Emerging Technology | Computers Some technological revolutions arrive as revelation. You hear a human voice wafting out from a rotating plastic disk or see a moving train projected onto a screen, and you sense instantly that the world has changed. For many of us, our first encounter with the World Wide Web a decade ago was one of those transformative experiences: You clicked on a word on the screen, and instantly you were transported to some other page that was served up from a computer located somewhere else, across the planet perhaps. After you followed that first hyperlink, you knew the universe of information would never be the same. Other revolutions creep up with more subtlety, built of tweaks and minor advances, not radical breakthroughs. E-mail took decades to gestate, but now many of us can’t imagine life without it. Part of the beauty and power of the original Web lay in its simplicity: Web sites were made up of pages, each of which could contain text and images.
100 Incredible Lectures from the World’s Top Scientists | Best C Posted on Thursday June 18, 2009 by Staff Writers By Sarah Russel Unless you’re enrolled at one of the best online colleges or are an elite member of the science and engineering inner circle, you’re probably left out of most of the exciting research explored by the world’s greatest scientists. But thanks to the Internet and the generosity of many universities and online colleges, you’ve now got access to the cutting edge theories and projects that are changing the world in this list below. If you’re looking for even more amazing lectures, check out our updated list for 2012 with more talks from great minds. General Let the world’s top scientists explain exactly how they do their job when you listen to these lectures. Science and Engineering From materials science to the study of thermodynamics, learn more about the science of engineering here. WTC Lecture – collapse of WTC Buildings: Steven E. Biology and Medicine Chemistry Physics and Astronomy Earth and Environment Technology Science and Business
National Institute For Play - What's New and News The National Institute for Play unlocks the human potential through play in all stages of life using science to discover all that play has to teach us about transforming our world. THE PLAY BOOK IS HERE! - Authors Dr. Stuart Brown, MD and Christopher Vaughan, publish their new book on play. Denken nach Illich The Beginner’s Guide to Zen Habits – A Guided Tour | Zen Habits Post written by Leo Babauta. Follow me on Twitter. While some of you have been following Zen Habits since its early days (beginning of 2007), many of you are fairly new readers. To help you through the fairly overwhelming archives, I’ve compiled a beginner’s guide. First, a note: Please don’t try to go through this all at once. Take it in small chunks. Where do you start when you have a thousand posts to read through? So here they are: The All-Time Most Popular Posts on Zen Habits But those are just the stars of the All-Star team. Or you can go through a few compiled guides I’ve hand picked for some of the more popular categories: And if that’s not enough for you, here’s a month-by-month Best of Zen Habits: By now, you might want to know more about Leo, the guy who writes this blog … well, here’s more than you ever wanted to know: Whew!
The Future of Learning Tools - Maschendraht-Community @ mixxt Im großen Meer der Tools haben wir hier einige nützliche Anwendungen zusammengestellt. Wer möchte, kann diese Liste vervollständigen, beschreibt bitte dann auch, welchen Zweck dieses Tool hat und was ihr davon haltet und vielleicht noch Ideen wie dieses einsetzbar wären. Danke :) Lehrer-web.de Das Internet ist voller lehrreicher Webseiten. Zum Lehrer-web: Hilfe findet Ihr hier: gibt es hier zusehen: Viel Spaß!! Nachhilfeschule (Online Nachhilfe für Schüler) Nachhilfeschule ist eine Plattform für Schüler, auf der sie online Nachhilfeunterricht bekommen. "Wir unterrichten dich LIVE an deinem Schreibtisch! Zur Abiturnachhilfe: * zur Schule: * edublog Awards 2008 - Best Resource Sharing Blog (Meta-Liste) Top 100 Tools for learning Tolle Übersicht über die verschiedenen Tools im Power-Point-Format. Weblin-lite Weblin
CES 2011: The World’s First Wirelessly Powered Tesla Car - TNW Shareables Over 100 years since Nikola Tesla first began playing around with wireless power, and I believe if he could see what I saw today he’d be clapping in his grave (although wondering why it took so damn long). Today at CES, Fulton Innovation unveiled the world’s first wirelessly powered Tesla car. As you can see from the image below, the electric car is parked about 4″ over an eCoupled-enabled pad. Once the car is fully charged, it will run for 180 miles. The car’s charging status can be monitored by an iPhone app, of course. “This is the first time in history that we’ve been able to wirelessly power a high-powered device,” said a rep at Fulton Innovation, the company behind the wireless technology. We’re getting one step closer to the end of plugging in. Watch a video of the car here:
Shared Intent & Purpose for Action - Bridging the Gap between Micro & Macro The next economic paradigm Open Collaboration could be defined as the next economic paradigm. Indeed we are seeing various projects emerging and converging around intent and purpose based on open collaboration, from the way things are conceived, exchanged/shared and implemented, to the way they are approached and organized. Many are geared towards new ways of living, consuming, producing, cultivating, participating. The value of the many... Definitely, there is something happening! From formal to tacit knowledge Players in the field admit however that they are caught in a flow which is hard to follow! The most valuable knowledge turns out to be more tacit (i.e acquired through experience, exchangeable through interaction, p2p) than formal (consultable in a database or library; learnt in school or legitimated by a degree), the likely most valuable skill becomes the ability to integrate knowledge and information in real time and make use of this tacit knowledge to act effectively.