My favorite is the Linkedin poster. Just consider the message there. Enemies with something in common? Not far off when you consider linkedin is used for job hunting via networks of people with whom you share common interests and goals…. competitors perhaps?

These posters are a good example of a classroom project that evokes higher order critical thinking. Putting present ideas into a new historical context (often this is being done by transferring historical ideas into modern contexts). Clever and enlightening. Are you a teacher? What possibilities do you see?

The major shifts affecting learning and teaching today and in the near future are outlined below

… regarding interactivity, information deluge management, mashups, real-time web, and multidimensional inputs.

Teachers can prepare but they need to take quick action.

See what reputable people are saying about topics that interest you — in real-time

Still in private beta but worth watching the youtube explanation to understand new trends in mashup api’s and how data may be manipulated for future research.

Yes, it happened: Live video streaming has come to the iPhone courtesy of Ustream.

In a move that many suspected would never happen — surely the carriers would loathe the increased data usage resulting from such apps — Apple has approved the Ustream Live Broadcaster application, bringing live streaming video straight from the iPhone to the uStream Web site and any embedded players posted around the Web.

The app works on 3G and Wi-Fi connections, supports yes/no polling of viewers, displays chatroom messages, serves up a viewer count, can transmit your location via GPS and allows you to adjust the resolution. Oh, and did we mention it’s absolutely free?

Suffice to say, this looks to be a killer app, and it’s worth giving a spin if you’d like to post live video from your iPhone. It’s available in the iTunes store here.

At Stanford, nanotubes + ink + paper = instant battery

Dip an ordinary piece of paper into ink infused with carbon nanotubes and silver nanowires, and it turns into a battery or supercapacitor. Crumple the piece of paper, and it still works. Stanford researcher Yi Cui sees many uses for this new way of storing electricity.

Jack Hubbard

Post doctoral students in the lab of Prof. Yi Cui, Materials Science and Engineering, light up a diode from a battery made from treated paper, similar to what you would find in a copy machine. The paper batteries are treated with a nanotube ink, baked and folded into electrical generating sources like the one wrapped in foil seen here.

BY JANELLE WEAVER

Stanford scientists are harnessing nanotechnology to quickly produce ultra-lightweight, bendable batteries and supercapacitors in the form of everyday paper.

Simply coating a sheet of paper with ink made of carbon nanotubes and silver nanowires makes a highly conductive storage device, said Yi Cui, assistant professor of materials science and engineering.

“Society really needs a low-cost, high-performance energy storage device, such as batteries and simple supercapacitors,” he said.

Like batteries, capacitors hold an electric charge, but for a shorter period of time. However, capacitors can store and discharge electricity much more rapidly than a battery.

Cui’s work is reported in the paper “Highly Conductive Paper for Energy Storage Devices,” published online this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Single-atom transistor discovered

According to KurzweilAI.net: A working transistor whose active region comprises only a single phosphorus atom in silicon has been built by researchers from Helsinki University of Technology, University of New South Wales, and University of Melbourne.

The device uses sequential tunneling of single electrons between the phosphorus atom and the source and drain leads of the transistor. The tunneling can be suppressed or allowed by controlling the voltage on a nearby metal electrode with a width of a few tens of nanometers.

The researchers plan to use the spin degree of freedom of an electron of the phosphorus donor as a quantum bit (qubit). They were able to observe spin up and down states for a single phosphorus donor in a magnetic field for the first time–a crucial step towards the control of these states in realizing a qubit.