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Mind concept maps

https://www.facebook.com/groups/onlinelearningcollective/permalink/738016123495755/

I’m planning on having students build a concept map throughout the semester. This is my first time doing this without them being able to just do it on paper and hand in random pieces of paper taped together to make it able to grow as much as they need throughout the semester in any direction. A google search for “free concept map generator” reveals that there seem to be about a gazillion options out there. Does anyone have any experience with any that they would recommend using or not? (Trying to avoid the time sink of sifting through the options and/or unnecessarily burdening my students with this decision.) Thanks in advance!

responses/suggestions:

Creately Concept Map Maker: https://creately.com/lp/concept-map-maker/

Padlet: https://padlet.com/

Cmaps: https://cmap.ihmc.us/

Lucid chart: https://www.lucidchart.com/pages/

google draw , Google Jamboard

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AR HUD

CES 2021: Panasonic Brings AI-Enhanced Situational Awareness to Drivers with AR HUD

https://innotechtoday.com/panasonic-brings-ai-enhanced-situational-awareness-to-drivers-with-ar-hud/

The key features of the new AR HUD include:

  • Eye tracking technology – Projects information at driver’s level of sight based on driver’s eye position, eliminating a potential mismatch between the projected image when the driver moves their head
  • Advanced optics – Advanced optical design techniques provide expanded field-of-view (beyond 10 by 4 degrees) for virtual image distance of 10m or greater; detects pedestrians and objects through enhanced low light and nighttime view; tilted virtual image planes adjust visibility of objects in the driver’s field of view; embedded camera system allows discrete monitoring for the driver’s eye location.
  • AI navigation accuracy – AI-driven AR navigation technology detects and provides multi-color 3D navigation graphics that adjust with moving vehicle’s surroundings, displaying information like lane markers and GPS arrows where turns will occur and sudden changes such as collisions or cyclists in one’s path
  • Vibration control – Panasonic’s proprietary camera image stability algorithm enables AR icons to lock onto the driving environment regardless of the bumpiness of the road
  • Real-time situational awareness – Driving environment updates occur in real-time; ADAS, AI, AR environment information updates in less than 300 milliseconds
  • 3D imaging radar – Sensor-captured full 180-degree forward vision up to 90 meters and across approximately three traffic lanes
  • Compact size – Efficient compact packaging to fit any vehicle configuration
  • 4K resolution – Crisp, bright 4K resolution using advanced laser and holography technology, with static near-field cluster information and far-field image plane for AR graphic overlay

https://youtu.be/gMWIlYFaZUI

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How to Email Your Professor

How to Email Your Professor (without being annoying AF)

https://medium.com/@lportwoodstacer/how-to-email-your-professor-without-being-annoying-af-cf64ae0e4087

10 Elements of an Effective, Non-Annoying Email

Here’s a template you can follow in constructing your email to a professor. Each element is explained further below.

Dear [1] Professor [2] Last-Name [3],

This is a line that recognizes our common humanity [4].

I’m in your Class Name, Section Number that meets on This Day [5]. This is the question I have or the help I need [6]. I’ve looked in the syllabus and at my notes from class and online and I asked someone else from the class [7], and I think This Is The Answer [8], but I’m still not sure. This is the action I would like you to take [9].

Signing off with a Thank You is always a good idea [10],
Favorite Student

college after discruption

https://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/opinion/2020/12/19/guest-opinion-online-education-improve-2021/3947676001/

Online learning is here to stay

Greater focus on equitable access

Employers will partner with universities to develop talent

Increased demand for nondegree credentials 

In 2021, we will see individuals supplement their current or past postsecondary degrees with nondegree credentials and in-demand skills.

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Oculus Quest and Education

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/oculus-quest-education-dave-dolan/

The Go had to be paired with a phone to enable it to work. How can that possibly be an option in a school with many dozens of headsets? Content had to either go through the Oculus Go Store, which is being shut down at this very moment, or side-loaded through an odd “Developer Mode” access, which is extremely difficult when dealing with large numbers of headsets. Even something as mundane as printing the serial number of that VR device on the headstrap, which can easily be mixed up with other headsets, is a troubling and odd choice to make. Those serial numbers are very important when bulk loading content onto a number of devices at a time, which is the only way they can be managed by school IT departments, and once again shows a lack of understanding of the needs from within schools.

Of course, there is also the elephant in the room… Facebook.

This mandatory attachment to a for-profit, social media behemoth, currently facing antitrust litigation [ Facebook Halts Sale of Rift & Quest in Germany Amid Regulatory Concerns ] should be reason enough to seriously question its inclusion into an academic institution.

Personal identifiability of user tracking data during observation of 360-degree VR video ]

Facebook is not content to use the contact information you willingly put into your Facebook profile for advertising. It is also using contact information you handed over for security purposes and contact information you didn’t hand over at all, but that was collected from other people’s contact books, a hidden layer of details Facebook has about you that some have come to call “shadow contact information.

 

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Privacy in Higher Education

https://er.educause.edu/blogs/2020/12/key-findings-on-privacy-in-higher-education

report The Evolving Landscape of Data Privacy in Higher Education

Responses from the 2020 EDUCAUSE Student Technology report concerning student data privacy highlight a large gap of understanding that institutions need to bridge between student knowledge and administrative plans and policies

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China Trolls

Leaked Documents Show How China’s Army of Paid Internet Trolls Helped Censor the Coronavirus from r/worldnews

https://www.propublica.org/article/leaked-documents-show-how-chinas-army-of-paid-internet-trolls-helped-censor-the-coronavirus

At a time when digital media is deepening social divides in Western democracies, China is manipulating online discourse to enforce the Communist Party’s consensus. To stage-manage what appeared on the Chinese internet early this year, the authorities issued strict commands on the content and tone of news coverage, directed paid trolls to inundate social media with party-line blather and deployed security forces to muzzle unsanctioned voices.

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