Saturday, December 29, 2012

Online Learning

This is tremendous news, although I don't understand why elementary and secondary education is not the primary focus of these online education disruptors.

The global implications of free online college courses are enormous.

Lifelong education for everybody everywhere with people moving at their own paces on their own schedules is the goal. The term high school dropout or college dropout is weird. Unless your internet access has been taken away by the unknown you can not drop out. It is not possible.

Beam online education to the inner cities. This disrupts the whole voucher debate in politics.

Online Learning and Upheavals in Social Networks
For all the attention lavished on the Web’s growth on mobile devices this year, one of the most interesting Internet trends is still best experienced on a desktop computer: online education.

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Apple Filing A Patent On Bendable Phones

My Nexus 4 Is On The Way

Nexus 4
Nexus 4 (Photo credit: chrispaton)
My Christmas gift to me was a seven inch tablet I bought online. It arrived promptly on the 24th. Now looks like my Nexus 4 gets to me on the last day of the month. Could not have imagined a better New Year gift. I am excited.


I am already in line for a bendable phone, though.

The Smartphone In Five Years
Nexus 4: My First Smartphone
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The Seven Incher
So I Got My Seven Inch Android Tablet
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