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Free software eating the world — language instruction edition
One hot new online tool is DuoLingo, a crowd-sourced gamified version of language learning software. It’s free, and extremely easy to use, and apparently the program has become the most commonly used language learning platform in the world. I signed up for a profile … Continue reading
Biggest technology leaders limit the tech their kids use
In a New York Times article titled “Steve Jobs Was a Low Tech Parent“, Nick Bilton describes how many technology entrepreneurs actually strictly limit their kids’ access to high tech gadgets. Soon after the iPad was released, Steve Jobs told Nick that his kids hadn’t yet used … Continue reading
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Apple hits it out of the park again
Yes, other companies have been making smart watches and fitness monitors for a while now. Yes, they will have some advanced features that Apple’s will lack. Yes, Henry Blodget has called the Apple Watch “irrelevant“. But — just like with MP3 … Continue reading
iPads for 6th grade
More updates at ipadsfor6thgrade.wordpress.com, for those who are interested in the ongoing story of one Massachusetts school district’s mandatory adoption of individual iPads for 6th graders.
LA Schools Realize Giving Every Kid an iPad Was a Costly Disaster, Will Give Every Kid a Laptop Instead
Last year the Los Angeles unified school district decided to give every high school student an iPad. The preliminary roll out among 47 schools was a mess. The curriculum was incomplete, the iPads were barely used to their potential and, of … Continue reading
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Tagged iPad, Los Angeles Unified School District, students
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Los Angeles County is Moving All Employees to the Cloud
All 100,000 LA County employees, including 20,000 police are moving to Office 365 for their business work environment. Besides the savings from consolidating various department installations into one contract, cutting maintenance costs, and only paying for active employees, security was … Continue reading
Posted in Information Technology, Innovation
Tagged Cloud Computing, Los Angeles County, Microsoft, Office 365
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The Future of Work Looks Like a UPS Truck
UPS used to be a trucking company. Now it’s a technology company; every truck a rolling computer with artificial intelligence tracking wherever the vehicle and its packages go, trying to make deliveries quicker and more efficient. At the center of the entire web … Continue reading
Not just Microsoft: All companies need a data culture
What Microsoft needs is a “data culture”, according to Satya Nadella, their new CEO and former head of the Cloud and Enterprise group. As reported by Adam Lashinsky: In Nadella’s world view, data generated by, living on, and enhanced by Microsoft’s software is the … Continue reading
Profusion of greenhouse flowers – tended by mechanized intelligence
Volante Farms of Needham, Massachusetts has a state-of-the-art energy efficient greenhouse. The ventilation, light level and watering are all controlled by computer algorithms. The computer monitors weather conditions inside and outside, including sunlight, temperature, wind, and humidity and then adjusts how … Continue reading
By 2017, over a million 3-D printers will be sold every year
3-D printers are expected to grow into a $5 billion market over the next few years. Annually, printer shipments are projected to increase by 95% annually through 2017, by which time over a million units will ship per year. More than two thirds of them will … Continue reading
Posted in 3-D Printing, Information Technology, Innovation
Tagged 3-D printing, Information Technology
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