Why the iPhone Has a Head Start on the Future of Personal Computing | TIME.com:
Month: February 2012
Surviving Progress – Documentary
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=6hjjkJPnmbM
This documentary explores the concept of progress in our modern world, guiding us through a sweeping but detailed survey of the major “progress traps” facing our civilization in the arenas of technology, economics, consumption, and the environment.
2012 NMC and ELI Release the Horizon Report
NMC and ELI Release the Horizon Report > 2012 HiEd Edition | The New Media Consortium
“The Horizon report thidentifies and describes emerging technologies likely to have a large impact over the coming five years in education around the globe.
This year’s NMC Horizon Report identifies mobile apps and tablet computing as technologies expected to enter mainstream use in the first horizon of one year or less. Game-based learning and learning analytics are seen in the second horizon of two to three years; gesture-based computing and the Internet of Things are seen emerging in the third horizon of four to five years.”
Dungeons, Dragons, and Digital Denizens – Continuum
Dungeons, Dragons, and Digital Denizens – Continuum:
“This book helps readers better understand their own relationships – as players, designers, consumers, and citizens – with digital role playing games.”
Internet Freedom Fighters Build a Shadow Web: Scientific American
Internet Freedom Fighters Build a Shadow Web: Scientific American: “Governments and corporations have more control over the Internet than ever. Now digital activists want to build an alternative network that can never be blocked, filtered or shut down”
The ‘Undue Weight’ of Truth on Wikipedia – The Chronicle Review – The Chronicle of Higher Education
The ‘Undue Weight’ of Truth on Wikipedia – The Chronicle Review – The Chronicle of Higher Education: “One scholar’s attempt to edit a wikipedia entry with inaccuracies. “
E-books Can’t Burn by Tim Parks | The New York Review of Books
A Tech-Happy Professor Reboots After Hearing His Teaching Advice Isn’t Working – The Chronicle of Higher Education
“Michael Wesch has been on the lecture circuit for years touting new models of active teaching with technology. The associate professor of cultural anthropology at Kansas State University has given TED talks. Wired magazine gave him a Rave Award. The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching once named him a national professor of the year. But now Mr. Wesch finds himself rethinking the fundamentals of teaching—and questioning his own advice.”