From DSC:
Alexa is up to 100,000 skills. How might these types of techs be integrated into education, training, learning spaces, collaboration, other?
Celebrating 100,000 Alexa Skills -100,000 Thank Yous to You — from developer.amazon.com
On 09/28/2019,
in art, creativity, design, digital photography, global / globalization, photography,
by Daniel Christian
On 09/27/2019,
in 21st century, 24x7x365 access, A/V -- audio/visual, colleges, communications, community colleges, Daniel S. Christian, digital learning, distance education, education technology, engineering, higher education, homeschooling/homeschoolers, human-computer interaction (HCI), ideas, innovation, intelligent systems, internet, IT in HE, K-12 related, law schools, learning ecosystem, learning spaces, machine-to-machine communications, platforms, robotics, telepresence, tools,
by Daniel Christian
Internet of Things in the World of School— from datafloq.com
Excerpt:
In this blog post, we’ll discuss the benefits of the IoT for education — the sphere that remains farther to the background in terms of the IoT application but can benefit from it at all stages. Besides, schools are meant to prepare students for entry into the adult world. As the IoT changes the landscape of their futures, it is crucial to change the space where students spend their formative years.
DC: I would add the ability of electric doors & elevators to know when an approved Double Robotics Telepresence Robot is approaching & then open the door &/or be able 2assist in getting the device to its destination on campus.
See: https://t.co/w3olOFsHNUhttps://t.co/2uEM8C5HST pic.twitter.com/FuEZgTpeCO— Daniel Christian (@dchristian5) September 27, 2019
On 09/27/2019,
in adjunct faculty, Artificial Intelligence/Agents/LLMs/and Related, career development, change, collaboration, computer science, Cost of legal services - including access, Daniel S. Christian, data related items, ethics, faculty/staff, future, higher education, law schools, learning, learning ecosystem, legal technologies, legislatures / government / legal, lifelong learning, online learning, platforms, professional development, programming, society, teaching online, technology (general), tools, training / L&D, using teams, vision/possibilities,
by Daniel Christian
From DSC:
The two postings below show the need for more collaboration and the use of teams:
The future of law and computational technologies: Two sides of the same coin — from legaltechlever.com by Daniel Linna Jr.
Excerpt (emphasis DSC):
An increasing number of lawyers today work with allied professionals to improve processes, better manage projects, embrace data-driven methods, and leverage technology to improve legal services and systems. Legal-services and lawyer regulations are evolving. And basic technologies and AI are slowly making their way into the legal industry, from legal aid organizations and courts to large law firms, corporate legal departments, and governments.
If we are to realize the potential to improve society with computational technologies, law, regulation, and ethical principles must be front and center at every stage, from problem definition, design, data collection, and data cleaning to training, deployment, and monitoring and maintenance of products and systems. To achieve this, technologists and lawyers must collaborate and share a common vocabulary. Lawyers must learn about technology, and technologists must learn about law. Multidisciplinary teams with a shared commitment to law, regulation, and ethics can proactively address today’s AI challenges, and advance our collaborative problem-solving capabilities to address tomorrow’s increasingly complex problems. Lawyers and technologists must work together to create a better future for everyone.
From DSC:
As with higher education in general, we need more team-based efforts in the legal realm as well as more TrimTab Groups.
- What’s a lawyer now? Law’s shift from practice to skill — from forbes.com by Mark Cohen
Excerpts:
Why does this distinction matter? Because law—like so many industries—is undergoing a tectonic shift. It is morphing from a lawyer dominated, practice-centric, labor-intensive guild to a tech-enabled, process and data-driven, multi-disciplinary global industry. The career paths, skills, and expectations of lawyers are changing. So too are how, when, and on what financial terms they are engaged; with whom and from what delivery models they work; their performance metrics, and the resources—human and machine—they collaborate with. Legal practice is shrinking and the business of delivering legal services is expanding rapidly.
Law is no longer the exclusive province of lawyers. Legal knowledge is not the sole element of legal delivery—business and technological competencies are equally important. It’s a new ballgame—one that most lawyers are unprepared for.
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How did we get here and are legal careers for most a dead end? Spoiler alert: there’s tremendous opportunity in the legal industry. The caveat: all lawyers must have basic business and technological competency whether they pursue practice careers or leverage their legal knowledge as a skill in legal delivery and/or allied professional careers.
Upskilling the legal profession is already a key issue, a requisite for career success. Lawyers must learn new skills like project management, data analytics, deployment of technology, and process design to leverage their legal knowledge. Simply knowing the law will not cut it anymore.
From DSC:
I really appreciate the work of the above two men whose articles I’m highlighting here. I continue to learn a lot from them and am grateful for their work.
That said, just like it’s a lot to expect a faculty member (in higher ed) who teaches online to not only be a subject matter expert, but also to be skilled in teaching, web design, graphic design, navigation design, information design, audio design, video editing, etc…it’s a lot to expect for a lawyer to be a skilled lawyer, business person, and technician. I realize that Mark was only saying a basic level of competency…but even that can be difficult to achieve at times. Why? Because people have different skillsets, passions, and interests. One might be a good lawyer, but not a solid technician…or vice versa. One might be a solid professor, but isn’t very good with graphic design.
On 09/26/2019,
in accessibility / UDL, Artificial Intelligence/Agents/LLMs/and Related, Augmented Reality (AR), career development, corporate / business world, digital storytelling, drama/theater, education, education technology, future, game-changing environment, health, ideas, innovation, intelligent systems, intelligent tutoring, internet, IT in HE, law schools, learning, learning agents, learning ecosystem, Learning from the Living [Class] Room, legislatures / government / legal, media/film, Mixed Reality (MR), Natural Language Processing (NLP), personalized/customized learning, platforms, society, story, storytelling, student-related, United States, workplace,
by Daniel Christian
Artificial Intelligence in Future and Present — from datafloq.com
A look at what AI might do and what it can actually do in various industries…
- Artificial Intelligence and Medicine
- Artificial Intelligence and Finance
- Artificial Intelligence and Manufacturing
- Artificial Intelligence and Media & Entertainment
- Artificial Intelligence and Education
On 09/25/2019,
in business, career development, colleges, community colleges, computer science, future of higher education, higher education, human-computer interaction (HCI), ideas, innovation, IT in HE, platforms, professional development, programming, technology (general), trends, United States, universities, vendors, workplace,
by Daniel Christian
Information Technology (IT) skills and jobs are widely misunderstood to be housed primarily in the tech sector, and they are also thought to be inaccessible to all but a small minority of people who have focused intently on computer science. Building on our prior research efforts and mining a database of more than 150 million unique online U.S. job postings, Oracle Academy and Burning Glass Technologies produce new evidence that neither of these perceptions are borne out by data. To the contrary, 90% of IT skills and jobs are concentrated in 10 non-tech industries, leaving only 10% in the tech sector. The rapid growth of IT jobs is more than 50% greater in non-tech industries than in tech industries.
On 09/25/2019,
in 21st century, Artificial Intelligence/Agents/LLMs/and Related, career development, change, emerging technologies, engineering, ethics, future, future of higher education, game-changing environment, robotics, Virtual Reality (VR) / worlds / learning, XR - extended reality, youth,
by Daniel Christian
Top jobs in 2040 will involve virtual reality, artificial intelligence & robotics — from themanufacturer.com by Jonny Williamson
Emerging technologies such as virtual reality (VR), artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics will strongly influence the careers we do in the future, according to new research from BAE Systems.
Excerpt:
- Almost half of young people (47%) aged between 16-24 believe that one day they will work in a role that doesn’t exist yet, but only one-in-five (18%) think they are equipped with the skills required to future-proof their careers.
. - Three-quarters (74%) also feel that they are not getting enough information about careers that will be available in the future.
On 09/25/2019,
in creativity, entrepreneurship, experimentation, law schools, learning spaces, legal technologies, library / librarians, tools,
by Daniel Christian
The Geek in Review Ep. 53 – Makerspaces in Law Schools with Ashley Matthews and Sharon Bradley — from geeklawblog.com by Greg Lambert & Marlene Gebauer
NOTE: Sharon Bradley was a librarian at
WMU-Cooley before she moved to Georgia.
Excerpt:
Makerspaces are becoming very popular in libraries, and today we talk with two librarians who are ready to bring the collaborative thinking and working spaces into the law school library environment. Ashley Matthews is at George Mason’s Antonin Scalia Law School, and Sharon Bradley is at the University of Georgia School of Law. Both believe there is a great benefit in carving out spaces within the law school library to allow students and faculty the ability to tinker and experiment with their creative sides, and potentially come up with the next big idea in the legal market.
Matthews and Bradley think that the law school library environment can be the perfect place to teach law students the analytical skills they’ll need in their practice to truly understand how a legal issue can benefit from technology, and how to issue spot, reason, analyze, and resolve legal issues more effectively with technology.
On 09/25/2019,
in 21st century, Amazon, dangers of the status quo, emerging technologies, engineering, entrepreneurship, Google, law schools, legislatures / government / legal, platforms, robotics, society, technology (general), the downsides of how people use tech, tools, United States,
by Daniel Christian
Walgreens to test drone delivery service with Alphabet’s Wing — from cnbc.com by Jasmine Wu
Key Points:
- Walgreens is working with Alphabet’s drone delivery service Wing to test a new service.
- The pilot program will deliver food and beverage, over-the-counter medications and other items, but not prescriptions.
- Amazon said in June its new delivery drone should be ready “within months” to deliver packages to customers.
Add that to these other robots, drones, driverless pods, etc.:
- Autonomous robot deliveries are coming to 100 university campuses in the U.S. — from digitaltrends.com by Luke Dormehl
- Postmates Gets Go-Ahead to Test Delivery Robot in San Francisco — from interestingengineering.com by Donna Fuscaldo
- Amazon patents ‘surveillance as a service’ tech for its delivery drones — from theverge.com by Jon Porter
- This futuristic driverless pod will soon be delivering pizza in Texas — from digitaltrends.com by Trevor Mogg
- Amazon is creating detailed 3D models of suburbia to train its new delivery robots — from theverge.com by James Vincent
From DSC:
Is a wild, wild west developing? It appears so. What does the average citizen do in these cases if they don’t want such drones constantly flying over their heads, neighborhoods, schools, etc.?
I wonder what the average age is of people working on these projects…?
Just because we can…
On 09/23/2019,
in career development, law schools, legislatures / government / legal, Michigan, workplace,
by Daniel Christian
