getacquainted free polling tool
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more on chatbots in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=chatbot
Archive of ‘technology literacy’ category
The iLRN SOXR 2021 Outlook Report
State of XR & Immersive Learning 2021 Outlook Report
p. 12 about VR and AR
p. 12 about VR and AR
p. 15 about social VR platforms
p. 39 CAVE like environment for Nursing students
p. 43 The FUTURE Time Traveller is a project developed and co-funded by the European Union’s Erasmus+ programme and coordinated by Bulgaria’s Business Foundation for Education in partnership with seven national organizations.
p. 46 obstacles – disabilities
p. 48 California State University Northridge, which has developed an MA in Instructional Design with a focus on XR and immersive games and simulations
Amazon Health Care
https://newrepublic.com/article/162553/amazon-care-pharmacy-big-tech-universal-healthcare
Microsoft has a data initiative with Providence St. Joseph Health, which operates dozens of hospitals in the United States. In 2019, Google signed a deal with the Mayo Clinic to manage and parse health records for “insights,” explaining that cloud computing and data analytics would provide better performance. Google also reached an agreement this week with HCA Healthcare, a large hospital chain
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more on data privacy in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=data+privacy
Apple in China
Censorship, Surveillance and Profits: A Hard Bargain for Apple in China
Apple built the world’s most valuable business on top of China. Now it has to answer to the Chinese government.
Two decades ago, as Apple’s operations chief, Mr. Cook spearheaded the company’s entrance into China, a move that helped make Apple the most valuable company in the world and made him the heir apparent to Steve Jobs. Apple now assembles nearly all of its products and earns a fifth of its revenue in the China region. But just as Mr. Cook figured out how to make China work for Apple, China is making Apple work for the Chinese government.
Mr. Cook often talks about Apple’s commitment to civil liberties and privacy. But to stay on the right side of Chinese regulators, his company has put the data of its Chinese customers at risk
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more on Apple in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=apple+
Engageli
Zoom-alternative Engageli raises $33M to grow its digital learning platform
Rather than create plug-ins for Zoom or similar services, however, Engageli’s founders created a standalone platform that combines video with active-learning features such as quizzes and small-group breakouts. Instructors can also track engagement.
Class, formerly named ClassEDU, last year began testing add-on software for Zoom that allows instructors to administer assignments and track student engagement.
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more on Zoom in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=zoom
Dos & Don’ts Teaching With Technology
7 Dos & Don’ts for Post-Pandemic Teaching With Technology
Here’s what students hope you’ll keep doing in the fall — and what they hope you’ll drop.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/7-dos-donts-for-post-pandemic-teaching-with-technology
a February panel of students sharing their views on pandemic teaching….
- DON’T lecture with slides for an entire Zoom class.
- DO offer more active-learning and discussion exercises in class.
- DON’T require students to use a tech tool that you don’t understand.
- DO keep using anonymous polling.
- DO get students up and about.
- DO provide more asynchronous materials and activities.
- DO emphasize interaction with and between students.
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more on online learning in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=online+learning
Amazon Ring and surveillance
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
Job search as Big Business
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
negative net neutrality comments were fake
NY AG report finds 18 million FCC net neutrality comments were fake
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
Future Trends Karl Kapp Instructional Design
On education, instructional design, gaming, and technological possibilities
May 6, 1:00 – 2:20 PM (CDT)
How can we best design learning experiences with technology? What are the possibilities of gaming and education?
The Future Trends Forum will explore these questions with professor Karl Kapp of Bloomsburg University.
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