Apple's iPhone is closed. Google's G1 is open. Which is better?
For one thing, an open platform is much more technically complex than a closed one. Your Windows computer crashes more often than your Mac computer because—among many other reasons—Windows has to accommodate a wider variety of hardware.
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Google Steals Apple's iPhone Thunder | Mobile Phone News Update
The Android team wants a “vibrant third-party developer community,” and here’s the kicker — all of the app store revenue will be passed on to the developers. Google keeps nothing. (Apple takes 30% of all revenue from its App Store offerings; developers get the other 70%.)
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Does Learning Grow or Is it Built? « Experiencing E-Learning
It may be more helpful to think of it in terms of networks of people rather than what’s happening inside your head. If you try to build a network based on a model, from the top down according to rules, is it going to be successful, or will it always be artificial and forced?
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Connectivism as Learning Theory « The Connective
“Instead of hierarchy, we create networks. Instead of static spaces of information exchange, we foster ecologies.”
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Live tweeting back to school night
Technology can amplify good teaching and learning, and it can amplify poor teaching and learning. I would much rather have my own children attend a school with teachers who differentiate instruction, encourage hands-on, inquiry-based learning, and provide meaningful as well as engaging learning tasks for my kids each day without ANY technology what-so-ever than have my children attend a school where technology is everywhere but is simply used to support a traditional, teacher-directed instructional environment.
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Twitter Grader - Measure Your Twitter Mojo
Twitter.Grader evaluates your Twitter profile.
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iPhone adopted by the University of South Australia
South Australia's largest university will support the Apple iPhone 3G as one of its official corporate mobile handsets, the institution revealed yesterday.
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Go with the flow
Forty to fifty years ago when traffic volume was lighter, the main job of traffic light systems was to manage peak traffic during the day or, for example, sporting events. The lights were centrally controlled, and not programmed to adjust in real time. Rather, they were mostly optimised for pre-established assumed situations, meaning for situations that traffic planners had faced in the past.
The disadvantage of this strategy, especially today, is that the more traffic lights there are to coordinate, the more difficult it is to optimize control of the lights. Why? The dilemma is well-known: the larger the number of nodes, or lights, in a system the more computation is necessary until finally computational time “explodes”. “Even for normal-sized cities, super computers are just not fast enough to compute all of the different options that exist for controlling traffic lights. So the number of choices actually considered by the optimization program is significantly reduced,” says Professor Helbing.
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Why complex systems do better without us - being-human - 06 August 2008 - New Scientist
What Helbing and others are finding is that our penchant for regularity and control is seriously misguided.
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Computer self-learning Experiment in India "Hole-in-the-Wall"
In an amazing experiment a Delhi-based IT professional has proved that kids can learn computer skills on their own. Over the years the results of Dr. Mitra’s experiments have been so spectacular that the National Geographic Channel has made a film on his unique research.
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Phone a friend in exams - smh.com.au
A SYDNEY girls' school is redefining the concept of cheating by allowing students to "phone a friend" and use the internet and i-Pods during exams.
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Self-help software to soothe stressed astronauts
The Virtual Space Station's interpersonal conflict management module offers mutliple-choice responses to different problems that may arise. In this scenario, an actor playing a fellow crew member accidentally unplugs a critical computer and asks the user to cover up the mistake. The user must choose from the above responses, then a research discusses the choice and suggests what could have been done differently (Illustration: James Carter/Leonard Greenhalgh)
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The Virtual Space Station's interpersonal conflict management module offers mutliple-choice responses to different problems that may arise. In this scenario, an actor playing a fellow crew member accidentally unplugs a critical computer and asks the user to cover up the mistake. The user must choose from the above responses, then a research discusses the choice and suggests what could have been done differently (Illustration: James Carter/Leonard Greenhalgh)
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When astronauts in orbit stress out, they call Earth to chat with a NASA psychiatrist. But transmitting messages to Mars and beyond would take 20 minutes or so, requiring new approaches to mental health in space. So researchers are developing self-help software that allows space travellers to carry their counsellors with them on a DVD.
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Cloud Education
Judy Breck's keynote from Microlearning2008. It will make you reflect on how education is shaping to be in the near future. Her interactive presentation is here.
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Qik Enables Live Video Streaming From 3G iPhone
Qik, the startup that allows users to stream live mobile video from their cell phones, has released an application that allows users to use the service from their 3G iPhones.
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Apple Human Interface Guidelines: Introduction to Apple Human Interface Guidelines
These guidelines are designed to assist you in developing products that provide Mac OS X users with a consistent visual and behavioral experience across applications and the operating system. Following the guidelines is to your advantage because:
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Facebook a valid educational tool, teachers told | Education | Education Guardian
Young people are more likely to have learned their social networking skills from their friends or classmates than from any formal instruction or support from adults. But as social networking spills over into the classroom, with students using sites to col
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The Risk in Using Twitter as a Public Utility
The takeaway here for me is that as fantastic as web services are, many of them are controlled by one party and are thus a single point of failure. If they go down or the particular site makes a change to the web service call, it can potentially ripple th
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