{"id":27668,"date":"2012-03-09T09:46:56","date_gmt":"2012-03-09T14:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=27668"},"modified":"2012-03-09T11:08:45","modified_gmt":"2012-03-09T16:08:45","slug":"items-re-learning-from-the-living-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2012\/03\/09\/items-re-learning-from-the-living-room\/","title":{"rendered":"Items re: &#8220;Learning from the Living Room&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"main-article-info\">\n<p id=\"stand-first\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">From DSC:<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Here are some items related to what I call &#8220;Learning from the Living Room&#8221; <\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">&#8212; a trend that continues to develop that involves:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Using high-end, personalized, multimedia-based, interactive, team-created content &#8212; packed with new reporting tools for better diagnostics\/learning analytics &#8212; available via a cloud-based &#8220;education store&#8221;\/marketplace\/exchange<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Web-accessible content that&#8217;s available 24x7x365<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">The power of social networks\/learning<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Riding the wave of the massive convergence of the computer, the telephone<\/span><span style=\"color: #800000;\">, and the television.<\/span><strong><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"main-article-info\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/epicenter\/2012\/03\/smarter-tv-living-room-as-digital-hub-from-samsung-and-microsoft-to-apple-and-google\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Smarter TV: Living room as digital hub from Samsung and Microsoft to Apple and Google<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from wired.com by Tim Carmody<em><\/em><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><em>Excerpt (<span style=\"color: #800000;\">emphasis DSC<\/span>):<\/em><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>In the future, the living room will replace the home office as most households\u2019 home for the stationary personal computer.<\/strong><\/span> Instead of printers and mice and other corded accessories, <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>networked appliances and post-PC machines share data with one another and with the cloud.<\/strong><\/span> Play and productivity both become decentered; gaming and entertainment might be on a tablet or a television, with recipes at the refrigerator, a shopping list for the smartphone, <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>and an instructional video on the television set.<\/strong><strong> All of these experiences will be coherent, continuous and contextual.<\/strong><\/span> And like the personal computer at the height of <em>Pax Wintel<\/em>, the living room will be a platform characterized by triumphant pluralism.<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>\u201cThe thing about the living room is that it\u2019s universal; everyone in the household uses it,\u201d<\/strong><\/span> Samsung VP Eric Anderson told me at today\u2019s event. \u201cWe know that we\u2019re not going to capture every single member of the household. In my family, my wife and my daughter are Apple, me and my sons are Android,\u201d he noted, pointing out that the majority of devices introduced today can interact with either mobile platform.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/media-network\/media-network-blog\/2012\/feb\/21\/mobile-digital-content?intcmp=239\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The modern mechanics of app stores: today, tomorrow and connected TV<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from guardian.co.uk by Dean Johnson<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>What&#8217;s next for app stores?<\/strong><br \/>\nIt&#8217;s time for each platform to up its game \u2013 smart TVs are coming. The small and medium screen experience will shortly be translated to the bigger screen as connectivity and discoverability takes on even greater importance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Google and Apple will further interweave themselves into our daily lives as iOS and Android seamlessly combine our smartphones and tablets with our new smartTVs. Electronic Program Guides (EPGs) and the programmes themselves will suggest related content, from apps to music to film to books. This must all be presented in an approachable, then browsable manner to encourage additional discovery.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The quest for the perfect meta-data will become increasingly important and voice commands will need to deliver the best search results with the minimum of fuss. <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>This time next year, the battle of the app stores will be fought on the move, on the desktop and on the living room wall.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tomsguide.com\/us\/samsung-led-plasma-smart-tv,news-14381.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Samsung Launches Smart TVs With Gestures, Voice Control<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from by Douglas Perry<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">A Kinect-like feature is made possible via camera and microphone integration that comes standard with the LED ES7500, LED ES8000 and Plasma E8000 models. According to Samsung, consumers can launch <span style=\"color: #000000;\">apps<\/span> such as Facebook or YouTube, or search the web via voice commands. Waving the hand will move the cursor and select links. The TVs integrate a Samsung dual-core processor as well as a new Webkit-based web browser to improve overall performance. The high-end 7500 and 8000 TVs ship with a remote with an integrated <span style=\"color: #000000;\">touchscreen.<\/span> A wireless keyboard that is compatible with Samsung&#8217;s TVs as well as the Galaxy Tab tablet is sold as an option.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.moxieinteractive.com\/pulse\/2012\/03\/01\/new-tv-experiences-through-companion-apps\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" target=\"_blank\">New TV experiences through companion apps<\/a><\/strong> &#8212; from moxie pulse<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.moxieinteractive.com\/pulse\/2012\/03\/01\/new-tv-experiences-through-companion-apps\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27692\" title=\"MoxiePulse-3-1-12\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/MoxiePulse-3-1-12.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"717\" height=\"456\" border=\"0\" srcset=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/MoxiePulse-3-1-12.jpg 717w, http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/MoxiePulse-3-1-12-150x95.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 717px) 100vw, 717px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From DSC: Here are some items related to what I call &#8220;Learning from the Living Room&#8221; &#8212; a trend that continues to develop that involves: Using high-end, personalized, multimedia-based, interactive, team-created content &#8212; packed with new reporting tools for better diagnostics\/learning analytics &#8212; available via a cloud-based &#8220;education store&#8221;\/marketplace\/exchange Web-accessible content that&#8217;s available 24x7x365 The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,329,354,208,57,159,72,36,35,373,391,510,449,62,133,219,166,66,40,206,518,13,189,273,164,253,357,49],"tags":[627,413,355,19,290,653,606,598,586,585,759,802,782,601,635,682,521,804,179,603,574,572,593],"class_list":["post-27668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-24x7x365-access","category-av-audiovisual","category-cloud-based-computing-apps","category-cost-of-getting-a-degree","category-dangers-of-the-status-quo","category-daniel-s-christian","category-future-of-higher-education","category-game-changing-environment","category-homeschoolinghomeschoolers","category-human-computer-interaction-hci","category-learning-from-the-living-class-room","category-marketplaces","category-online-learning","category-online-media","category-online-tutoring","category-social-learning-networks","category-student-related","category-technologies-for-your-home","category-trends","category-tvs","category-using-teams","category-videoconferencing","category-virtual-field-trips","category-virtual-k-12-schools","category-virtual-reality-worlds-learning","category-virtual-tutoring","category-web-based-collaboration","tag-21st-century","tag-24x7x365","tag-av","tag-cloud-computing","tag-cost-of-getting-an-education","tag-dangers-of-the-status-quo","tag-daniel-s-christian","tag-exchanges","tag-future-of-higher-education","tag-game-changing-environment","tag-human-computer-interaction-hci","tag-learning-from-the-living-class-room","tag-marketplaces","tag-online-learning","tag-online-media","tag-online-tutoring","tag-post-pc-2","tag-smartconnected-tv","tag-social-learning","tag-student-related","tag-using-teams","tag-walmart-of-education","tag-web-based-collaboration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27668"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27695,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27668\/revisions\/27695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}