More on Fuchs & Woessmann
Wow, what a great debate!First David Wiley commented a study whose abstract is We estimate the relationship between students’ educational achievement and the availability and use of computers at home...
View ArticleMore on Eide Neurolearning Blog and Learning Styles
Response to Bill Gates from Derek's Blog brought up this thread again. A new comment posted by pepper to Eide Neurolearning Blog raised and commented on the practice of assigning time slot for...
View ArticleTeachers are in big trouble
I have jokingly written the post "Teachers are in big trouble" in the Random Walk in E-learning blog.I have seen the decline of the social status of teachers - at least in Hong Kong where I have taught...
View ArticleBlogging Your Education
about how her students are changing in their expectations and needs from their time in college. They are pushing against the traditional structures, asking to mix the classroom experience with online...
View ArticleBill Gate's Solution to American High Schools being obsolete
I have blogged about Bill's view that American High Schools are obsolete. Thanks to the link from OLDaily, I have read the whole speech and am very impressed.The media has painted a "rough guy" image...
View ArticleAlternate Business Plan needed for Higher Education
The Age posted an interesting article on how Hoyts cinema in Australia was experimenting with providing an IMax gaming experience to its customers.Upon reflecting on this, I remembered the last time my...
View ArticleComment tools for Essay grading
A member in the EDTECH discussion group (bit.listserv.edtech) provided a very helpful tip:You don't need an add-on to create custom comments in MS Word. Go to Tools on the menu bar and open up Auto...
View ArticleListen to the authorities and die - implication for teachers
The BoingBoing link on an article from the Wired tells a story of survival of a major tragedy. Here is the quote direct from BoingBoing:The people in the Twin Towers who ignored the instructions from...
View ArticlePersonal Memory Assistant
I heard a presentation by Jamais Cascio via ITConversations. In the presentation, he talked aboutthe Participatory Panopticon, and [it] spells the end of privacy and the end of secrecy. While personal...
View ArticleHuman Washing Machine
Via Boingboing. The Google translated English version.I wrote, back in September 2004 that in the future:all physical production will be outsourced to developing or underdeveloped countries, ...The...
View ArticleImplications when human can repair ourselves and more
A few break-throughs, which are likely to happen in this decade or next will have significant impact on the way we see ourselves, the way we work, the way society can sustain and hence the way we...
View ArticleFree Wi-Fi? Get Ready for GoogleNet.
via engadget.Here is a possibility from not a too distant future - free wi-fi access powered by location-based advertisement.Digital divide will still exist, but takes on a different meaning.Tags: free...
View ArticleSkin Cells Converted to Stem Cells
According to Washington Post,The technique uses laboratory-grown human embryonic stem cells -- such as the ones that President Bush has already approved for use by federally funded researchers -- to...
View Article23 Theses about the future of work
by Jim WareThis article articulates 23 theses the author feels will be the way work is undergoing reform. Please read them yourself.Here are a few which attracts my attention a little more than others...
View ArticleImproved future?
By DICK PELLETIERBased on developments such asUniversity of Tokyo researchers have developed flexible artificial skin that will allow robots to feel pressure, temperature, light, humidity, strain and...
View ArticleVision 2020
via Stephen Downes' OLDailyAccording to the survey which asks students (as an open-ended question):Today, you and your fellow students are important users of technology. In the future, you will be the...
View ArticleMedia in 2015
Michael Currie sent me this link. http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/epicThe future is obviously much more complicated than this. What is the role of Yahoo, who brought Flickr? What is the role of...
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Is smaller always the better?
It seems that the computing devices are getting smaller in their physical size and yet there is a converging trends that they are getting more features such as being mobile phone, camera, PDA, personal...
View ArticleInsights from a Techie
by David Warlick via OLDailyWhat would it mean for a teacher to be clickable.This is a question I am most interested in, especially if we want to have an answer which is appropriate in 10 to 15...
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Looking beyond 2020 - rendered physical reality
Let me first get some of the terms clear.Physical reality - the physical world we are familiar with.Virtual reality - a computer generated 3D-like (albeit rendered on a 2D screen) with support such as...
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