I have never really seen the need to add additional words to a well designed infographic. I am only adding this comment to explain why I am NOT commenting.
Original Source: Onlinecolleges
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What started as a witty way of saying to faculty colleagues “watch your references,” has turned into a globally reported and utilized guide to the intelligent if unprepared adolescent consciousness.
The Mindset list will help faculty understand just who their freshmen students are and where they are coming from. Understanding your learner and their preparedness for learning is the first and most important step in creating and effective learning environment. While the Mindset list is definitely American and some of the cultural norms identified are also uniquely American the list as a whole paints a very accurate description of the North American freshman entering college or university for the first time.
This infographic clearly demonstrates that many people are using the Internet to watch television and videos in general. Perhaps the most interesting number is that 25% of video viewers in households with high speed internet watch those videos on a device other than a television.
When we were living in the US we didn’t have a full cable package because we could watch most television shows on our computers through Hulu, directly from shows website our through a Usenet download. This is not only more convenient it eliminates most commercials. Unfortunately, media services like Hulu, Pandora or Spotify are not available in Canada so one has to rely on the Usenet and the NZB process of searching, downloading and recompiling media. It is not nearly as slick as the full streaming that you would get from Hulu but it works and it is free and the best part is that it is commercial free. A typical 60 minute show runs between 38-42 minutes without the commercial breaks. A 30 minutes show runs 19-21 minutes.
Depending on the time zone you live in you can even get access to a show through the Usenet earlier then when it runs in your local. We currently live in MST and can download a show from the Usenet within minutes of it running in EST. This is dependent on the popularity of the show but for a major hits like Grimm or Burn Notice you can download the current episode before it is scheduled to run here in the west. Another advantage to using the Usenet is that you can download the files in formats that are either fully compatible with mobile devices or that can easily be converted to a mobile format. The internet and mobility is changing everything.
The browser is just one more area Microsoft is loosing market share. I use Chrome and Firefox so I am not surprised by this change. This just one more sign pointing to our move into the Post-PC era.
In the article Four Ways the Post-PC Era Differs From Today in Forbes, Maribel Lopez makes the argument that the Post-PC era is not just a shift to mobile devices it is a shift in computing as we know it. Lopez points to four unique attributes that will characterize this era:
- Computing is no longer a destination.
- Cloud enables meaningful mobility.
- The Post PC era destroys and rebuilds the software industry.
- Mobile and the Internet of Things enable contextual-intelligence.
We really shouldn’t be surprised by the impact of the cloud. The Gartner Group, in their Top 10 Technologies for 2011 and the New Media Consortium in the Horizon Reports have been predicting this for several years.
