• The Future of Learning tech

    Jun 15.09 | Learn   

    In The Transformation of Learning with Technology authors Bush/Mott argue that much of current technology implementation in educaional settings perpetuates current teaching models instead of launching new ones.  And that without radical change real benefits of technology in teaching will not be realized.  The shifts include moving from a teaching to a learning focus and from teacher-centric to student-centric models.  They make a good case for the validity of this argument, but unfortunately don’t offer suggestions on what this shift will look like.  Here are some of my thoughts…

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  • MIT going mobile

    Nov 28.08 | Design   

    Mobile is the next killer app for education — or maybe it is already here.  At least the Massachusetts Institute of Technology seems to think so.  The MIT mobile web offers a directory, campus map, shuttle schedule, events calendar, class announcements for students, IT systems status updates and emergency information.  Even better they are making the design open source.  From reading through a Nercomp presentation it looks like they are using a mix of technologies including RSS, XML, CSS with PHP, MySQL and Python at the backend.

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