While being sick and bedridden would drive most people to watch their favorite movies or catch up on the latest TV series on HULU, I most often find myself watching TED talks. As today is one of those days where I’m stuck at home, I wanted to share a great talk by Jason Fried about [...]
Tags: 37signals, Jason Fried, TED, Ted Tuesday, work
I am constantly looking around for research that investigates the role of technology in learning, and the recent snowfall in Seattle has allowed me to hide in my room and spend lots of time doing just that. In my search, I came across the Economist Intelligence Unit’s joint report with the New Media Consortium titled [...]
Tags: Economist, New Media Literacies, White Paper
Dear Professor Davidson, In your recent HASTAC post, “Facebook’s Messages may not be the right answer but it is the right question,” you bring to light a very important issue that plagues millions of people in today’s world: what is a better system [than email] for communicating with one another in the digital age? While [...]
Tags: Cathy Davidson, Email, HASTAC
I have to admit that the beginning of Sebastian Seung‘s talk on connectomes was a bit confusing. He speaks slowly and with purpose, but being unfamiliar with neuro science or connectomics, I was a bit lost. However, my confusion was abated after the first two minutes. In his TED talk, Dr. Seung outlines a map [...]
Tags: connectome, connectomics, DNA, genome, neuro science, TED, Ted Tuesday
In watching videos for this week’s TED Tuesday, a common theme arose between my selections – education as a self-organized and self-sustaining process. Both Professor Sugatra Mitra and TED Curator Chris Anderson touch on these ideas in the videos I’ve posted. Professor Mitra explains various experiments that he has done around the world as part [...]
Tags: Chris Anderson, Education, Hole in the wall, India, TED, Ted Tuesday
In his 2010 annual letter, Gates Foundation Co-Chair Bill Gates dedicated an entire page to online education. He does this, rightfully so in my opinion, because education online holds much promise for the future of learning, but needs significant growth and innovation before it can reach its full potential. While his letter does not make [...]
Tags: Bill Gates, Gates Foundation, Online Learning, TED