Saffron Asks Me About Mobile Learning
Thanks to Saffron Interactive, you caught some great ideas on tape; head over to their YouTube channel for more great interviews from the likes of Clark Quinn, Craig Taylor, Julie Wedgewood, Matt Brewer and many more, keep checking back to the channel, more will be added over the coming days.
Interesting to watch developments with @freezecrowd launch > follow @ericleebow
“FreezeCrowd connects people in group photos. A revolutionary college social network…”
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It’s as close as you get without being there!
Currently its lunchtime, more live feed soon…
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New Screencast: Memorising stuff with help from Calvin & Hobbes
Dedicated to my daughters hard work learning her times-tables!
300 Years of FOSSIL FUELS in 300 Seconds (Video 5:39 – Animation) < Must see
Excellent video. Lots to chew over…
Hire people who believe what you believe ~ Sinon Sinek
Re-watching… so good!
QR Codes made from food… < Fun video!
Creative or what!
Listening to the past… Postman (1998) Huxley (1959) < New Post
Last night I watched Neil Postman’s speech, a series of seven YouTube videos. In total it lasted over an hour. It was most interesting listening to him slice and dice media and technology but one section particularly caught my attention. Using Splicd, I snipped a section on the video where Mr Postman saw no evidence how technology would have any part to play in the classroom…
Extract from: #Technology and #Society by Neil Postman (1998)
During his entire talk he focused on six key questions relating to technology, which I’ve transcribed. I find it an interesting set of questions that could be used as a road map and even be applied today by #developers.
1) What is the problem to which this technology is a solution?
2) Who’s problem is it? Who will benefit from it and who will pay for it.
3) What new problems may be created because we have solved the problem?
4) Which people and what institutions might be most seriously harmed by a technological solution?
5) What changes in language are being inforced by new technologies and what is being gained and lost by such changes?
6) What sort of people and institutions aquire special economic and political power because of technological change?
Shortly after watching these videos, I also watched a three part, 30 minute interview with Aldous Huxley, he was interviewed by Mike Wallace in 1959. Referring to technology and power Huxley answers…
“…these are all instruments for attaining power… it’s extremely important not to let any one man or any one small group have too much power or for too long a time…”
I’ve clipped that section below and I was watching it I began to think of the recent overwhelming success of Facebook, and Google for that matter, and whether or not Huxley was indeed referring to exactly this type of instrument.
It’s all left me wondering what lessons are to be taken away from this… thoughts?
The Domino Effect (video)
Love it… must have driven them insane getting this to work (ht @jaycross via FB)
Playing with ‘Glass’ – Social sharing and conversation from within your browser… ht @Mayakovskij
Thanks Viggo, already beginning to see the benefits of this… time to explore a little deeper.
From Viggo’s post >
http://viggoandersen.amplify.com/2010/11/22/glass-super-cool-link-sharing-in-real-time-500-invites/
‘When you go to the Glass website, enter the code “makeuseof” to get your invitation to the private beta.’
The Plight of Metadata (Video) cc: open_intel (ht @socialtechno)
Cool guy!
Intersect – Storylines and Intersections ht @jffcrmr
Interesting…
Will physical books be gone in five years? (Video) – ht @zecool
Click through to watch the video.
Will physical books be gone in five years?
“It will be in five years,” said Negroponte. “The physical medium cannot be distributed to enough people. When you go to Africa, half a million people want books … you can’t send the physical thing.”
A Vision of K12 Students Today ~ B Nesbitt (Video) – ht @ColinSteed #education #edchat #lrnchat
Inspiring video.
IBM RFID Commercial – The Future Market < Beyond QR Codes…
The future looks chipped. What do you think?
Robbie Williams with Little Britain
Forgotten how good Little Britain is… immersing into British humour before returning home next week 
Donald Clark: Don’t Lecture Me (Video) #education #teaching #change #lrnchat #edchat
Took time to enjoy this keynote last night and was very pleased I did… It follows on from the collection of videos I posted yesterday by Roger Schank, whose main message was ‘Why are we still lecturing…*?*!’
Donald’s comment on Facebook yesterday re: Roger’s videos, really made me grin, he wrote…
“Took me an hour to say the same thing!”
@donaldclark > ALT in German means OLD, ahem, #justsaying 
Why People Invented Multiple Choice Tests ~ Roger Schank
Are you paying attention?
The Best Way to Learn ~ Roger Schank
Get that – practice, practice, practice… do!
How do we learn? ~ Roger Schank
Learning by doing… is anyone listening?
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