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Best of Edutopia's 2009 Technology Coverage | Edutopia
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Year in Review: Ten great 21st-century-classroom resources."
Apple Is Creating Its Consumer Tablet Cloud to Kill Microsoft | BNET Technology Blog | BNET
"But then, last month, we saw that Apple filed a patent on a way to force people to watch ads and which could be used to let a user obtain “a good or service, such as the operating system, for free or at reduced cost.” Time to tie it all together.
You have streaming media, enforced ad-watching, and rumors of the new cheaper device coming out. So add it all up. How about advertising-supported streamed media that also ties in to subsidized hardware? And don’t assume that the media is just music. It’s “open” in the sense of being a available anywhere and at a price that would make a whole lot of people jump, and yet “closed,” because consumers would be tied to Apple.
Suddenly, you have a consumer device that could drop down to just above the going competitive rate of the current e-book readers (because Apple’s long-term business strategy has always called for premium positioning) that is possible because of the advertising. Add a deal with a company like Zoho, and you could have something that offers consumer and business servers, delivered via web to reduce the cost of the device, and use subsidies to make the product inexpensive enough that huge numbers of people jump on it."
Will Apple ever become a viable enterprise technology? - Apple, business, debate, enterprise - Computerworld
"Gartner Symposium debate stirs things up as analysts discuss the iPhone, Mac OS X and incorporating Apple products in business"
Best Buy Prepares for the Post-DVD Era - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
"Best Buy Prepares for the Post-DVD Era"
Google's Android may be about to overturn Apple's cart | Technology | The Observer
"The extent of the disruption caused by the iPhone was vividly conveyed in a presentation to the Web 2.0 Summit by Mary Meeker, the celebrated Morgan Stanley analyst. She thinks the iPhone/iPod Touch is the fastest-growing consumer electronics product of all time – with an adoption ramp steeper than those for the Nintendo Wii, Nintendo DS or Sony PSP. Meeker also says that the mobile internet market is growing much faster even than the web-driven "desktop" internet market of the 1990s. All of which neatly explains why the iPhone has become so dominant so quickly: it was the first mobile device explicitly designed to ride this tiger.
The other company that understood the significance of the mobile internet was Google. Unlike Apple, Google decided not to get into the handset business and instead focused on developing a Linux-based operating system for phones that would then be offered to any manufacturer who wanted in on the act. Thus were born the Android operating system and the Open Handset Alliance – the manufacturers to make the phones.
The first Android phones – launched about a year ago – were disappointing compared with the iPhone. But it was clear that they had got the key factor right – the centrality of permanent access to the internet – and so it was only a matter of waiting for the next generation of handsets to arrive. Last week they began to appear, led by a striking phone (the Droid) from Motorola. Initial reactions from the technology community are pretty positive, so Apple might be about to acquire some real competition.
And not just Apple. The sting in the Android tail was also unveiled this week: Google has launched GPS navigation for the new handsets. It does everything that TomTom, Garmin et al do, and a lot more besides. For example, you can talk to it: tell it to "navigate to the museum with the King Tut exhibition" and it will do an instant Google search and present you with a list of options. Its maps are continually updated because they're not held on the phone. It'll give you live tra
How schools get it wrong - thestar.com
"Neuroscience is also telling us that the brain is a platform on which intelligence can be built, rather than the determinant of a fixed intelligence. That means we should see the brain as an organ that is expandable, something to improve rather than prove, Claxton says. Schooling, then, is to help that expansion happen.
Claxton also suggests replacing the monk and assembly line metaphors with that of a learning apprentice. The teacher becomes a guide and model, a co-conspirator on the engrossing quest for understanding and self-knowledge.
And what should they guide and model? The higher-order habits of mind that characterize the expert investigator, researcher, thinker and learner, says Claxton.
There are barriers to all this. One is that the school system faces daily demands to host our children; it can't shut down to retool. Another is that education is big business, set in its ways. It is a livelihood for education bureaucrats, teachers, teachers' teachers, textbook publishers and school-builders.
Zachary Stein, who is doing his Ph.D. in human education and development at Harvard University's graduate school of education, notes that when he and a colleague tried to persuade a school board in Texas to change their tests so that they actually captured what children understood, those most strongly pitted against the changes were real estate brokers.
Changing a school's standardized test outcomes would change house values, they argued.
But at a neuroscience course for teachers that he helped conduct this summer, Stein raised a tantalizing prospect. What if parents came to understand that the current education system is at odds with how children learn?
"If parents knew that this is how kids learn and that it's not happening at school, they would mobilize," he told the group. "The more parents and teachers know, the better."
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‘Athens’ on the Net - NYTimes.com
exploration of how government might be opened to greater public participation in the digital age, of how to make self-government more than a metaphor.
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Sentiment Analysis Takes the Pulse of the Internet - NYTimes.com
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An emerging field known as sentiment analysis is taking shape around one of the computer world’s unexplored frontiers: translating the vagaries of human emotion into hard data.
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