Guy Kawasaki???????? ????? ???????? tweeted this link, and I could not resist the urge to share: The ‘Cisco On-Stage TelePresence Experience’ was an ambitious collaboration between Cisco and Musion Systems, which took place during the opening of Cisco’s Globalization Centre East in Bangalore, India. Musion seamlessly integrated their 3D holographic display technology with Cisco’s TelePresence’s [...]
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Archive for May, 2008
OLPC XO-2: The shape of things to come?
5/28/2008
At the OLPC’s Global Country Workshop in Cambridge, Massachusetts last week, Nicholas Negroponte revealed mockups of the next generation One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) device: XO-2. The dual touch screen design can be used as either a laptop, a book, or a tablet. Since it relies on the touch screens to provide key entry, it [...]
Global Finals 2008 recap (with video!)
5/28/2008
Last week, John Moravec and I were the guests of Destination ImagiNation during the DI Global Finals in Knoxville. We were delighted at experiencing the largest imagination and creativity gathering ever to assemble – anywhere! Our greatest respect and admiration was for the kids’ impressive demonstrations of intellectual, academic, and personal skills – just three [...]
Back from Global Finals
5/27/2008
Arthur Harkins and I got back from Global Finals late on Sunday. We’ll post a recap video and our thoughts soon. In the meantime, here’s a video from the closing ceremonies assembled by Destination ImagiNation:
Minnesota delegation leapfrogs to DI Global Finals!
5/22/2008
At last night’s Destination ImagiNation 2008 Global Finals opening ceremonies, the Minnesota delegation LEAPFROGGED into the Thompson-Boling arena at UTK! More Global Finals coverage coming soon… Did you notice that they carried frogs in with them, too? Rock on, Minnesota! (If the embedded video doesn’t play, you can view it here).
Off to Destination ImagiNation Global Finals
5/21/2008
Today, I will arrive in Knoxville, TN, to interact with organizers and competing youth at the Destination ImagiNation Global Finals! Destination ImagiNation (DI) is a creativity and problem solving program for children from elementary age to college age. Teams of up to seven members compete in various challenges that require complex thinking, problem solving, teamwork [...]
Creating one or more Innovation Cells within your school
5/20/2008
[Cross posted from the Leapfrog Institutes Newswire] Ron Fuller is an emeritus teacher at Edison High School in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Recently, Ron prepared this step-by-step format for creating self-organizing Innovation Cells in schools. With his permission, we are sharing his framework for building ICs in educational settings. Students are grouped with a licensed staff member [...]
An introduction to Innovation Cells
5/20/2008
[Cross-posted from the Leapfrog Institutes Newswire] Leapfrog Institutes introduces “Innovation Cells” as a way to operationalize Leapfrog in your school, college, business or community. First of all, what’s an Innovation Cell? Leapfrog Institutes has drawn the basics from an article written by Uri Weisflog. Uwe Weissflog is an associate of Cambashi and founder of Pathway [...]
eSN TechWatch: Preparing kids for 21st century success
5/19/2008
From eSchool News — Author Daniel Pink discusses what it will take for students to succeed in an outsourced and automated world–and how schools should change their approach to education accordingly:
Knowing what we know
5/19/2008
As mentioned last week, schools have a hard time determining how students are doing, or what they know. The problem, argues Dr. David Shupe, founder of the eLumen Collaborative, is present at all levels of formal education and is becoming an issue for accreditors. To address the problem, eLumen has created a technology-centered approach to [...]
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The StarTribune ran a positive piece that raises awareness of David Shupe’s eLumen Collaborative, a Web-based, enterprise-level application for tracking student competencies. The project began as a response to a simple question that higher education institutions and graduates have a hard time answering: What, precisely, did graduating students learn, and what competencies have they developed? [...]
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Article link: “Will Arizona lead the nation in K-12 education?” Francis Hardaway argues in an article published by AlwaysOn that a bill proposed in the Arizona state legistature could improve the state’s educational position by implementing a statewide “eLearning” system. She writes, “Arizona?s eSATS initiative is the first to be designed to transform an entire [...]
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