Overheard EduComm Annual Conference | June 2010, Las Vegas, NV
One of the most promising trends is the increase in access to information.
“I find it ridiculous that [in] our homes, every room has running water, electricity, air conditioning, but not Internet! Years from now, we’re going to tell our grandchildren, when I was your age, when I wanted to check my e-mail, I used to drive around town looking for a coffee shop.” | David Pogue, Technology Columnist, New York Times
“You need to know about ChaCha. You can ask any question about anything. You can say ‘When’s the last flight out of Chicago?’ or ‘What’s the active ingredient in sunscreen?’ and they text you back in a about a minute! They have 10,000 agents paid 20 cents an answer to do nothing but answer you, free to you. It’s mostly college students, retired people and former Wall Street bankers.” | David Pogue, Technology Columnist, New York Times
“Some faculty have moved to ban technology. But if we look at CNN, we’ve got crawlers, the front channel, the back channel, the S & P index, it’s what we’ve come to expect. We want to capitalize on this. Take the phones, the laptops, whatever they have on them, and use it to facilitate a discussion.” | Kyle Bowen, Director of Informatics, Purdue University
“Korea wants all K-12 education to have free digital books with hyperlinks, simulations, Q & A, animations, question your teacher… and they’re well on their way to doing so.” | Curtis Bonk, Professor, Indiana University
Lots of data is good… but only if you manage it well.
“What do we normally do in education? We teach more facts, more facts, more facts. Connections are more important than facts alone. It’s the connections that stay with you.” | Dr. Sanjoy Mahajan, Associate Director, MIT Teaching and Learning Laboratory, Author of Street Fighting Mathematics
“Close your eyes. See everything [around you] that is brown. Now, what did you see that’s green? I think we have people focusing on only one area. We have people dots, we have process dots and we have technology dots. How are we connecting all of these dots?” | Rick Shaw, CEO/President, Awareity
“One of the things that’s lacking in institutions is being able to capitalize on the data you have about your students, and to expose that in meaningful ways not only for the student but for the institution.” | Cameron Evans, National Technology Officer, Chief Technology Officer, Microsoft Education
“This is going to change your life. You know how when you’re trying to read something on a webpage and everything is blinking like Times Square? There’s ads, there are little creatures walking in front of you, there’s all this noise. What the Readability [tool] does is make everything go quiet. Black type on a white page.” | David Pogue, Technology Columnist, New York Times
“For the average college student [sitting in a classroom with a flat floor], the head is at 4 feet and the eyes are at 3 feet, 6 inches. If you do the geometry and the math, that magic distance for [placing] the bottom of the screen is 5 feet, 3 inches. That holds true in almost all situations, but it’s not always happening in classrooms.” | Malcolm Montgomery, President, EduTech Consulting Services, LLC
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