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Category Archives: Leapfrogging development
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
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+.
“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
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
Technology comes and technology goes: Overlooked lessons of technology abandonment
Sometimes it makes no sense to us why certain technologies take hold when they do and even less sense when we learn that “new” technologies turn out to be rediscovered “old” technologies. Consider cement, perhaps one of the best known … Continue reading
The future of education: Report from symposium in Iceland
The following is a somewhat quick & dirty reflection on the symposium on the future of education that I participated in in Iceland last week. I was on a panel at a symposium on the future of education held at … Continue reading
