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Comment on Trends: Kids Tend to Read Digital More by benedictg

benedictg — Sat, 18 May 2013 18:39:03 +0000

I work with kids to give them reading skills by using drills that are disguised as games. Now the entire intervention is done through computers. We follow up this intervention with Reading programs that are again Computer based. Logically it makes sense to get the kids to start reading digital content.

The company I work for is funded by ABAN group. However our revenue model is not short term (by selling the software or intervention programs) we have pegged it long term .. we want to gather data on the cognitive profile of the digital generation and share it with the education ministry and assist them in the delivery process. That is likely take 3-5 years. We are just off the block and working with 1750 school kids and around 52 first year engg college students.

Any information or knowledge or help pertaining to this will be of immense help

Comment on Trends: Kids Tend to Read Digital More by Dorai

Dorai — Sat, 18 May 2013 14:33:22 +0000

Cool. Want to share with us the goals? We (me + some college students from KCG) experimented with a couple of schools (both elementary and middle) to understand what interests kids. Let me know whether we can help you with what you are doing (if it is some kind of a social project).

Comment on Trends: Kids Tend to Read Digital More by benedictg

benedictg — Sat, 18 May 2013 14:27:19 +0000

Iam actually doing a small study on the possibility of schools going for digital text books to reduced the burden on the kids

Comment on TiEcon 2013 by Arun Bala

Arun Bala — Thu, 16 May 2013 19:45:33 +0000

All the best Dorai sir.

Comment on Progressive Profiling by Joseph Premkumar

Joseph Premkumar — Thu, 16 May 2013 10:39:05 +0000

thank u for the useful tips. Have a good day.
joseph

Comment on Kindoma – A Few Slides by LearnLog: 30 Million Word Gap and Why You Should Talk to Your Kids a Lot | Dorai's Learn Log

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Comment on LearnLog: 30 Million Word Gap and Why You Should Talk to Your Kids a Lot by aiaioo

aiaioo — Sat, 11 May 2013 02:31:07 +0000

Thanks for a way cool post!

Comment on LearnLog: 30 Million Word Gap and Why You Should Talk to Your Kids a Lot by aiaioo

aiaioo — Sat, 11 May 2013 02:18:35 +0000

Reblogged this on Aiaioo Labs Blog and commented: Dorai writes about a curious connection between how well a child does in school at age 9 and the amount of language a child is exposed to by age three.

Comment on Ontology Bundle by LinkLog: Ontology Summit 2013 Communique | Dorai's Learn Log

LinkLog: Ontology Summit 2013 Communique | Dorai's Learn Log — Tue, 07 May 2013 14:24:05 +0000

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DIFFERENCE BETWEEN KNOWLEDGE AND INTELLIGENCE? | Pukirahe's Blog — Tue, 07 May 2013 08:55:56 +0000

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Comment on LinkLog: Mobile Game Development by Dorai

Dorai — Sun, 05 May 2013 19:01:41 +0000

Thanks Cohan. Will check them out.

Comment on LinkLog: Mobile Game Development by aiaioo

aiaioo — Sun, 05 May 2013 17:26:09 +0000

Dorai, you might like this technology for mobile app development http://appinventor.mit.edu/explore/ and this article about kids using it to develop cool applications in school http://readwrite.com/2013/05/02/this-is-what-the-next-generation-of-programmers-looks-like

Comment on A Morning With Seventh Graders by Tablets In Education | Dorai's Learn Log

Tablets In Education | Dorai's Learn Log — Sun, 05 May 2013 15:33:57 +0000

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Comment on Personal Knowledge Base by Shiv

Shiv — Sun, 05 May 2013 04:37:15 +0000

Yes Dorai.
My expectation from a PIM is more of organizing ‘static’ information about contacts. calendar etc that are operational, whereas PKM should help organize directly and indirectly related pieces of information .

one analogy i like is that of a plate of noodles. multiple threads, seemingly unrelated, but have some possible crossovers – to let accidental knowledge discovery – and whichever thread is your focus at some point of time, the rest of the information should be pivoted around it, to provide knowledge needed at that instant. like putting in a fork and swirling it to collect related strands..

to maintain this data structure on the cloud and client – browsers or apps syncing with that might be a possibility.

i am watching google now [sorry, again google!], which seems to be in that direction. where it would pick up related information based on personal needs at that moment.

i tried using a CRM application within an enterprise to address some of the personal KM needs within an enterprise for enabling functions.

would like to talk to you sometime about that.

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Personal Knowledge Base | Dorai's Learn Log — Sun, 05 May 2013 03:40:03 +0000

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Comment on Personal Knowledge Base by Dorai

Dorai — Sun, 05 May 2013 02:48:04 +0000

Shiv,
Good points. In an earlier iteration of the post, I linked it to a wikipedia entry on PKM. But I think the lines between PIM (Personal Information Management) and PKM are a bit blurry. I agree about expanding it to events, people, places and even topics.

Looks like a good application to build with a plugin to either email or browser. But neither of this may work in handheld devices. An explicit web app may not be used much. That is the dilemma.

Dorai

Comment on Personal Knowledge Base by Shiv

Shiv — Sun, 05 May 2013 02:40:42 +0000

I moved from delicious to google bookmarks!
yes, it is on google, but works for me.
the limitation that i face for a personal knowledge base is that it is more than just links and notes.
i also like to associate them with people.
people information that is spread across mail contacts, linkedin, facebook etc.
to some extent, windows [8 as well as phone] helps me aggregate, but still dopes not link them the way i would like to have them.
my need is a graph that can be easily edited — possibly using #tags