Problem Based Learning at MIT: TEAL
Tuesday, March 10th, 2009Demonstration video of PBL in action at MIT:
http://web.mit.edu/8.02t/www/TEALmovie/8.01T_All_80kSorc.wmv
Archive for March, 2009
Ubiquity: An experiment into connecting the Web with language (Aza Raskin)
Tuesday, March 10th, 2009The Problem: The Web is Disconnected
“You’re writing an email to invite a friend to meet at a local San Francisco restaurant that neither of you has been to. You’d like to include a map. Today, this involves the disjointed tasks of message composition on a web-mail service, mapping the address on a map site, searching for reviews on the restaurant on a search engine, and finally copying all links into the message being composed. This familiar sequence is an awful lot of clicking, typing, searching, copying, and pasting in order to do a very simple task. And you haven’t even really sent a map or useful reviews—only links to them.”
“A big direction that we know we are going to move is suggestions based on data-type recognition. We should be able to select an address and Ubiquity should then suggest commands that make sense to apply to an address (like map it, get directions there, find restaurants near there, etc.). Similarly, we should be able to select a phone number and prompt actions like “call”, a time and date should prompt actions like “add to calendar”.”