This site is kind of interesting. twtrland analyzes a Twitter profile (perhaps yours) and offers information on the types of tweets they produce, information on followers, most retweeted tweets, etc. You may find your Twitter behavior is more visible than you think.
The post from Hack Education reviews the emerging trend of ebook readers for very young children. Having watched our grandkids interact with an iPad, this trend makes sense to me. Touching stuff to make it react seems a very natural way of related to the world – almost Piagetian in a way.
I see the market is down 350 points as I write this post. I need some good news.
Perhaps this is it. Comcast now offers a plan to provide the family of a child who is eligible for free or reduced cost school lunch home internet access for $10 a month. For me, the inequity that exists outside of the school has always been the hidden problem in 1:1 programs. Now, if more providers would make a similar commitment.
I have been thinking about the practicality of using Google + in K-12 classrooms. The use of circles to target who sees what would seem to address a core concern associated with the use of social media. I understand how I could create a circle to target content I want to share with a designated group of students. What I am attempting to imagine is how each of these students would create a similar circle to share things with the same people in reverse. Then would they remember to set the attribute that limits whether content can be shared further. Just knowing how things go – this seems likely to involve significant challenges. Am I missing something?
You may have run across a reference to a Science article by Sparrow, Liu and Wegner who conducted several research studies suggesting that access to Google (and I assume other search services) may reduce memory functioning. The decline was attributed to transactive memory (not a term I recognize as a Psychologist). However, as a male, the article does explain that issue in a way I can understand.
It may be that the availability of Google may influence information storage/retrieval somewhat in the same way as the availability of a wife influences the storage/retrieval of a husband. When you get used to relying on a memory aid, you may not process information as effectively as you should (if you are the husband). In other words (my interpretation), it is easy to become lazy when we have a resource we think we can rely on.
My son in law has been keeping a blog of our summer trip from his phone. He has been using Tumblr partly to prepare for use with his students next year. I am impressed with the design that can be controlled from a phone – Kim and Jim’s Adventure.
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