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The only thing better than having a browser in your pocket, is having the all of the bookmarks, browser history and the open tabs from your desktop or notebook browser in your pocket as well. Now you can! Mozilla Labs has worked up a nifty iPhone App that uses their Weave Sync technology to put [...] Apple has finally taken the wraps off the iPad, a device that many in the edtech community have been eagerly awaiting. Is it, as some have opined, the perfect machine around which to build a K-12 1:1 computing program? I’m sure we will see some school adoptions, but there are problems. Not [...] It’s a common misconception that the web isn’t a useful educational tool for very young students, particularly pre-readers. That is simply not true. Over the last year and a half, I’ve been working on a project called Curiosity Clubhouse that uses computers, both in the classroom and at home, to help kindergarten students learn. [...] There are some projects over at Mozilla Labs that just might make it possible to turn Firefox into the “killer-app” for K-12 education, both in North America, and around the world. JetPack is a set of tools for extending the browser using open, standards-based technologies like CSS, HTML, and Javascript. The folks over at AcademicBenchmarks.org have posted a report card on U.S. curriculum standards publishing efforts. It’s important reading for anyone interested in improving K-12 education in this country. Their Standards Digital Deployment Report is an assessment of how well each state does in the digital deployment of curriculum standards. The report rates [...] Tom Greaves (@twgreaves) and I are working on this year’s Mobile Trends Report for the Software & Information Industry Association’s Education Division. Big issues this year include: The blossoming of Netbooks in the education market that was just beginning last year at this time. I recently saw a post in a discussion group asking about an emulator for Fennec, the mobile version of the stunniningly wonderful Firefox browser. The answer that came back from someone at Mozilla Labs was deeply disturbing: “My first thought is that I think the ‘mobile web’ should be the same web, so an [...]
This size of image is 16 kilobytes, the same size as one hundred full-length SMS messages of 160 characters each. Instant Messaging (IM) applications have been around on cell phones and mobile platforms for a long time now. But over at The Business Insider, Dan Frommer (@fromedome) is calling AOL’s new AIM app for [...] In my previous post, “Asking the Wrong Question”, I dinged the Symbian Foundation for not presenting a clear picture of how to take a Symbian app to market. While that’s still a fragmented process, it appears that the foundation recognizes the problem and is working toward a solution. In an interview with CNET [...] |
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