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Monthly Archives May 2011

Future of Tech in Education

The 2011 Horizon Report is out. The report selects 6 technologies that will have an impact on education in the next five years. The six technologies include: Electronic Books Mobiles Augmented Reality Game-based Learning Gesture-based Computing Learning Analytics Quite the risk takers – these prognosticators. My additions: Micro-payments – I hate the term “business model” [...]

Posted 19 May 2011 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) °

Feed my biases

This is a follow-up to my previous post on the “improvement in search” technology and the question of whether these improvements are actually beneficial. I have read at least a half dozen books about Google or search (pretty much the same things now). The data-oriented approach Google uses to make decisions has always intrigued me. [...]

Posted 17 May 2011 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) °

Finding What We Want to Find

This TED Talk by Eli Pariser questions the present methods by which Google returns hits from search queries. I have read several books over the years describing the development of Google and thought I understood the process. The early technique using page rank returned hits that were referenced by influential others (so defined by being [...]

Posted 08 May 2011 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,