DDR5
DDR5 has arrived! Micron’s next-gen DIMMs are 85% faster than DDR4 from r/hardware
https://www.pcgamesn.com/micron/ddr5-memory-release-date
Gartner Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies, 2019
categories: announcement
https://www.gartner.com/en/documents/3956015/hype-cycle-for-emerging-technologies-2019
Spring Convocation 2020: Microcredentialing
Digital Badging and Microcredentialing
short link to this blog entry: http://bit.ly/convocation2020
for backchanneling, pls join us on Zoom: https://minnstate.zoom.us/my/badge or 9107443388
if you want to review the Zoom recording, pls click here:
https://minnstate.zoom.us/rec/share/4vF1N-719m9Oc4XE0VrHApU-OKLLaaa8gyEbqfFcz07WTblhxr6U38pBGqPneM2F
Presenters: Kannan Sivaprakasam & Plamen Mittenoff
1. Share your ideas and practice of badge distribution and/or microcredentialing
2. What is a digital badge/microcredentialing?
3. How to create and award D2L digital badges for your class?
4. How to motivate the students in earning digital badges?
5. How it aligns with COSE’s strategic plan 2022/Husky Compact?
What we hope to achieve
• Create a community of digital badgers
• Catalyze professional development opportunity for faculty/staff
Literature and additional information:
- digital badge/microcredentialing
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2019/10/04/digital-badging-in-education/
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2019/07/31/microcredentials-in-education/
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2019/06/29/microcredentials-and-degrees/
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2018/12/18/badges-and-microcredentials/
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2017/10/25/ebook-guide-to-digital-badges/
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2016/04/11/digital-badges-in-education/
https://mnscu-my.sharepoint.com/:p:/g/personal/cc9327cp_minnstate_edu/ETI5ggkeZXxIrRJ4haTVA7MB0hiRnidONL0itNrtEuxD3g?e=J8MFtv - Badgr, Credly, etc.
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2019/01/18/badgr-credly-school-microcredentialing/
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2018/10/11/platforms-for-badges/
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2017/01/11/credly-badges-on-canvas/ - credential transparency
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2019/01/14/promoting-credential-transparency/
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2017/09/27/blockchain-credentialing-in-higher-ed/ - game-based learning:
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2017/02/22/im554-discussion-gbl/
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2018/11/17/how-to-gamification/
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deepfake facebook
Facebook’s new ban targets videos that are manipulated to make it appear someone said words they didn’t actually say.
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more on deep fake in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=deep+fake
more on facebook in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=facebook
references w APA 7
categories: information literacy
Creating References Using Seventh Edition APA Style
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more on APA 7th ed in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=apa+style
reliable information sources
categories: media literacy
10 Journalism Brands Where You Find Real Facts Rather Than Alternative Facts
Feb 1, 2017 Paul Glader
The Poynter Institute – an enlightened non-profit in St. Petersburg, Fla., that has an ownership role in the Tampa Bay Times and provides research, training and educational resources on journalism – provides many excellent online modules to help citizens improve their news media literacy.
citizens should support local and regional publications that hew to ethical journalism standards and cover local government entities.
- https://www.nytimes.com/
- https://www.wsj.com/
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/
- http://www.bbc.com/news
- http://www.economist.com/
- http://www.newyorker.com/
- Wire Services: The Associated Press, Reuters, Bloomberg News
- https://www.foreignaffairs.com/
- https://www.theatlantic.com/
- http://www.politico.com/
Runners Up:
– National Public Radio
– TIME magazine
-The Christian Science Monitor
– The Los Angeles Times (and many other regional, metropolitan daily newspapers)
– USA Today
– CNN
– NBC News
– CBS News
– ABC News
Business News Sources:
– FORBES magazine
– Bloomberg BusinessWeek magazine
– Fortune magazine
– The Financial Times newspaper
Sources of reporting and opinion from the right of the political spectrum:
- National Review
- The Weekly Standard
Sources of reporting and opinion from the left of the political spectrum:
– The New Republic
– The Nation
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more on fake news in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=fake+news
K12 media literacy
categories: media literacy
Report: Florida, Ohio called ‘advanced leaders’ in K-12 media literacy efforts
Advocacy group Media Literacy Now says 14 states have laws with “some media-literacy language” and others will consider bills this year, but some say progress “is too slow.”
Erin McNeill, president and board member of Media Literacy Now
Media Literacy Now considers digital citizenship as part of media literacy — not the other way around
nine states — California, Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, Rhode Island and Utah — are identified as “emerging leaders” for “beginning the conversation” and consulting with experts and others.
Calls for increased attention to media literacy skills and demand from educators for training in this area increased following an outbreak of “fake news” reports associated with the 2016 presidential election. Studies and assessments showing students are easily misled by digital information have also contributed to a sense of urgency.
because the topic can fit into multiple content areas, it can also be overlooked because of other pressures on teachers. Media literacy, the group notes, also “encompasses the foundational skills of digital citizenship and internet safety including the norms of appropriate, responsible, ethical, and healthy behavior, and cyberbullying prevention.”
Lawmakers in Missouri and South Carolina have also pre-filed versions of Media Literacy Now’s model bill, the report noted, and legislation is expected in Hawaii and Arizona.
the News Literacy Project and the Center for New Literacy’s summer academy.
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more on media literacy in this iMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=media+literacy
5 K-12 trends for 2020
categories: EDAD
5 K-12 trends to watch in 2020
https://www.educationdive.com/news/5-k-12-trends-to-watch-in-2020/568720/
- Continued innovations and shifts in assessment
- Clashes between safety efforts and student privacy
- Teacher activism spurs lawmaker response
- Rethinking what a classroom and instruction can be
- The changing face of professional development
from EdCamp “mini-conference” formats to digital microcredential programs
the state of online learning
The Babson Survey Research Group, an organization that tracks online enrollment, notes that between 2012 and 2016 the percent of online enrollment in universities increased 17.2 percent while overall enrollment decreased. But that expansion doesn’t necessarily correlate with how the public perceives the quality of online courses, historically questioned for its lack of rigor and limited measurable learning gains.
A Gallup poll conducted back in 2015, found that 46 percent of Americans “strongly agree” or “agree” that online colleges and universities offer a high-quality education—up 30 percent from when the poll was conducted in 2011.
However, researchers caveat these findings, noting that these perception changes happen within particular pockets and are sometimes the result of strategic practices, such as universities not listing the medium of learning on student transcripts.
The last academic leader perception survey released by the Babson Research Group was in 2016.
“We’ve had more and more of the group in the middle that said, ‘I’m not sure’ move into a pro online learning stance,” says Seaman, speaking of the academic leaders he surveyed in the past. “The negative group [those who viewed online learning negatively] had not wavered at all. The positive group did not waiver at all, but we had a steady migration flow of academic leaders in the middle.”
Lowenthal has also researched student perceptions of online learning in the past, finding that learners tend to give such courses more negative evaluations than in-person courses. He says that the findings may represent the lack of experience some educators have teaching in online classrooms. He expects that to change over time, noting that good teachers in person will eventually become good teachers online.
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more on online learning in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=online+learning
six blog platforms
https://www.freetech4teachers.com/2020/01/a-comparison-of-6-blogging-services-for.html
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more on blogs in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=blog