I’ve written many articles in the past about learning and network building and since mid January I’ve been part of an Education Technology and Media MOOC #ETMOOC where more than 1600 people are gathering on-line to share ideas about learning, digital story telling, on-line collaboration, etc.…
Tag Archives: innovation
Interesting… “Defiance: The first video-game television show” [spectrum.ieee.org]
Another example of the conversation moving away from traditional higher ed
From DSC:
While I think MOOCs have a ways to go, I continue to support them because they are forcing higher ed to innovate and experiment more. But the conversation continues to move away from traditional higher ed, as the changes — especially the prices — aren’t changing fast enough.…
A Reflection on Digital Literacies and Me
First impressions for topic 3 Digital Literacy – Information, Memes & Attention
Well time to move past my digital story challenge and begin to refine my focus to digital literacy. Phase 1, I checked out wikipedia for a general overview of the new literacies:
What are new literacies?
I realized that this was about more than just recognizing the words on the page.…
Student Teacher: Inkflow
A simple story that I never could have created without the inspiration of a 10th grader.
Student Teacher
Beyond voice recognition: It’s the age of intelligent systems [Savitz]
Beyond voice recognition: It’s the age of intelligent systems – from forbes.com by Eric Savitz; with thanks to Steve Knode (steveknode.com) for posting this on his recent newsletter
Excerpt:
But the pace of innovation continues. Expect the current generation of virtual personal assistants to evolve into ubiquitous intelligent systems.…
Digital Story Challenge continued… format 12 Goanimate
Go animate is an easy, free way to share info (and more interesting for students than reading type).
Enjoy
A reflection on the digital story challenge using go animate
bonus feature
My 7 year old watched me make my video this morning and then wanted to make one of his own:
My 7 year old’s story
Bringing Stories to Life – Digitally!
Last week, I spent the majority of my #etmooc time trying new digital storytelling tools (GIFs, Flip Books, Visual Poetry, 5 Card Flickr) and posting about my explorations and learnings. This week, I wanted to hold off testing more tools (PopcornMaker, Inklewriter & Stop Motion are high on my list!)…
Man o’ man — if IBM’s Watson gets integrated into what MOOCs morph into!
From DSC:
Below are some reflections after seeing these items:
- IBM’s Watson is better at diagnosing cancer than human doctors — from wired.co.uk by Ian Steadman
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- Watson is now commercially available, set to help doctors treat cancer — from singularityhub.com