{"id":60955,"date":"2017-10-09T15:54:20","date_gmt":"2017-10-09T19:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=60955"},"modified":"2017-10-09T16:10:26","modified_gmt":"2017-10-09T20:10:26","slug":"1600-donated-echo-dots-say-hello-to-arizona-state-engineering-students-lestch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2017\/10\/09\/1600-donated-echo-dots-say-hello-to-arizona-state-engineering-students-lestch\/","title":{"rendered":"1,600 donated Echo Dots say hello to Arizona State engineering students [Lestch]"},"content":{"rendered":"

1,600 donated Echo Dots say hello to Arizona State engineering students<\/strong> <\/a>— from by Corinne Lestch; with thanks to eduwire for their posting on this<\/a>
\nASU says the voice-controlled Amazon devices aren’t just for campus questions \u2014 they’re preparing students for future technologies, too.<\/em><\/p>\n

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ASU students have set up Echo Dots, a hands-free, voice-controlled device the size of a hockey puck, in engineering residence halls.<\/p>\n

Students can ask questions about topics ranging from the weather to campus sporting events to library hours to exam schedules.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re continuing to add content as we\u2019re learning what students want to learn about,\u201d Rome said. \u201cSo there\u2019s this feedback loop of what students want, and we monitor what questions are being asked.\u201d
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\nAmazon donated about 1,600 Dots to engineering students at ASU, so the technology belongs to the students, not to the school. The students can choose to use them or not, said John German, director for media relations and research communications.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have the largest engineering school in the country, and one of the things we\u2019re trying to do is teach students the most advanced technology, the kinds of technology that are going to make them competitive in the job market when they get their degrees,\u201d German said. \u201cAnd voice technology is a field that\u2019s growing. It\u2019s going to play a role in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cVoice is becoming the new mobile of 10 years ago,\u201d Rome said. \u201cWe\u2019ve decided to be an early adopter of this technology.\u201d <\/span><\/strong>
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\n\u201cThere\u2019s going to come some day when students can interact [with ASU\u2019s student portal] via webpage or microphone on their mobile phones,\u201d he said. \u201cWe think that\u2019s inevitable.\u201d<\/span> <\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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1,600 donated Echo Dots say hello to Arizona State engineering students — from by Corinne Lestch; with thanks to eduwire for their posting on this ASU says the voice-controlled Amazon devices aren’t just for campus questions \u2014 they’re preparing students for future technologies, too. Excerpt: ASU students have set up Echo Dots, a hands-free, voice-controlled […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[354,556,356,115,433,302,8,32,210,82,391,66,195,321,214,822],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-av-audiovisual","category-amazon","category-artificial-intelligence-agents-llms-and-related","category-colleges","category-communications","category-community-colleges","category-digital-audio","category-education-technology","category-emerging-technologies","category-engineering","category-human-computer-interaction-hci","category-student-related","category-tools","category-united-states","category-universities","category-voice-recognition-voice-enabled-interfaces"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60955"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60958,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60955\/revisions\/60958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}