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Future technologies now

Learning with 'e's

The latest virtual reality headsets were enjoyed by many who were fascinated by how low cost headsets, combined with iPhones or Android phones could create such rich and immersive experiences. In fact, it was surprising how inexpensive but robust some of the alternatives were in comparison to Cardboard.

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?Preparing For an Unknown Future

Edsurge

Remember that less than a decade ago, when the first iPhone was unveiled, it would have been impossible to conceive of a world ruled by tiny pocket computers that augment every part of our lives or to grasp the potential of a connected world 1.7 That is because the current design of the school system is more than 100 years old.

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Resources from Miami Device

Learning in Hand

Create Multimedia eBooks in a 1 iPad Classroom by Wesley Fryer Enhanced eBooks on iPads, iPhones and iPod Touches can include audio, video, and interactive animations in addition to digital text, images and links.

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Revisiting #ALATTT: Trend #1: AR/VR/MR and a touch of AI

NeverEndingSearch

experiencing what it was/is like to live in another time, another place by engaging in immersive virtual field trips–a walk through the solar system, the experience of a tornado, a tour around a refugee camp, the solar system, back to ancient Rome. Coming soon Quest –a n o-computer, no-wires, VR gaming system.

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Smartphones-in-School, Brain Mush, Teaching Deep Reading…and Apples & Bicycles!

EdNews Daily

Bias alert #1: I travel to thirty-five or more cities a year to produce executive events with educators and I have found that my iPhone 10+ is my best friend on airplanes. A cover is sort of like an iPhone case. Harnessing what is , to the gain of learning, is this generation of education leaders’ real imperative. That’s for English.

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The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Issue a Press Release

Hack Education

” Less than three months later, Apple introduced the iPhone. John Logie Baird demonstrated a working television system in 1926. But we can’t claim that the pace of technological change is speeding up just because we personally go out and buy a new iPhone every time Apple tells us the old model is obsolete.

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Memory Machines: Learning, Knowing, and Technological Change

Hack Education

John Logie Baird demonstrated a working television system in 1926. But we can’t claim that the pace of technological change is speeding up just because we personally go out and buy a new iPhone every time Apple tells us the old model is obsolete. Alexander Graham Bell made his famous telephone call to his assistant in 1876.