Below is an eclectic set of links that I included in, or drew material and ideas from, in talks at Learning Technologies 2009 in London in January, at a JISC RSC "e-Learning in HE: Strategy and Planning" event in Doncaster in March, and at the Cambridge Assessment Network in April. At the bottom you will find a link to a (big) zip folder with the assets for the March version of the talk.
1. Computers in schools are like zebra mussels - a fascinating talk by Professor Yong Zhao, Director of the Centre for Teaching and Technology and US-China Centre for Research on Educational Excellence at Michigan State, which argues that computers are triggering the survival instincts of teachers http://fm.schmoller.net/2006/12/computers_in_sc.html.
2. Students today: short video about "young people" and their technology habits http://fm.schmoller.net/2008/01/mark-weschs-vie.html. It's producer, Mike Wesch, will be a keynote speaker at the 2009 ALT conference, in Manchester between 8 and 10 September - http://www.alt.ac.uk/altc2009/.
3. Dr Itiel Dror's six informative, evidence-based handouts summarising a cognitive psychologist's views about learning http://fm.schmoller.net/2007/03/useful_terse_ar.html.
4. John Seeley Brown's "Minds on Fire - Open Education, the Long Tail, and Learning 2.0" http://www.johnseelybrown.com/mindsonfire.pdf[1.33 MB PDF].
5. OECD data on many things digital http://www.oecd.org/document/60/0,3343,en_2649_33703_39574076_1_1_1_1,00.html.
6. Puncturing the hype about MySpace. Interesting article about actual user behaviours by Professor Mike Thelwall http://fm.schmoller.net/2007/10/large-scale-ana.html.
7. BBC piece about User Generated gaming http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/4997036.stm.
8. The software sorted society. Project by Professor Steve Graham http://www.dur.ac.uk/geography/research/researchprojects/?mode=project&id=73.
10. Educause 7 things you should know about series (quick, no-jargon overviews of emerging technologies and related practices that have demonstrated or may demonstrate positive learning impacts) http://www.educause.edu/7ThingsYouShouldKnowAboutSeries/7495.
11. Frank Coffield,s "Running ever faster down the wrong road" which charts public policy on the learning and skills sector over the last 10 or so years http://www.ioe.ac.uk/schools/leid/lss/FCInauguralLectureDec06.doc. Worth reviewing in conjunction with the just published report of the House of Commons Innovation, Universities, Science, and Skills Committee, see http://tinyurl.com/co893w.
12. Amazon link to "The user illusion, cutting consciousness down to size" by Tor Norretranders http://www.amazon.co.uk/User-Illusion-Cutting-Consciousness-Penguin/dp/0140230122, and my summary of his work in the bandwidth of consciousness - http://fm.schmoller.net/2007/03/16_bits_per_sec.html
13. Donald Clark piece about e-learning and hand-held gaming devices http://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/2008/01/nintendo-ds-shows-educators-future.html.
14. Four blogs that are worth subscribing to (amongst many!..)
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Stephen Downes - http://www.downes.ca/news/OLDaily.htm
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Clive on Learning - http://clive-shepherd.blogspot.com/
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Donald Clark Plan B - http://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/
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Nicholas Carr's Rough Type - http://www.roughtype.com/
15. The ALT Newsletter http://newsletter.alt.ac.uk/.
16. Baboon metaphysics - the evolution of the social mind http://fm.schmoller.net/2008/01/baboon-metaphys.html.
17. Terrific keynotes from the 2007 ALT Conference by Peter Norvig Learning in an open world, and by Dylan Wiliam Assessment, learning and technology: prospects at the periphery of control in several different formats including text transcript and MP3 http://www.alt.ac.uk/altc2007/.
18. ccSearch - a means of searching for materials that are available under a Creative Commons license http://search.creativecommons.org/
19. 30/1/2008 piece in the Financial Times about The Big Switch by Nicholas Carr about the coming era of "utility or cloud computing"
20. Articles about Makhmalbaf's "Blackboards"
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Screen International at Cannes, 13/5/2000 - http://www.makhmalbaf.com/brrev.php?br=118
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International Herald Tribune, 13-14/5/2000 http://www.makhmalbaf.com/brrev.php?br=105
21. Talks by robot scientist Hans Moravec http://www.frc.ri.cmu.edu/~hpm/talks/
22. The Maes-Garreau Law, which holds that most favourable predictions about technology fall, just, within the lifetime of the person making the prediction http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maes-Garreau_Law
23. Why Robots will not rule the world - 2000 paper by Chris Malcolm - http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/homes/cam/Robots_Wont_Rule2.shtml
22. Wired's April 2007 interview with Google's CEO Eric Schmidt http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/news/2007/04/mag_schmidt_trans?currentPage=all
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6/3/2009 Charlie
Rose Friday slightly unchallenging 50 minute interview with Eric Schmidt - http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/10131
24. Economist, 2008 "Nomads at last" http://www.economist.com/specialreports/, and "The new oases" http://www.economist.com/specialreports/.
25. John Naughton's "Google's Android could smash iPhone's locked gateway" http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/sep/28/googlethemedia.mobilephones
26. Android: phones are PCs, only smaller and with more stuff on them - http://fm.schmoller.net/2008/10/android-phones.html
27. BBC - Learning and Teaching Scotland reports that use of Brain Training on a Nintendo DS boosts maths scores - http://fm.schmoller.net/2008/09/bbc---learning.html
28. Always on: learning providers in a world of permanent connectivity, by Lorcan Dempsey. A library focused piece, but relevant nevertheless - http://fm.schmoller.net/2009/01/always-on-learning-providers-in-a-world-of-permanent-connectivity.html
29. Literacy of cooperation videos, including talk by Steven Weber on Open Source - http://www.smartmobs.com/2005/09/15/literacy-of-cooperation-lecture-videos/. See also my review of The Success of Open Source- http://www.schmoller.net/mailings/20051228.shtml#2
30. Winners of the 2008 ALT Learning Technologist of the Year Award - http://www.alt.ac.uk/docs/learning_technologist_of_the_year_award_2008.pdf
31. In-source, out-source, open-source, right-source? Running a service not a system. By Dick Moore. About Ufi's choices of software, including Open Source - http://newsletter.alt.ac.uk/e_article001068641.cfm
32. Boston Dynamics Big Dog - http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=W1czBcnX1Ww
33. Walter Lewin talks about his work - http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=97oTDANuZco
34. Official biography of Walter Lewin - http://web.mit.edu/physics/facultyandstaff/faculty/walter_lewin.html
35. Free stuff in an open world by Mark Berthelemy - http://fm.schmoller.net/2006/05/free_stuff_in_a.html
36. Ben Macintyre, The Times, 21/7/2006 "we are all wikipedians now" - http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/ben_macintyre/article690574.ece
37. Over Christmas I read and enjoyed Richard Sennett’s “The Craftsmanâ€, and was bowled over. (The cautionary note about time is almost a straight lift from Sennett.) Sample quotes:
"Inflating small differences in degree into large differences in kind legitimates the system of privilege"
"Equating the median with the mediocre legitimates neglect"
"... probably the greatest challenge facing any good craftsmen [is] to see in the mind's eye where the difficulties lie"
This review by Fiona MacCarthy in the Guardian gives you a flavour of the book overall - http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/feb/09/society/print
38. Jonathan Zittrain's The Future of the Internet and How to Stop it- http://fm.schmoller.net/2008/04/the-future-of-t.html
39. New Media Consortium/Educause Horizon Report for 2009 [370 kB PDF - irritating two-column format], which makes predictions about the emerging technologies that are likely to have a significant impact on education - http://www.nmc.org/pdf/2009-Horizon-Report.pdf
40. Roy Pea at the 2009 Becta Research Conference - http://fm.schmoller.net/2008/11/roy-pea-at-bect.html.
41. The avatar of my father – Nicholas Carr - http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2009/02/horatio_o_day_a.php.
42. WolframAlpha – a “computational knowledge engine” - http://fm.schmoller.net/2009/04/wolframalpha-changing-the-face-of-web-search.html
LT_a_forward_and_backward_look_20090311.zip [16.8 MB .ZIP folder with handout, powerpoint, and video clips]
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