Rational, Scientifically-based Societies

by TQ

“scientists all around the world must now band together to help create more rational, scientifically-based societies that find dogmatism intolerable.” Bruce Alberts, Department of Chemistry and Biophysics, University of California at San… Full Details

More Apple Tablet rumors

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Today there’s a renewal of Apple Tablet rumors. Actually, it sounds like from today’s reports that Apple is thinking not exactly in terms of a Tablet or larger iPod Touch, but rather a netbook with 9.7″ touch screen. Supposedly,… Full Details

Michael Gartenberg on “doomed” Tablet PCs

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Today Michael Gartenberg shares his thoughts on the trials and challenges of pen computing and Microsoft’s Tablet PC initiative in particular. Let’s face it, he’s right. Tablet PCs are in a bit of a lull right now. It’s not… Full Details

JS-Kit Echo Trial on Drupal Site

by Layne Heiny

Leena Rao from TechCrunch published a video and story about JS-Kit’s real-time commenting system. JS-Kit’s real-time streaming commenting widget, aggregates any Tweets, Diggs, or FriendFeed updates that a commenter is making about a webpage and… Full Details

Tablet features to get mention at Faculty Summit

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According to Mary Jo Foley Tablet features will get a mention at this week’s Faculty Summit being hosted by Microsoft: Tablet computing gets its own session during next week’s Faculty Summit, with “demos from Microsoft’s Education… Full Details

Google OS is the answer?

by TQ

Last night Google announced that they’d be working on a Google OS. There are no public running demos at this time but the general principles have been shared. Google wants to build a quick boot OS that can support a Chrome browser with both… Full Details

Thank You for Encouraging Loren

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Thank you for encouraging Loren during his health challenges, including the recent removal of a tumor from his brain. He and our family appreciate your wonderful posts and comments on Twitter, FaceBook, etc. They helped comfort us. We look forward… Full Details

Few posts for the next week or so

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I probably won’t be posting to this blog much over the next week or so while I recover from my brain tumor removal last Saturday. I am following and posting on Twitter. As you might guess 140 characters per post is just about the right speed… Full Details

Imagine Cup ‘09 kicks off

by Lora Heiny

Imagine Cup ‘09 kicks off tonight in Cairo, Egypt with an opening ceremony at the Citadel. Ray Ozzie just told stories about when he was a student at University of Illinois and impressed by the developer of PLATO, innovators like Dan Bricklin, and… Full Details

imagine Cup ‘09 kicks off

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Imagine Cup ‘09 kicks off tonight in Cairo, Egypt with an opening ceremony at the Citadel. Ray Ozzie just told stories about when he was a student at University of Illinois and impressed by the developer of PLATO, innovators like Dan Bricklin, and… Full Details

[FreshFeed]: An iPhone application for FriendFeed

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Imagine Cup sign greets people at CAI

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Imagine Cup sign greets people at CAI

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Tablet scores in hospital

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One of the cool things to see here in the hospital while I recover from surgery is how the hospital uses technology–specifically how they use Tablet PCs. The nurses carry around Motion Helpmate slates. They use the device for scanning bar… Full Details

Scalable Sound Sensing for People-Centric Mobile Phone Apps

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Using the microphone on a cell phone,SoundSense software picks up sounds and automatically classifies sounds as “voice,” “music,” or “ambient noise.” The architecture and algorithms are designed for scalability. SoundSense uses a combination of… Full Details

Computers Make Great Students

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“A computer, for instance, can remember everything and work at blinding speed, so it gains a huge advantage by not having to wait for the teacher. And when data appear “in the wild”–or generated for free on the Web–it can be just the thing for the… Full Details

Education’s Dirty Little Secret (DI)

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Direct Instruction (DI) is the dirty little secret of the educational establishment. This method … is the opposite of the favored methods of today’s high-paid education gurus, and contradicts the popular theories that are taught to new teachers in… Full Details

Technology Questions Story Counter

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People Don’t Gain Insights about Ourselves from Videos of Us

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People do not read insights into ourselves from watching a video of our own body language. Outside observers watching the same video make revealing insights into our personality. In other words, “self-perceivers do not appear to pay as much… Full Details

Bigger is Faster in Lexical – Visual Word Recognition

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People are faster at processing words referring to big things than we are at processing words that denote small things, reported Sara Sereno and colleagues. This study considers “semantic size,” lexical access in visual word recognition – namely,… Full Details

Personal Force and Intention in Moral Judgment

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Using one’s own bodily strength made killing someone less morally acceptable , according to 600 students, than dropping the person through a trap door in front of a train in order to save five others, J. Green and team reported. “Put simply,… Full Details

MIT Replaces Large Letures

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The physics department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technolkogy has replaced large introductory lectures with smaller classes that emphasize hands-on, interactive, collaborative learning. Attendance is up and the failure rate has dropped by… Full Details

Kohjinsha SK3 convertible UMPC

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Kohjinsha SK3 UMPC convertible. Related posts:Kohjinsha SK3 convertible UMPCGrowing number of UMPC videos on YouTubeWebrain to offer UMPC for less than… Full Details

Kohjinsha SK3 convertible UMPC

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Kohjinsha SK3 UMPC convertible. Related posts:Kohjinsha SK3 convertible UMPCGrowing number of UMPC videos on YouTubeThreading Tablet PC… Full Details

What happened?

by TQ

Blogging and writing about technology has changed for me over the past six months. My love for technology continues to grow but my interest in sharing my experiences has dwindled. My hope was that I’d use the iPhone to blog. Instead I stopped…. Full Details

Apple iPhone test

by Layne Heiny

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Pascal Video: Testing the iPhone

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Which will come first multi-touch hardware or software?

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Mary Jo Foley is asking which will come first: multi-touch hardware or software? Al Monro, CEO of NextWindow HP’s multi-touch TouchSmart, responds “ISVs are not providing touch apps because there has been no hardware for it.” Related… Full Details

CNet: Sees touch tablet features in Snow Leopard

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CNet is seeing more touch features on Snow Leopard. Calling the latest version the most touch friendly. Related posts:Admiring the snow in PhoenixThoughts on installing LeopardSnowing in Prescott–kind… Full Details

“Rationed Learning: …’Yes, but … ‘ ” Report Revisited

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Dr. Bonnie Doowrite, Dr. I. T. Benn-Dunn, Ms. Donna Pahl (Wilkinson), and Dr. W. E. Doynit review the report Rationed Learning: A Conspiracy of ‘Yes, but … ‘ Doynit cited this report in the proposal to open the New Era School Initiative (NESI)… Full Details

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