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Monthly Archives: September 2008
Education Entrepreneur Fellowships
David Harris, President and CEO of The Mind Trust reports that applications are in for the second cohort of Education Entrepreneur Fellows. The response was strong: 342 people applied for the Fellowship representing 37 states, Canada , China , Lithuania … Continue reading
Posted in Awards, Grants Funding
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Google’s Project Offers $10M
Google offers $10 million to implement ideas that can change the world by helping as many people as possible. After initial screening of ideas by both Google and Google users, a panel of judges will select will choose up to … Continue reading
Posted in Awards, Competition, Request for Proposals
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Research Qs about Learning with Tablet PCs 4.1
I add these common sense and topical questions to my earlier list of precipitating questions for studies of and about learning with Tablet PCs. The prepositions of and about establish the point of view used to describe such learning. The … Continue reading
Posted in Checklists, Learning, Mobile PC Learning, Mobile PCs in Schools
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Help! My Son has ADHD and School Problems
Many parents have questions about the extent to which advanced communication technologies, such as Tablet PCs, can assist their children with disabilities learn more. Here’s an excerpt from a letter to a mother addressing school problems her son faces. I … Continue reading
World Wide Web Foundation Addresses Disinformation
Sir Tim Berners-Lee co-created and unvailed a new World Wide Web Foundation that will address a new system that would give websites a label for trustworthiness once they had been proved reliable sources. He told BBC News that he was … Continue reading
Posted in Mobile PC Context, Quotes, Research
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Use Mouth and Throat Muscles and Receptors Memory for Speech
Researchers David Ostry and Sazzad Nasir at McGill University in Montreal on Sunday said intelligible speech is learnt in part through nerve signals from the vocal tract, a discovery that could open up an ambitious avenue of therapy for the … Continue reading
Posted in Direct Learning, Disabilities, Factoid
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WLAN More than 1Gb
“I think we’ll see a [Very High Throughput - VHT] standard in two years, and WLAN products with more than 1 gigabit per second within three years,” says Craig Mathias, principal for wireless consultancy Farpoint Group. “That is absolutely phenomenal.” … Continue reading
Posted in Mobile PC Context, Quotes
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Identifying Education Ph.D. Candidates
One of my first assignments in higher education was putting in rank order 350 applications for 10 doctoral study research fellowships in the then top ranked college of education in the U.S. I sorted these applications while also completing my … Continue reading
Posted in Call for Nominations, Competition, Mobile PC Context
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It’s Not What We Teach; It’s What They Learn
Alfie Kohn offers thoughtful comments in his September 10, 2008 post, It’s Not What You Teach; It’s What They Learn. I added a draft of these comments to his guest book. The title says it all, an easy point for … Continue reading →