IDC has updated their forecast of expansion the digital universe to accommodate bigger and faster growth. Some highlights: The digital universe in 2007 — at 2.25 x 1021 bits (281 exabytes or 281 billion gigabytes) — was 10% bigger than we thought. The resizing comes as a result of faster growth in cameras, digital TV [...]
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Archive for March, 2008
BarCamp unconferences
3/11/2008
A couple twitters from pfhyper got me intrigued by BarCamp unconferences: BarCamp is an international network of user generated conferences — open, participatory workshop-events, whose content is provided by participants — often focusing on early-stage web applications, and related open source technologies, social protocols, and open data formats. (From Wikipedia) As BYO-WiFi events, the rules [...]
Move over Kansas, here comes Oklahoma!
3/10/2008
Phil Plait says it better: The Oklahoma House of Representatives has passed a bill that says that a student can receive a passing grade in an Earth Science class if they say that the Flying Spaghetti Monster created the Earth an hour ago, and then planted false memories into every single living creature on Earth [...]
Education Futures mailbag
3/10/2008
With many folks away at SXSW, CIES and AERA, the next couple weeks are going to be quiet. What better time than now to catch-up on the mail! First, Elaine Wooton sent a note a couple weeks ago in regard to my chart of Education 1.0/2.0/3.0: I am part of a group starting a school [...]
American anti-intellectualism? Say it ain’t so!
3/9/2008
From the slightly off-topic department… After laughing with Idiocracy‘s critiques of anti-intellectual culture in American society, this quote from Bill Maher hit home (via Crooks and Liars): Maher: “New rule, politicians must stop saying, ‘the American people are smarter than that.’ No they aren’t! If the Bush era has taught us anything, it’s that voters [...]
Can Shibuya save Antioch?
3/4/2008
From this morning’s Inside Higher Ed: http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/03/04/antioch Antioch University’s announcement last week that its board had “reconfirmed” plans to shutter Antioch College at the end of this academic year has prompted a flurry of activity to prevent that from happening. Most notably, alumni and professors are working on plans for the faculty to continue to [...]
The Cape Town Open Education Declaration
3/3/2008
Calú twittered this yesterday evening: Declaración de Ciudad del Cabo para la Educación Abierta http://tinyurl.com/2uob4w The English version of the document can be found here. In short, Mark Shuttleworth’s foundation and the Open Society Institute are launching a campaign to “transform education” by calling for open, free educational resources to be placed online: According to [...]
Bill Gates on keeping America competitive
3/2/2008
An editorial by Bill Gates appears in today’s Washington Post. He argues that if the U.S. continues to fail to produce the skilled talent it needs to succeed in an innovation economy, the country should import knowledge and innovation workers: To remain competitive in the global economy, we must build on the success of such [...]
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