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Wired for Mobile?

07-Mar-11

Putting aside the generalizations encompassed in the term “digital natives” (e.g. not all kids these days are D.N.s) — check out what many of your students are doing, and are used to. How are we meeting them halfway? This infographic from Voxy encapsulates a slice of it. Via: Voxy Blog

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2011 Horizon Report

28-Feb-11

The new Horizon Report has been out for a few days. The Six Technologies are no surprise to those of us who have been advocating and developing mobile learning practices and tools. They are: mobile computing open content electronic books simple augmented reality gesture-based computing visual data analysis If these look at all familiar, it [...]

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GLS Conference Announced

26-Jan-11

The University of Wisconsin–Madison is excited to announce the Games+Learning+Society (GLS) Conference 7.0 to be held June 15–17, 2011 at the Memorial Union on campus. Session Submissions are due by Monday, 7 March 2011. The GLS Conference is the premier event in the field of videogames and learning. Now in its seventh year, this grass [...]

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Google Docs for Education

22-Sep-10

Three recent announcements position Google Docs to be the Big App On Campus. Building off the amazingly improved Collaborative Editing features (which I’ve used for conference proposals, papers, and website text design), these could transform note-taking, sharing, and student groupwork. Mobile Editing: For iPad, iPhone, and Android devices, being unable to even create and edit [...]

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5 months with iPads

07-Sep-10

As we ease into the fall semester, some of us are bringing iPads. What now? The iPad is essentially a blank slate. We’ve not seen it before, and we’re not exactly sure how we’ll use it. But for whatever reason, we’ve recognized that it *could* be useful, so we got one. Well, it’s been five months [...]

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Mitchville Game Design

12-Jun-10

Apparently,while I have the script for it here, I’d never uploaded a good description of the Augmented Reality (AR) game that was the foundation of my dissertation. Briefly, it was a “light” AR game (no “Terminator” vision), written by a group of campers, and adapted for MIT’s Outdoor AR platform. Basically, the idea was to use [...]

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Collins GLS keynote

11-Jun-10

For those of you who werent able to get to this mornings keynote by Alan Collins, here are most of his slides (in text form, and can I just say that I type waaay faster on the iPad than I do on a laptop because of Apples super-smart autocorrect. Thanks Apple!) (though I wish I [...]

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Let’s Change Education

12-May-10

I’ve been trying to say this for a number of years. Here’s another shot at expressing my message, using a “start with the Why?” approach. Why. I want to change formal education from an institution primarily built around the administration and tracking of students, to one built around the personal and unique interests of each [...]

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Mobile Learning

21-Apr-10

Yesterday I presented to the University of Wisconsin System’s Learning Technology Development Council on Mobile Learning, and how the university-style of instruction must change to adapt to the style of learning that mobile technologies have made common-place. A few key points: With 24/7 access to trusted sources of information in their pockets, students no longer need to [...]

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New Model for Schooling

13-Apr-10

At the Showcase 2010 lunch, I heard that UW-Madison is looking (and has the support of administration) for innovative ideas to create and implement idea-sharing and interdisciplinary connections — ones that encourage entire campus buy-in. Especially since this is in line with the Wisconsin Idea that asks us to reach beyond the walls of the classroom to [...]

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