Mobile learning
Are We Morally Obligated To Carry Cell Phones?
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008A chill recently descended on my home. The cause was cell phones, or more specifically, the fact that I don’t own one. Here’s what happened.
My favorite therapy to address potential social isolation from a week of telework is to drive downtown on Friday evenings, hang out in music stores trying out all the guitars until [...]
Hppy BDay SMS :-)
Wednesday, December 12th, 2007Short message service, or SMS, is now 15 years old. According to Wikipedia, the first commercial SMS message was sent by a Neil Papworth to a Richard Jarvis on December 3, 1992. The text of this message was “Merry Christmas.”
Sent today, that message would more likely have been “Mrry Xms.”
SMS messaging has dramatically changed the [...]
Low-Cost, Lightweight Laptops for Learning
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007I’m not at all in love with my laptop.
It was purchased just over a year ago for about $1,200. It has a battery that lasts about 2.5 hours, which gets me about 30 percent of the way on most of my business trips. And, although it was marketed as lightweight, it feels like I’m carrying [...]
Amazon to Launch an E-Book Reader Next Week
Friday, November 16th, 2007Back in June, I wrote that large publishers such as HarperCollins and Random House are currently focusing a lot of energy and resources to publishing e-books. These publishers reported that, although sales for e-books never lived up to expectations since their launch in the mid to late 1990s, they now feel this is about to [...]
Mobile Learning and Older Learners
Tuesday, July 31st, 2007When I was in my late 30s, my eye doctor told me that, by the age of 40, I’d begin to notice a change in my ability to focus up close. So, I exercised more, upped my intake of lycopeine-rich fruits and vegetables, and felt confident that I’d be able to stop the aging process [...]
