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Looking for different ways for students to share their knowledge. I’ve done Jamboard, Google Slides, Discussion posts, padlet…I just want something different and am not able to come up with any great ideas here. Anyone come up with anything else fun or interesting? This is for an asynchronous course.

Jamboard, https://edu.google.com/products/jamboard/

Google Slides jambor

Padlet https://padlet.com/

Flipgrid

Canva

Adobe Spark

TikTok

https://dotstorming.com/

Mural.co https://www.mural.co/

Miro https://miro.com/

Sketchnotes https://www.jetpens.com/blog/sketchnotes-a-guide-to-visual-note-taking/pt/892

Pear Deck https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=pear+deck

Near Pod https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=nearpod

EdPuzzle https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2017/11/01/digital-assessment-session/

13
Oct
2020

Harvard EdCast: Online Learning

categories: Digital literacy, distance learning, distributive learning, e-learning, educational technology, information technology, instructional technology, pedagogy

Harvard EdCast: Making Online Learning Work

https://www.gse.harvard.edu/news/20/10/harvard-edcast-making-online-learning-work

Create opportunities online for students to connect with each other as part of the school day.
Keep lines of communication open and constructive between teachers and parents/guardians.
Focus on core skills at home.

There’s a distinction between online and using technology versus distance learning.

It’s going to become a lot more interactive, a lot more personal, and then teachers are going to be able to zero in a lot more on what the kids need.

A lot of teachers feel a lot of pressure to have these perfectly planned lesson plans that go exactly as intended when you get into the classroom. In this environment, it’s okay to not have the planning perfect. It’s okay if things get a little bit extemporaneous, a little improvisational in the classroom.

If I’m a teacher looking at the pie of time and energy that I have in a given week, I would try to minimize the energy that I have to put into things where I’m not interacting with students …

Teachers putting a lot of time and energy getting a setup like I have with a microphone and a pen tablet and all of that. That takes a lot of work, a lot of energy, and it’s energy that once again gets taken away from time that they could be interacting with students.

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more on online learning in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=online+learning

04
Oct
2020

Musk’s brain-computer startup

categories: brain, Digital literacy, e-learning, educational technology, information technology, learning, mobile learning

Elon Musk’s brain-computer startup is getting ready to blow your mind

Musk reckons his brain-computer interface could one day help humans merge with AI, record their memories, or download their consciousness. Could he be right?

https://www.zdnet.com/article/elon-musks-brain-computer-startup-is-getting-ready-to-blow-your-mind/

The idea is to solve these problems with an implantable digital device that can interpret, and possibly alter, the electrical signals made by neurons in the brain.

the latest iteration of the company’s hardware: a small, circular device that attaches to the surface of the brain, gathering data from the cortex and passing it on to external computing systems for analysis.

Several different types of working brain-computer interfaces already exist, gathering data on electrical signals from the user’s brain and translating them into data that can be interpreted by machines.

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If we put computers in our brains, strange things might happen to our minds

Using a brain-computer interface can fundamentally change our grey matter, a view of ourselves and even how fast our brains can change the world.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/if-we-put-computers-in-our-brains-strange-things-might-happen-to-our-minds/

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more on AI in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=artificial+intelligence

03
Oct
2020

6G

categories: Digital literacy, e-learning, educational technology, information technology, technology literacy, VR

South Korea will launch 6G trials in 2026 with 1TBps speeds and 1/10th latency of 5G from r/Futurology

https://www.broadcastprome.com/news/satellite/south-korea-plans-to-launch-6g-trials-in-2026/

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more on 5G in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=5g

01
Oct
2020

Beyond Incrementalism

categories: distance learning, distributive learning, e-learning, information technology

Beyond Incrementalism

https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2020/09/22/too-many-presidents-are-focusing-tactics-rather-strategy-during-challenging-time

In a time of growing and increasingly complex challenges, too many top administrators, leadership teams and boards are focusing on tactics rather than strategy

how should presidents begin to think strategically about the content and the pedagogy of the education their institutions will offer going forward? How should they lead their institutions to take concrete steps to eliminate systemic inequities on their campuses? How can they facilitate a commitment to combat racism not only on their campuses but also in their local communities and beyond? How can they manage all this as many face daily threats to their institution’s financial health?

Some of the presidents with whom I talked, along with several trustees and faculty members, have inspired the following suggestions for how at least some campus leaders may begin to think about the future.

Move even more online.

Rethink goals in light of demographic realities, concerns about costs and shifting student interests.

Reconceptualize and streamline institutional structures to better serve faculty and student realities.

Consolidate student support services.

Embrace the virtue of the out-of-doors.

Budget for mission, with long-term strategies in mind.

Address systemic racism, sexism, homophobia and other biases.

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