knowledge cachement

Teachers cannot simply pour information into the heads of learners.

Rather, learning is an active process in which students construct new understanding of the world around them through active exploration, experimenta- tion, discussion, and reflection. In short, people don’t get ideas; they make them.

(Source: llk.media.mit.edu)

Web 3.0 (by Kate Ray)

Some posts from my reading of twitter today tell me one thing: Video on web has become a popular format to present information. Two examples: 

1. Wikipedia in video format - http://www.qwiki.com/
2. Video resume - http://www.reelseo.com/video-resumes-wave-future/

QWiki is interesting; it mashes up text/photo from wikipedia and additional photos from fotopedia into video and uses text-speech narration to provide the voice; an example of resource integration. 

From one of the tweets, I have also signed up Edmodo, a social learning tools for classroom, but not sure how I will use it yet.

Existing way

1. Search library online catalog by book title or author.
2. Write down the call number of the book on a piece of paper.
3. Navigate through the maze of book shelves, high and low, to locate the book.

With geo-location sensor technology, this is how I would like to find books in library

1. Login to library website from my smartphone.
2. Type in book title or author (or any book metadata) in my smartphone to search for the book.
3. The library website locates the book and displays the floor plan of the library. The floor plan displays the location of the book and my current location as two dots on the floor plan. The book location dot is clickable to show a pop up bubble with the shelf number and which deck of the shelf.
4. As I walk and turn, the floor plan rotates but my current location dot is always at the center of the screen.
5. When I walk towards the bookshelf, my location dot moves closer to the bookshelf dot.

In this case, I do not need to remember the call number of the book. And I do not need to scramble for paper to write down the call number too.

Teach kids (or anyone) how to program. Books:

1. Head First Programming (using Python) - http://bit.ly/2xX82t And The story of a girl and her friends learning to code using this book - http://julielearnspython.wordpress.com/
2. Learn to Program (using Ruby), 2nd edition, watch this video: http://pragprog.com/promotions/learn-to-program

Quoted from Google Blog: Introducing the Google Chrome OS, below are my comments. Chrome OS will be initially targeted at netbook.

People want to get to their email instantly, without wasting time waiting for their computers to boot and browsers to start up.

Would be good if it is always-on OS. Run from flash-based/solid state storage?

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They want their computers to always run as fast as when they first bought them.

Windows. haha..

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They want their data to be accessible to them wherever they are and not have to worry about losing their computer or forgetting to back up files.

All data on the cloud except the OS on a netbook?

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Even more importantly, they don’t want to spend hours configuring their computers to work with every new piece of hardware, or have to worry about constant software updates.

Even configuration and personalization will be on the cloud?

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It has been argued whether netbooks will increase the popularity of cloud computing. Now with Chrome OS in the picture, will there be any dynamics among Chrome OS, Netbook and Cloud Computing?

Not a 1-minute digest. Have not finished reading but I am truly tuned-in by the section End-User Innovation, which is about co-creation of value by users of Twitter.

If I go to grad school and invent a better mousetrap, … I can protect with a patent and capitalize on by selling my invention to consumers.

But if someone else figures out a way to use my mousetrap to replace his much more expensive washing machine, he’s created value as well.

Make it your Friday must-read :)

LOL. RT: @zelciia: *Points to P. Ramlee’s photo* “Oh he is the one behind Ramly burger ar?” *facepalm*

Deepak’s NextBus seems like the first casualty, un- or intentionally. RT: @rabiz: http://bit.ly/18uvff Setting a precedence for SBS Iris?

After missing 3 yrs since last attendance, will try2attend SG Piano Festival 09. Tickets on sales already. #sgpianofest