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Cell phones will be able to see through walls according to new research. Perhaps the pundits would do well to watch a few old episodes of Star Trek since the tricorder seems to be getting closer to reality than ever. Such things have all kinds of privacy issues at the helm deserving discussion now before we see our way to a future of things that cause big brother to be everywhere. 

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Here's the Windows 8 consumer preview version if you just have to download and try it out. (Or, if, as Microsoft hopes, you want to start building apps.)

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Sony and some "leading thinkers" are convening to look at future scapes. This is a good read, however, often these sorts of things carry the political overtones of those who comprise the thinking. Sometimes I feel like people are more interested in the truth as they know it than really getting to the truth. We need innovators to seek out "THE TRUTH" - the one truth about something if it exists instead of letting things get political. That said, I think this is a good read for those who care about looking at future trends. They call these "thought-starters" and I do like the idea of having thought starters with my students. I like the term.

In the face of such rapid evolution, envisaging what might happen in the next 13 years requires practical foresight, as well as brilliant imagination – and this is exactly the task of the FutureScapes project.

Convened by Sony and leading sustainability non-profit organisation Forum for the Future, FutureScapes is bringing together business leaders, thinkers, designers, futurologists, writers and the public to explore the potential of technology to create a better, more sustainable world, by imagining and discussing life in 2025

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Lots of conversation on this guru's post. Funny how the easiest way to get edubloggers to talk is to talk about edubloggers. ;-) 

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On one thing I totally agree with this article: students should have pre- high school graduation experience collaborating with humdreds (eventually thousands) of other students. This article argues against needing small class sizes in schools. Where it falls short is the fact that if we truly want to reach each child, large class sizes are an anathema to personalized learning environments like mine where i have each student doing their own Freshan project, for example.

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Learning analytics are underused but will be one of the most important tools in our online toolbox. Once we grasp the importance of these, we will be demanding more and more intelligence on behalf of the learning analytics that we use to support elearning, apps, and all of the things our students use as part of their learning toolbox.

Reports from Educause

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A fascinating article on the mind blowing influence the Tevatron particle accelerator has had (and will have) on technology and the world we know it. This will be required reading for my computer science students when we return in January.

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At school or college? Have an idea to change the world?

ITU Telecom World 2011 brings together thousands of influential delegates from the telecommunications and technology industries to discuss what steps need to be taken to get more of the world connected. They’re meeting in Geneva, Switzerland on October 25-27, and they need your help!

We are inviting 10,000 global school children (8-18) to design the innovations that could make a real difference to their world.

 Sign up your school or class now, and your students can start influencing thousands of decision-makers in information and technology communications.

Once you’ve registered to get involved, you can share your ideas and prototypes with each other. Your ideas will also form a significant part of World 2011′s Manifesto for Change, a blueprint for using technology to make a real difference.

Brought to you by the ITU Development Sector. Read more about this call to action in our introductory blog post."

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A US department of education website that is designed to help schools pick research-proven software. This website reviews the research and works to meta-analyze the results. As always, be careful to see who PAID for a student (will they really release the results unless it is favorable) and know that nothing replaces an excellent teacher. The students I've seen show parents are the highest correlation with good test scores with teachers as a second. Learning environment is also a big factor. Learning is an ecosystem.

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Netflix canning plans to spin off a separate site. I guess this is good, but it does worry me when a company makes a big reversal. I guess netflix is happy - their stock prices went up. But if Steve Jobs taught us anything it is that we, the consumer, often don't know what we want. I personally made fun of the ipad name and the first ipod - I didn't "get" until I "got" one.

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Article in edweek about innovation (using rap music and Jay-z as the interesting backdrop) and wrapping up with a well needed discussion about teacherpreneurship.

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Spent some time with Kyle Gomboy, Chris Hart, and John Lester to learn about Jibe. Jibe is sort of a hybrid between the Google Lively functionality and the full Open Sim. We're going to be doing some things with this in the future.

Imagine this: students build a transportable world full of their legacy of life and carry it with them to their own server anywhere they wish and leave it behind as a legacy of the things they created.

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Op Ed in Baltimore Sun says it well:
"But it is going to take less "Race to the Top" and more "Connect with one another" if we are really going to put students first."

You can't have excellence in education without global collaboration.

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7 pointers on school improvement. Make sure you delve down into the expanded conversation of these 7 down on the webpage.

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I love my livescribe pen and agree with this review even if it is posted on the Livescribe website.

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A fun discussion topic with technology students, this blog post about futuristic inventions in wearable tech includes buttons that are really mp3 players, a dress with room for a sim card that makes it funciton as a mobile phone when you lift your wrist, and the one I want -- the Massage Me Massage Video game - that makes a game out of having someone massage your back! (Oh yeah!)

This would be a great area to review and then have students invent their own.

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Fascinating Evolution of Classroom Technology over at Edudemic (hat tip Stephen Downes.) Look at how many of these technologies are still here in some forms. All I can think as I read about halfway down is the ah so lovely smell of that mimeograph paper!`

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Elevate the education conversation with your voice! We encourage students to submit videos that...

Offer new ideas for what education could be, and/or
Inspire others to transform education, and/or
Propose specific actions you or others can take to improve education in your community

Video Guidelines: 2 - 3 minutes long (not a hard and fast rule), use first names only, please only show youth age 13 or older and who have given you permission to be in the video, use family-friendly language, give credit to your sources, and remember: your audience is the world!

Two of the top 5 are Flat Classroom related videos.

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Here is where you go to get open sim archive records to put on your own open sim island.

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The first Flat Classroom Project. One class in Dhaka, Bangladesh with Julie Lindsay as the leader

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