Innovation alert: World’s first 3D printed canal house in Amsterdam — from freshome.com
…and, as usual, technology itself can be used for good or bad…here’s the far less appealing side of the coin (at least to me):
On 03/21/2013,
in 3D, architecture, engineering, Europe, innovation, science, the downsides of how people use tech,
by Daniel Christian
On 03/15/2013,
in 21st century, 24x7x365 access, A/V -- audio/visual, analytics, Artificial Intelligence/Agents/LLMs/and Related, business, convergence, corporate / business world, corporate universities / corporate training, cost of getting a degree, dangers of the status quo, Daniel S. Christian, digital learning, digital storytelling, digital textbooks, digital video, disruption, education technology, educational games / serious games, elearning, emerging technologies, engagement / engaging students, Europe, game-changing environment, global / globalization, human-computer interaction (HCI), innovation, intelligent systems, intelligent tutoring, interactivity, internet, languages and translation, learning agents, learning ecosystem, Learning from the Living [Class] Room, learning preferences, machine-to-machine communications, media/film, mirroring and/or multiple devices, mobile learning, mobile technologies, MOOCs -- Massive Open Online Courses, multimedia, Near Field Communication (NFC), New "Amazon.com" of Higher Education, new business models, new media literacies, online learning, online media, online tutoring, passions, personalized/customized learning, play, real-world assignments, second screen apps, social learning / networks, social media, society, storytelling, streams of content, student-related, technologies for your home, telepresence, television, training / L&D, transmedia, trends, TVs, ubiquitous learning, UK, using teams, vendors, videoconferencing, virtual field trips, virtual K-12 schools, Virtual Reality (VR) / worlds / learning, virtual tutoring, vision/possibilities, web-based collaboration, webinars,
by Daniel Christian
PayWizard launches first dedicated payment and subscriber management solution for TV and media industry — from PayWizard
Excerpt:
London, 21 February 2013 – PayWizard, specialists in payment and subscription management, has launched the TV and media industry’s first dedicated, end to end payment and subscription solution. The integrated solution brings together a strong heritage in the Pay-TV market with a deep understanding of the challenges TV operators and media companies face in monetising the multiplatform world.
Using its award-winning modular Payment and Subscription platform, PayWizard combines payment processing, intelligent subscriber management technology and real-time customer service operations to tailor-make solutions that enhance the consumer experience across all screens.
With 16.8 billion video-enabled devices set to be in the global marketplace by 2015, content owners are facing the challenge of enhancing existing services while creating compelling experiences that embrace new routes to market. PayWizard’s comprehensive set of products and services has enabled clients, such as the UK’s biggest commercial broadcaster, ITV, to address these commercial challenges by enabling new monetisation strategies to drive revenue and profitability.
Also see:
.
.
.
.
Also see:
- Multi-screen – are we there yet? — from blog.adbglobal.com
- Digital Home World Summit — London, UK — June 18-19, 2013
From DSC:
See the categories listed above for the items/topics/disciplines/trends that are relevant here.
Addendum:
Check this out!
Massive Open Online Course offered by UMass Boston to feature the first adaptive MOOC technology
Enables students to be taught according to individual learning strategies
Excerpt from email:
(Boston, MA) – February 27, 2013 – If you’ve ever been in a course and struggled because you just aren’t “getting it,” the reason might be less your ability than the way in which the material is being presented.
New technology is now allowing online course environments to analyze how individual students learn, customizing instruction to individualized learning strategies. The College of Advancing and Professional Studies (CAPS) at the University of Massachusetts Boston has teamed up with USDLA 21st Century Sponsor, Synaptic Global Learning (SGL), to use the new learning management system, Adaptive Mobile Online Learning (AMOL), to deliver the first adaptive Massive Online Open Course (a-MOOC) ever offered. The course launches March 25.
On 02/14/2013,
in career development, Europe, marketing/social marketing, new business models, new media literacies, publishing, streams of content,
by Daniel Christian
.
From DSC:
Hmmmm…I wonder how this might apply to education? Will we move more towards personal brands vs. institutional brands?
On 02/12/2013,
in architecture, Australia, engagement / engaging students, Europe, future, learning ecosystem, learning spaces, learning theories, love of learning,
by Daniel Christian
Excerpt:
This image gallery from Fielding Nair International, a group of architects working in education, shows lots of images from new and innovative schools around the world.
Addendum on 2/13/13, also see:
- Colorful & Multifunctional Learning Spaces at The Vittra School, Stockholm — Vitra School Brotorp Rosan Bosch Architects
.
On 01/16/2013,
in attention, educational games / serious games, engagement / engaging students, Europe, ideas, memory, Microsoft, pedagogy, student-related,
by Daniel Christian
Grad student turns heads in Norwegian schools with technology-charged pedagogy — from beditionmagazine.com by DC Brandon; with thanks to brian k (@iEducator) for posting this on Twitter
Excerpt:
Salerno says using video games in the classroom is a sure-fire way to get students excited about learning. She used the example of a social studies unit that students are taught in Norwegian schools. In one particular unit, they usually read a textbook chapter about famous explorers. In the game-based version of the unit, textbooks may be used but are not relied upon.
So how does she incorporate video games into a social studies lesson?
She uses a Microsoft product called Kodu, although she says there are many other software products that could be used, like Minecraft and Little Big Planet.
She breaks the unit down like this (from the perspective of a student):
- Choose an explorer to profile
- Research the explorer’s history online and in textbooks
- Create game map (games require planning to be successfully built)
- Create game details and missions, mark out important plot points
- Build world
- Build in characters and plot in the form of missions
- Demo game to classmates on “gameday”
Also see:
- Using video games in a new language of learning — from beditionmagazine.com by Jane Marshall
.
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:
.
- In the top performing countries in the world school is harder.
.
- No country is like the US with its obsession of playing sports.
.
- Kids (in schools in these other countries) believe there’s something in it for them.
.
- Kids believe that what they are doing in school impacts their futures.
On 12/27/2012,
in Europe,
by Daniel Christian
The New Explorers Guide to Dutch Digital Culture — from creativeapplications.net
On 12/07/2012,
in creativity, digital learning, education, education reform, Europe, future, global / globalization, innovation, learning, society,
by Daniel Christian
LWF World Summit – The Barbican – June 17th-21st, 2013
.
Other resources/links
This is Learning Without Frontiers
Learning Without Frontiers (LWF) is a global platform that facilitates the ongoing dialogue about the future of learning. LWF attracts an engaged and open-minded audience who are forward thinking, curious and receptive to new ideas and perspectives about education, teaching and learning. They are an international audience of thought leaders, policy makers, innovators, entrepreneurs and leading practitioners from across the education, digital media and technology sectors. They are education leaders, intellectuals, social and political theorists, artists, designers, futurists, architects, publishers, broadcasters, technologists, parents, teachers and learners. They come to ask the big questions, discuss the big challenges and seek to answer them by innovation, enterprise and an enduring optimism. http://www.learningwithoutfrontiers.com
Also see:
.
From DSC:
What caught my eye here was the use of scenarios and using those scenarios to help define/create/plan for our future.
Incredibly beautiful fractal flowers — posted by Alice over at mymodernmet.com
Example:
Also from Alice at mymodernmet.com:
.
On 10/19/2012,
in Augmented Reality (AR), computer science, digital storytelling, emerging technologies, Europe,
by Daniel Christian
![Metaio unveils programming language for building augmented guide apps [VIDEO]](http://danielschristian.com/learning-ecosystems/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/metaio-MunichOct2012.jpg "metaio-MunichOct2012")
On 08/23/2012,
in Asia, Europe, global / globalization, K-12 related, learning spaces, UK, United States,
by Daniel Christian
How children learn: Portraits of classrooms around the world — by Maria Popova and Julian Germain
A revealing lens on a system-phenomenon both global in reach and strikingly local in degree of diversity.
.
Jessore, Bangladesh. Year 10, English.
Image courtesy Julian Germain
Also see:
On 08/17/2012,
in Europe, future, global / globalization, interactivity, policy, research, science, society, technology (general), vision/possibilities,
by Daniel Christian
.
.
Also see:
- Scientists aim to predict the future with $1 billion Earth simulator — from dvice.com
Excerpt:
Imagine what would happen if you had a computer program that could take in data from sensors everywhere on Earth and then plug that data into a detailed simulation for the entire Earth all at once. If you’re imagining being able to predict the future, you’re imagining correctly, and E.U. researchers want to make it real.The Living Earth Simulator is a billion-dollar proposal to spend ten years developing a computer environment that can simulate everything. And not just simulate, but also explore predictive models of how everything going on in the world interrelates with everything else, deriving connections and correlations that we never knew existed.
…
In order to get that billion dollars, the Living Earth Simulator has to beat out four other future and emerging technologies projects that are all trying to win funding from the European Commission.