http://www.goldenswamp.com Emerging virtual education comments and links Fri, 25 Jul 2008 18:42:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Mobile interaction with the Internet on my iPhoneG3, shown above, is much better than the Internet via a desktop computer was in the late 1990s. I know because I was there. Back then I was in charge of gathering the links for learning for a channel of Jumbo!.com. We called ... http://www.goldenswamp.com/2008/07/25/mobile-now-better-for-edu-content-than-late-1990s-desktops/ For education, or any cognitive content, in the new cloud concept for the open Internet the action is at the node level. Education's traditional trees of subject matter and curricula cannot hold their form in the mushy dynamics of the content cloud that is billowing up from multiplying server farms. ... http://www.goldenswamp.com/2008/07/23/how-to-put-education-resources-into-the-cloud/ Mobile expert Enrique Ortiz at About Mobility Weblog describes the power that ease of discovery has for delivering content. He writes in the context of mobile, and the huge success of the new Apple App Store, which I have been extolling for its new way of making content available. The ... http://www.goldenswamp.com/2008/07/22/wise-word-to-edu-from-mobile-guru-on-app-store/ This afternoon I went to first showing of the afternoon of the new Batman movie, "The Dark Knight." About ten minutes before the scheduled start of the trailers ahead of the movie, I entered the theater seating about 300 -- one of seven in the multiplex on Third Avenue at ... http://www.goldenswamp.com/2008/07/21/kids-with-mobiles-did-not-interrupt-batman/ In a blog post today titled "The iPhone iPod Touch Platform and Education" by Al Briggs at WeDeliverElephants.com, Al capsulizes why the new App Store from Apple does everything right for education. He says "lets get stared getting content on to these devices," and gives us reasons, including these: So what ... http://www.goldenswamp.com/2008/07/17/so-let%e2%80%99s-start-getting-education-content-on-to-the-iphones/ Today I found a new friend who shares the avid interest in the underlying workings of the Internet. He is a doctor. We were talking about how diversity of inheritance makes us robust and contributes to longevity. He mentioned the word “heterozygous.” I did not know the word, but understood ... http://www.goldenswamp.com/2008/07/16/heterozygote-advantage-of-learn-nodes/ Sound the trumpets!! The walls around education's gardens are falling down. Starting tomorrow, learning nodes and nuggets can be created a zillion ways and connected to by students in the open App Store. Opening tomorrow, the Apple App Store is a pooling of "for sale" stuff with knickknacks and nodes of ... http://www.goldenswamp.com/2008/07/10/apples-app-swamp-is-golden-news-for-education/ Today I was looking at the real estate ad shown here. It was on a webpage of the New York Times online. Included in the list of features on the page - along with "Floorplans," "Map of Area," Print the listing," etc. - was "send to Mobile NEW." To test ... http://www.goldenswamp.com/2008/07/07/methodology-to-deliver-learning-content-to-mobiles/ The new movie "Wall-E" is getting lots of rave reviews. Here's mine: The movie reminds us what fools we are to settle for how things are - that we are just not bothering to think about doing something different. Below is a section from a column by Frank Rich in the ... http://www.goldenswamp.com/2008/07/06/summons-to-remake-education-before-time-runs-out/ Cory Doctorow published on BoingBoing.net this interesting commentator's take on liberty in general and the new issues of freedom in the Internet. Barlow says in this message that the Internet has created a new right to know. He says that there are forces against that freedom, but that: "I think ... http://www.goldenswamp.com/2008/07/05/john-perry-barlows-4th-of-july-message/