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The future of online language learning and translation
This video is really interesting and a little scary. I’m going to have to start polishing my resume.
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Apple Education
Reading about the new Apple educational push, I was pretty impressed. It seems like they ‘get’ the core issues:
1. textbooks need to be interactive and appealing, and take advantage of pictures, video, and audio
2. textbooks need to be affordable
3. teachers want to make these next-generation textbooks
Their iBook author app looks extremely interesting. Interesting enough to make me look up the price of new Apple laptops…
Perhaps that was the secret agenda ^-^
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6th grade iPhone app developer -very inspiring
The title above says it all. I would love to see more of my students thinking beyond the education box.
Tip of the hat to Parin.
iPhone 4S in Japan, part 2
Well, I take it all back.
After a couple of weeks of enduring the increasingly frequent delays on my iPhone 3GS with iOS 5, I finally decided to update to the newest model.
Softbank has two fairly nice programs for customers who are updating, so I was happy to stay with them (my wife signed up for an iPhone with AU, and I have not been impressed with their staff training and readiness for the product), namely
1. they will forgive all payments due on a previous iPhone, allowing you to upgrade and just pay for the new phone (you can sell your old one online -a friend got over 12,000 yen for her old 3GS) or
2. if you have already paid off your previous iPhone, they will give you 6,000 yen cashback
The phone arrived in just over a week, and I got it on Thursday evening.
Wow.
The camera, the speed, the… display.
If you are on the fence about the 4GS, do yourself a favour and get one. It’s that good.
Microsoft’s vision of the future
Saw this just now, and it is pretty cool. I think a lot of this stuff is already feasible, it’s just a case of making all the different bits work together smoothly.
What do you think? How soon before we have this kind of functionality in everyday homes and businesses?