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Category Archives: Technology
Tomorrow’s World
Happy New Year! The BBC has compiled a look into the 150 years, compiling predictions along with the odds of them coming true. Tomorrow’s world: A guide to the next 150 years, BBC, 02 Jan 2013 When can my computer … Continue reading
Life Next Year and Beyond
As we wind 2012 down and start thinking about the year ahead… check out this post: 2013: Hello. Goodbye on What’s Next: Top Trends December 19, 2012 Retirements, sleep and handwriting are disappearing, memory implants (yeah), digital butlers, and paying … Continue reading
How to: Download ebooks from Langara Library
The Library has a large collection of ebooks on the ebrary platform, most of which can be downloaded to your computer or mobile device. To download a book from ebrary, you’ll need an ebrary account. All staff and students already … Continue reading
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Students & Technology
The 2012 ECAR (Educause) Students and Technology report is available. Key Findings Blended-learning environments are the norm; students say that these environments best support how they learn. Students want to access academic progress information and course material via their mobile … Continue reading
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50 Mobile Apps for Higher Education
At the recent Internet Librarian conference in Monterey, two librarians gave a great presentation on 50 useful mobile apps for higher education. While the focus of the presentation was on apps (both Android and iOS) that librarians can to help … Continue reading
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Avoiding the Filter Bubble
Technology enables online personalization which can be helpful (or creepy). Often associated with targeted ads, this technology can also skew your view of the world if you use some search engines such as Google. Ran across this article that discusses … Continue reading
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Education and Technology
Collected readings and viewings that may be of interest: Disrupting Trends 25 Trends Disrupting Education Right Now, posted 8/10/12 on TeachThought See at a glance through a scale that visually demonstrates the potential impact (or not) of recent and current … Continue reading
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Classroom 2020
A Look Ahead : Classroom of 2020: The future is very different than you think by ERIN MILLAR, Special to The Globe and Mail, Published Monday, Oct. 22 2012, 4:29 PM EDT Starts off: “Imagine: you wake up at 9:23 … Continue reading
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The Chronicle of Higher Education
The Chronicle of Higher Education keeps you informed about the issues facing higher education. Published every weekday, with several newsletters and expert-written blogs, The Chronicle is one of the leading sources of news, advice, and jobs for people in academe–very useful to any Langara … Continue reading
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Students on IT & EdTech
The 2012 ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology from ECAR – Educause Center for Applied Research A few points from the report’s promotional page: ECAR Recommends Look to emerging or established leaders (other institutions, other countries, other industries) … Continue reading
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