May 20
Learn to Adapt Links for May 20th
by Jeff Kelly- The Future of Media >> TV Gets More Social - Perhaps we can move beyond the boob tube: "New technologies focusing on the convergence of TV and community continue to turn watching TV into a social activity."
- OLPC XO Laptop 2.0 Has Dual Touchscreens, Looks Amazing and Future-y - OK - Great. But how will this new design hold up in a developing nation environment? I wonder if OLPC has lost focus from its primary misson..
- Once shunned by academics, Wikipedia now a teaching tool (AFP) by AFP: Yahoo! Tech - The cultural tides are changing to embrace Web 2.0: "Wikipedia, the upstart Internet encyclopedia that most universities forbid students to use, has suddenly become a teaching tool for professors"
- Unplugging Conferences (Techlearning blog) - Steve Hargadon shares his twelve (OK - thirteen) "Ideas for enhancing or creating self-organized meetings". Unconfrences are (potentially) a great opportunity to recreate Web spontaneity and dynamic learning in a live setting.
Welcome to the safer parts of my mind! Here I invite you to converse on thoughts of life & learning in the 21st century. (