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Monthly Archives: January 2009
New Intel-Powered Ink Enabled Classmate
The new Intel-powered Classmate PC converts from a clamshell to a tablet mode with a touchscreen. Further, it meet the $300 to $500 pricepoint urged by educators for the past decade. Public school administrators have argued that they would consider … Continue reading
Where’s the Learning in Schools?
The title ‘Where’s the Learning in Schools?’ adapts Jeffrey Pfeffer’s article title “Where’s the Service in our ‘Service Economy?’” He recounts the lack of service, the supposed core of a service economy, he saw in several retail stores. He speculates … Continue reading
Posted in Accountability, Competition, Mobile PC Learning
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Heiny 500 Magic Trick
I stumbled across a Google link to the Heiny 500 DVD distributed by Karl Hein. He shows a magic trick for turning five dollar bills into five $100 bills and back. Great trick! The editing does not show the switch … Continue reading
Posted in Mobile PC Learning, Sources
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Tablet PC Learning and Teacher Salary Delays
It’s Green Light Time for Tablet and other mobile PC learners to cross the street to more online learning. It’s time for Tableteers and other entrepreneurial educators to demonstrate how high tech can save districts money and increase student learning … Continue reading
SmartAction IVR System Needed for Mass Market of Independent Learners
Smart Action Company started operations January 12, 2009, with the release of its SmartAction IVR (interactive voice response) System. This appears another step toward using computers to handle routines instead of relying on humans to complete these tasks. Since most … Continue reading
Posted in Learning, Learning Efficiency, Robotics
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Soft Touch Humanoid Guides Person
A team at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, is developing a human-sized machine that can lightly hold a person’s forearm and steer them in the appropriate direction.If the person starts to wriggle, the robot quickly releases its hold. The work … Continue reading
Posted in Factoid, Robotics
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Global Education Assessment Revision Launched
At the Learning and Technology World Forum in London, Cisco, Intel and Microsoft unveiled plans to underwrite a research project to develop new assessment approaches, methods and technologies for measuring the success of teaching and learning in classrooms around the … Continue reading
Keeping Tablet PC Education Grounded
Family members help to keep Tablet PC Education grounded. They expect postings to make common sense. I agree with this expectation. Saturday, cousin Clair told me he reads Loren’s blog Incremental Blogger. “He’s a good writer. I also read Lora’s … Continue reading
Teacher’s Motto Dispel Ignorance
At the core of education rests a commitment to dispel ignorance. Without this commitment, education does not exist. Various forms have emerged over time to implement this commitment. I prefer the classic liberal interpretation that ignorance limits choices a person … Continue reading
Posted in Optoids, Teaching
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Obama’s "Responsibility" Bumper Sticker
As one observer opined, based on his inaugural address, President Obama seems to define responsibility this way, and it fits on a bumper sticker: “Work, stop whining, & don’t mess with us.” Catchy! Reminds me of growing up among Tom … Continue reading →