Reading for the Break?
Kevin Kelly is one of the founders of Wired Magazine, and child of the 1990s Internet boom. He has written an interesting book, What Technology Wants, written from the point […]
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10 Rules of Teaching in this Century
One author’s view of teaching in the 21st century – with technology of course, since this comes from the Campus Technology Journal 10 Rules of Teaching in this Century — […]
New Open Ed Resource from NBC
NBC has organized their video and primary source archives of news stories under discipline topics for higher ed. This appears to be a great resource for topic-specific reporting. They also […]
An Hour on the Internet
This is across all demographics…
Bill Gates Predicts Technology Will Make ‘Place-Based’ Colleges Less Important in 5 Years – Wired Campus – The Chronicle of Higher Education
There are some pretty superficial and breezy remarks in here, but if we are able to retain net neutrality, what Mr. Gates predicts may be more true than false. All […]
Horizon report 2010
As many know, the Horizon Report comes out each year to capsulize technology trends that are significant to the academy. This year, the keywords are “data sense-making, the cloud, and […]
What is the “Internet of Things”?
Basically, if you can imagine putting a radio frequency-emitting barcode on an object, and then being able to track that object’s location anywhere in the world via GPS and display […]
The Frontal Cortex
Jonah Lehrer’s blog on emerging cognitive research is just amazing. So much of this has to do with learning, our students, ourselves, and human behavior: http://scienceblogs.com/cortex/
First Look: Apple iPad
Is it possible that in a few years all our students will all have an iPad-type device costing under $300? Instead of heavy backpacks, overpriced textbooks, and notebooks, this device […]
Blog U.: Laptop Bans Are a Terrible Idea – Technology and Learning – Inside Higher Ed
Many faculty are struggling to limit distraction in the classroom – should we ban laptops? Joshua Kim (one of the best ed tech blogs going) says no. What do you […]
