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EdTech students should concentrate on mobile delivery and engagement for instructional design according to this excellent post at http://www.techradar.com
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Posts Tagged ‘Education’
Phones to be world’s most popular web browsers by 2013 #etc695 elearning / mlearning
January 19th, 2010
The Solution is the Problem when it Comes to the Much-Hullabaloo’d Education Fix…
January 4th, 2010
Amish schoolhouse in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania in 1941. From Wikipedia royalty-free images. Click to enlarge.
The tensions resonating within the educational system remind me of so many “professionals” who opined their varied diagnoses and prescriptions yet without a hint of resolution in sight. Why?
via immediaedu.com
What’s worse is that a cursory overview shows nearly all the experts agree on the current state of affairs and the necessary goal we should have in view. But finding a solution to target is the challenge. In other words, the solution is the problem.
Three points summarize the deluge of data streaming the blogosphere: (click the ImmediaEdu link above and visit the Updates page for the rest of the story).
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Apple’s iPhone ecosystem may prove to be the fastest and most disruptive technology the world has ever seen
January 2nd, 2010Apple’s iPhone/iTouch/iTunes ecosystem “may prove to be the fastest ramping and most disruptive technology product / service launch the world has ever seen
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Perhaps the most remarkable statement in the report is that the Mobile Internet market will be “at least 2x size of Desktop Internet,” which Morgan Stanley bases on analysis comparing Internet users with mobile subscribers.
Combine these reports with this week’s headlines that Africa has the highest per capita concentration of cell phones (surprise), and we can easily see where education is heading (or at least where it ‘needs’ to head).
The next generation is mobile. Education must be available to this mobile generation. Textbooks will be electronified NOT simply because it’s green and saves trees. It’s about delivery to the mobile masses. KurzweilAI.com announced it’s own e-book breakthrough this past week. It is open source and platform transforming rather than device-centric .
Educators, above all, should be able to think beyond the linear, boxed-in paradigms up which it has rested for decades, and take advantage of the new mobile platforms before us. It seems unfortunate that rather than switch, the behemoth institution would rather fight to retain their hierarchical position that is trending inevitably toward extinction.
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Augmented Reality in a Contact will transform education textbook interface…
December 30th, 2009
This article explains well, the soon coming developments in augmented reality (AR) which will surely transform the classroom experience from the either/or face-to-face or virtual to real-time experiences augmented with live-feed data. Teachers will need to facilitate learning much differently than today. Mentoring, coaching, guiding, will take on new look. Click the spectrum link under the image above to read the full article.
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World’s OS is about Conversation, not Information…
December 18th, 2009
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If we agree that the morphing networked world is about conversation, then we can picture the changes this way:
- Web 1.0 was about stone tablets.
- Web 2.0 is about smoke signals; recording our thoughts, ideas, and opinions and reacting to the thoughts, ideas, and opinions of others, whether synchronously or asynchronously.
- Web 3.0 is about bridging the space-time gap to engage in live, direct, real-time conversation that is virtually – if not actually – face-to-face.
The new, real-time platform is unique because it will be enhanced by APIs that can mashup our interactions in order to shape new communities hitherto unattainable.
When we understand that technology is innovated to improve social communication, we become less device and application focused and more interactive. Hence, the social media phenomenon is here to stay and will increase in intensity as new mashup applications develop to aid our intrinsic need to share.
The challenge for education is that historically, assessment of knowledge is individually based. This makes perfect sense because it’s difficult to give a degree to someone who doesn’t demonstrate command of some particular knowledge-domain they have studied. However, the real-world of business does not run on individual talents as much as team efforts.
Pedagogical application has responded with case-based, project-oriented, and portfolio-developing lesson plans. But in the end, standardized testing still focuses on individual regurgitation of memorized facts. This is a senseless contradiction at best and reflects a broken system that needs to be redesigned to enter the 21st Century.
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‘We’ll Work for Free,’ Say Retired Professors, but Colleges Struggle With How to Use Them. Really?
December 17th, 2009
via chronicle.com
This is a good example of how the old business model is so entrenched within the educational institution, that we can’t see for forest for the trees. Experienced, retired professors are willing to teach for free. But we can’t figure out how to make that work. Hmm… perhaps because money interests outweigh education interests? Is that a crowded football stadium I hear roaring??
Where are our priorities? Look what Open University is doing (started by retired professors I remind you). With all our brains, we can’t figure out how to make a new model sustainable? I find that hard to believe. What is easier to believe is that the discomfort faced by the entrenched at the thought of losing their jobs, prevents them for doing their job which is to educate the next generation.
If our forefathers had this attitude when founding our Nation, we wouldn’t have a nation. Self sacrifice for the common and future good took precedence over personal comforts. Who wants to make a difference? really??
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Teaching Futurology…
December 12th, 2009
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The jobs for which our children will be educated do not yet exist. Technological change is emerging faster than we can adapt. The most needed skill is critical thinking. Students need to be challenged to think about their thinking. What makes good thinking and what constitutes poor thinking? Thinking out loud enables groups of learners to hear the reasoning process of others. Higher order thinking is engaged when students extrapolate from given information to consider future possibilities.
For this reason, Future studies (Futurology not to be confused with the artistic Futurism movement) will become an important branch of study in higher education settings. Futurology teaches students how to extrapolate from major trends, what might or could happen in the future. There are many trend researching techniques, many birthed as a result of World War II “what if” scenarios studied by war time analysts.
Today, Futurology techniques for research are used for disaster planning, energy shortage considerations, job market predictions, and the like. The bottom line for those considering becoming a Futurologist? Develop your critical thinking skills. Without quality thinking, futuring will be more dangerous than useful.
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Everything I needed to know wasn’t available in Kindergarten… – The Future of Education
December 12th, 2009However, although information may help reduce risk, genuine learning increases capability. Education needs more information as badly as a certain golfer needs endorsements.
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What are Educational Technologist Leadership Competencies?
December 1st, 2009The cool possibilities about the more than 200 real-time web 2.0 tools under development (Like Google Wave) is that sync and async are being melded together along with multi-dimensional communication tools such as voice, text, image, video, etc.
When semantic web becomes the standard (searchable text becomes recognizable object) then tagging and bookmarking values will be reduced and personal and group collections will become more useful.
Such collections will not simply consist of some items “saved” to another location, but more likely will consist of “searched” items and “pointed to” results. http://popurls.com is demonstrating the real-time value of aggregating crowd sourced and theme specific topics. Studying such real-time results can be a great source of discussion for critical thinking development.
The most important quality for Ed Tech leaders is to understand trends and adapt their craft to emerging innovations. Higher education may do students a disservice by focusing too much on tool techniques and too little on trend research.
Arabic Fastest Growing Language Users of Net…
November 16th, 2009Always great to get up to date charts and graphs that visually represent unique views of who, what, why, and where on the world wide web 2.0. 
Thanks to Internet World Stats for this graphic representation of language users on the Internet. Great tools for teachers and educators needing to teach critical thinking skills to students. Note the percent rate of growth. This is important when considering future trends.
Top 10 language users on the internet. Note the rate of growth.
