Smartboard Web 2.0 Eye Candy

Thanks to my friend Ewan McIntosh for his posting on Tag Galaxy. Tag Galaxy is…well, just too cool. It’s essentially a tag browser that pulls public Flickr photos by tags, organizes similar tags around them in space, or lets ou view sets of the pictures in a cool interactive globe. You’ve just got to see […]

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Innovative Networks and Twine

Innovation is spurred by getting the right people together at the right time. Entrepreneurship is built on collective ideas and knowledge of bringing innovation to market. Rarely is it from a single mind working alone. The key is getting the right minds together. We know a few things about what makes innovation and entrepreneurship successful. […]

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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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U.S. Dept of Ed report shows high school proficiency in economics not due to learning economics in high school.

As newly released report from the US. Dept of Ed’s National Center for Education Statistics show high school students have at least a basic understanding of economics. I’m not going to go into what they are testing. A much more interesting result from the study is that student scores from those taking economics classes are […]

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I don’t care how good you are at multitasking. It’s time to do your homework.

In her book, Cyber-Safe Kids, Cyber Savvy Teens, Nancy Willard cites a reference to a research paper in the journal Child Development (citation is below. Full article may require subscription) when dissing the ability of adolescents to effectively multi-task and retain information necessary for adequate school achievement. In short, can you do homework, IM, check […]

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