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Forget a Smart Board – I want to teach with this.

by Travis Allison
November 19th, 2009 Posted in Classroom, School Life, Technology

The Sixth Sense machine – your blackboard is… everything.

Pranav Mistry, from MITs Media Lab, demonstrates his “Sixth Sense” machine at the TED conference in India, November, 2009.

From TED:

Sixth Sense is a wearable device with a projection screen that paves the way for profound, data-rich interaction with our environment. Imagine Minority Report and then some.

Can you imagine where teaching can take place with the Sixth Sense machine?  What would you use one for at your school?

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  • An amazing presentation. I showed this to my students back in May and they said that while some of it was pretty cool--dialing (there's a words that doesn't quite work anymore) a phone on the palm of your hand, for example--some of it was unnerving. They didn't want anyone projecting a tag cloud on them! And they wondered if one can have too much information. Good data might be useful in picking out toilet paper, but they sensed a risk in becoming too reliant on the data flow and not developing enough independent thinking, judgement and risk-taking.

    There's a bunch more commentary at the ISABC Ning
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