Archive for the 'Big Mother' Category

Spector Spyware as Big Mother

Author: tom | 02 August 2008 | No Comments
Categories: Big Mother

As I consult with several groups, one common thread is a serious consideration of how to support 1:1 mobile learning while confidently keeping the students who are bent on pushing the boundaries from getting into too much mischief.  As the Big Mother theme highlights, schools and systems identify their philosophy of education with the stand [...]

“Big Mother” as Cognitive Tutor

Author: tom | 08 April 2007 | 1 Comment
Categories: Assembly Lyin', Big Mother, Crumbware, New Permutations

In my last post, I suggested that education would do well to mine the wealth of information that can be derived from digitally tracking student movements. A lot can be learned through amassed patterns of student use within software virtual environments and actual physical environs. Today Education Week reports about a New Breed of [...]

Big Brother or “Big Mother?”

Author: tom | 29 March 2007 | No Comments
Categories: Big Mother, The New WWW

A few years ago Coca-Cola ran a promotion called “The Unexpected Summer.” In it a combo cellphone GPS device was rigged to look like a can of Coke and placed in over a hundred 12-packs around the country. A companion Web site allowed people to watch the blips as satellites tracked the lucky winners within [...]