Here are my notes from ISTE’s annual digital equity summit at NECC. There is too much information to fit in one post so I’m breaking it up… n Communications Industry: […]
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This arrived in my e-mail inbox yesterday: n n CDC REVIEW OF ELECTRONIC MEDIA AND YOUTH VIOLENCE Research Shows Increase in Electronic Aggression n In September 2006, experts from academic […]
Okay, it’s time to try out a new feature here at Dangerously Irrelevant: the Report of the Week (ROTW). Can I find and feature an interesting education-related report each and […]
The shortage of web addresses is “not a crisis but getting more urgent”, say analysts. The web is running out of addresses and IPv6 is the answer.
This post is a review of The New Cool: A Visionary Teacher, His FIRST Robotics Team, and the Ultimate Battle of Smarts by Neal Bascomb. My short recommendation? This book […]
Now, this may seem like I’m contradicting the opinion of the guest blogger last week. However, I’m not referring to the endless pursuit of rankings and grades. I’m meaning the […]
The Internet is prompting some people to get it in gear by competing against each other online. The rewards include virtual badges and group encouragement.
Digital data is easily produced and copied. It doesn’t take up too much drive space, and, once uploaded, it can remain online in perpetuity.
The Internet, the European Union, and the Olympics are all signs that, within the next 100 years, mankind will become a truly planetary civilization.
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Area 51 has long been a treasure trove for conspiracy theorists. Now a new book delivers some bombshell claims about the world’s most famous and secretive military installation.
Today’s front-page headline on the paper version of USA Today: Has social media gone too far? n Seriously? That’s the headline? n When a drunk driver runs over someone, do we blame the […]
I ran across an interesting article, From Literacy to Digiracy, in The Economist (hat tip to Angela Maiers). Here’s the money quote: For anyone under the age of 20, the […]
Nobody should be surprised to see unauthorized movie downloads booming when the authorized kind remain so difficult to find. Movie studios should seek to satisfy demand.
Recently a company in the Netherlands known as “Moddr.Net” released a software application allowing users to commit “virtual suicide.” Their free product, the “Web 2.0 Suicide Machine” allows users to […]
How can the government regulate the neutrality of the Internet? Isn’t that a contradiction in terms? Stephan Kinsella says government regulation of the Internet will stifle business.
The Google Art Project offers a new form of collaboration that allows museums to take extraordinary art works beyond their individual homes to create the first global art collection.
Laura said : There are a lot of Ed Tech blogs and they don’t appeal to the average teacher who is not a tech junkie. Would you consider doing a […]
My latest higher education article for Technology & Learning , Knowledge Networks , is now available. The article draws deeply from my previous blog posts, Linked, Scholarship 2.0 , and […]
Here’s a challenge for all of us educational technology advocates… Can we articulate in a few short sentences or paragraphs what the end result looks like? Children learning collaboratively, students […]
The mission of the One Laptop per Child initiative begins: nn “Most of the nearly twobillion children in the developing world are inadequately educated, or receive no education at all. […]
Released just yesterday, Physics of the Future is my most ambitious book to date. Based on interviews with over three hundred of the world’s top scientists, who are already inventing the […]
Mix together tabloid sensationalism in the world’s largest media market; the academic theory that any two people in the U.S. are linked together by, at most, six degrees of separation; […]
Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to catch the first episode of CNBC’s The Business of Innovation TV series when it aired for the first time on Sunday night. However, it looks […]
For the past 25 years, Kenneth Cole has been an innovator in the fashion world. In the 1980’s, he was the first designer to combine fashion with philanthropy; he has […]
Other than maybe “cloud computing” (which I still don’t really get) and mobile computing (in all of its permutations, but especially on the iPhone), it’s hard to think of a […]
[This is a guest post from Doug Green. If you’re interested in being a guest blogger, drop me a note. Happy reading!] Update: see also Don Watkins’ response to this […]
A new study from the University of California has found that younger Internet users become more socially engaged in the real world, not just online, thanks to their use of social media.
Imagine you’re a new MBA student at Lehigh University. After a little while in your program, you’re ready – like any good Internet citizen – to share your experiences with […]
Britt Watwood had a great post a few weeks back on student use of laptops in university classrooms. I just found it and left him a comment (as you can […]
Question: How do you remain mindful when juggling two, three, four, however many things at once? Answer: You probably don’t. For a long time, cognitive scientists have observed that processing […]