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Young inventors set out to solve old problems
Projects at the Lemelson-MIT InvenTeams Odyssey range from a brain-controlled wheelchair to an automatic chalkboard eraser. < From Christian Science Monitor | Learning on June 20, 2006 at 7:45 p.m..

Jeff Jarvis - Toy Company Breaks Little Girls' Hearts - BuzzMachine
Why am I so dogmatic about open and distributed online communities? Stories like this offer the answer. Jeff Jarvis writes, "Mattel is shutting down its American Girl Club and our daughter is rightfully upset." As he points out, "Because of the anonymity features of the community, this means that thousands of friendships are suddenly cut off." Rex Hammock is more blunt. "The issue here is one of 'identity.' Who owns 'me' online? I think I own my identity, but the weasles at Mattel obviously think they own the identities From OLDaily on June 20, 2006 at 7:45 p.m..

Dennis Dunleavy - Learning How to Teach on the Blogosphere - The Big Picture
This is a really good article describing the use of blogging in a journalism class at Southern Oregon University. What I like about it is that it shows so clearly how many of the features talked about by the theorists - the personalization of tone, the holding of media to account, the role of social networking - come into play in actual practice. [Link] [Tags: Web Logs, Personalization, OLDaily on June 20, 2006 at 7:45 p.m..

Stephen J.H. Yang - Context Aware Ubiquitous Learning Environments for Peer-to-Peer Collaborative Learning - Educational Technology and Society
Wide ranging paper describing a context sensitive peer to peer learning environment, including a "personalized annotation management system, and multimedia real-time group discussion system" and a "context acquisition mechanism for collecting contextual information at run time." This approach underlies a lot of the through currently being expressed in personal learning environments and demonstrates some of the concepts in tangible form. A bit technical, but worth the effort. PDF. [Link] [Tags: OLDaily on June 20, 2006 at 7:45 p.m..

Dave Warlick - Announcing hitchhikr.com - 2 cents Worth
Dave Warlick has hopped on to the Glu meme, in this case pulling together information from various sources about web conferences. It takes the conference aggregator I created for Merlot in 2003 (and NMC in 2004) one step further, bringing together Flickr images and adding a list of conferences in the right hand column. A good idea, but I have always wanted there to be some sort of conference RSS referencing system that organizers could use to real From OLDaily on June 20, 2006 at 7:45 p.m..

David Squires - Educational Software and Learning: Subversive Use and Volatile Design - Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
Jeremy Hiebert takes us on a welcome trip back to the writings of David Squires. In this item, Squires states the constructivist dilemma quite nicely: "In trying to design effective learning environments we may at the same time constrain the levels of freedom necessary for learners to make decisions about their own learning." His solution, "incorporated subversion," is to build the freedom into the tools. "Rather than design with constraint in mind, design with freedom and flexibility in mind." Hiebert From OLDaily on June 20, 2006 at 7:45 p.m..

Dave Munger - Language and Time: More on Whether the Future is Literally in Front of Us - Cognitive Daily
This is worth bringing up, for those who believe that we all perceive one and the same reality. The basics of such a reality are space and time, right? But: "English-speakers have two conflicting representations of time. The 'ego-moving' metaphor suggests that we are moving forward through time, so 'forward' implies a later date. The 'time moving' metaphor suggests that time is like a conveyer belt, on which events move from the future to the past, so 'forward' implies an earlier date." It's easy to say we cannot debate the reality of space and time From OLDaily on June 20, 2006 at 7:45 p.m..

Marketing Execs Excel -- To A Fault
Product marketing and management executives rely on Microsoft Excel spreadsheets -- and gut instinct -- to make business-changing decisions. From ClickZ Stats on June 20, 2006 at 11:45 a.m..