…you haven’t been in the classroom lately, drop by this week when you pick up your wonderful student. There’s likely to be a Smartboard (or some sort of interactive screen) on the wall, a pod of computers (if not 1:1 laptops) overflowing from a corner, maybe iPads on desktops or in a mobile cart, a digital camera and microphones to record events, and streaming video from the “Discovery Channel.” Those ubiquitous samples of student wo…

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Tags: education, learning, school, service adoption, teaching, technology, vni, VNI-SA, VSA

…on the next revision of our Forecast: When the two Cisco VNI research platforms are compared, there are several striking similarities:   VNI Forecast VNI Usage GB of Internet Traffic per Month per Connection in 2009 (Q3) 11.8 11.4* GB of Internet Traffic per Month per Connection in 2010 (Q3) 15.6 14.9* Growth in Internet Traffic per Month per Connection from 2009-2010 31.5% 30.7%* The comparatively slight differences between VNI Usage…

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Tags: broadband subscriber, internet traffic, internet usage study, research, visual networking index, vni

…to address 287,000 maternal deaths and over 3 million newborn deaths that occur each year. Award Winning Service MAMA has provided technology to these mothers to educate them on motherhood and reduce their isolation.   Out of 1700 entries, MAMA was a recent ‘Service Design’ winner in Fast Company’s 2012 Innovation by Design Awards. “With MAMA, cell phones sub for nurses. An expectant mom registers her due date and then gets timely text messages w…

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Tags: healthcare, MAMA, medical access, Mobile Apps, sms, vni, VNI-SA

I was on one of my tech teacher forums – where I keep up-to-date on changes in education and technology – and stumbled into a heated discussion about what grade level is best to begin the focus on typing (is fifth grade too old – or too young?). Several teachers shared that keyboarding was the cornerstone of their elementary-age technology program. Others confessed their Admin wanted it eliminated as unnecessary. Still others dismissed the discu…

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Tags: education, k-12 education, research, teaching, vni, VNI-SA

…pproval to move to rural Tasmania and become the company’s first employee to live and work in Australia’s “Apple Isle”. According to the VNI-Service Adoption Forecast, the Asia-Pacific region will have 1.1 billion users of fixed residential Internet access by 2016. With this many people connected from their homes, it’s bound to change how people live day to day. In stark contrast to the circumstances of my own youth,…

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Tags: Asia-Pacific, Australia, broadband, Connected Life, IT, research, Tasmania, vni, VNI-SA