21st century

IBC News: Opera lifts the curtain on Opera TV Store and TV Emulator [Richard Kastelein]

On 09/07/2011, in 21st century, 24x7x365 access, A/V -- audio/visual, convergence, digital learning, Europe, human-computer interaction (HCI), Learning from the Living [Class] Room, technologies for your home, television, transmedia, trends, UK, United States, by Daniel Christian

IBC News: Opera lifts the curtain on Opera TV Store and TV Emulator — from appmarket.tv by Richard Kastelein

Apps on my TV? Yes, you heard correctly: web-enabled TV applications are no longer the stuff of sci-fi films. At IBC 2011, Opera Software pulls out of its hat the all new Opera TV Store, a simple solution for developers to build HTML5 apps for connected TVs and devices. OEMs, on the other hand, can take advantage of these ready-made apps and offer them to their customers in an instant.

“Apps are a new must-have on TVs,” said Frode Hernes, VP Products, TV and Connected Devices, Opera Software. “With the Opera TV Store, developers can easily build cool and useful apps for millions of TV viewers. And, yet again, Opera takes these apps across devices, bringing games, news, video and audio apps to TVs, set-top boxes and Blu-ray players.”

Also see:

Connected TVs to conquer the German market — from broadbandtvnews.com by Robert Briel
Visiware launches PlayAlong — from digitaltveurope.net
Pentouch TV — from lg.com
LG PZ850 > LCD TV / LED TV / Plasma TV | 60″ Pentouch TV with 3D
http://loudtwitter.com/interactive_tv/
BBC researches lottery app — from televisual.com
Smart TV Just Got Smarter – With Mind Control — from appmarket.tv by Richard Kastelein
html5video.org
It’s an HDTV. It’s a Windows PC. It’s a white board. It’s all three. [from device.com]

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Sydney Centre for Innovation in Learning (SCIL) and Northern Beaches Christian School (NBCS)

On 09/06/2011, in 21st century, 24x7x365 access, A/V -- audio/visual, Australia, digital learning, education technology, elearning, future, innovation, K-12 related, learning spaces, online learning, online media, smart classrooms, by Daniel Christian

Sydney Centre for Innovation in Learning (SCIL) and Northern Beaches Christian School (NBCS)

From SCIL’s website:

Sydney Centre for Innovation in Learning actively promotes excellence in education by providing new learning opportunities for students and future-focused Professional Development for teachers. Established as the research and innovation unit of Northern Beaches Christian School (Sydney, Australia), SCIL runs a range of programs and research projects that seek to transform educational thinking and practice both at NBCS and in the wider educational community.

Also see:

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Abelard to Apple: The Fate of American Colleges and Universities [DeMillo]

On 09/02/2011, in 21st century, change, changing business models, dangers of the status quo, Daniel S. Christian, future of higher education, game-changing environment, innovation, new business models, open courseware and systems, reinvent, staying relevant, by Daniel Christian

Tagged with: 21st century • change • dangers of the status quo • Daniel S. Christian • future of higher education • game-changing environment • innovation • iTunes U • new business models in he • open • reinvent • staying relevant

nsquared seamless computing — features some sharp HCI, machine-to-machine communications, voice recognition, more

On 08/30/2011, in 21st century, 3D, A/V -- audio/visual, architecture, computer science, digital learning, emerging technologies, human-computer interaction (HCI), learning spaces, machine-to-machine communications, Microsoft, mirroring and/or multiple devices, multi-touch, smart classrooms, vendors, by Daniel Christian

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How learners can be on top of their game: An interview with James Paul Gee [Jenkins]

On 08/30/2011, in 21st century, 24x7x365 access, assessment, education reform, education technology, educational games / serious games, future, K-12 related, by Daniel Christian

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Another example of convergence

On 08/29/2011, in 21st century, convergence, innovation, internet, Learning from the Living [Class] Room, technologies for your home, television, trends, vendors, by Daniel Christian

Flingo releases first application publishing suite for Smart TVs – includes audio synching technology built into CE devices — from Social TV Apps – The Future of Transmedia, Social TV, Smart TV and Connected TV by richard@agoramedia.co.uk (Richard Kastelein)

Excerpt:

Emerging from stealth mode and announcing relationships with manufacturers including LG, Samsung, Vizio, Insignia, Sanyo and Western Digital – Flingo, a leading publisher of applications for the Smart or Connected TV, recently launched the first suite of application publishing products to seamlessly integrate the Web with the TV experience. And Flingo has made available a public API (application programming interface), so developers can build mobile and Web apps that use the television’s inside knowledge. The TV will also display pop-ups on-screen, offering further Web-retrieved information about a show, or links to apps on the set itself.

Tagged with: 21st century • convergence • innovation • learning from the living [class] room • technologies for the home • trends • TV • vendors

The Digital Revolution and Higher Education — from the Pew Research Center by Kim Parker, Amanda Lenhart, and Kathleen Moore
College Presidents, Public Differ on Value of Online Learning

Excerpt:

This report is based on findings from a pair of Pew Research Center surveys conducted in spring 2011. One is a telephone survey of a nationally representative sample of 2,142 adults ages 18 and older. The other is an online survey, done in association with the Chronicle of Higher Education, among the presidents of 1,055 two-year and four-year private, public, and for-profit colleges and universities.

Here is a summary of key findings…

From DSC:
First, [perhaps it’s in the appendices, but] how many of the people out in the public who were surveyed have actually taken an online class? If so, how many classes (each) have they taken and when did they take them? From whom did they take them? My guess is that most of them have never taken a class online.

Secondly, I wonder how many people thought that the telephone was a useful instrument/communication device shortly after it was introduced? Perhaps not too many…but did you use one today? Yesterday? I bet you did. I did…several times; and I bet that the same will be true of online learning (as online learning didn’t really begin to be used until the late 90’s).

The question is not whether online learning will blow away the face-to-face classroom, it’s when this will occur…? There will be many reasons for this, but the key one will be that you are putting up a team of specialists instead of using just one person. If they are reeeeaaaalllyy good (and a rare talent), that person can do the trick for now; but their success/job will continue to be increasingly difficult to perform, as they continue to pick up new hats each year, as the students’ attention spans and expectations continue to change, as lower cost models continue to emerge, etc, etc…

As Christensen, Horn, and Johnson assert, the innovation is taking place in the online learning world, and it will eventually surpass what’s possible (if it hasn’t already) in the face-to-face classrooms.

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From DSC:
Consumers’ expectations from entertainment may likely spill over into education

Why the future of TV is all about personalization — from stunmedia.com
Excerpt:
Fueled by the explosive development of smartphones and tablets, video clip viewing routines have [been] forever modified. It’s no surprise that buyers, who have been speedy to embrace video clip providers like HBO GO, Netflix and Hulu, are now expecting a a lot more personalized, interactive and seamless viewing experience across their traditional TV, laptops, gaming consoles, and connected TVs, as well as on smartphones and tablets (emphasis DSC). Here, we’ll discuss the present state of personalised cell video and what customers can anticipate in the future.

From DSC:
In the near future, if I can see what I want on whatever device I want — and it’s personalized/customized for me — won’t that affect my expectations for other types of content that I want to review — such as educational content?

Yes…I think it will. Whatever discipline I want, on whatever device I want, whenever I want it — available 24x7x365 with online tutoring available (which may or may not be from the same organization that posted the original content).

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From Daniel Christian: Fasten your seatbelts! An accelerated ride through some ed-tech landscapes.

On 08/25/2011, in 21st century, 24x7x365 access, A/V -- audio/visual, adjunct faculty, analytics, art, Artificial Intelligence/Agents/LLMs/and Related, attention, Augmented Reality (AR), blogs / blogging / vlogging, change, cloud-based computing / apps / other cloud-related, colleges, communities of practice, community colleges, computer science, convergence, creativity, dangers of the status quo, Daniel S. Christian, digital audio, digital learning, digital storytelling, digital textbooks, digital video, disruption, drama/theater, e-books, e-publishing related items (EPUB and more), economics, education, education reform, education technology, educational games / serious games, elearning, emerging technologies, engagement / engaging students, engineering, expectations, faculty/staff, game-changing environment, generational differences, global / globalization, higher education, human-computer interaction (HCI), ideas, innovation, intelligent tutoring, internet, K-12 related, learning ecosystem, Learning from the Living [Class] Room, learning theories, liberal arts, lifelong learning, machine-to-machine communications, memory, mirroring and/or multiple devices, mobile learning, mobile technologies, multi-touch, multimedia, music, Near Field Communication (NFC), New "Amazon.com" of Higher Education, new media literacies, online learning, online media, pace of change, passions, pedagogy, presentations, productivity / tips and tricks, publishing, reading, reinvent, robotics, RSS, social learning / networks, social media, society, staying relevant, storytelling, strategy, streams of content, student teaching/teacher education, student-related, surviving, tablets, teachers, teaching & learning, teaching online, technologies for your home, technology (general), telepresence, television, textbooks, tools, transmedia, trends, ubiquitous learning, United States, universities, videoconferencing, virtual K-12 schools, virtual tutoring, vision/possibilities, visualizing information, web-based collaboration, writing, by Daniel Christian

From DSC:
Immediately below is a presentation that I did for the Title II Conference at Calvin College back on August 11, 2011
It is aimed at K-12 audiences.

From DSC:
Immediately below is a presentation that I did today for the Calvin College Fall 2011 Conference.
It is aimed at higher education audiences.

Note from DSC:

There is a great deal of overlap here, as many of the same technologies are (or will be) hitting the K-12 and higher ed spaces at the same time. However, there are some differences in the two presentations and what I stressed depended upon my audience.

Pending time, I may put some audio to accompany these presentations so that folks can hear a bit more about what I was trying to relay within these two presentations.

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From DSC: My sincere thanks to Mr. Steven P. Jobs and to Apple’s employees that worked for him.

On 08/25/2011, in 21st century, A/V -- audio/visual, Apple, business, cloud-based computing / apps / other cloud-related, communities of practice, computer science, creativity, digital audio, digital learning, digital photography, digital storytelling, digital textbooks, digital video, education technology, emerging technologies, engineering, global / globalization, human-computer interaction (HCI), innovation, internet, liberal arts, lifelong learning, media/film, mirroring and/or multiple devices, mobile learning, mobile technologies, multi-touch, multimedia, music, new business models, new media literacies, online media, pace of change, presentations, programming, quality, research, science, society, staying relevant, storytelling, strategy, student-related, technologies for your home, technology (general), television, tools, transmedia, United States, usability, user experience (UX), user interface design, videoconferencing, vision/possibilities, visualizing information, workplace, by Daniel Christian

Steve Jobs has resigned as Apple CEO "effective immediately"

From DSC:
I want to post a thank you note to Mr. Steven P. Jobs, whom you most likely have heard has resigned as Apple’s CEO. Some articles are listed below, but I want to say thank you to Steve and to the employees of Apple who worked at Apple while he was CEO:

Thank you for working hard to enhance the world and to make positive impacts to our world!
Thank you for painstakingly pursuing perfection, usability, and excellence!
Thank you for getting back up on the horse again when you came out of a meeting with Steve, Tim and others and you just got reamed for an idea or implementation that wasn’t quite there yet.
Thanks go out to all of the families who were missing a dad or mom for long periods of time as they were still at work cranking out the next version of ____ or ____.
Thanks for modeling what a vocation looks like — i.e. pursuing your God-given gifts/calling/passions; and from my economics training for modeling that everyone wins when you do what you do best!

Thanks again all!

Steve Jobs’s Best Quotes — WSJ
Steve Jobs: The End Of An Era — Techcrunch
Steve Jobs resigns as Apple CEO –– wired.co.uk
Steve Jobs has resigned as Apple CEO “effective immediately” — arstechnica.com
Steve Jobs resigns as CEO of Apple — engadget.com
10 iconic Steve Jobs moments [videos] — from mashable.com

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Reflection on Jane Hart’s excellent presentation: “Social media and its impact on how we learn in the workplace”

On 08/24/2011, in 21st century, 24x7x365 access, adult learning, change, corporate / business world, corporate universities / corporate training, formal learning, higher education, informal learning, learning, learning ecosystem, online learning, personalized/customized learning, social learning / networks, social media, staying relevant, training / L&D, workplace, by Daniel Christian

Social media and its impact on how we learn in the workplace — from C4PLT by Jane Hart

From DSC:
One reflection that jumped out at me from Jane’s excellent presentation…and that I believe is a universal truth:

If an organization doesn’t respond to changing conditions, needs, desires, preferences, best interests, and/or the requirements of its customers, that organization will diminish in usefulness and will most likely (albeit eventually) go out of business.

I know I’m not introducing a new thought here and the above statement seems very self-evident, but do we heed this advice in corporate L&D? Corporate IT? IT within higher education? In higher education as an industry?

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Who watches TV on the iPad? Nielsen plans to find out [padgadget.com]

On 08/23/2011, in 21st century, 24x7x365 access, A/V -- audio/visual, convergence, Daniel S. Christian, emerging technologies, homeschooling/homeschoolers, interactivity, Learning from the Living [Class] Room, New "Amazon.com" of Higher Education, participation, technologies for your home, television, transmedia, trends, by Daniel Christian

Who watches TV on the iPad? Nielsen plans to find out — from padgadget.com

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Best Tech for Back to School 2011 [CNET]

On 08/17/2011, in 21st century, education technology, student-related, technologies for your home, technology (general), by Daniel Christian

Also see:

Back to School 2011 laptop roundup: Top picks for every budget — from CNET.com by Dan Ackerman

Tagged with: 21st century • educational technology • student-related • technologies for the home • technology (general)

Some updates on learning from the living room

On 08/17/2011, in 21st century, A/V -- audio/visual, convergence, Daniel S. Christian, digital learning, digital textbooks, Learning from the Living [Class] Room, New "Amazon.com" of Higher Education, technologies for your home, transmedia, trends, by Daniel Christian

Some updates on learning from the living room:

US cable and pay TV lose another half million customers in Q2, 2011 – cord cutting continues — from appmarket.tv by Richard Kastelein
According to Bloomberg, the six largest publicly traded U.S. cable and Pay TV providers are to lose 580,000 customers in the second quarter of 2011 – which is the biggest such decline in history.

‘TV textbooks’ bring access to low-income Florida students — from eSchoolNews.com by Jenna Zwang
Jacksonville officials introduce a program to raise reading scores
Prompted by lackluster reading scores, Duval County Public Schools (DCPS) in Jacksonville, Fla., is attempting to reach low-income students by turning students’ televisions into learning centers.

Loyalize.com

Time Warner cable head says company future is broadband, not TV –– ReelSEO Video Marketing by Jeremy Scott
Well surprise, surprise. The chief executive of Time Warner Cable, the second-largest cable operator in the U.S., says that broadband is the anchor service of the company’s future, not television. And while that may be a no-brainer for most of us observers in the industry, it’s still a pretty big deal for a cable company to admit their future isn’t in cable (emphasis DSC).

Research: Connected TV will be consumers’ portal to the Web by 2015 — from fierceonlinevideo.com

Google, Motorola deal may impact TV future — from bizreport.com by Kristina Knight
Add another destination for online giant Google – your living room (emphasis DSC). With the announcement that Google will purchase Motorola Mobility many in the space wonder what is next.

Addendum on 8/18/11:

TV trends to watch at IBC 2011 — from tvgenius.net by Emma Wells

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Some items/thoughts concerning Universal Design for Learning (UDL)

On 08/12/2011, in 21st century, accessibility / UDL, assessment, engagement / engaging students, higher education, instructional design, K-12 related, learning, multimedia, pedagogy, personalized/customized learning, student-related, teachers, teaching & learning, by Daniel Christian

My thanks to Mrs. Krista Spahr, Calvin College, for this resource and the quote below:

Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is meant to minimize barriers and to maximize learning.

…

Reflections from DSC:
Though I still have much to learn about Universal Design for Learning (UDL), my initial thought is that I really like this approach, as it moves us away from the one-size-fits-all approach and towards a teaching and learning environment that offers more choice, more selection, and more opportunities for customization and personalization. Plus, as companies such as Apple and Microsoft have seen, functionality that started out trying to address accessibility-related needs ended up helping everyone!

Along these lines, I created this graphic years ago — with the idea that students would have a choice on which media they might prefer to use to absorb the information:

Again, the idea being that we could provide the same content in 3-5 different ways and let the students select what works best for them. Plus, in the example above, we could even see how other students are describing/making meaning of something.

But it goes further than this as I’m understanding UDL. For example, the methods for achieving a learning outcome can be greatly varied, as the assignments for a particular outcome might be reaching via watching a video clip, or reading a book, or doing a project, or writing a story, or creating music, or ___(fill in the blank) ____.

Also see:

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Learning Ecosystems

IBC News: Opera lifts the curtain on Opera TV Store and TV Emulator [Richard Kastelein]

Abelard to Apple: The Fate of American Colleges and Universities [DeMillo]

nsquared seamless computing — features some sharp HCI, machine-to-machine communications, voice recognition, more

Another example of convergence

Reflections on “The Digital Revolution and Higher Education” [Pew Research Center]

Who watches TV on the iPad? Nielsen plans to find out [padgadget.com]

Some updates on learning from the living room

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