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Southwest Energy Innovation Forum

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We recently partnered with the ASU UTO Webcast Team on the production of a series of video presentations and panel discussions conducted during the Southwest Energy Innovation Forum held as ASU SkySong. The day long event brought together leaders in new energy thinking from the academy, from industry, and from government.

“The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, Arizona State University (ASU), and U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) co-convened a conference on Energy Innovation in the Southwest region of the United States that included participation by entrepreneurs, state government officials, representatives of academia, private-sector leaders, nonprofit leaders, and innovators on October 18, 2010 at SkySong Innovation Center in Scottsdale Arizona.”

One example from the series

SOUTHWEST ENERGY INNOVATION FORUM: Manufacturing and Deploying Technologies at Scale; Energy Storage Panel from ASU UTO Production-WebCast Team on Vimeo.

Photos of the event are available at the ASU Initiatives Flickr site.

More information and additional videos can be found at the Southwest Energy Innovation Forum website. Also, a Forum Summary Report is available for download in PDF.

An App for That…Whatever

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Are today’s mobile phones too smart for their own good?

Perhaps so.

According to the Pew Internet and American Life Project survey results released today, only 25% of cell phone users who have installed “Apps” on their phones actually use them. Perhaps even more interestingly, a fair number of the nearly 2000 respondents were not even sure if their phones supported app installs or not.

The PIALP says 82 percent of U.S. adults own cellphones, but only 35 percent of those people have apps on their phone. Even fewer, 24 percent, actually use the apps they have, and 11 percent aren’t even sure whether their phones have apps in the first place. The study defines U.S. adults as anyone 18 years of age or older.

These findings are apparently the complete opposite of other recent opinions published that suggest, “The Web is Dead” or that “within five years global internet consumption on mobile devices will surpass the same activity on PCs”.  It may be that these predictions will play out over time.  However, the current trends might suggest we still have a bit of time left to wait and see.

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The survey results includes findings from two distinct studies: a Pew Internet telephone survey of 2,252 U.S. adults age 18 and older, conducted by Princeton Survey Research International between April 29 and May 30, 2010; and Nielsen data from an analysis of 3,962 adults (age 18+) gathered in the December 2009 Apps Playbook.

Photo credit: @adedip via Flickr

Educational Outcomes and Research from 1:1 Computing Settings

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The January 2010 edition of  The Journal of Technology, Learning, and Assessment contains a special collection of research articles investigating a variety of 1:1 educational computing initiatives and approaches throughout the United States.  A number of the studies provide collective survey responses from participating users while others are more data based and numbers driven.  Though none of the studies are particularly large, there appears to be a number of positive results that do begin to emerge from access to readily available portable computing as part of an educational setting both in the classroom and at home.

Volume 9, Number 1, January 2010
Educational Outcomes and Research from 1:1 Computing Settings
Damian Bebell and Laura O’Dwyer

Volume 9, Number 2, January 2010
One to One Computing: A Summary of the Quantitative Results from the Berkshire Wireless Learning Initiative
Damian Bebell and Rachel Kay

Volume 9, Number 3, January 2010
After Installation: Ubiquitous Computing and High School Science in Three Experienced, High-Technology Schools
Brian Drayton, Joni K. Falk, Rena Stroud, Kathryn Hobbs, and James Hammerman

Volume 9, Number 4, January 2010
Evaluating the Implementation Fidelity of Technology Immersion and its Relationship with Student Achievement
Kelly S. Shapley, Daniel Sheehan, Catherine Maloney, and Fanny Caranikas-Walker

Volume 9, Number 5, January 2010
Laptops and Fourth Grade Literacy: Assisting the Jump over the Fourth-Grade Slump
Kurt A. Suhr, David A. Hernandez, Doug Grimes, and Mark Warschauer

Volume 9, Number 6, January 2010
The End of Techno-Critique: The Naked Truth about 1:1 Laptop Initiatives and Educational Change
Mark E. Weston and Alan Bain

“The Journal of Technology, Learning and Assessment (JTLA) is a peer-reviewed, scholarly on-line journal addressing the intersection of computer-based technology, learning, and assessment.”

JTLA is currently supported by The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

(via Ars Technica)