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What's New? Check 'em Out! A Few of the Tools that could make Dramatic Differences in Education (web site referrals from Joe Rueff) |
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One Laptop Per Child Nicholas Negroponte, cofounder of the Media Lab at MIT has a vision of developing a hand-powered (by crank) laptop for $100 and having it available for every child in the world! Crazy? Perhaps, but possible. So much so that the state of Massachusetts has budgeted for just such a scenario. Check this out. These folks may be dreamers, but their dreams are not out of the realm of reality. Sorry folks. They're not going to be sold commercially. http://laptop.media.mit.edu International Consortium for Brain Mapping The October 24, 2005, issue of Time includes a story with the headline "Getting Inside Your Head". It describes a new development in neuroscience, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). It displays" not only the structure of the brain but also how it actually functions, by measuring blood flow". The article goes on "In the scans, specific areas of the brain light up as various mental processes occur." Think of the potential for finding out how we learn, how various functions can assist learning and remembering, and how individuals both differ and are similar in learning characteristics. http://www.loni.ucla.edu/ICBM/ |
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Talk about hype! Steve Jobs did a terrific job (no
pun intended) promoting the introduction of the iPod with video. Of course, most of it centered
around its entertainment capabilities. Ok,
that will sell the gadget. But let's not forget the possibilities for
education. More and more we're becoming a mobile society as far as
communications is concerned. Video will be as much a part of that as
audio. The iPod will be one more tool added
to our inventory. Think of the dimensions we're quite literally going to
have at our fingertips! |
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Podcasting Developed from a variation of iPOD, podcasting is becoming a major communications phenom. The flexibility of this radio-like programming can go anywhere, do anything audio, and at any time. The best feature is not in the reception ability. That's been around since audio taping. It's the tremendous interest that has sprung up in using the technology for simple productions, needing no major studio facilities, that places audio recording and storage in the hands of just about anyone. Record a class report, send it to your instructor or classmates. Receive instructor information any time. Why, even parents can receive reports from school so their kids won't have to be asked, "What did you do in school today?" Breakthrough! http://www.podcasting-tools.com/ |
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Article 3: An Editorial by Zulma Prieto |
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