The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Michael Saylor 4.0 out of 5 stars 5 for Elegant Simplicity, 3 for Dumbed Down,July 12, 2012 For a guy who once said he was worth $600,000 a hour, I was expecting a great deal more. This is a Classic Comic for the masses–now I used to own all of the Classic Comics [for those …
Learning analytics is the measurement, collection, analysis and reporting of data about learners and their contexts, for purposes of understanding and optimising learning and the environments in which it occurs [1]. A related field is educational data mining. Phi Beta Iota: The obvious deficiency is that most projects are generally focused on retro learning environments. …
Mobilityshifts.org Digital Fluencies for a Mobile World What are new pedagogic approaches for learning with mobile platforms? What are the limitations of the “digital literacies” paradigm and its first world/third world assumptions? How do we promulgate digital fluency as an understanding of the particular features of global information flows in which data, attention, capital, and reputation …
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One Hundred Free Mobile Apps to Teach Kids Math in Schools — Denmark Aims to be #1 in M-Learning for K12 Students Danish students will in the future have access to a library of more than 100 apps for mobile phones, teaching them math in a more fun and engaging way. All mobile data traffic …
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FrontlineSMS is an open-source software that enables two-way text messaging between cheap mobile phones and laptops over cellular (GSM) networks. FrontlineSMS: Credit FrontlineSMS:Credit aims to make every formal financial service available to the entrepreneurial poor in 160 characters or less. By meshing the functionality of FrontlineSMS with local mobile payment systems, implementing institutions will be …
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The United Nations is pioneering the use of mobile telephones to collect health-relevant data, others are pioneering the use of mobile devices to deliver health learning to both health providers and health consumers.
A Fresh Look at Big Data May 8, 2013 Next week I am doing an invited talk in London. My subject is search and Big Data. I will be digging into this notion in this month’s Honk newsletter and adding some business intelligence related comments at an Information Today conference in New York later this …
