Category Archives: Information Society

Are cell phones really distractive? Labeling for avoidance in dynamically conservative educational systems

I think that there’s no doubt that the increasingly rapid development of information and communication technologies (ICT) is one of the most significant factors driving change in education today. This is evident, not only in the many attempts to find … Continue reading

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Exploring educational issues in future contexts: Michael A. Burstein’s “TeleAbsence”

I recently posted a request here on education4site.org and other places for examples of how education/classrooms/schools have been portrayed in science fiction literature, movies, etc. I got some great responses and have included them in a comment to my original … Continue reading

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Call for Papers – “Borderless society: The ‘new’ work and education”

On the Horizon, a journal focused on the future of learning and work, has issued a call for papers for a special issue on “Borderless society: The ‘new’ work and education”. The special issue will be edited by Dr. John … Continue reading

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Education on Air: Google hosts free educational technology conference on Google+

Is this finally a reason for educators to join Google+ (or get active – I joined long ago but don’t use it)? Click here to read more about Googles Education on Air conference on Google+.

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“We, the web kids…”

Today’s youth have some very interesting things to say. Who’s listening? Piotr Czerski says: We, the Web kids; we, who have grown up with the Internet and on the Internet, are a generation who meet the criteria for the term … Continue reading

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How to teach robots to talk? Let them develop and learn their own language

Researchers at Sony’s Computer Lab in Paris have been working with a group of robots that have been programmed to develop their own shared language. There has been phenomenal progress in the development of machine learning in the past decade … Continue reading

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