Wednesday, November 4th, 2009

Games and Future Learning

In this video from Edutopia, James Paul Gee talks collaboration, problem solving, knowledge creation and much more. Eleven minutes well spent.
Thanks George.

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Saturday, September 5th, 2009

Pencils and Crayons to be Banned in Schools

A new law coming into force later this month will require students to check in their pencils and crayons at the office and collect them after school.  Any children caught with pencils or crayons in their possession will have then confiscated and parents will be informed.
“We’ve had enough,” said one teacher, “kids are writing notes [...]

Saturday, August 15th, 2009

Minority Report 2

Be warned- this is  very video heavy post
A Saturday morning tweet by @betchaboy-

prompted me to refresh my memory…
I’ve blogged about this Oblong interface before, but I’d forgotten how slick it really was (apart from the naff gloves).

g-speak overview 1828121108 from john underkoffler on Vimeo.
Here it is being used to edit video/movie elements together.

oblong’s tamper system [...]

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

A Glimpse into the Future?

A month ago I sent this tweet about a video at MIT.

The link http://is.gd/nBFI goes to an article at Computerworld.com that includes a video that is amazing.  It looks a bit clunky at the moment, (I compared it to this polished MicroSoft promo) but imagine what it could be like! I’d intended to blog about [...]

Saturday, November 15th, 2008

Minority Report?

oblong