{"id":48023,"date":"2014-11-24T15:39:52","date_gmt":"2014-11-24T20:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=48023"},"modified":"2014-11-24T15:42:15","modified_gmt":"2014-11-24T20:42:15","slug":"financial-planning-gets-virtual-reality-liedtke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2014\/11\/24\/financial-planning-gets-virtual-reality-liedtke\/","title":{"rendered":"Financial planning gets virtual reality [Liedtke]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.journalgazette.net\/article\/20141124\/BIZ\/311249933\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Financial planning gets virtual reality<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from by Michael Liedtke<\/p>\n<div class=\"byline\"><em><span class=\"author source-org vcard\"><span class=\"org fn\">Excerpts:<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/div>\n<div class=\"byline\">\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">SAN FRANCISCO \u2013 Financial planning often involves lots of spreadsheets, pie charts and eyes glazing over.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Fidelity Investments aims to change that equation with an experiment in 3-D technology designed to make money management seem more like a mesmerizing video game than mundane number crunching.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Welcome to \u201cStockCity,\u201d a virtual-reality landscape dotted with skyscrapers representing the stocks in a person&#8217;s investment portfolio.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">StockCity&#8217;s architecture changes with the fluctuations on Wall Street. The heights of the buildings are determined by the prices of the stocks in an investment portfolio, while the widths are based on the number of outstanding shares. When the market is open, it&#8217;s daytime in StockCity, and night falls when the market closes. Market rallies cause the sun to shine, downturns trigger downpours of rain. For now, stocks can&#8217;t be bought and sold within StockCity.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>Also see:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/nathanwpyle\/this-teacher-taught-his-class-a-powerful-lesson-about-privil\">This teacher taught his class a powerful lesson about privilege<\/a><\/strong> &#8212; from buzzfeed.com by Nathan Pyle<br \/>\n<em>With a recycling bin and some scrap paper.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"sub_buzz_content\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"bf_dom aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/s3-ec.buzzfed.com\/static\/2014-11\/21\/13\/enhanced\/webdr05\/enhanced-6523-1416593112-26.png\" alt=\"He concluded by saying, &quot;The closer you were to the recycling bin, the better your odds. This is what privilege looks like. Did you notice how the only ones who complained about fairness were in the back of the room?&quot;\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" border=\"0\" \/><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Nathan W. Pyle \/ Via buzzfeed.com<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>From DSC:<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\"> This teacher taught an important lesson using materials already in the room; a great idea\/approach\/illustration here.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Looking at the recent piece entitled, &#8220;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/162864\/the-faces-of-american-debt\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The Faces of American Debt<\/strong><\/a>,<span style=\"color: #800000;\">&#8221; such financial training would be very helpful &#8212; for individuals in their financial planning, and for us in higher ed to see the very real implications of the high cost of college.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Financial planning gets virtual reality &#8212; from by Michael Liedtke Excerpts: SAN FRANCISCO \u2013 Financial planning often involves lots of spreadsheets, pie charts and eyes glazing over. Fidelity Investments aims to change that equation with an experiment in 3-D technology designed to make money management seem more like a mesmerizing video game than mundane number [&hellip;]<\/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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[387,200,306,32,210,141,66,253],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-corporate-universities","category-economics","category-education-technology","category-emerging-technologies","category-engagement-engaging-students","category-student-related","category-virtual-reality-worlds-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48023"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48028,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48023\/revisions\/48028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}