Move over human! Computer solves Rubik's cube in 5 seconds...

Best 6 minute video on the future I have seen this year! (go full screen)

Search Shakespeare to your bards content!

Click here: shakespeare.yippy.com

23 incredible new technologies you’ll see by 2021

The paralyzed will walk
$100 DNA sequencing
Personal 3D printing
The return of the wooly mammoth
The average PC will have the power of the human brain
Fusion energy
Crash proof cars

And more. Just click here to read about this incredible future.

Brainpickings: A site for the curious...

Brainpickings digs for "nuggets of stuff that inspires, that gives you pause, that makes you connect dots you didn't realize were connectable." Super food for the brain!
Go to www.brainpickings.org

British National Library of Medicine: Original Manuscripts!

"Turning The Pages" allows visitors to touch and turn the pages of virtual books displayed on a touchscreen monitor in an intuitive manner. Takes virtual books to the next level. Check it out by clicking here.

Music: The National Jukebox

An absolutely extraordinary website resource of historical recordings put out by the Library of Congress. The Jukebox includes more than 10,000 recordings made by the Victor Talking Machine Company between 1901 and 1925. Includes classical, ethnic, popular and religious music as well as spoken word recordings. You can add songs to a "playlist" and then sit back, launch the Jukebox Player and enjoy. Click here and enjoy: www.loc.gov/jukebox

Escape your search engine filer bubble now!

Search engines like Google tailor your results based on who you are, your search history, your click history. This is called "living in a filter bubble. Want to break free? Look through this short explanation at http://dontbubble.us and then try a different way of searching...

Future Education Tech Keith heads to The Black Hills!

No, not for an education conference, but to my first marathon ever. I've got to keep in shape if I want this blog to be the best tech-education blog on the planet! With the help of my sponsor AdventureCORPS (organizer of the Furnace Creek 508 bike race and the Badwater Ultramarathon) I'll be tackling the Crazy Horse Marathon. If anyone out there is interested in marathons (or even better) ultra marathons AdventureCORPS is for you. I'll post some photos when I get back! Here's a link to the race: runcrazyhorse.com

Happy Trails!

Reminder that BrainPOP creates animated, curriculum-based content that kicks butt! Perfect for Primary Grades.

Best of all we have an account so just email me for username and password!
Here is the link to the website: http://www.brainpop.com

VOCRE: Real-time app for iPhone that translates your speech into 6 languages with the flick of your wrist!

Vocre turns your iPhone into a real-time translator. How awesome is that? Download the app to your iPhone or read more about it by clicking here...

The Future of Print Media?

I don't even know why I put a question mark in the title. This seems to be where we're all going. As eReaders rise and books become "collectibles" we will consume more and more of our media this way. See the future of print media with Sport's Illustrated's new Tablet Magazine App. I'd watch it full screen for full effect...

Turns out Minneapolis is hard to hack!

Turns out people in Minneapolis are pretty computer savvy compared to the rest of the nation. Read about it at City Pages here.

Incredible interative way to read!

A short video on the use of QR Codes and the ways in which you can interact with books in ways you might not know. Shared with me by my colleague Carrie Johnson...

South Korea Schools to be all digital by 2015

Read about how South Korea is going to replace all printed primary (elementary) education material with digital content. Bye bye books and backpacks. Click here for the article...

32 Ways to Use Google Apps in Classrooms and Schools

Check it out by clicking here...

e-books now outselling print books!

The sad (is it?) truth was revealed today when Amazon announced that it is now selling more eBooks than print. You can read the article by clicking here.

Quirky Ways to Teach Skakespeare

Check out the 7 videos that showcase 7 different and "quirky" ways Shakespeare is being taught around the country. Good material for the "bard" in you... Click on this link to see more.

Browse the timeline of conflict and war across the globe - fantastic!

Conflict History goes back to 3000 BC and all the way close to the present and gives you an awesome interactive map interface for conflicts and wars throughout history. Mind boggling level of information. Go to conflicthistory.com

Cybernetics of tomorrow now...

Very unique website promoting "Serif Industries" a future cyber provider. Explore the many possibilities the future has in store for you (very soon)...
Just click here: sarifindustries.com

For you teachers of writing, a great tool!

Classroom Salon is a great collaborative digital environment for writers where annotations and comments about their writing can be seen in a dynamic group setting. Writers can publish and comment on each others writing with feedback showing up in an easy to use and slick online interface. Plus it's hosted by Carnegie Mellon University. Check it out here: classroomsalon.org

The Gigapan Time Machine digital viewer!

The GigaPan Time Machine enables simultaneous exploration of space and time across massive datasets that could not previously be interactively explored at full spatial and temporal resolution. You need to see it to believe it. Note, does not currently work in Firefox

Check it out by clicking this link: timemachine.gigapan.org

If you haven't tried StumbleUpon you haven't even begun to explore the internet!

I featured the StumbleUpon Toolbar a long time ago but it is just too cool not to remind everyone. It allows you to "stumble" across websites based on your interests. It spits out cool suggestions at the speed of the internet. You don't want to miss out so check out my short video tutorial here:
http://www.sophia.org/packets/the-stumbleupon-toolbar-in-all-its-glory

Switching back and forth between multiple Google accounts seemlessly

Want to switch back and forth between multiple Google accounts without having to sign in and out all the time? Check out my video tutorial here at Sophia.

Absolutely wonderful collection of 1000s of video tutorials in many subjects!

Visit it here: http://www.khanacademy.org

Website of the Week

Sam Terfa suggested this interesting site. Born to Learn - How Humans Learn


Interested? Go to http://www.born-to-learn.org

This is what grass looks like

For those who may have forgotten. Don't despair, Spring is just around the corner...

Like that Pink Floyd song

Is there anybody out there?

Hello? Keith here in Nashville, do you copy? Come in?

Minneapolis, we have a problem...

Q Codes: One of my favorite conference additions

Want to know what's going on in a certain room? Just use your Q Code app reader (free) on your smartphone and it will pull up all the relevant information... Love it

Last day at the conference highlights: MOBILE is the hot topic everywhere

I still need time to collect all the information I've been exposed to at the conference. Been so good I haven't really had that much time to post a lot of stuff, but will put together a best of when I get home... Highlights today:

-Data Collection Using Mobile Technology

-Mobile Technology in the Classroom presentation (more and more we're seeing cell phones, iPads, iTouch being used) We really should have some exceptions for using cell phones in classrooms, for one thing it saves us supplying students with another computer. They already have on in their pocket)

-Cyberbullying Symposium

-Using Technology to Impact Student Motivation (duh)

-Popped in for a few minutes on the "Hiring and Teacher Online Certification Programs"

A very awesome demo of Hyperstudio (nothing like the old program)

Looking forward to the closing keynote titled "The Great Economic Reset of 2011: Mobile"

We need to be thinking mobile mobile mobile and all tangents and implications...