Google Glass: Making Learning Visible with Wearable Technology
Google Glass: Making Learning Visible with Wearable Technology Photo credit: Joe Wood via flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) I am an eye. I am a mechanical eye. I, a machine, am showing you a world, the likes of which only I can see. -- from Dziga Vertov's (1896 - 1954) "I Am Camera." This September I watched anxiously as Dylan, my student in the Personal Projects class, lifted a jagged, ruby-colored shard of glass over the worktable while wearing computer-in-an-eyeglass technology known as Google Glass. I asked was he recording. He nodded "Yes." Dylan was about to smooth the edges of the ruby shard using a grinder for the stain-glass window he was making while recording the process using Glass. He is a responsible 17-year-old who had experience in the classroom studio, but after many years of teaching studio art, I can still get a little nervous about mixing young adults and new...