Came across this link yesterday. Some of these innovations are quite interesting.
http://online.wsj.com/public/page/technology-innovation-awards-09272010.html
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Monday, September 6, 2010
TED Talk - Nov 2009 - Pranav
One of my favorite TED talks. If you have the time to watch it. Hopefully technology and the physical environment merge increasingly merge in the future. Its great to know some of these innovations will be open sourced.
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/guj/pranav_mistry_the_thrilling_potential_of_sixthsense_technology.html
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/guj/pranav_mistry_the_thrilling_potential_of_sixthsense_technology.html
Service Learning
In a meeting with Dr. Andrew Furco while discussing service learning, we talked about ways in which UMN could design a course together with Argentina - FLACSO in which undergraduate students could learn about the capability of youth in bringing about global change and the different programs in the world where this has taken place, analyzing both advantages and disadvantages. The class currently is conceived as a six credit course in which students could learn the theory and its history during the spring semester of 2011 at the University of Minnesota, where the students divided in groups of 3 to 4 students will partner with a local organization and help their youth members conduct a service learning project. The goal is not to help the children directly but rather have the students work side by side with the young adults and children taking part in this project and learn the capabilities for youth to bring about change. With few assessed limitations and a high level of idealism children are at times more willing to tackle issues that adults would be hesitant to be involved with.
While continuing to dialog about the subject, Dr. Furco elaborated on the capabilities of children led movements by talking about a previous child led initiative in which children at an elementary school when discussing slavery in America asked their teacher if slavery still took place in the world. Being a good teacher, she researched the topic and explained to the children how slavery was still taking place in Sudan, where at times when the parents were indebted, they would sell their children as laborers. When the young students learned about this, they decided to take action and coordinating with an NGO they collected thousands of dollars to buy the freedom of a number of child slaves in Sudan. While purchasing slaves raises some moral questions, including whether or not it alleviates the problem or perhaps exacerbates it, as slave owners may see the purchasing of slaves by NGOs as a way to generate revenue, what is unquestionable is that from a simple classroom
idea, children in the United States were able to organize a movement to free children from the bondage of slavery half way across the world.
Technorati Tags: student centered, slavery, service learning, sudan, andrew furco
While continuing to dialog about the subject, Dr. Furco elaborated on the capabilities of children led movements by talking about a previous child led initiative in which children at an elementary school when discussing slavery in America asked their teacher if slavery still took place in the world. Being a good teacher, she researched the topic and explained to the children how slavery was still taking place in Sudan, where at times when the parents were indebted, they would sell their children as laborers. When the young students learned about this, they decided to take action and coordinating with an NGO they collected thousands of dollars to buy the freedom of a number of child slaves in Sudan. While purchasing slaves raises some moral questions, including whether or not it alleviates the problem or perhaps exacerbates it, as slave owners may see the purchasing of slaves by NGOs as a way to generate revenue, what is unquestionable is that from a simple classroom
idea, children in the United States were able to organize a movement to free children from the bondage of slavery half way across the world.
Technorati Tags: student centered, slavery, service learning, sudan, andrew furco
Webinar - Technology Innovations in Higher Education - Univ. of Phoenix
Despite missing the actual webinar, I was able to listen this online session later through a Phoenix Online courtesy email. The webinar overviewed the changes to the online education industry over the years, where online education is moving towards, and how the University of Phoenix plans to take advantage of social networks within their education program to enhance their online platform. The speakers, Adam Honea and Michael White, contend that the proper use of technology can promote a more student centered, constructivist, personalized, social, and convenient form of education.
Here is the link to the webinar recording. The interface also allows the viewer to download the presentation slides as a pdf file. Hope you enjoy it!
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We heard a wide range of viewpoints on “Technology Innovations in Higher Education” from University of Phoenix leaders Bill Pepicello, President; Adam Honea, Provost; and Michael White, Chief Technology Officer.
If you would like to view a recording of the Webinar, please visit http://event.on24.com/r.htm?e=234475&s=1&k=93ED6BC452966C814B7DCF069E4CFD50. We encourage you to forward this e-mail to any colleagues who may have also missed this session.
To gain a better understanding of how University of Phoenix is supporting our communities through higher education, please visit http://www.phoenix.edu.
Best Regards,
University of Phoenix
The original event was broadcast on:
Date: Thursday, August 19, 2010
Time: 2:00 PM EDT
Duration: 60-minutes
Here is the link to the webinar recording. The interface also allows the viewer to download the presentation slides as a pdf file. Hope you enjoy it!
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We heard a wide range of viewpoints on “Technology Innovations in Higher Education” from University of Phoenix leaders Bill Pepicello, President; Adam Honea, Provost; and Michael White, Chief Technology Officer.
If you would like to view a recording of the Webinar, please visit http://event.on24.com/r.htm?e=234475&s=1&k=93ED6BC452966C814B7DCF069E4CFD50. We encourage you to forward this e-mail to any colleagues who may have also missed this session.
To gain a better understanding of how University of Phoenix is supporting our communities through higher education, please visit http://www.phoenix.edu.
Best Regards,
University of Phoenix
The original event was broadcast on:
Date: Thursday, August 19, 2010
Time: 2:00 PM EDT
Duration: 60-minutes
Monday, July 19, 2010
Favorite Quote - The British Invasion - Churchill
Having recently married a Brit, there are some Churchill quotes I am becoming increasingly fond of:
- Bessie Braddock: “Sir, you are drunk.”
Churchill: “Madam, you are ugly. In the morning, I shall be sober.”
- Nancy Astor: “Sir, if you were my husband, I would give you poison.”
Churchill: “If I were your husband I would take it.”
- You ask, What is our policy? I will say; “It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us: to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy.” You ask, What is our aim? I can answer with one word: Victory—victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.
- We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and the oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
- Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fall, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science.
Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth lasts for a thousand years, men will still say, “This was their finest hour!”
- Bessie Braddock: “Sir, you are drunk.”
Churchill: “Madam, you are ugly. In the morning, I shall be sober.”
- Nancy Astor: “Sir, if you were my husband, I would give you poison.”
Churchill: “If I were your husband I would take it.”
- You ask, What is our policy? I will say; “It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us: to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy.” You ask, What is our aim? I can answer with one word: Victory—victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.
- We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and the oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
- Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fall, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science.
Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth lasts for a thousand years, men will still say, “This was their finest hour!”
Web 2.0?
Having recently moved to Minnesota, I felt it was time to perhaps revisit blogging and once in a while drop a line or two in this site. For a while, when I made this blog on 2008, my goal was to simply have a place (private), where I could gather my thoughts and possibly become more comfortable with writing on a regular basis.
Unlike a publication, a blog at times contains only a bit more than scrambled ideas, as such I was apprehensive of removing part of the editing process I use when writing papers. Also, writing in a second language, I was worried about the quality of my writing.
Neverthess, as a web 2.0 supporter, I want to feel more comfortable with communicating through blog technology. Writing my second post... its so far so good!. Lets see how the exercise develops.
Technorati Tags: Web 2.0, Objectives, Teaching
Unlike a publication, a blog at times contains only a bit more than scrambled ideas, as such I was apprehensive of removing part of the editing process I use when writing papers. Also, writing in a second language, I was worried about the quality of my writing.
Neverthess, as a web 2.0 supporter, I want to feel more comfortable with communicating through blog technology. Writing my second post... its so far so good!. Lets see how the exercise develops.
Technorati Tags: Web 2.0, Objectives, Teaching
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