The author reflects on whether Steve Jobs would have transformed education during the last 38-years as much as he did through technology. [PDF]
What if Steve Jobs had been an Innovative Educator?
31 January 2012
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Posted by Oscar Retterer
iPain: Using your tablet incorrectly can lead to injury
30 January 2012Using your iPad the wrong way can be a real pain in the neck — not to mention the wrist, shoulder and forearm, according to a study by the Harvard’s School of Public Health.
[Source: The Daily]
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Posted by Oscar Retterer
Apple: School should center on the iPad
30 January 2012Apple on Thursday lifted the veil on its plans to remake the educational landscape in a way that centers on its best-selling tablet computer, the iPad.
“Education is deep in Apple’s DNA and iPad may be our most exciting education product yet,” Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of marketing, said in a statement.
At a press conference in New York, the company announced three products that aim to get students and teachers to use the iPad’s touch-screen interface to read, write, plan classes and communicate with each other.
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Posted by Charles Wachira
Textbook Publishers Prep For The E-Future
27 January 2012Textbook publishers sign on with Apple to take advantage of iPad.
[Source: Boston Globe]
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Posted by Oscar Retterer
A Disrupted Higher-Ed System
26 January 2012Not a week seems to go by without another major announcement that has the potential to disrupt a large part of higher education. Are traditional colleges ready?
[Source: Chronicle of Higher Education]
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Posted by Oscar Retterer
50 new tech tools you should know about
26 January 2012You may have dozens of apps on your phone and scores of websites bookmarked on your laptop, but that doesn’t mean you have all the latest tech tools at your fingertips.
New mobile apps, services, social networks and other digital tools pop up so frequently that keeping up with them is a nearly impossible task. Just when you think you’re up to date, something newer and hipper comes along.
But before you wave the white flag, let us help. Once again we have sorted through hundreds of new and emerging tech tools to bring you 50 of the most buzzworthy ones. (Last year’s list can be found here.)
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Posted by Charles Wachira
ProfHacker: The Challenges of Digital Scholarship
26 January 2012Adeline Koh reports on the 2012 Modern Language Association preconference workshop on evaluating digital work for promotion and tenure.
[Source: Chronicle of Higher Education]
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Posted by Oscar Retterer
Tenured Professor Departs Stanford U., Hoping to Teach 500,000 Students at Online Start-Up
26 January 2012Sebastian Thrun, a research professor of computer science at Stanford, revealed that he has departed the institution to found Udacity, a start-up offering low-cost online classes. He made the surprising announcement during a presentation at the Digital – Life – Design conference in Munich, Germany. During his talk, Mr. Thrun explored the origins of his popular online course at Stanford, which initially featured videos produced with nothing more than “a camera, a pen and a napkin.”
[Source: Chronicle of Higher Education]
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Posted by Oscar Retterer
MIT Mints a Valuable New Form of Academic Currency
24 January 2012MITx is the next big step in the open-educational-resources movement that the Massachusetts Institute of Technology helped start in 2001, when it began putting its course lecture notes, videos, and exams online, where anyone in the world could use them at no cost. The project exceeded all expectations—more than 100 million unique visitors have accessed the courses so far.
Now MIT has decided to put the two together—free content and sophisticated online pedagogy—and add a third, crucial ingredient: credentials. Beginning this spring, students will be able to take free, online courses offered through the MITx initiative. If they prove they’ve learned the material, MITx will, for a small fee, give them a credential certifying as much.
[Source: Chronicle of Higher Education]
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Posted by Oscar Retterer
Facebook Shunners: Is Resistance Futile?
23 January 2012As Facebook becomes increasingly ubiquitous, there remains a group of people who, for a variety of reasons, have resisted signing up or have shut down their accounts. But can people truly avoid a site that has become inextricably linked with how people live and work?
[Source: Knowledge @ Wharton]
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