Archive for April 2009
Education 3.0
Posted by: ashleytan on: April 30, 2009
I love this table that compares Education 1.0 with 2.0 with 3.0. It’s a very intuitive and revealing look at “education” as it is today.
The same group of folks also coined the phrase “knowmads.”
Many thanks to Carolyn for pointing out this resource!
OLPC mission
Posted by: ashleytan on: April 27, 2009
I love what this OLPC video had to say about children. Children are their mission, not their market.
Although OLPC targets the so-called developing or poorer nations, I think that we need something like that here in Singapore, particularly the application of OLPC’s five principles. I’m thinking something along the lines of [...]
Famous failures
Posted by: ashleytan on: April 24, 2009
If at first you don’t succeed, try and try again.
Serious Twittering
Posted by: ashleytan on: April 23, 2009
Should educators take Twitter seriously? At least one school principal thinks so (no, he’s not a local).
And are you still using Twitter’s Web interface? Here are some tweaks you can make to it using a Firefox plugin!
Facebook do’s and dont’s
Posted by: ashleytan on: April 21, 2009
Take note of these do’s and don’ts if you use the “Electric Friendship Generator” and Facebook!
When life gives you lemons…
Posted by: ashleytan on: April 18, 2009
… you make lemonade. So the saying goes, right?
In other words, you do the best with what you are given or what you have. Just like this guy who had a lot of greasy burgers!
Inside
Posted by: ashleytan on: April 17, 2009
When you were growing up, weren’t you told that it was what was on the inside that counts? I couldn’t agree more.
I don’t like the so called talent shows that pretend to be “reality” shows, so I don’t watch them. But I like the exceptional talents that emerge and these invariably end up on YouTube.
So [...]
Facebook generation
Posted by: ashleytan on: April 16, 2009
First there was Generation X. Then there was Gen Y. Now there is Gen F for Facebook, of course. But is someone just making this stuff up? I don’t think so.
Gary Hamel of the Wall Street Journal suggested 12 traits of Gen F, who will “expect the social environment of work to reflect the social [...]
G.ho.st
Posted by: ashleytan on: April 15, 2009
One of the weaknesses of DIY multitouch, surface computers is the lack of software. Most current operating systems do not natively support simultaneous multiple inputs.
One option is to layer something like Flash over the OS that supports multitouch. Another option is to develop your own OS. But that is way too much work.
Until now. I [...]
21st Century Literacies
Posted by: ashleytan on: April 14, 2009
There has been a small flurry of bloggers writing about 21 century literacies or skills. This is important to me as I am part of a small group of researchers that wants to know if the 1:1 computing scheme in NIE has a role to play in promoting or even enabling these skills or literacies.
Howard [...]
