blog de notas de juan freire

1. La música ahora es una industria basada en la suscripción
2. Los móviles han desbancado a las cámaras de fotos
3. La descarga y el streaming de videojuegos es tan simple como para las películas
4. Las tarjetas de crédito están al borde de la desaparición
5. Se acabó viajar en hoteles
6. Los productos de diseño ya son accesibles
7. Las clases online ya son una realidad
8. Las recaudaciones de fondos tradicionales están desapareciendo
9. El almacenamiento físico está muerto
10. Ya no tienes que ser un fotógrafo profesional para hacer buenas fotos
11. Las grandes compañías también están apostando por la colaboración social

… Obviamente, si las empresas están interesadas en el concepto es porque se traduce en negocio. En el sector de las soluciones para smart cities insisten en que es siempre un beneficio en una doble dirección: las compañías venden servicios, pero a los municipios les interesa porque supone mejorar la vida de sus ciudadanos e incluso ahorrar. Hay jugadores de todos los tamaños: desde pymes que han creado aplicaciones para el móvil hasta gigantes como Telefónica, Endesa, Schneider Electric, Agbar, Accenture, Siemens, Cisco, Ferrovial…

Emerging Practice in a Digital Age explores how colleges and universities are embracing innovation and using emerging technologies to enhance learning in a climate of economic pressure, changing social circumstances and rapid technological change. 

Aimed at those in further and higher education who design and support learning, the guide draws on recent JISC reports and case studies to investigate how the emergence of new and more powerful technologies together with an increase in personal ownership of these technologies are changing the way we connect, communicate and collaborate, and how these changes can benefit learning. The focus of this guide is on emerging practice rather than emerging technology.

The case studies describe a series of exploratory journeys through the themes of:

• Working in partnership with students 
• Developing students’ employability potential
• Preparing for the future

Emerging Practice in a Digital Age is a companion guide to Effective Practice in a Digital Age (JISC 2009) and Innovative Practice with e-Learning (JISC 2005).

Available in PDF y text-only Word format  

Index:

Working in partnership with students
1) Supporting student transition through reflective video sharing. University of Ulster
2) Engaging students as agents of change. University of Exeter
3) Students as partners in blending learning. University of Wolverhampton

Developing students’ employability potential
1) Developing professional practice using simulations. Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry, Universities of Exeter and Plymouth
2) Moving into virtual worlds. University of Derby and Aston University
3) Springboard TV: enhancing employability. College of West Anglia
4) Assessment and Learning in Practice Settings (ALPS). Universities of Leeds, Bradford and Huddersfield and Leeds Metropolitan and York St John Universities

Preparing for the future
1) Linking learning to location. University Campus Suffolk
2) Mobile Oxford: opening access to information. University of Oxford
3) Creating the culture: a holistic approach to technology-enhanced learning. Gloucestershire College

Last month, three leading thinkers on smart cities (and regular ones too) expressed concerns about issues of digital inclusion and citizen-technology dynamics. Saskia Sassen wrote about the need to ‘urbanise the technology,’ Anthony Townsend discussed the absence of the urban poor from smart city visions and Adam Greenfield asserted the need to have rights over ‘public objects’…

… The assignment of dealing consequently with the flexible city contains two important dimensions. On one hand the exploring of opportunities for temporary use of both private and public space which have become obsolete. On the other hand the search for new forms of construction, urban planning and architecture where principles of change, movement, (dis)appearance or extensions are embedded. Our aim is to create a network of a wide range of professionals who are interested in dynamic urbanism.

Connected sustainable cities employ ubiquitous, networked intelligence to ensure the efficient and responsible use of the scarce resources – particularly energy and water – that are required for a city’s operation, together with the effective management of waste products that a city produces, such as carbon emissions to the atmosphere.

Read the new Foreword to Connected Sustainable Cities

Download Connected Sustainable Cities

Karla Brunet e Juan Freire publicaram um artigo que discute o papel do lugar e espaço em projetos artísticos tecnológicos. O livro Paralelo: Unfolding Narratives: in Art, Technology & Environment foi organizado pelo Virtueel Platform da Holanda e apresenta diversos artigos e considerações sobre o encontroParalelo: Technology & Environment. A meeting point for artists, designers & researchers. O link do artigo:

http://www.virtueelplatform.nl/downloads/2666_od_11_karlajuan.pdf