But Peter showed a video that is worth sharing. ENJOY
"Teaching is but an illusion ... only learning is real"
My Blackberry isn,t working - video
Peter Simmonds and Rod Tyndall spoke at the Australian College of Educators, Education on the Square last Wednesday. A very stimulating discussion that ran out of time.
Microsoft’s “Productivity Future Vision”
Techrepublic's Jason Hiner writes
"Think about how far smartphones have come over the past five years. In 2006, we were using bulky Palm Treos and BlackBerry devices that could barely make a phone call and pretty much just did email. Today, our smartphones have replaced digital cameras, GPS units, MP3 players, and even e-readers, newspapers, and magazines in many cases.
Just think what our smartphones will look like five to ten years from now. Microsoft has a few pie-in-the-sky ideas about that and it has conceptualized them in a new video called “Productivity Future Vision” produced by the Microsoft Office division."
"Think about how far smartphones have come over the past five years. In 2006, we were using bulky Palm Treos and BlackBerry devices that could barely make a phone call and pretty much just did email. Today, our smartphones have replaced digital cameras, GPS units, MP3 players, and even e-readers, newspapers, and magazines in many cases.
Just think what our smartphones will look like five to ten years from now. Microsoft has a few pie-in-the-sky ideas about that and it has conceptualized them in a new video called “Productivity Future Vision” produced by the Microsoft Office division."
Why can't Australia follow Canada instead of New York?
Recently Em Prof Alan Reid spoke at the Australian College of Educators (SA branch) President's dinner. He spoke of the Federal Government's infatuation with the seriously flawed New York education system. When I saw this from the OECD I thought "Why can't Australia follow Canada instead of New York?"
In the 2009 OECD Programme of International Student Assessment (PISA), an evaluation of 15-year-old pupils in 65 countries, including the OECD countries, Canada ranked among the top ten performers in reading, mathematics and science. If such results could be attributed to a high number of academic overachievers, they would still be remarkable, but the fact that all pupils–from the highest to the lowest scorers–contributed to the results highlights the equity of the Canadian educational system, where the gap between the highest and lowest scores was one of the narrowest in any OECD country." . ... read more
Top 10 trends that will transform mobile between now and 2015
TechRepublic's Jason Hiner looks at Gartner analyst Nick Jones laid out his top 10 mobile and wireless technologies to watch over the next four years
"Gartner loves its trends and users love lists as a quick way to scan and absorb important information, so Gartner analyst Nick Jones gave into requests from IT leaders and put together a list of his top 10 mobile and wireless technologies to watch over the next four years. He showed the list to attendees during his mobile state of the union presentation at Gartner Symposium 2011 this week.
Here’s what Nick had:
He put HTML5 at the top because he stated, “By 2015, mobile Web technologies will have advanced sufficiently such that half of the applications that in 2011 would be written as native apps will be, instead, delivered as Web apps.”
The other three themes of Nick’s list are machine-to-machine (M2M, or the “Internet of things”), location-based tools, and more robust wireless connectivity. In terms of the wireless issue, here’s a chart from his presentation that maps out what’s coming, when, and how fast it is:
Jason Hiner's take on this
The two big things that I think are missing from this top ten are 1.) the advent of business-centric app stores, and 2.) mobile data security technologies. Both of those trends will be driven by the consumerization of IT and the fact that more an more IT departments will embrace the concept of employees bringing their own devices into the enterprise. In order to allow that but still maintain corporate standards and data security, companies will need to give employees access to business apps that they can use on their devices and implement technologies that can protect sensitive corporate data when it’s being viewed, created, and manipulated on devices that the company does not control."
"Gartner loves its trends and users love lists as a quick way to scan and absorb important information, so Gartner analyst Nick Jones gave into requests from IT leaders and put together a list of his top 10 mobile and wireless technologies to watch over the next four years. He showed the list to attendees during his mobile state of the union presentation at Gartner Symposium 2011 this week.
Here’s what Nick had:
- HTML5
- NFC and “touch to act” applications such as payment
- Platform independent AD tools
- Location and context — indoor and outdoor
- Bluetooth 4
- 802.11ac
- M2M — cellular and Wi-Fi
- Augmented reality
- Multiplatform MDM
- LTE
He put HTML5 at the top because he stated, “By 2015, mobile Web technologies will have advanced sufficiently such that half of the applications that in 2011 would be written as native apps will be, instead, delivered as Web apps.”
The other three themes of Nick’s list are machine-to-machine (M2M, or the “Internet of things”), location-based tools, and more robust wireless connectivity. In terms of the wireless issue, here’s a chart from his presentation that maps out what’s coming, when, and how fast it is:
Jason Hiner's take on this
The two big things that I think are missing from this top ten are 1.) the advent of business-centric app stores, and 2.) mobile data security technologies. Both of those trends will be driven by the consumerization of IT and the fact that more an more IT departments will embrace the concept of employees bringing their own devices into the enterprise. In order to allow that but still maintain corporate standards and data security, companies will need to give employees access to business apps that they can use on their devices and implement technologies that can protect sensitive corporate data when it’s being viewed, created, and manipulated on devices that the company does not control."
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