Posts Tagged ‘future’
Google Apps in schools
Posted by: ashleytan on: September 24, 2009
Two days ago, I tweeted MOE’s press release on how all schools here were adopting cloud computing in the form of Google Apps. I thought that was wonderful news.
What do other people think of it? Chris Dawson who is far away in Massachusetts and a fan of Google Apps seemed pleased for us, but he [...]
Augmented reality
Posted by: ashleytan on: July 18, 2009
The first augmented reality (AR) on phone application I saw was Layar from the Netherlands.
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That was a month ago. Now someone else has created an application for the New York subway system.
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What might AR for education look like?
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The future of work?
Posted by: ashleytan on: June 12, 2009
Singapore’s IDA has a vision of how we might live, learn and work in 2015. Earlier this year, Microsoft shared its vision for 2019. I highlighted both videos in a previous entry.
Time magazine does not have a fancy video, but it suggests 10 ways jobs have already changed and will change in the future. (Many [...]
The future of learning?
Posted by: ashleytan on: March 24, 2009
If you asked me what the not-too-distant future of learning might look like, I’d say it will comprise a better balance of formal and informal learning.
New pedagogies will take advantage of the way people learn now learn in “information fragments”, e.g., open source style.
For assessment, I hope that e-portfolios become more common for teaching, learning, [...]
Teaching for the future
Posted by: ashleytan on: March 21, 2009
This week marked the end of formal lessons for the course I facilitate. I attempted to bring some “closure” to the readings, YouTube viewings, and experiences on 21st century learners and learning environments with my Prezi-based presentation on Teaching for the Future.
Over the next two weeks, my preservice teachers do walkabout presentations of their final [...]
Magazine articles
Posted by: ashleytan on: March 11, 2009
I am a guest writer for i-know. In this issue (iknow-magazine-issue-11), I wrote about Classroom 2.0.
And it is no coincidence that another writer featured the Classroom of the Future (COTF) in the same magazine.
Looking down the road
Posted by: ashleytan on: March 6, 2009
One of the tasks I gave my teacher trainees this coming e-learning week is to watch the iN2015 video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibCL4rmAWGA
Someone else made this video available on YouTube, but I don’t know if this has been officially sanctioned, so go to the source above if the YouTube version disappears.
But along comes Microsoft and they too have a [...]
Quenching thirsts in the future
Posted by: ashleytan on: January 9, 2009
If the near future of vending machines (click to read its features) looks like this, what can we say about the state of our classrooms and the way we teach?
Voice surfing
Posted by: ashleytan on: November 30, 2008
According to IBM, in five years you might be surfing the WWW using your voice. And you may have to thank India for this.
