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Although the differences between responsive and adaptive design are nuanced for the non-developer, the distinctions are increasingly important as publishers see more and more traffic come from mobile devices.
Posted by: andytedd | March 28, 2013
Links 03/28/2013
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Posted by: andytedd | March 23, 2013
Links 03/23/2013
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The fallacy of business social networking | Consumerization Of It – InfoWorld
This starts off with a bit of a strawman but makes some good points later, eg:
“Focus on specific collaboration needs, not social networking”
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Email forever! Why social apps can’t replace it | Consumerization Of It – InfoWorld
Social app aficionados want to kill email, but their solutions are worse than the supposed disease…
The reality is that email is very good for what it does, and nothing out there is better. Email isn’t about to go away, and trying to kill it is silly at best. The other reality is that most of the supposed evils of emails aren’t about email itself, so the proposed alternatives do nothing to cure those supposed ails.
Posted by: andytedd | March 13, 2013
iPad Research in Primary Schools
iPad Research in Primary Schools
The Technology Enhanced Learning Research group, led by Kevin Burden (Principal Investigator) based in the Faculty of Education, have recently completed the first national evaluation to investigate the use and impact of tablet technologies (in this case the iPad), across schools and homes in Scotland.
The study was based in eight schools and six local authorities across Scotland where iPad devices were being piloted to investigate a range of issues associated with the deployment of personal mobile devices as tools for teaching and learning.
Key findings:
- The ownership of a personal mobile device, like the iPad, facilitates many of the pedagogical aspirations set out in Scotland’s Curriculum for Excellence framework.
- The adoption of mobile technologies on a personal basis significantly increases access to technology for students, both inside and beyond school, with many attendant benefits for learning which include greater motivation, engagement, parental involvement, and understanding of complex ideas.
- Personal ‘ownership’ of the device is seen as the single most important factor for successful use of this technology
- Teachers are equally engaged by the use of a device like the iPad which has a low learning curve enabling them to use it immediately as a teaching tool and a learning tool for themselves
- The use of the device is contributing to significant changes in the way teachers approach their professional role as educators and is changing the way they see themselves and their pedagogy:
- Parents also appear to become more engaged with the school and their child’s learning when the iPad travels home with the student
http://www2.hull.ac.uk/ifl/ipadresearchinschools.aspx
From @Leadbeaterch
Posted by: andytedd | January 24, 2013
Hierarchy of Digital Distractions
i’m doing some work for the beeb on internal use of social media for knowledge sharing (again, once more unto the breach, etc) and this conceptual model from David McAndless/Information is Beautiful seemed very relevant:
In sharing this, I noticed it had been on display at MoMA. How cool, postmodern, whatevs.
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Posted by: andytedd | September 19, 2012
Digital Natives, Millennials & Myths
Prezi
Here is my prezi from Learning Live 13th Sept 2012:
Audio
Here is an audio file of the conversation:
Digital Natives, Milennials & Myths
(you can launch the audio then scroll through the prezi)
References & Links
Here are links to supporting materials and references:
Naming the next generation (USA Today, 2012)
Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants (Prensky, 2001)
Grown Up Digital (Tapscott, 2008) (Economist Abstract)
Educating the Net Generation (Tapscott, 1999) (Record details)
Born Digital (Palfrey & Gasser, 2008)
Kranzberg’s Laws (Kranzberg, 1986)
Social Websites Harm Children’s Brains (Greenfield, 2009) (cited in the Journal of Cancer and House Prices)
Whether the digital era improves society is up to its users (Boyd, 2012)
Danah Boyd’s Publications list
Digital Natives: A critical review (Bennett, Maton, Kervin, 2008)
The Digital Native: Myth and Reality (Selwyn, 2009)
CIBER downloads (inc. Google, Generation (2008))
Critique of Siri
Generations (Pew Internet, 2010)
Social Media, Social Life: How teens view their digital lives (Commonsense media , 2012)
Digital Learners in HE: Looking beyond stereotypes (Bullen, Morgan, Qayyum, 2011)
Digital Natives: Where is the Evidence? (Helsper & Eynon, 2009)
Strauss-Howe generational theory
Posted in Conferences, Funnies, Learning, Links, Teaching, VLE | Tags: digital natives, Learning Live
Posted by: andytedd | September 5, 2012
Links 09/05/2012
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Teens Prefer Face-to-Face Communication | Common Sense Media
Most teens prefer face-to-face communication, and many of them think using social media can interfere with that.
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Growing up Gen Y: The Impact of Being Immersed in Technology
Generational stereotypes are slowly being debunked, but still anecdotal evidence continues to be bantered around the Internet, and used to make decisions on how to manage and train Gen Y.
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Posted by: andytedd | July 11, 2012
Links 07/11/2012
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Government Digital Service Design Principles
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Martha Lane Fox’s letter to Francis Maude 14th Oct 2010
a high level architecture for how Government internet services could be transformed over the next few years
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Posted by: andytedd | June 29, 2012
Links 06/29/2012
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Research Studios / BBC: Global Visual Language
“Neville Brody and Research Studios have collaborated closely with the BBC to redesign their online Global Visual Language (GVL) and take the organisation and its users into a more compelling digital space. At the heart of the project was the joint desire to bring joined-up cross platform concepts and experiences to users of bbc.co.uk and bbc.com now and into the future.”
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BBC – GEL (Global Experience Language)
“The GEL guidelines are a reference point for designing BBC services across Web, Mobile, iPTV and Tablet.”
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Posted by: andytedd | June 28, 2012
Links 06/28/2012
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BBC – College of Journalism – Professional versus personal social media use
“In this video Rory Cellan-Jones explains how he juggles his two social media personas and governs his activity by the principle: ‘Don’t say (or do) anything that you wouldn’t on 5 Live.’
The BBC News Social Media Guidelines highlight particular issues to consider. They can be summarised as ‘don’t do anything stupid’.
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BBC – BBC Internet Blog: Expanding the BBC’s Global Experience Language
“In this post I’d like to talk about some of the additions to the BBC Global Experience Language and give an overview of the new BBC design guidelines and patterns for Mobile, IPTV and Tablet devices. “
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BBC – BBC Internet Blog: BBC TV Channel Homepages: Responsive Design
” Last month saw the launch of the new television homepages for BBC One, Two, Three and Four. This blog post aims to give you some insight into the process and in particular our approach to responsive design.”
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The Internet of Things – McKinsey Quarterly – High Tech – Hardware
“More objects are becoming embedded with sensors and gaining the ability to communicate. The resulting information networks promise to create new business models, improve business processes, and reduce costs and risks.
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That ‘Internet of Things’ Thing – RFID Journal
“Today computers—and, therefore, the Internet—are almost wholly dependent on human beings for information. Nearly all of the roughly 50 petabytes (a petabyte is 1,024 terabytes) of data available on the Internet were first captured and created by human beings—by typing, pressing a record button, taking a digital picture or scanning a bar code. Conventional diagrams of the Internet include servers and routers and so on, but they leave out the most numerous and important routers of all: people. The problem is, people have limited time, attention and accuracy—all of which means they are not very good at capturing data about things in the real world. “
Posted by: andytedd | June 12, 2012
Links 06/12/2012
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BBC – Commissioning TV – How it works
“All proposals for TV and online content ideas from registered suppliers must be submitted online through e-Commissioning for BBC network content.”
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The main objective of this research is to contribute to innovation capability understanding. Furthermore, it is mainly focused in the way innovation capability is built and developed. Based on a multiple case study and interviews with managers, who are responsible for the new product development projects, in two innovative technology- based companies (ITBC) in the broadcasting sector, a collection of practices are identified and classified in four dimensions: 1) Innovation strategy, 2) Human capital development, 3) Organizational structure, and 4) Organizational culture. The case analysis revealed that a collection of practices that promote successful results in the new product development projects are critical both to improve and to build innovation capability.
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