Emerging Technologies

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• ISTE | Emerging Technologies Database
  ISTE’s Emerging Technologies Task Force is increasing the educational community’s knowledge and understanding of effective infusion of new and emerging technologies to support teaching and learning.

• article library : The Florida Files - Creative Class Group
  The Creative Class Group (CCG) is a global think tank headquartered in Washington, DC that develops new ideas and strategies for business, government and community competitiveness. The CCG team is comprised of next-generation thinkers and strategists who

• informationfluency " home
  Some fantastic resources from Joyce Valenza

• TEDTalks (audio, video)
  Each year, TED hosts some of the world's most fascinating people: Trusted voices and convention-breaking mavericks, icons and geniuses. The talks they deliver have had had such a great impact, we thought they deserved a wider audience. So now - with our s

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  Information and Community for Educators using M.U.V.E.'s

• ETech Conference 2007 • March 26-29, 2007 • San Diego, California
  When you say “sufficiently advanced technology” to a technologist, they'll invariably not need to be told the second half of the quote. But it begs the question: how advanced is sufficiently advanced?

• alphaWorks : Emerging technologies
  The IBM Task Modeler is an Eclipse-based tool for rapidly creating and analyzing models of human activity for DITA and user experience design.

• EAF 228: Social Foundations of Education
  EAF 228 is an undergraduate, teacher education course designed as an online, interactive video game where players (students) take the role of Change Agents who must overthrow Status Quo, a mythical figure that represents educators who fear technology and

• Pac Manhattan
  Pac-Manhattan is a large-scale urban game that utilizes the New York City grid to recreate the 1980's video game sensation Pac-Man. This analog version of Pac-man is being developed in NYU's Interactive Telecommunications graduate program, in order to exp

• IBM's 'Millipede' Project Demonstrates Trillion-Bit Data Storage Density
  Using an innovative nanotechnology, IBM scientists have demonstrated a data storage density of a trillion bits per square inch -- 20 times higher than the densest magnetic storage available today. IBM achieved this remarkable density -- enough to store 25

• Wired 3.11: Beam Me Up an Einstein, Scotty
  Lately, I keep hearing the same question: "Atoms or bits - where does the future lie?" Thirty years ago, Gene Roddenberry, the creator of Star Trek, dealt with this same speculation, driven by another imperative. He had a beautiful design for a starship,

• The Harrow Technology Report for March 10, 2003 - Just A Matter Of Perspective...
  We may see teleportation move to molecules, as predicted. And the thought of transmitting the "data of a human" might well still seem "impossible" at that time.

• The Harrow Technology Report for March 24, 2003 - Completely Changing The Rules.
  In one section Dr. Krauss calculates the amount of data that defines a human body as 1028 kilobytes -- 16 orders of magnitude more information than is contained in every book ever written. (Consider that JUST the DNA within one body's cells, if unwound fr

• Laser Focus World - Holographic disk is quickly searchable
  A holographic disk, written to and read by low-power lasers at Gbit/s rates, stores hundreds of gigabytes and can be searched at rates of 32 Gbyte/s.

• Computer Made from DNA and Enzymes
  Israeli scientists have devised a computer that can perform 330 trillion operations per second, more than 100,000 times the speed of the fastest PC. The secret: It runs on DNA.

Flattening World

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• YouTube - ShiftHappens
  Update of the original video engeniusly done by Karl Fisch in Colorado

• TeacherTube - Pay Attention
  Since most of today's students can appropriately be labeled as "Digital Learners", why do so many teachers refuse to enter the digital age with their teaching practices?

• Why I put my money on the elephant over the dragon | Maria Misra - Times Online
  With the sixtieth anniversary of independence, enthusiasm for India in the West is at an all-time high. And though the Hindu nationalist slogan "India Shining" was decisively and derisively dismissed as overoptimistic in India itself at the 2004 gener

• shifthappens " home
  This wiki is designed to give you a little more background on the Did You Know? presentation. The wiki also will connect you with some resources to learn more about the shifts that are occurring in our world and their implications for K-12 and higher educ

• The New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce
  America's Choice: high skills or low wages!, was released "While Tough Choices or Tough Times does a tremendous job in identifying and articulating the challenges we face, what truly sets it apart is the specific and highly innovative policy prescript

• EdCone.com: This is how a Pulitzer winner writes about blogs?
  I called Michael Skube to learn more about his outlook on blogs, and verified that he knows very little about blogs and bloggers, and had done almost no research before writing his N&R column (unposted) (why?).

• Cool Cat Teacher Blog: How I get their attention: Businessweek's Future of Work
  I love listening to both the Businessweek and Wall Street Journal podcasts. They are brief, pithy podcasts with great information that is applicable across the board.

• 1001 Reflections
  I've been wishing aloud for some time that more non-Anglo countries would join the 1001 Flat World Tales project. So when Hagit from Israel (via my membership in ePals) and another teacher soon to begin work in Kazakhstan expressed interest in joining t

• Discovery Educator Network - Wisconsin: Digi-Peeve #1: The World is Flat
  By now, you have probably heard of Thomas Friedman's book "The World is Flat" (April 2005). While this is a very worthwhile book that addresses globalization in the 21st century (you should read it if you haven't), it is over two years old and is not th

• Ben Casnocha: The Blog: Book Review: The World is Flat
  When I was 12 years old I was sitting in my PJ's in my bedroom building the prototype of a product (now known as eFeedbackManager). But I didn't know how to code. I didn't want to code. I was too busy trying to learn all I could about business and how adu

• The Future of Work Weblog
  Visit here regularly for ongoing reports and conversations related to the changing nature of work. Our goal is to foster community, conversation, and mutual learning about the future of work and the forces driving change.

• Thomas L. Friedman, New York Times "Foreign Affairs" columnist and author of "The World Is Flat
  The World Is Flat 3.0 is Thomas L. Friedman's account of the great changes taking place in our time, as lightning-swift advances in technology and communications put people all over the globe in touch as never before-creating an explosion of wealth in Ind