On 08/28/2013,
in 21st century, 24x7x365 access, Asia, business, corporate / business world, creativity, Daniel S. Christian, digital audio, digital learning, digital storytelling, digital video, emerging technologies, engagement / engaging students, human-computer interaction (HCI), immersion, innovation, interaction design, interactivity, learning ecosystem, Learning from the Living [Class] Room, marketing/social marketing, mobile learning, more voice more choice more control, multi-touch, multimedia, new media literacies, online media, personalized/customized learning, tablets, trends,
by Daniel Christian
From DSC:
What if the objects you touched you just wanted to know more about…? This could tie into educationally-related applications at that point!
On 08/13/2013,
in Asia, education, education reform, education technology, elearning, flipping -- inverted learning, innovation, K-12 related, new business models, teachers, teaching & learning, United States, workplace,
by Daniel Christian
The $4 million teacher — from online.wsj.com by Amanda Ripley
South Korea’s students rank among the best in the world, and its top teachers can make a fortune. Can the U.S. learn from this academic superpower?
Excerpt:
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SeongJoon Cho for The Wall Street Journal
Kim Ki-Hoon, who teaches in a private after-school academy,
earns most of his money from students who watch his lectures online.
‘The harder I work, the more I make,’ he says. ‘I like that.’
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Kim Ki-hoon earns $4 million a year in South Korea, where he is known as a rock-star teacher—a combination of words not typically heard in the rest of the world. Mr. Kim has been teaching for over 20 years, all of them in the country’s private, after-school tutoring academies, known as hagwons. Unlike most teachers across the globe, he is paid according to the demand for his skills—and he is in high demand.
On 07/03/2013,
in 21st century, 24x7x365 access, analytics, Asia, computer science, game-changing environment, K-12 related, MOOCs -- Massive Open Online Courses, new business models, online learning, United States,
by Daniel Christian
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Also see:
- Japan’s Schoo lands $1.5m to broaden its online learning service as it targets 1m users — from thenextweb.com
Coursera and its ilk in the US aren’t the only ones making big moves in the massive open online course (MOOC) space, over in Japan a series of companies are making progress — including Tokyo-based Schoo, which just raised $1.5 million, as Startup Dating reports.
. - List of startups in the eduction/kids space — from the 2nd annual LAUNCH Education & Kids event
On 06/04/2013,
in Asia, business, Canada, creativity, economics, education reform, entrepreneurship, global / globalization, innovation, K-12 related, leadership, motivation, passions,
by Daniel Christian
Oceans of innovation: The Atlantic, the Pacific, global leadership and the future of education — from the Institute for Public Policy Research by Sir Michael Barber, Katelyn Donnelly and Saad Rizvi; with thanks to Stephen Harris (@Stephen_H) for posting this on Twitter
Description (emphasis DSC):
‘The economic and educational achievements of the Pacific region in the past 50 years are spectacular – unprecedented in fact. They lay a foundation for the next 50 years – a much better foundation than exists in many Atlantic systems – but the mix of factors that brought those achievements will not be capable of meeting the challenge ahead.’
This long essay by Sir Michael Barber, Katelyn Donnelly and Saad Rizvi assumes the near certainty that the Pacific region will take primary leadership of the global economy in the near future and explores the implications for their education systems, calling for a ‘whole-system revolution’ in the structure and priorities of teaching and learning in the region.
‘What is clear, though, is that education – deeper, broader and more universal – has a significant part to play in enabling humanity to succeed in the next half century. We need to ensure that students everywhere leave school ready to continue to learn and adapt, ready to take responsibility for their own future learning and careers, ready to innovate with and for others, and to live in turbulent, diverse cities. We need perhaps the first truly global generation; a generation of individuals rooted in their own cultures but open to the world and confident of their ability to shape it.
‘The growing pace of change and increasing complexity mean that global leadership will no longer be merely about summits behind closed doors. In an era of transparency, leaders will find themselves constantly in dialogue with those they purport to lead. Meanwhile, innovations which transform societies can and will happen anywhere. Leadership, in short, will be widely dispersed and will require increasing sophistication.’
From DSC:
Let’s help students identify, design, and develop their own businesses while they are still in K-20. We could provide them with mentoring, guidance, and teams of specialists from their “classmates” — wherever those classmates may be.
This business of studying for the standardized tests seems to fall far short of what the next generation will need to survive and thrive in the new global economy. With the dropout rates being what they are, it doesn’t appear that our current educational systems (at least in the U.S.) will get us to the place where our students are innovative, inventive, and are able to freelance with confidence — where they own their own learning, are engaged and motivated to learn, where they learn how to learn and know where to go to access the relevant streams of content that are flowing (constantly) by them. unleashed to be far more creative and entrepreneurial.
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On 05/29/2013,
in Artificial Intelligence/Agents/LLMs/and Related, Asia, Australia, Canada, change, corporate / business world, emerging technologies, innovation, internet, learning ecosystem, mobile technologies, online learning, platforms, social media, trends, UK, United States, workplace,
by Daniel Christian
KPCB Internet Trends 2013 — by Mary Meeker and Liang Wu on May 29, 2013
Description:
The latest edition of the annual Internet Trends report finds continued robust online growth. There are now 2.4 billion Internet users around the world, and the total continues to grow apace. Mobile usage is expanding rapidly, while the mobile advertising opportunity remains largely untapped. The report reviews the shifting online landscape, which has become more social and content rich, with expanded use of photos, video and audio. Looking ahead, the report finds early signs of growth for wearable computing devices, like glasses, connected wrist bands and watches – and the emergence of connected cars, drones and other new platforms.
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On 05/21/2013,
in Asia, dangers of the status quo, experimentation, game-changing environment, global / globalization, higher education, innovation, Learning from the Living [Class] Room, MOOCs -- Massive Open Online Courses, new business models,
by Daniel Christian
EdX Expands xConsortium to Asia and doubles in size with addition of 15 new global institutions — from prnewswire.com
From MOOC platform edX announces 15 new university partners (from educationdive.com)
These are the new partner institutions:
- The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong (HKUx)
- Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Hong Kong (HKUSTx)
- Kyoto University, Japan (KyotoUx)
- Peking University, Beijing, China (PekingX)
- Seoul National University, South Korea (SNUx)
- Tsinghua University, Beijing, China (TsinghuaX)
- The University of Queensland in Australia (UQx)
- Karolinska Institutet, Sweden (KIx)
- Universite catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium (LouvainX)
- Technische Universitat Munchen, Germany (TUMx)
- Berklee College of Music, Boston, Mass. (BerkleeX)
- Boston University, Boston, Mass. (BUx)
- Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. (CornellX)
- Davidson College, Davidson, N.C. (DavidsonX)
- University of Washington, Seattle (UWashingtonX)
On 04/16/2013,
in A/V -- audio/visual, Asia, human-computer interaction (HCI), innovation, interface design,
by Daniel Christian
Dynamic cityscapes painted with extreme energy — posted on mymodernmet.com by Katie Hosmer; art by Van Tame
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On 03/11/2013,
in architecture, Asia, collaboration, learning spaces, library / librarians,
by Daniel Christian
The future of libraries? In Japan, elevated study pods encourage conversation — from startup-dating.com by Yukari Mitsuhashi
Photo via toto.co.jp
Photo by Liss Blog
Also see:
- Best Photo Locations: The Most Amazing Libraries in The World [Photos] — from Chase Jarvis
On 01/14/2013,
in Asia, Canada, education reform, Europe, future, global / globalization, K-12 related, real-world assignments, staying relevant, student-related, UK, United States,
by Daniel Christian
Description:
Amanda Ripley is an investigative journalist who writes about human behavior and public policy. For Time Magazine and the Atlantic, she has chronicled the stories of American kids and teachers alongside groundbreaking new research into education reform. “Kids have strong opinions about school. We forget as adults how much time they sit there contemplating their situation.”
From DSC:
I post this now, because I just saw this via a post that Patrick Larkin made over the weekend — Amanda Ripley’s intriguing talk on education reform — that contains the following excerpt (bolding/emphasis DSC):
The video concludes with the following takeaways from these conversations:
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- In the top performing countries in the world school is harder.
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- No country is like the US with its obsession of playing sports.
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- Kids (in schools in these other countries) believe there’s something in it for them.
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- Kids believe that what they are doing in school impacts their futures.
On 01/08/2013,
in 21st century, A/V -- audio/visual, analytics, Artificial Intelligence/Agents/LLMs/and Related, Asia, Bring your own device (BYOD), cloud-based computing / apps / other cloud-related, convergence, corporate / business world, corporate universities / corporate training, Daniel S. Christian, data related items, digital learning, disruption, e-publishing related items (EPUB and more), education technology, educational games / serious games, elearning, emerging technologies, engagement / engaging students, experimentation, future, game-changing environment, innovation, interactivity, internet, learning agents, learning ecosystem, Learning from the Living [Class] Room, machine-to-machine communications, mirroring and/or multiple devices, mobile learning, MOOCs -- Massive Open Online Courses, multimedia, Near Field Communication (NFC), New "Amazon.com" of Higher Education, online learning, online media, online tutoring, participation, personalized/customized learning, platforms, second screen apps, smart classrooms, social learning / networks, technologies for your home, telepresence, television, transmedia, trends, TVs, vision/possibilities,
by Daniel Christian
From DSC:
In this series of periodic postings re: experimentation (see here and here), this week’s Consumers Electronics Show prompts me to think about different types of experiments, prompting such questions as:
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- When will we see more educationally-related second screen apps?
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- How might this type of setup dovetail with MOOCs provided by institutions of higher education? With MOOCs offered by the corporate world?
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- What sorts of technologies will weave their way into what could be offered here?
(The following possibilities come to my mind: Artificial Intelligence (AI), learning agents, recommendation engines, course or topic playlists, web-based learner profiles, data mining/analytics, videoconferencing, educational gaming, virtual tutoring, BYOD, and/or cloud-based computing. Other…?)
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- Will Internet-enabled marketplaces and exchanges — between learners and teachers — become commonplace?
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- Will technologies involved with endeavors like IBM’s Watson or with Knewton be deployed in this kind of convergent environment? If so, what sorts of doors/job opportunities/new skillsets would that open up or require?
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![The Living [Class] Room -- by Daniel Christian -- July 2012 -- a second device used in conjunction with a Smart/Connected TV](http://danielschristian.com/learning-ecosystems/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/The-Living-Class-Room-Daniel-S-Christian-July-2012.jpg)
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Some relevant items on this include:
Flingo reveals Samba, a first of its kind dual interactive TV and second screen platform — from pandodaily.com byasdf
Excerpt:
This week at CES in Las Vegas (the Consumer Electronics Show), San Francisco-based Flingo will release the latest version of its platform, dubbed Samba, aimed at changing this. Samba will make four-year-old Flingo one of the first to offer a combined Interactive TV and Second Screen experience.
“We saw a surge of Smart TV and tablet adoption in 2012, but realized that a seamless TV experience across all screens was missing,” says Flingo co-founder and CEO Ashwin Navin, formerly of BitTorrent. “Samba will blur the lines between linear television and the Web.”
Flingo is unique in that it uses video, not audio to identify what content is being viewed…
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Samba offers viewers the ability to actively engage with programming in real-time through their primary screen. This can take the form of polls, social conversations, recommendations, or consumption of related media. In the case of Second Screens, aka internet-connected laptops, tablets, and smartphones used simultaneously while watching TV, the company can offer an even wider array of complementary content and engagement, such as aggregated social feeds relating to live programming or an ability to watch past episodes of a live show. This can all be delivered across multiple screens, in concert.
Also see:
Also see:
- Panasonic, IBM, ABOX42 and others join LG and Toshiba’s Smart TV Alliance to solve fragmentation
- YouTube bringing Google TV AirPlay-like pairing feature to new devices in 2013 — from 9to5google.com by Jordan Kahn
- Audible Magic unveils cross-platform solution for interactive TV commercials — from cnbc.com
- CES: Samsung unveils 4K TVs; upgrades Smart TV service — from forbes.com by Eric Savitz
- Samsung rethinks Smart TV (and we’re impressed) — from nbcnews.com by Wilson Rothman
- Slick new Bravo app personalizes your Smart TV experience — from mashable.com by Brian Anthony Hernandez
- In the digital living room, there’s something in the air — from pro.gigaom.com by Paul Sweeting
- Usage of connected TVs rose 25% in 2012 — from therealtimereport.com [Addendum on 1/9/13]
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- Here’s your complete look at Samsung’s new Smart TV — from businessinsider.com by Kevin Smith [Addendum on 1/9/13]
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Kevin Smith/Business Insider
More tangentially, but still relevant:
- McGraw-Hill to debut adaptive e-book for students — from blogs.wsj.com by Shalini Ramachandran
Excerpt:
The SmartBook…works like this: All readers essentially see the same textbook as they read for the first five minutes. But as a reader answers review questions placed throughout the chapter, different passages become highlighted to point the reader to where he or she should focus attention.
On 01/02/2013,
in art, Asia, communications, corporate / business world, faith, future, global / globalization, history, liberal arts, political science, psychology, religion, society, sociology, workplace,
by Daniel Christian
Calvin College: The January Series
Presentations begin 12:30 p.m. EST (11:30 a.m. CST, 10:30 a.m. MST, 9:30 a.m. PST)
NOTE: Due to contractual restrictions, a few of these presentations will not be recorded or archived.
More details here, but a listing of the speakers/topics include:
Thursday, January 3
Jeremy Courtney – “Restoring Hearts in Iraq”
Friday, January 4
Sheryl WuDunn – “Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide”
Monday, January 7
Roberta Green Ahmanson – “Dreams Become Reality: Inspiration through the Arts”
Tuesday, January 8
Jenny Yang – “Welcoming the Stranger: Justice, Compassion and Truth in the Immigration Debate”
Wednesday, January 9
Richard J. Mouw & Robert Millet – “Evangelicals and Mormons: A Conversation and Dialogue”
Thursday, January 10
Peter Diamandis – “Abundance: The Future is Better Than You Think”
Friday, January 11
Captain Scotty Smiley – “Hope Unseen”
Monday, January 14
Jeff Van Duzer – “Why Business Matters to God”
Tuesday, January 15
Rebecca Skloot – “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks”
Wednesday, January 16
Cokie Roberts – “An Insider’s View of Washington DC”
Thursday, January 17
W. Dwight Armstrong – “Feeding the World and the Future of Farming”
Friday, January 18
Garth Pauley – “Rituals of Democracy: Inaugural Addresses in American History”
Monday, January 21
Robert Robinson – “Celebration through Gospel Music” in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
Tuesday, January 22
Mike Kim – “North Korea-China: A Modern Day Underground Railroad”
Wednesday, January 23
Chap Clark – “Sticky Faith”in partnership with the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship
On 12/04/2012,
in A/V -- audio/visual, Asia, corporate / business world, corporate universities / corporate training, Daniel S. Christian, digital audio, digital learning, digital video, education technology, emerging technologies, engagement / engaging students, engineering, entrepreneurship, experimentation, face-to-face, higher education, human-computer interaction (HCI), ideas, innovation, internet, IT in HE, K-12 related, learning ecosystem, learning spaces, machine-to-machine communications, mobile technologies, multi-touch, multimedia, Near Field Communication (NFC), online media, participation, play, productivity / tips and tricks, smart classrooms, social learning / networks, workplace,
by Daniel Christian
From DSC:
I’ve been trying to figure out the best ways to incorporate a BYOD/BYOT into the Smart Classroom. That is, how can students’ devices seamlessly communicate with the main displays around the classroom? How can they quickly display a blog posting or a Google doc for example…or play a song they wrote, etc. So I was excited to wake up this morning with the following concept/idea:
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Other features/thoughts:
- Line of sight communications — students must be in the room to display something up on the main displays
- Information travels many ways: From large multitouch displays/walls to students’ devices and vice versa; so a professor could hit “Save” in order to send his/her annotations to all of the students’ devices (allowing them to be more cognitively present — vs madly writing down what the professor is writing)
- The Smart Classroom’s infrastructure becomes like a multi-thredded processor — instantaneously and simultaneously handling a far greater amount of data — going in multiple directions
- What’s an interesting idea here is for discipline-specific, cloud-based storage mechanisms for students who want to contribute their pieces of content to their schools repositories of content
- This topic reminds me of a graphic I created a while back, re: The “Chalkboard” of the Future:
So…what if the 4 screen’s on Julong’s Ultra-IPBOARD were coming from 4 different sources? Perhaps:
- One from a publisher’s cloud-based content repository
- Another from a stream of content originating from a student’s iPad
- Another from a stream of content originating from the Smart Classroom’s PC or Mac
- …and the last source originating from a student’s smartphone?
Also see:
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