Supporting Student Accessibility: Digital Equity | Special Needs & More — from Tech & Learning | November 2021
On 09/03/2021,
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by Daniel Christian
Top 300 Tools for Learning 2021 — from toptools4learning.com by Jane Hart
Excerpt:
2021 was the YEAR OF DISRUPTION! There were a substantial number of new tools nominated this year so the main list has now been extended to 300 tools to accommodate them, and each of the 3 sub-lists has been increased to 150 tools. Although the top of this year’s list is relatively stable, there is quite bit of movement of tools on the rest of the list, and the effect of the new tools has been to push other established tools down – if not off the list altogether. Further analysis of the list appears in the right-hand column of the table below.
This table shows the overall rankings as well as the rankings on the 3 sub-lists: Top 150 Tools for Personal Learning (PL150), the Top 150 Tools for Workplace Learning (WL150) and the Top 150 Tools for Education (ED150). NEW tools are shaded YELLOW, tools coming BACK on the list are shaded GREEN. The most popular context in which each tool is used is also highlighted in BLUE. Click on a tool name to find out more about it.
On 07/30/2021,
in animation, art, attention, Augmented Reality (AR), content aggregration, content development, content repositories, creativity, Daniel S. Christian, design, digital audio, digital learning, digital photography, digital storytelling, digital textbooks, digital video, drama/theater, e-books, e-publishing related items (EPUB and more), education, education technology, educational games / serious games, Emotion, engagement / engaging students, entrepreneurship, experimentation, ideas, instructional design, K-12 related, learning, learning ecosystem, Learning Experience Design, learning hubs & pods, learning preferences, liberal arts, love of learning, media/film, multimedia, music, new media literacies, online learning, online media, passions, pedagogy, play, presentations, project-based learning, reading, story, storytelling, student teaching/teacher education, student-related, tablets, teachers, tools, web-based collaboration, writing, XR - extended reality, youth,
by Daniel Christian
Transforming the classroom with augmented learning — from thetechedvocate.org by Matthew Lynch
Excerpt:
Forbes documented the many ways that augmented reality (AR) has come to life in recent years. They list several award-winning apps that use AR. A few are:
- The “Gatwick Airport Passenger” App, which helps passengers navigate the airport;
- The “Dulux Visualizer” App, which lets you virtually scan and paint your room any color you choose;
- “Envisioned by the Mine” App, which lets you put 3D images of any type of accessory or furnishing in your home that Lowe’s offers;
- “Sephora Virtual Artist”, which allows you to “put makeup on” without actually touching brush to face;
- “Accuvein”, which doctors and nurses use to scan a patient’s vein network (it reduces escalations by 45%);
- And, of course, there are apps like the “BIC DrawyBook App” just for fun.
But what about the classroom? Can we see a future in transforming the classroom with augmented learning?
From DSC:
Along the lines of developing creativity with edtech…
I saw another item recently about Book Creator, something that’s made this blog before. I love that type of tool because it promotes creativity, unleashes a student’s imagination, promotes their artwork and writing/storytelling and their musical or acting abilities, and it develops skills in design and developing multimedia-based artifacts. For teachers, it could be a nice project-based learning exercise.
I asked our youngest daughter if she would like to use it…we’ll see. You can get a free account that allows you to publish up to 40 books. (Plus there is pricing for schools and districts.)
And who knows…? This type of thing might just produce the next J.K. Rowling or a J.J. Abrams.
On 02/07/2021,
in adjunct faculty, business, business side of he, colleges, community colleges, content development, dangers of the status quo, digital learning, e-books, e-publishing related items (EPUB and more), education reform, ethics, faculty, future of higher education, higher education, ideas, instructional design, IT in HE, liberal arts, morals/values, pedagogy, student teaching/teacher education, student-related, teaching & learning, trends, United States, universities, vendors, youth,
by Daniel Christian
The Chegg situation is worse than you think — from eliterate.us by Michael Feldstein
Excerpts:
Forbes just ran with an article entitled “This $12 Billion Company Is Getting Rich Off Students Cheating Their Way Through Covid“.
Ouch.
[Per Michael] To sum up:
- Publishers, after selling expensive textbooks to students, sold the answers to the homework questions in those expensive books to Chegg.
- Chegg sells the answers to the questions to the students, who often use them to cheat.
- To combat this problem, universities pay for proctoring software, which is apparently more effective at preventing students from going to the bathroom than it is at preventing cheating.
- To add insult to all of this injury, “to chegg” is now apparently a verb in the English language. We will all have to live with that linguistic violence.
Addendum on 2/9/21:
- Students cheat with online learning service, professors hope to identify users — from dailyemerald.com by Claire Warner
On 09/17/2020,
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by Daniel Christian
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From DSC:
If this isn’t mind-blowing, I don’t know what is! Some serious morphing lies ahead of us!
On 09/01/2020,
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by Daniel Christian
Top 200 Tools for Learning — from toptools4learning.com by Jane Hart
Excerpt:
The Top Tools for Learning 2020 was compiled by Jane Hart from the results of the 14th Annual Learning Tools Survey, and released on 1 September 2020. For general information about the survey and this website, visit the About page. For observations and infographics of this year’s list, see Analysis 2020.
On 08/27/2020,
in adjunct faculty, assessment, colleges, community colleges, digital learning, digital textbooks, distance education, e-books, e-publishing related items (EPUB and more), education technology, engagement / engaging students, experimentation, faculty, higher education, instructional design, learning, Learning Experience Design, liberal arts, media/film, more choice more control, multimedia, online learning, pedagogy, student-related, teaching & learning, teaching online, universities,
by Daniel Christian
From Beth McMurtrie in this week’s “Teaching” over at The Chronicle:
- Examples of innovative assessment strategies
- An instructor’s request to help students engage with digital textbooks
- Some resources for effective online, equitable, & antiracist teaching
From DSC:
I especially appreciated the item re: the creation/use of multimedia-based content in place of a more traditional assessment. This type of assignment/assessment allows more choice and it opens up opportunities for more creativity and expression.
On 07/02/2020,
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by Daniel Christian
From DSC:
The article below got me to thinking about designing learning experiences and what our learning experiences might be like in the future — especially after we start pouring much more of our innovative thinking, creativity, funding, entrepreneurship, and new R&D into technology-supported/enabled learning experiences.
LMS vs. LXP: How and why they are different — from blog.commlabindia.com by Payal Dixit
LXPs are a rising trend in the L&D market. But will they replace LMSs soon? What do they offer more than an LMS? Learn more about LMS vs. LXP in this blog.
Excerpt (emphasis DSC):
Building on the foundation of the LMS, the LXP curates and aggregates content, creates learning paths, and provides personalized learning resources.
Here are some of the key capabilities of LXPs. They:
- Offer content in a Netflix-like interface, with suggestions and AI recommendations
- Can host any form of content – blogs, videos, eLearning courses, and audio podcasts to name a few
- Offer automated learning paths that lead to logical outcomes
- Support true uncensored social learning opportunities
So, this is about the LXP and what it offers; let’s now delve into the characteristics that differentiate it from the good old LMS.
From DSC:
Entities throughout the learning spectrum are going through many changes right now (i.e., people and organizations throughout K-12, higher education, vocational schools, and corporate training/L&D). If the first round of the Coronavirus continues to impact us, and then a second round comes later this year/early next year, I can easily see massive investments and interest in learning-related innovations. It will be in too many peoples’ and organizations’ interests not to.
I highlighted the bulleted points above because they are some of the components/features of the Learning from the Living [Class] Room vision that I’ve been working on.
Below are some technologies, visuals, and ideas to supplement my reflections. They might stir the imagination of someone out there who, like me, desires to make a contribution — and who wants to make learning more accessible, personalized, fun, and engaging. Hopefully, future generations will be able to have more choice, more control over their learning — throughout their lifetimes — as they pursue their passions.
On 06/30/2020,
in collaboration, colleges, communications, communities of practice, community colleges, Daniel S. Christian, digital audio, digital learning, digital storytelling, digital textbooks, distance education, e-books, e-publishing related items (EPUB and more), e-readers, education, education technology, emerging technologies, future, future of higher education, game-changing environment, higher education, homeschooling/homeschoolers, human-computer interaction (HCI), ideas, innovation, instructional design, intelligent systems, intelligent tutoring, law schools, learning, learning agents, learning ecosystem, Learning from the Living [Class] Room, learning hubs & pods, learning spaces, liberal arts, machine-to-machine communications, Natural Language Processing (NLP), online learning, online media, online tutoring, platforms, productivity / tips and tricks, professional development, real-world assignments, smart classrooms, smart/connected TV, society, streams of content, teaching & learning, teaching online, telelegal, telemedicine / telehealth / virtual health, telepresence, tools, user experience (UX), vendors, videoconferencing, virtual tutoring, voice recognition / voice enabled interfaces, web-based collaboration, webinars,
by Daniel Christian
Meet the new face of Webex Assistant — from blog.webex.com by Kacy Kizer
Excerpt:
You may be familiar with Webex Assistant, the AI-powered voice assistant for work. Now known as Webex Assistant for Webex Rooms, our original digital assistant allows you to control compatible Webex Rooms devices with your voice, making it easy to join a meeting with just a few words, manage your meetings and devices from anywhere in the room, and much more.
- A voice-activated assistant allows you to easily control the meeting through a set of voice commands.
- Simply ask your AI-powered Webex Assistant to do things like create actions items, take notes, and even set up future meetings—with just your voice.
- Your Webex Assistant will automatically transcribe the entire meeting in real-time.
- With visual animation, your virtual AI assistant interacts with you and your meeting attendees during the meeting and when called upon.
From DSC:
- How might these types of technologies impact online-based learning?
- What new affordances might they bring to the learner’s experience?
- For example, what if a listening assistant (AI) could identify some key issues/topics and then go out and grab/present some URL’s of relevant journal articles, chapters from a given textbook, blog postings, etc.? What if each student’s AI could be directed to do so independently?
#IntelligentTutoring | #IntelligentSystems | #AI | #EmergingTechnologies | #Collaboration | #Productivity | #PersonalizedEducation
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