Aldebaran Robotics’ forthcoming Nao robot can see (via two cameras), react to touch, detect faces and shapes, avoid obstacles, surf the Web, and interact with other Naos. He can also speak (in English or French, so far) by reading out any file stored locally in his storage space or captured from a website RSS
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Mobile learning is with us to stay. Distributed learning systems will focus on delivering instruction compatible with mobile lifestyles. Dupal offers simple plugin to convert any Drupal site to a smartphone friendly site. The network “is” the learning but only if the design is truly instructional and not merely informational.
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Pentagon: Zombie Pigs First, Then Hibernating Soldiers
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A billion dollars ago was only 8 hours and 20 minutes, at the rate our government is spending it
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I rec’d this email today…
How many zeros in a billion?
The next time you hear a politician use the
word ‘billion’ in a casual manner, think about
whether you want the ‘politicians’ spending
YOUR tax money.
A billion is a difficult number to comprehend,
but one advertising agency did a good job of
putting that figure into some perspective in
one of it’s releases.
While this thought is still fresh in our mind, let’s take a look at New Orleans. It’s amazing what you can learn with some simple division.
Louisiana Senator, Mary Landrieu (D), is presently asking Congress for
250 BILLION DOLLARS to rebuild New Orleans. Interesting number…
what does it mean?
A. Well… if you are one of the 484,674 residents of New Orleans
(every man, woman, and child)
you each get $516,528.
B. Or… if you have one of the 188,251 homes in
New Orleans , your home gets $1,329,787..
C. Or… if you are a family of four…
your family gets $2,066,012.
Now do the math yourself and figure out how much every man,
woman and child in the U.S. would get if we split among us,
the $800 Billion allocated for the Health-care bill*
*(which requires the formation of 118 new government agencies to manage).
How is your math? 
The beauty of this spreadsheet mapping tool* for writing papers is that you end up with all your major points at-a-glance and can truly synthesize your research. It also comes in handy if you have to defend your writing.
Copy and paste to your liking. Share as you like. This tool has saved me countless headaches when organizing literature reviews. Makes writing papers a breeze and revisiting them for a defense, much less stressful.
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Watch closely as textbooks take on more gaming-like features to engage and motivate students to journey to the end of the course. We shouldn’t underestimate the pedagogical applications with this platform of interaction.
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A cited overview of the why and how of building communities of impact. More can be found at http://www.immediaedu.com
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MIT Uses Social Networking to Win High-Tech Scavenger Hunt
Look at the incentive arrangement and think about your own institution and your own online classroom. How can you engage students online to cooperate and collaborate?
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