Innovating Remote Connectivity — from luxresearchinc.com
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On 01/21/2021,
in 5G, innovation, internet, society, technology (general), telecommunications,
by Daniel Christian
On 01/20/2021,
in communications, culture, law schools, Legal operations, legal reform, legal technologies, legislatures / government / legal, presentations, religion, society, sociology, United States, universities, vendors, videoconferencing, Virtual Reality (VR) / worlds / learning, vision/possibilities,
by Daniel Christian
AALS Hosts First-Ever Virtual Annual Meeting — from am.aals.org
Excerpt:
More than 5,100 law school faculty, deans, professional staff, and sponsors gathered virtually, January 5-9 at the 2021 AALS Annual Meeting.
Over five days, the meeting included moderated panels, interactive discussions, and networking events. The programs closely reflected the most pressing issues of the day, including sessions related to the pandemic’s impact on civil rights, disability law, the economy, executive powers, eviction, voting, and workers’ rights, among other topics. There were also several sessions on how the pandemic has affected law schools, especially as it relates to online and hybrid teaching.
The theme of the meeting was “The Power of Words,” selected by 2020 AALS President Darby Dickerson, Dean and Professor of Law at UIC John Marshall Law School.
“Words matter and how we use words matter,” Dickerson said during a welcome video introducing the meeting. “Words are powerful tools. They can inspire social movements, evoke emotions, and create allegiances. They can help and they can heal, but like many tools, words can also be wielded as weapons to hurt and hinder and to mislead and manipulate.”
On 01/19/2021,
in 21st century, 24x7x365 access, adult learning, Alternatives, art, business, career development, change, cloud-based computing / apps / other cloud-related, communications, design, future of higher education, health, learning, learning ecosystem, Learning from the Living [Class] Room, lifelong learning, MOOCs -- Massive Open Online Courses, online learning, online media, platforms, reinvent, society, staying relevant, workplace,
by Daniel Christian
MOOC Enrollment Explodes in 2020 — from campustechnology.com by Dian Schaffhauser
Excerpt:
According to a new report by Class Central, a company that tracks massive open online courses, of all learners who have registered for MOOCs throughout their history, a third did so last year. Coursera, the largest MOOC operator, added nearly four times the number of new registered users, exploding from 8 million in 2019 to 31 million in 2020 — a rise of 387 percent. Dhawal Shah, founder of Class Central, estimated that Coursera’s total number of users is currently 76 million.
Whereas topics in technology, business and career development dominated pre-COVID-19, during the pandemic learners focused on wider interests: Art and design, self-improvement, the humanities, communication skills, health & medicine and foreign languages surfaced in the top 10 subjects.
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On 01/19/2021,
in career development, change, computer science, engineering, programming, society, sociology, workplace,
by Daniel Christian
How Chadwick Boseman’s Black Panther inspired this Black engineer — from fastcompany.com by Karl Zelik
The best superheroes are those that inspire real people to make the world a better place.
Excerpt:
On Twitter, Black in Engineering was launched in the week leading up to Boseman’s passing in August 2020, and Black in Computing was launched two months earlier. The same cathartic experience of seeing Wakandan scientists and engineers on the big screen is how I felt reading all the posts tagged #BiERollCall—Black engineers and scientists across STEM disciplines introduced themselves and their work, their passions, and their expertise.
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On 01/18/2021,
in Daniel S. Christian, education, ethics, faith, hearts -- matters of the heart, relationships, society, sociology, United States,
by Daniel Christian
Excerpt:
[Dr.] King was the chief spokesperson for nonviolent activism in the Civil Rights Movement, which successfully protested racial discrimination in federal and state law. The campaign for a federal holiday in King’s honor began soon after his assassination in 1968. President Ronald Reagan signed the holiday into law in 1983, and it was first observed three years later. At first, some states resisted observing the holiday as such, giving it alternative names or combining it with other holidays. It was officially observed in all 50 states for the first time in 2000.
On 01/18/2021,
in 21st century, art, Artificial Intelligence/Agents/LLMs/and Related, creativity, Daniel S. Christian, future, ideas, innovation, intelligent systems, journalism, marketing/social marketing, multimedia, music, visualizing information,
by Daniel Christian
OpenAI’s text-to-image engine, DALL-E, is a powerful visual idea generator — from venturebeat.com by Gary Grossman; with thanks to Tim Holt for sharing this resource
Excerpt:
OpenAI chose the name DALL-E as a hat tip to the artist Salvador Dalí and Pixar’s WALL-E. It produces pastiche images that reflect both Dalí’s surrealism that merges dream and fantasy with the everyday rational world, as well as inspiration from NASA paintings from the 1950s and 1960s and those for Disneyland Tomorrowland by Disney Imagineers.
From DSC:
I’m not a big fan of having AI create the music that I listen to, or the artwork that I take in. But I do think there’s potential here in giving creative artists some new fodder for thought! Perhaps marketers and/or journalists could also get their creative juices going from this type of service/offering.
Speaking of art, here are a couple of other postings that caught my eye recently:
- This Elaborately Armored Samurai Was Folded From A Single Sheet of Paper — from thisiscolossal.com by Grace Ebert
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- Fabric Portraits by Benjamin Shine — from theawesomer.com
On 01/18/2021,
in 21st century, 24x7x365 access, Daniel S. Christian, digital learning, education, education technology, entrepreneurship, future, game-changing environment, homeschooling/homeschoolers, ideas, innovation, instructional design, intelligent tutoring, learning, learning agents, learning ecosystem, Learning Experience Design, Learning from the Living [Class] Room, learning hubs & pods & microschooling, mathematics, Microsoft, online learning, online tutoring, parents/guardians, personalized/customized learning, platforms, remote teaching and learning, student-related, teachers, teaching & learning, teaching online, tools, United States, vendors, videoconferencing, virtual K-12 schools, virtual tutoring, vision/possibilities, youth,
by Daniel Christian
Microsoft Education offers a free tutoring service to help students with their math problems — from educatorstechnology.com
Excerpt:
In today’s post I want to bring to your attention this interesting math resource from Microsoft Education called Tutoring Experts. As its name indicates, Tutoring Experts allows students to seek help with their math problems from tutors that are available 24/7.
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From DSC:
One wonders if there aren’t some opportunities here for more online-based tutoring services. Perhaps graduates from schools of education will move more towards this type of thing…
Perhaps the online-based materials in the future will have a question mark “?” icon that instantly connects to that service’s teachers, professors, trainers, pastors, and/or other SMEs. Or perhaps this type of thing is already there…I’m not sure.
On 01/14/2021,
in Alternatives, career development, corporate / business world, digital learning, digital video, education, education technology, educational games / serious games, funding / grants, higher education, innovation, K-12 related, marketplaces, MOOCs -- Massive Open Online Courses, online learning, programming, social learning / networks,
by Daniel Christian
A Record Year Amid a Pandemic: US Edtech Raises $2.2 Billion in 2020 — from edsurge.com by Tony Wan
Excerpts:
In 2020, U.S. education technology startups raised over $2.2 billion in venture and private equity capital across 130 deals, according to the EdSurge edtech funding database. That’s a nearly 30 percent increase from the $1.7 billion invested in 2019, which was spread across 105 deals.
On 01/14/2021,
in 21st century, 24x7x365 access, Artificial Intelligence/Agents/LLMs/and Related, engineering, health, innovation, telemedicine / telehealth / virtual health, Virtual Reality (VR) / worlds / learning, wearables, XR - extended reality,
by Daniel Christian
It’s Time to Heal: 16 Trends Driving the Future of Bio and Healthcare — from a16z.com by Vineeta Agarwala, Jorge Conde, Vijay Pande, and Julie Yoo
It’s Time to Heal is a special package about engineering the future of bio and healthcare. See more at:
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5 Predictions for Digital Healthcare in 2021 — from wearable-technologies.com by Cathy Russey
Excerpts:
- Remote patient care and telemedicine
- Virtual Reality
- Wearables
- Artificial Intelligence
- Advancements in Electronic Health Records (EHR)
On 01/14/2021,
in 21st century, A/V -- audio/visual, emerging technologies, engineering, future, health, innovation, Legal operations, legal reform, robotics, science, technologies for your home, technology (general), telecommunications, telelegal, telemedicine / telehealth / virtual health, telepresence, television, tools, trends,
by Daniel Christian
Digital Trends Top Tech of CES 2021 Awards — from digitaltrends.com
Excerpt:
CES 2021 proved that the technology industry is uniquely suited to carry on in an all-digital environment. These are the companies that invented half the tools, after all. Press conferences went off without a hitch, companies shipped us prototypes to play with, and Digital Trends’ unique CES Experience Center made it possible to virtually come together as an editorial team and share our impressions with you, even from afar.
Oh, and the gadgets. Companies rose to the occasion with the usual spate of outrageous concepts, COVID-fighting devices to meet the moment, and new technologies we’ve been waiting ages for. So naturally, we had to pick the best of the best. Here they are.
6 Key Themes Driving Headlines At CES 2021 — from forbes.com by Daniel Newman
2021 Trend: Pandemic Tech — from web-strategist.com by Jeremiah Owyang
CES 2021: Home health havens — from intelligence.wundermanthompson.com by Emma Chiu
Addendums on 1/18/21:
- Lessons For Legal: 2021 CES — from legaltechmonisotr.com by Stephen Embry
- 11 of the Most Memorable Quotes From CES 2021 — from interestingengineering.com by Donovan Alexander
From mobility to laptops, CES gave us a lot of insights into the future of technology. - Robotics trends at #CES2021 — from robohub.org by Daniel Carrillo-Zapata
On 01/14/2021,
in Apple, colleges, funding / grants, Michigan, sociology, United States, universities, vendors,
by Daniel Christian
Apple launches major new Racial Equity and Justice Initiative projects to challenge systemic racism, advance racial equity nationwide — from apple.com
Commitments build on Apple’s $100 million pledge and include a first-of-its-kind education hub for HBCUs and an Apple Developer Academy in Detroit
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Apple reveals how it will spend the $100 million it pledged in June toward racial equity — from fortune.com by Michal Lev-Ram
Excerpt:
On Wednesday morning [1/13/21], the iPhone maker said it would invest in a series of programs: a learning hub for historically Black colleges and universities (both online and brick-and-mortar, in Atlanta), an Apple Developer Academy to teach coding skills in Detroit, and a $10 million check toward venture capital funding for entrepreneurs of color.