, it might not work so well, but like the lady says, this might very well be here within a few years.