Articles tagged with: In The News

[13 Mar 2012 | Comments Off on Meet TED-Ed, The newest member of the TED family | 2,642 views]
Meet TED-Ed, The newest member of the TED family

Yesterday TED, an organization dedicated to Ideas Worth Spreading, announced the launch of a new Youtube channel focused on providing educators with a platform to create high quality, professional animations on almost any topic. TED has a fabulous track record of creating inspiring educational videos. Now they’re reaching out to educators everywhere and offering to help anyone with something to say to create an inspiring video. Videos will be hosted on Youtube’s education channel, hopefully making it easier for teachers to access content behind school filters and firewalls and without …

[13 Mar 2012 | Comments Off on Homless Hotspots | 2,173 views]

In yesterday’s post, Wired.com revealed “The Damning Backstory Behind ‘Homeless Hotspots’ at SXSW“. People are understandably outraged at the idea that homeless people might be taken advantage of, however I’m not sure I feel that way about this particular situation. Are we becoming oversensitive? Is this really any different from an MBA with 15 years experience waiting tables because he’s been unemployed, or a teenager with a paper route because he’s not qualified to do anything else but still wants to earn money? Are we upset about the program itself, …

[3 Jan 2012 | Comments Off on Free online learning – will this change education? | 1,276 views]

MIT recently announced an exciting new initiative, known as MITx. This new platform will offer many of the MIT courses to the public for free, and will have a certification component for those who want to pay a nominal fee and show mastery of the material. This is fantastic news, especially from the University that pioneered free online learning through it’s Open Courseware project. Bloggers and Tweeters alike are broadcasting the coming of unlimited free higher ed for everyone and predicting that soon millions of learners will be participating in …

[25 Dec 2011 | Comments Off on The Top 10…Top 10 lists from 2011! | 2,394 views]

I know, I know, I can hear the groans – “Not another top 10 list for the end of the year, there are already too many to read!” No problem! I’m here to help – what follows – in no particular order – is the list of the only top 10 lists an EdTechie (yes, that can be a word now!) should bother reading for the end-of-year list-fest for Dec 2011.
NOTE: Yes, I also noticed these aren’t strictly all top 10 lists – top 3, top 5, and many other …

[21 Jul 2011 | Comments Off on Subway Supermarket | 2,101 views]

A supermarket chain in South Korea has come up with a way to allow commuters to do their shopping while they wait for the subway. They hung life size banners along subway walls that recreate supermarket aisles and included QR codes for each item on the virtual shelves that when scanned add the item to the shopper’s online cart. When customers check out, the order is placed via the supermarket’s website and then delivered to the customer’s home later that day.
This is brilliant – not only does it improve the …

[21 Dec 2010 | One Comment | 1,563 views]

The Virtual World Best Practices in Education (VWBPE) conference originated from the 2007 Second Life Best Practices in Education Conference. This grassroots, community-based conference attracts faculty, instructors, trainers, administrators, instructional designers, technical specialists, and members of organizations from around the world. Those who create teaching/learning environments, resources, tools, support services and professional development opportunities internal and external to virtual world environments participate. During the conference, participants have opportunities to ask: What is education?, What is teaching?, What is learning? and How can we provide virtual world educational environments in which …