Millennials move TV content beyond the TV set — from statista.com by Felix Richter
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You will find more statistics at Statista
From DSC:
Why post this here?
Because as expectations around where people are going to get their entertainment-related content change, so will new doors open for where they will get their educationally-related content.
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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)
Google leads $542 million funding of mysterious augmented reality firm Magic Leap — from theverge.com by Jacob Kastrenakes and Ben Popper
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Google is leading a huge $542 million round of funding for the secretive startup Magic Leap, which is said to be working on augmented reality glasses that can create digital objects that appear to exist in the world around you. Though little is known about what Magic Leap is working on, Google is placing a big bet on it: in addition to the funding, Android and Chrome leader Sundar Pichai will join Magic Leap’s board, as will Google’s corporate development vice-president Don Harrison. The funding is also coming directly from Google itself — not from an investment arm like Google Ventures — all suggesting this is a strategic move to align the two companies and eventually partner when the tech is more mature down the road.
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Magic Leap also says that it may “positively transform the process of education.”
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‘World of Comenius’ demonstrates powerful educational interaction w/ Leap Motion & Oculus Rift and Tomas “Frooxius” Mariancik
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We recently covered a (at that point unnamed) VR project by developer Tomáš “Frooxius” Marian?ík, the mind behind the stunning ‘Sightline’ VR series of demos. The project fused Leap Motion skeletal hand tracking with Oculus Rift DK2 positional tracking to produce an impressively intuitive VR interface. Now, a new video of the interface shows impressive progress. We catch up with Tomáš to find out some more about this mysterious VR project.
Enter the ‘World of Comenius’
The virtual reality resurgence that is currently underway, necessarily and predictably concentrates on bringing people new ways to consume and experience media and games. This is where virtual reality has the best chance of breaking through as a viable technology, one that will appeal to consumers worldwide. But virtual reality’s greatest impact, at least in terms of historical worth to society, could and probably will come in the form of non-entertainment based fields.
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iBeacons, sensors, & similar machine-to-machine (M2M) communications: Connecting the physical world with the digital world while opening up enormous possibilities for education & training-related applications.
Some excerpted slides:
From DSC:
Educators/eduprenuers should be watching what happens in the living room…or better yet, let’s create some second-screen-based learning applications that ride the Smart/Connected TV wave.
From DSC:
I’m thinking out loud again…
What if were were to be able to take the “If This Then That (IFTTT)” concept/capabilities and combine it with sensor-based technologies? It seems to me that we’re at the very embryonic stages of some very powerful learning scenarios, scenarios that are packed with learning potential, engagement, intrigue, interactivity, and opportunities for participation.
For example, what would happen if you went to one corner of the room, causing an app on your mobile device to launch and bring up a particular video to review? Then, after the viewing of the video, a brief quiz appears after that to check your understanding of the video’s main points. Then, once you’ve submitted the quiz — and it’s been received by system ABC — this triggers an unexpected learning event for you.
Combining the physical with the digital…
Establishing IFTTT-based learning playlists…
Building learning channels…learning triggers…learning actions…
Setting a schedule of things to do for a set of iBeacons over a period of time (and being able to save that schedule of events for “next time”).
Hmmm…there’s a lot of potential here!
Now throw augmented reality, wearables, and intelligent tutoring into the equation! Whew!
We need to be watching out for how machine-to-machine (M2M) communications can be leveraged in the classrooms and training programs across the globe.
One last thought here…
How are we changing our curricula to prepare students to leverage the power of the Internet of Things (IoT)?
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Alice is presented as a mobile app, but it’s technically a book that can be read on iPads and Android tablets. The story is based on the classic Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, and it features beautiful illustrations you can interact with by touching the tablet screen, as well as an engaging narrator reading each page.
“Regular e-books have limitations, and I wanted to create a new level of engagement. I wanted to combine interactive experience along with film ‘feel,’” Paletz said in an interview. “The application is an art book, a conceptual book, and an educational book all in one, so it has something for everyone.”
From DSC: With a shout out to
Laura Devaney who posted this on Twitter.
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I am a huge fan of iPads AND Chromebooks. I think both can be integrated purposefully into the classroom in ways that are very powerful to the learning experience. Both devices can accomplish almost any form of masterful technology integration, boost critical thinking, and help to make student thinking visible. As many classrooms and teachers move between the two devices, they often struggle to find similar applications – to supplement the one they came to love on the opposite machine.
To help those teachers moving from an iPad to Chromebook, (like my friends in Sheriden, Wyoming) here are a few ways you can use the Chromebook to do some of the great things you’ve grown to love on an iPad.
From DSC:
With thanks to Mr. Jeff Finder at
Faculty Row for this resource!
Also, take note of how
interdisciplinary this piece is,
encompassing Daniel Nemroff’skills
in filmmaking, visual effects,
photography, & graphic design — but also
his visionary thinking and his awareness
of what might be effective uses of
educational technologies.
2014 Student and Faculty Technology Research Studies — from educause.edu / ECAR
From the ECAR RESEARCH HUB
This hub contains the 2014 student and faculty studies from the EDUCAUSE Technology Research in the Academic Community research series. In 2014, ECAR partnered with 151 college/university sites yielding responses from 17,451 faculty respondents across 13 countries. ECAR also collaborated with 213 institutions to collect responses from more than 75,306 undergraduate students about their technology experiences.
Key Findings
Excerpts from infographic:
From DSC:
Below is the presentation I gave to a group of K-12 teachers/administrators earlier today. I thought I might post it here in case it’s helpful to someone else out there:
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From DSC:
The title of this posting made me think it was for K-12 or Higher Ed, but the target audience is more likely corporate training/universities. Still, the concepts/ideas are valid in all of these spaces.
Excerpts of iBeacon and Education: Bringing Beacons to the Classroom
Adding iBeacons to the mLearning Mix
iBeacons have the potential to provide contextualized learning based on a user’s proximity. To demonstrate how this might work, we developed a simple concept app called Beacon Learn. Its purpose is to initiate a dialogue with clients as to how they might consider using iBeacons to support Training and Learning in their organization.
The Beacon Learn app demonstrates four Use Cases:
Context Sensitive Training – delivery of the right content, to the right user, at the right time.
Job Aids – step by step guides presented to the user with compliance tracked in a Learning Record Store using the xAPI.
Expert Locator – using their iPhones as a iBeacon, experts can make others aware of their presence and availability for mentoring.
Emergency – although not really a training function, the ability for users to alert others of an emergency on the shop floor is a very useful feature that can be provided using a combination of iBeacons, M7 motion coprocessor and indoor mapping (iOS 8).
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Google’s free learning management system, Google Classroom, is now in full release and is being made available today to all Apps for Education customers.
The service had been in limited preview since May. During that time, according to Google Apps for Education Product Manager Zach Yeskel, more than 100,000 educators applied to be a part of the preview, and “tens of thousands” of those educations — from K-12 schools, colleges and universities — actually participated.
Classroom is an LMS that’s integrated with Google’s Apps for Education productivity suite. It allows teachers to create assignments directly within Google’s apps, which students can then complete in Google Docs and turn them in through a one-click process.
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