Daily Diigo Bookmarks from Steve Yuen 03/07/2011

• PlayAndroid: Find, download & rate thousands of Android games

• Who’s Really Scanning All Those QR Codes? [INFOGRAPHIC]

  tags: really infographic QR codes

• 10 Excellent iPad Applications for Teachers | Emerging Education Technology

  tags: ipad education 10 excellent technology apps teachers tools

• The History of Online Education in America: The Ultimate Web Guide

  tags: history education online distance learning

• Interactive NETS*S Wiki

  tags: nets ISTE Resources interactive technology ISTE10 wiki web2.0

• Wired for Distraction? – TIME

  tags: wired distraction time

  • A Kaiser Family Foundation report released last year found that on average, children ages 8 to 18 spend 7 hours and 38 min. a day using entertainment media. And if you count each content stream separately — a lot of kids, for example, text while watching TV — they are logging almost 11 hours of media usage a day.
  • But a 2009 study found that when extraneous information was presented, participants who (on the basis of their answers to a study questionnaire) did a lot of media multitasking performed worse on a test than those who don’t do much media multitasking.
  • In the test, a trio of Stanford University researchers showed college students an image of a bunch of rectangles in various orientations and asked them to focus on a couple of red ones in particular. Then the students were shown a second, very similar image and asked if the red rectangles had been rotated. The heavy media multitaskers were wrong more often — because, the study concluded, they are more sensitive to distracting stimuli than light media multitaskers are.
  • In 2006, UCLA scientists showed that multitaskers and focused learners deploy different parts of the brain when they learn the same thing. Multitaskers fire up their striatum, which encodes the learning more like habit, or what’s known as procedural memory. Meanwhile, those who were allowed to focus on the task without distraction relied on the hippocampus, which is at the heart of the declarative memory circuit that comes into play, say, in math class when you need to apply abstract rules to novel problems. The upshot of the study was that the focusers could apply the new skill more broadly but the multitaskers could not. Multitaskers’ reliance on rote habit would be all well and good if we want our offspring to work on assembly lines, but to do the kind of high-level thinking that experts agree will be key to getting well-paying jobs, we’d better exercise our collective hippocampus.

• Balance Your Media Diet

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• 60 Informative Social Networking and Social Media Infographics | CreativeFan

  tags: infographics social socialmedia media informative 60

• Google Image Chart Editor – creates various charts online

  tags: google charts graphs chart tools create charttool

• HootCourse – takes your class conversation online using Twitter and Facebook

  tags: twitter facebook hootcourse Classroom education backchannel socialmedia web2.0

• The KYVL for Kids Research Portal – How to do research Home Base

  tags: research information_literacy web2.0 howto elementary resources students

• Online Plagiarism Checker, Duplicate Content Finder – Plagiarisma.Net

  tags: plagiarism checker copyright writing web2.0 resources tools

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Augmented Reality (AR) in Education

Augmented reality (AR) is an emerging form of experience in which the real world is enhanced by computer-generated content specific to a location and to an activity.  Today, AR applications have become portable and available on mobile devices.  AR is beginning to change news, entertainment, sports, e-commerce, travel, museums, architecture, and marketing in tangible, exciting ways.  In education and training, AR has the potential to make ubiquitous learning a reality, allowing learners to gain immediate access to a wide range of location-specific information from various sources.  The 2010 Horizon Report predicts that the use of simple AR in education will be widespread within 2 to 3 years on US college campuses.

Below is a presentation I recently gave at the 2011 Creating Futures Through Technology Conference (CFTTC) in Biloxi, Mississippi.  In my presentation, I introduced the concept of AR, discussed the recent AR developments, examined the impact of AR on society, and discussed the implications of AR for education.  Please feel free to offer your comments and suggestions.  Thanks.

 

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60 Informative Social Networking and Social Media Infographics

60 Informative Social Networking and Social Media Infographics | CreativeFan http://t.co/ucZNTqD—
Steve Yuen (@scyuen) March 06, 2011

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Google Image Chart Editor

Google Image Chart Editor – creates various charts online. http://t.co/xVF0fdB—
Steve Yuen (@scyuen) March 06, 2011

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