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Next update: 27 January 2012
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Matrix-style instant learning is a real possibility, according to scientific report
Often the stuff of science-fiction fantasy, instant learning via digital communication with a subject’s brain (a la The Matrix) is not only possible, but scientists have already had some success with test subjects.
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Learning a language is much more fun in the kitchen
Paul Seedhouse, professor of education and applied linguistics at Newcastle University, is the brains behind the French Digital Kitchen, a learning site that teaches its users aspects of the French language while they prepare dishes from the country.
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Goodbye Textbooks, Hello iPad
A technology shift is under way. The PC’s promise to transform how learning happens in the classroom is being realized by Apple’s iPad. Students and teachers in grade school through higher education are using the iPad to augment their lessons or to replace textbooks.
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Questions About Digital Learning
Last year (2010) marked a world-changing inflection point in the sale of mobile devices and applications. For education, affordable access devices is the biggest new driver. It's now cheaper to give every student a tablet or eReader loaded with content (particularly if some of it is open) than to give them a backpack full of books.
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Broadband, Social Networks, and Mobility Have Spawned a New Kind of Learner
Students are different today because of technology. Every educator knows this, of course, but this change is about much more than agile thumbs, shriveling attention spans, and OMG'd vocabularies. According the Pew Research Center, the combination of widespread access to broadband Internet connectivity, the popularity of social networking, and the near ubiquity of mobile computing is producing a fundamentally new kind of learner.
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The Great Education Reads of 2011
Whether you "occupy" home, airports or train terminals this holiday season, it's a good time to reflect and catch up on some of 2011's greatest education reads.
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TV can impair language skills, hamper sleep in kids under 2
A new report released this week is reinforcing a message that many of us have heard before: No TV is good TV for children under the age of 2.
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Humanoid robots make entry into Middle East classrooms
Humanoid robots are making an entry into classrooms in academic and research institutions in the Middle East, promising to revolutionise the teaching process especially in the fields of science and mathematics.
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A Case for Using Social Networking for Learning
We are witnessing the emergence of something profound: Humans, historically divided by geography, culture and creed, are beginning to connect and collaborate on a scale never seen before. The driving force behind this creative wave are digital tools and networks that allow new forms of collaboration and knowledge creation.
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Education in the Age of Information
Many of the problems with today's education system are documented in the media with films like (Waiting for Superman) and (2121). The "bean counting" approach to qualifying students with standardized tests, curriculum, etc. has led to what Asian students call a "duck feeding" approach to education.
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Technology, team learning hold keys to core subjects
As education leaders scramble to implement common curriculum standards to assess student performance in all states, they understand that to effectively engage students, greater use of technology, team learning and restructured classes should be the strategies.
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Google, Apple and Higher Ed’s Future
I, like many others, have been thinking a lot about Apple since the untimely death of its co-founder, Steve Jobs. One theme that has consistently emerged in reflections on Jobs’ legacy is the extent to which he taught so many of us how to navigate the information age. Jobs made his name by inventing a computer, but his most lasting impact will be the ways he gave consumers access to a range of devices that make the Internet indispensable.
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