True personalization is the next big thing in multiscreen TV — from .v-net.tv by John Moulding
From DSC:
Not a far stretch to see some applications of this in the future aimed at learning objects/learning agents/and personalized streams of content.
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(With thanks going out to Mr. Richard Byrne over at the Free Technology for Teachers blog for this item)
A first look at how educators are really using Google Glass — from by Stephen Noonoo
Excerpts (emphasis DSC):
Per Andrew Vanden Heuvel:
What Glass does offer, Vanden Heuvel said, is a shift in perspective, particularly because teachers can use it as a tool to engage students faster and more easily than before. After returning from Geneva, Vanden Heuvel launched a YouTube channel devoted to his experiments with science–and Glass–called STEMBite. To date, in more than two dozen videos, he’s guided viewers through the physics of ball spin on the tennis court to the polarization of light through (appropriately enough) a pair of glasses.
“What I’m excited by making these videos is not only that they’re filmed with Google Glass, but they’re high engagement videos, so they’re meant to be really short and to get kids to think about how math and science is all around,” he said. “I suppose I could have done that before, but it’s just so easy now.”
Per Hanna Brown:
“I’ve had videos in my classroom before–that’s not a novel thing–but I’ve never been able to take a video from my eye perspective,” said Hannah Brown, another early Glass adopter who works as a high school art teacher at Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow, an all-online statewide charter school in Ohio.
From DSC:
Virtual field trips, mobile learning, videoconferencing, web-based collaboration, Human Computer Interaction (HCI), and other topics come to my mind when I see this.
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Wearable tech at the workplace — from connectedworldmag.com
Excerpt:
Wearable sensors are the latest tech-related fashion craze, but not just for consumers. Businesses could soon make use of sensors affixed to hats, watches, glasses, and more. Equipped to provide workers with much-need data about the surrounding environment, these devices may soon invade the job and redefine the workplace—much like tablets and smartphones did just a few years back.
Naturally, businesses have been discussing how something like Google Glass could be used at work. Even the BYOD (bring your own device) phenomenon has the potential to extend to wearable technology, with workers bringing their personal smart watches and glasses for use at work. However, the potential for wearable sensors could be much greater, with specific applications created for targeted industries.
From DSC:
Some serious potential for mobile/distance learning here. What if, instead of a surgeon, that person was an archaeologist on a dig speaking to students in their living rooms, on mobile devices, and/or in classrooms somewhere else…? An electrician fixing a broken transformer on the electrical grid and talking through what she is fixing…? The possibilities are numerous.
See Andrew Vanden Heuvel’s work on this as well:
Moving back to the surgery…one last thought/idea here:
Content as a Service (CaaS) — from knowledgestarblog.wordpress.com by David Grebow
Excerpt:
The etextbook in 2018 will be dramatically different than the etextbook of today. It will be coupled to an app that will provide you with Content as a Service (CaaS). CaaS will include many of the following features (and more that have yet to be imagined):
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Faith Lutheran School in Plano offers free trial of live, online high school classes — from by Amy Crawford
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This year, Faith Lutheran High School in Plano, Texas will offer live online high school classes using two-way HD-video streaming through the Internet. This allows home-schooled students or others across the country to participate in some of the school’s classes in real time.
I originally saw this at etale.org:
Example of a school that embraces the unbundling of education
Excerpt (emphasis by Bernard Bull):
What is new about this latest offering at Faith Lutheran High School is that they are using the two-way video as a tool to offer unbundled services. This is a private tuition-based school and instead of offering a single package service (full tuition and full participation in the school or nothing), they are offering an à la carte menu. Choose the courses that interest you, and use them to support your otherwise personalized home school curriculum.
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I continue to argue that this unbundling provides us with a glimpse into the future of k-12 education, especially k-12 education that provides an alternative to traditional public schools. Separate all of the distinct attributes of a given school and imagine a model where families and students can pick and choose from those services, paying only for what they use (in the case of private schools).
From DSC:
IBM Watson continues to expand into different disciplines/areas, which currently include:
But Watson is also entering the marketing and education/research realms.
I see a Watson-type-of-tool as being a key ingredient for future MOOCs and the best chance for MOOCs to morph into something very powerful indeed — offloading the majority of the workload to computers/software/intelligent tutoring/learning agents, while at the same time allowing students to connect with each other and/or to Subject Matter Experts (SME’s) as appropriate.
The price of education could hopefully come way down — depending upon the costs involved with licensing Watson or a similar set of technologies — as IBM could spread out their costs to multiple institutions/organizations. This vision represents another important step towards the “Walmart of Education” that continues to develop before our eyes.
Taking this even one step further, I see this system being available to us on our mobile devices as well as in our living rooms — as the telephone, the television, and the computer continue to converge. Blended learning on steroids.
What would make this really powerful would be to provide:
Such an architecture could be applied towards lifelong learning opportunities — addressing what we now know as K-12, higher education, and corporate training/development.
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From DSC:
I’m amazed that Lowe’s, Home Depot, & others aren’t doing more of this! Why can’t I Skype/Facetime with an expert over at Home Depot on how to fix my disposal, identify what part I need in my broken garage door opener, how to put together that new crib that someone gave to our church, etc.
My good friend, Don Levy from Calvin College, thought of an idea a while back just like this! But his idea was targeted for colleges & universities — call the Subject Matter Experts at Calvin College and get instant help.
I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised to see more of this sort of remote support in our futures.
From DSC:
The massive convergence of the telephone, the television, and the computer continues. How that media gets to us is also changing (i.e. the cord cutting continues).
What types of innovative learning experiences can be crafted as “TV” becomes more interactive, participatory, and engaging? What happens if technologies like WebRTC make their way into our browsers and we can videoconference with each other without having to download anything?
What doors open for for us when Google, Apple, or an Amazon.com delivers your “shows” vs. NBC/ABC/CBS/etc.?
The items below cause me to reflect on those questions…
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Streaming devices lead the way to Smart TV — from nytimes.com by Brian Stelter
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Is Google ready to buy its way into TV with an NFL deal? — from allthingsd.com by Peter Kafka
Excerpt:
Here’s a fun combination to ponder: The world’s most powerful media company and America’s most popular sport.
That could happen if Google buys the rights to the NFL’s Sunday Ticket package, the all-you-can-eat subscription-TV service currently owned by DirecTV.
Cord Cliff Coming: What happens to TV when Netflix streams live events? — from allthingsd.com by Ben Elowitz, CEO, Wetpaint
Addendums on 8/22/13:
The battle of the ecosystems: Apple, Google, Microsoft, & Amazon.com — by Daniel Christian with thanks to Krista Spahr, Michael Mandeville, Bill Vriesema, and Adam Tozer from Calvin College for their feedback/inputs on this.
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Addendums on 8/13/13:
A swiveling proxy that will even wear a tutu — from nytimes.com by Bobbie Brown
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Excerpt:
SUMTER, S.C. — Lexie Kinder solves problems during math class, earns gold stars from her teacher and jokes with classmates at her elementary school.
All without leaving her living room.
Born with a chronic heart disorder that weakened her immune system and made attending school risky, Lexie, 9, was tutored at her home in Sumter for years. But this spring, her family began experimenting with an alternative — a camera-and-Internet-enabled robot that swivels around the classroom and streams two-way video between her school and house.
From DSC:
I sometimes get the feeling that I’m coming across as though I want everyone to learn from their living room and that’s it; end of story. But that’s not the case. I just get encouraged/excited about the opportunities that various technologies can provide for us, if we leverage them properly. Ultimately, I see blended solutions being the most effective solutions in the future. But this article is a great example of when technology can benefit someone.
Here’s why the TV apps economy will be a $14 billion business — from forbes.com by Michael Wolf
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According to new research published this week, the TV apps economy is forecasted to reach $14 billion by 2017.
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Take for example today’s news that Apple will begin selling video advertisements served by iAd through iTunes Radio loaded on Apple TVs. This is only the first move for Apple in this space, and others like Samsung and Google are already investing heavily in connected TV app advertising.
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Why post this? Because:
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From DSC:
And if this does take off,
$14 billion won’t begin to capture the profits from this new industry.
It will be far larger than that.
Relevant addendum on 6/27/13:
Via: [The Verge] Image Credits: [Venture Beat] [Home Theater]
From DSC:
Well…how about using one of these devices in order to do so!
New video collaboration robot: TelePresence gets moving — from cisco.com by Dave Evans
Excerpt:
That is why Cisco’s new joint effort with iRobot—demonstrated publicly this week for the first time—is so exciting: We’ve created a mobile Cisco TelePresence unit that brings collaboration to you—or, conversely, brings you to wherever you need to collaborate. Called iRobot Ava 500, this high-definition video collaboration robot combines Cisco TelePresence with iRobot’s mobility and self-navigation capabilities, enabling freedom of movement and spontaneous interactions with people thousands of miles away.
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iRobot Ava™ 500 Video Collaboration Robot — published on Jun 10, 2013
iRobot and Cisco have teamed to bring the Ava 500 video collaboration robot to market. The robot blends iRobot’s autonomous navigation with Cisco’s TelePresence to enable people working off-site to participate in meetings and presentations where movement and location spontaneity are important. The new robot is also designed to enable mobile visual access to manufacturing facilities, laboratories, customer experience centers and other remote facilities.
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From Attack of the Telepresence Robots! — from BYTE by Rick Lehrbaum
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| MantaroBot “TeleMe” | VGo Communications “VGo” | Anybots “QB” | Suitable Technologies “Beam” |
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From DSC:
Now picture this from the educational standpoint — and what MOOCs could morph into. The foundation for some serious learning power (from the living room) seems to be developing!
Streams of content/learning channels/cloud-based applications that each of us can create and make available.
Voice recognition, learning analytics, machine-to-machine communications, transmedia and more! Wow!
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Netflix CEO: ‘TV in the future will be like a giant iPad’ — from business.financialpost.com by Armina Ligaya
Excerpt (emphasis DSC):
Q: What do you think is going to happen over the next five or 10 years in internet video?
A: Well, you know, the fundamental thing is the internet has been getting faster. And now it’s video capable, which is really a last-five-years phenomenon. And, internet video will be very transformative across all societies for telemedicine, for online learning, for education. For communication of various sorts. And it brings, whether it’s person to person, or a recorded video like a movie or a TV show, to a person it will be very transformative.
And, TV in the future will be like a giant iPad. It will have a bunch of apps on it, each app will have a unique experience.
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So we’re getting beyond just a stream of video, which is all broadcast technology can do, to really try to be innovative about the interaction.
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From the Oblong.com website:
Mezzanine™ is a collaborative conference room solution that introduces multi-user, multi-screen, multi-device collaboration. This is next-generation communication: share any content from any device with anyone, anywhere.
Mezzanine transforms creative teamwork, executive meetings, and sales presentations into real-time, collaborative work sessions. Mezzanine expands on existing telepresence technology by providing what we call InfoPresence™—the incorporation of multiple users, multiple devices, and multiple streams of information in the collaboration environment. The future of conference room collaboration is here.
A Mezzanine workspace lets any person on a network bring their own device and share content and applications with any colleague, anywhere in the world, interactively. Mezzanine is a collaborative conference room solution combining presentation design and delivery, application sharing, whiteboard capture, and video conferencing, all within a framework of multi-participant control.
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