Cell phones will beat out literacy

The New York Times has published this amazing article, “Can the Cellphone Help End Global Poverty?” (April 13, 2008) on Jan Chipchase, Nokia’s globe hopping industrial designer. It is truly an insight in to the global phenomenon of cell phones. This is a long, yet tremendous article that gives a perspective of globalization few have […]

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World’s Smallest Radio

From the NSF website: the world’s smallest radio is a carbon nanotube! Broadcast entertainment has been slow to catch the digital wave, but innovations like this may just re-awaken the art. I’m not going to provide details… read it for yourself. On another note, it’s been a good month since my last post and I’ve […]

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Education technology Diffusion, part 2.

Continuing with the perceived attributes of innovation (previous post)… 2. Compatibility. Back to the realization that some great technologies out there are incompatible with current modalities of teaching and learning. I would love to see more Web2.0 tools in the classrooms, but these tools require (gasp!) collaboration and creativity, neither of which are part of […]

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Education Technology Diffusion

I’ve started reading Everett Rogers, Diffusion of Innovation. What a great book! It’s got my brain spinning and making some strong connections to our work at the K20 Center. First, I really like his definition of innovation: An innovation is an idea, practice, or object that is perceived as new by an individual or other […]

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Democratic Wifi and Meraki

Scientific American reports online a Wifi hardware startup that aims to bring global universal access: There are two ways to look at the explosive growth of the Internet: One is to celebrate the fact that in the 15 years since it became commercially available, what began as an obscure military technology morphed into a global […]

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