From the category archives:

informal learning

RFID in museums

January 13, 2010

Some LSU students have an interesting test case of using RFID to track where people visit and then email them information on the exhibit.

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Three cheers for trash TV

November 13, 2009

Charles Kenny has an article in Foreign Policy that describes the impact television’s emergence has had on developing nations. I find it interesting for a couple of reasons.
First, it touches on TV’s decades long implementation process. This is not Kenny’s primary concern but there are some relevant details regarding state control, advances in technology (i.e., digital [...]

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Kodu Game Lab as a learning experience

July 3, 2009

Microsoft Research recently released Kodu Game Lab, a high level programming language available for download on X-Box Live. Seymour Papert must be ecstatic. Aaron Broder (a 15 year old reporter for Scholastic) described some of the challenges of learning to program with Kodu. It’s interesting that his suggestions are almost entirely about learning to use the game [...]

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IDEO’s patterns

June 18, 2009

IDEO has launched an on going series looking at common insights, or patterns, across projects.
Several of their patterns are about change: using change as a means to build a business, preparing for life’s changes, getting people to change brands.
Change is ultimately a fundamental aspect of learning and their patterns to some degree reflect this. The [...]

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