Adoption Curves, Highschool Makerspaces, Google Glass, and OAuth Design Fiction
by Nat Torkington
| @gnat
| +Nat Torkington | 18 May 2012
- Overlapping S-Curves of Various Products (PNG) -- product adoption speed over time. (via Beta Knowledge)
- High School Makerspaces Q&A with Dale Dougherty (Radioshack) -- Experimentation is one of the things we’re trying to promote. If you do experiments, a number of them fail and you learn from that failure and say, “Gee, I could have done that differently.” It’s metacognitive skills that we’re trying to develop—a way of thinking, a way of doing that increases your confidence in your own abilities and in your capacity to learn. I’d like students to believe that anybody can do these things, not that only a few people are good at math or only a few people are good at programming. The goal is to reduce the barrier to those subjects and show that anybody can be good at them. (via Tim O'Reilly)
- Google Glass Patent: Infrared Rings and Fingernails (The Verge) -- The patent describes a wearable computing device whose interface can be controlled by infrared markers in the form of bracelets, rings, artificial fingernails, or effectively invisible temporary decals. A camera in the glasses would pick up radiation reflected from the marker, giving it a point of reference for user control. (via Chris Arkenberg)
- OAuth is Your Future (Flickr) -- design fictions to provoke thought. DHS accessing your Foursquare history? Aie. (via Dan Hon)
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Code isn't just for programmers. It's a part of the world we live in.
by Mike Loukides
| @mikeloukides
| +Mike Loukides | 16 May 2012
The judge presiding over the Oracle/Google case learned Java, and that skill came in handy when coding specifics arose during the trial. It's proof that coding is a part of cultural competence, even if you never do it professionally.
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Are solution vendors waiting for broad Hadoop adoption before jumping in?
by Jim Stogdill
| @jstogdill
| +Jim Stogdill | 16 May 2012
So, here we are with all of this disruptive big data technology, but we seem to have lost the institutional wherewithal to do anything with it in a lot of large companies, at least until package solutions come along.
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We're on a path toward personalized learning.
by Marie Bjerede
| @mbjerede
| +Marie Bjerede | 15 May 2012
Schoolers, Edupunks and Makers are showing us what's possible when learners, not institutions, own the education that will define their lives.
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MAKE's Hardware Innovation Workshop is coming May 15-16 at PARC.
by Dale Dougherty
| @dalepd
| +Dale Dougherty | 11 May 2012
Being held May 15-16, MAKE's Hardware Innovation Workshop is an intensive introduction to the business of making and the makers who are creating these businesses.
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Thoughts on what happens when live video is commoditized.
by Mac Slocum
| @macslocum
| +Mac Slocum | 11 May 2012
The introduction of Google+ Hangouts On Air marks the beginning of live video's disruption. Here's two reasons why this is a big deal.
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