This morning as I was preparing lunches for the day I watched this TED talk by Aaron Koblin and was both amazed and inspired. For me this short talk was particularly interesting from the fact that it is based on making use of data, the meaningless stuff, that can be collected or is created by [...]
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Creating Art from Data: Aaron Koblin: Artfully visualizing our humanity
Posted: May 24, 2011 in Adobe Flash, animation, audio, Data, Education, Higher School Certificate, Innovation, Inspiration, ist, Reflection, technology, ted, Uncategorized0
Spark Art 4 Girls, An initiative with Digi-Girls and Aus. National Career week
Posted: March 31, 2011 in Education, Inspiration, Media, Stimulus, technologyI received a flyer by email today that sounds like a fun and authentic learning experience for those that get involved. It is aimed at mid to upper secondary students and will be held at North Sydney College on May 25 and 26 2011. Read below for more information: Digi-Girls Spark Art course is a [...]
Future Living (2050 – 2075) – Technology
Posted: February 2, 2011 in Education, Educational Technologies, Stimulus, technologyMOCOM 2020 – The Future of Mobile Media and Communication
Posted: February 1, 2011 in Education, Educational Technologies, Stimulus, technology, webAnother Stimulus item
2010 Did You Know – The Exponential Times We Live In
Posted: February 1, 2011 in Education, Stimulus, technologyHere is another stilus item I will use:
Internet Statistics, 2010.
Posted: February 1, 2011 in Education, Educational Technologies, Stimulus, technologyI found this short clip showing stats for Internet uses in 2010.
Mobile Phone Year in Review, 2010 – Some stats
Posted: February 1, 2011 in Education, Educational Technologies, Media, Stimulus, technologyI have been looking for some of the latest stats on Internet and Technology usage and developments. Here is an example of Mobile Technologies and their development between 2009 to 2010.
Inspiring Educational Research: Sugata Mitra: The child-driven education | Video on TED.com
Posted: October 27, 2010 in children, development, Education, Internet, talks, technology, ted, web“TED Talks Education scientist Sugata Mitra tackles one of the greatest problems of education — the best teachers and schools don’t exist where they’re needed most. In a series of real-life experiments from New Delhi to South Africa to Italy, he gave kids self-supervised access to the web and saw results that could revolutionize how [...]
