Digital Literacy for St. Cloud State University
since Amazon bought Ring in 2018, it has brokered more than 1,800 partnerships with local law enforcement agencies. These partnerships are growing at an alarming rate.
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more on surveillance in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=surveillance
two VR Applications, (this is one) that students at the UNL-Computer Science and Engineering built for UNMC College of Nursing-Lincoln on the 5 Stages of the Sepsis Bundle. Nurse’s Escape is now available on the Sidequest Store.
Download it for your Quest and Learn about the 5 stages of the Sepsis Bundle and save the millionaire.
https://sidequestvr.com/app/3848/nurses-escape
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more on VR for Nursing in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=vr+nursing
https://www.edsurge.com/news/2021-05-10-why-tech-companies-view-the-job-search-as-big-business
“jobtech”—to be approximately $40 billion in size, and growing rapidly.
These emerging companies bridge the gap between people and jobs by matching, training, and often literally placing candidates into positions. That’s different from edtech, which focuses on the learning but not the workforce connection; and from HR tech, which prioritizes recruiting but not training or skills development. It’s more than the professional networks and digital job boards that put all the pressure and responsibility on the worker. And it has the potential to address the pain points of both students and workers who are underemployed, or newly unemployed due to the pandemic, by translating skills and experiences into positive labor market outcomes.
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more on employment in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=employment
Before the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted to repeal net neutrality at the end of 2017, the agency collected public opinion on the policy. In all, it said it received nearly 22 million comments. Over the years, there’s been a fair amount of discussion surrounding where many of those came from, with a study from that same year suggesting that only six percent of the comments were unique.
a report found the “largest” broadband companies funded a secret astroturfing campaign to push the FCC toward repealing net neutrality. At the time, AT&T, Comcast, T-Mobile, Sprint and Verizon (Engadget’s parent company) were in favor of repealing the policy. The industry hired several third-party firms to build public support for their decision. Ostensibly, those companies were supposed to convince people to support the broadband industry with incentives like gift cards and prizes. Instead, they simply submitted 8.5 million fake comments. The attorney general has fined three of the companies involved in sending in those comments $4.4 million.
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more on net neutrality in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=netneutrality
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnotology
<https://youtu.be/t5UPnuSTRjA?t=2384> in 2000, it was genomics, in 2010, it was nanotechnology and in 2020 is AI
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more on fake news in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=%23fakenews
free webinar: ‘How to facilitate effective group work at business schools’ on May 5 at 1PM ET.
This webinar will gather teachers and instructional designers from business schools in a panel discussion to share and exchange ideas on improving group dynamics and social loafing in team based education.
We’re happy to welcome Mustafa Elsawy, Learning Technologist from Georgia State University and Jeff Webb, Associate Professor from David Eccles School of Business as guest speakers for the discussion to share their insights on:
You can learn more about the event on our website and register for free here.
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more on online ed in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=online+education
Alternative to Flipgrid
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more on FLipgrid in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=flipgrid
https://quartsoft.com/sites/default/files/iphone-tech-history-infographic.jpg
Growth rates in 2020:
• Gaming: +20%
• Box Office: -70%
• Music: +5%
• Streaming Video: +18% https://t.co/hUAYc7JMyr— Rex Woodbury (@rex_woodbury) April 25, 2021
Johns Hopkins study finds that insider research shows 70 percent more benefits to students than independent research
https://hechingerreport.org/the-dark-side-of-education-research-widespread-bias/
The study, “Do Developer-Commissioned Evaluations Inflate Effect Sizes?”
There are a number of reasons for why developer studies tend to show stronger results, according to Wolf, whose full time work is to evaluate educational programs. The first is that a company is unlikely to publish unfavorable results. Wolf speculates that developers are more likely to “brand a failed trial a ‘pilot’ and file it away.”
This isn’t the first study to detect bias in education research. The problem of hiding unfavorable results from publication was documented as far back as 1995. In 2016, one of Wolf’s co-authors, Robert Slavin, wrote about the positive results that researchers get when they devise their own measures to prove that their inventions work.