Push Pop Play

Where did this go?

http://venturebeat.com/2011/08/02/facebook-push-pop-acquisition/

http://www.insidefacebook.com/2011/08/02/facebook-buys-digital-book-creator-push-pop-press-for-the-ideas-and-technology/

Qualcomm's interest in the brain is amazing. They are improving computer processing by studying the human brain: A major benefit of this for education might be the lower cost of big data processing.

"Qualcomm doesn't anticipate replacing today's processors with the Zeroth--instead, it would act as a co-processor. The Zeroth could be good at things like learning and then anticipating user preferences on a smartphone, for example. In the car, the Zeroth could help vehicles become aware of the surrounding environment and protect drivers from unsafe situations."

http://www2.technologyreview.com/emtech/13/video/day1/

http://www.fastcoexist.com/3018564/futurist-forum/the-computer-of-the-future-will-be-an-electronic-human-brain

A pretty good analogy from The Neighborhood Effect article by Marc Perry- Chronicle Nov 5, 2012. This is also what a child needs more than anything else-- An emotionally consistent environment .

Money for disadvantaged areas has "fluctuated wildly," Sharkey says. Programs have attracted interest and been abandoned. What poor areas need, he argues, is something they have never had: a consistent investment policy that touches multiple generations.

Flipped Classroom Resources

The Flip: End of a Love Affair by Shelley Wright. Moving on from the flip. October 8, 2012

The Flipped Classroom, by Elisabeth Engum- A history lesson about flip and more. September 20, 2012
Outlines the switch from lower cognitive learning in the classroom to home; and higher cognitive learning from homework to the classroom and a teachers guidance.

Visible Learning: A Synthesis of Over 800 Meta-Analyses Relating to Achievement. by John Hattie, December 2008. From the Amazon website book description.

"A major message is that what works best for students is similar to what works best for teachers – an attention to setting challenging learning intentions, being clear about what success means, and an attention to learning strategies for developing conceptual understanding about what teachers and students know and understand."

Five Forces

The Five Competitive Forces that Shape Strategy

Objective help?

Visual Thesaurus
http://www.visualthesaurus.com/app/view

Financial Trends for Higher Educatrion

Penn State
College of Education
Center for the Study of Higher Education
Financial Trends for Higher Education in the United States
By Roger L. Geiger and Donald E. Heller
January 2011
http://www.ed.psu.edu/educ/cshe/working-papers/WP%236

Brain Biology and Teaching

The Art of Changing the Brain Enriching the practice of teaching by exploring the biology of learning.
by James E. Zull

CBL for patient safety

"Transparent Learning has partnered with Knowledge Factor (KF), the only educational company in the world that delivers online mastery of knowledge allowing learners to perform well with confidence. KF does this through its patented Confidence-Based Learning™ (CBL) System, an online program that isolates, measures, and remediates misinformation and doubt in learners before these educational weaknesses result in mistakes on the job. "

Web reference Sept 2, 2012
http://www.transparentlearning.com/confidence.html

Innovation

Radical innovation: crossing knowledge boundaries with interdisciplinary teams, by Alan F. Blackwell, Lee Wilson, Alice Street, Charles Boulton, John Knell

bionic software

"Coming next from CK12, early in 2012, for example, will be lesson plans for teachers to access, “bionic software” to help them assess their students (Khan is also adding this to their system)."
fromhttp://techcrunch.com/2012/01/15/teachers-or-algorithms/

The Marriage of Content and Context

SmartHistory
http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/

Avatars and Worlds

Media Semantics

Voki And Site Pal

Sitepals free text-to-speech

Toolwire

Protosphere

MediaSite's Massive List of MOOC Resources

George Siemens - Ted Talk - March 3, 2010
"Framing Education"

App Review

IEAR
From their website....
I Education Apps Review is now a community of over 500 educators, administrators and app developers.

Site includes reviews of apps, cool tools, app grading, student reviews, search field, and app of the week to name a few features.

Facing Higher Education's IT Funding Future
March 1, 2012
Campus Technology

Gilfus Education Group
5 Higher Ed Tech Trends for 2012--Campus Technology
http://www.gilfuseducationgroup.com/5-higher-ed-tech-trends-for-2012-campus-technology

Policy Challenges in Online Learning

From Educause Policy Matters
 Educause Online Learning Challenges: State Authorization and Federal Regulation
by Jarrett Cummins
October 24, 2011
"In the interim, traditional colleges and universities will continue to face the unintended consequences of federal action in the form of increased financial and administrative burdens, providing significant motivation for collective engagement by federal, state, and institutional stakeholders to develop a regulatory structure that works for online learning."

Twitter

Twitturly - watch the most popular url postings

How To Twitter by Julia Angwin

Twitter Info from CrunchBase