Educational Technology

June 16, 2019

Online programs can keep kids learning while striking a digital balance this summer

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By: Nicole Brady, Denver Channel

The advocacy group Screen Education surveyed over a thousand kids at summer camps where no phones were allowed. Sixty-nine percent of campers surveyed said they would be happier if they could spend less time on their cell phones each day. Ninety-three percent said they were relieved to get a break from social media. Unfortunately, for many parents, a full break from devices may not be realistic. “I would argue more for a balance rather than a complete break,” said Dr. Bethany Fleck Dillen, a Metropolitan State University of Denver psychology professor.

https://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/local-news/striking-a-digital-balance-this-summer

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4 tips for implementing independent learning days

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Michael Rotjan, Education Dive

Now, when inclement weather hits or we need to schedule professional development days, our students simply log into the LMS and complete assignments that are posted by their teachers. On scheduled early release days (half days for professional development), students are given assignments to complete at home. Because we have a 1:1 computing initiative in place, we can confidently allow students to work from home on their assignments. This eradicates the need for makeup days, and also enables a more robust professional development offering for our teachers. Here’s how we did it:

https://www.educationdive.com/news/4-tips-for-implementing-independent-learning-days/553962/

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Early-years education online: the rise of the virtual preschool

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BY NEIL SELWYN, the Sector
Legislators in North Carolina in the US recently passed a bill to fund an online preschool program for ‘at risk’ children. This means that children aged three and four years can take their preschool education at home in the form of online ‘kindergarten readiness programs’. Children engage with online games, ‘virtual field-trips’ and other digital learning activities, while parents are sent teachers’ guides and boxes of resources. So, is this merely an instance of a technological ‘innovation’ providing an elegant and efficient ‘solution’ to educational problems? If not, what needs to be done instead? These are important choices, and it’s crucial that we all begin to properly discuss the values and trade-offs implicit in what might otherwise seem to be another inevitable step in the ongoing digitisation of education.

https://thesector.com.au/2019/06/04/early-years-education-online-the-rise-of-the-virtual-preschool/

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June 15, 2019

Survey: Most Students Say Online Learning Is as Good or Better Than Face-to-Face

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By Dian Schaffhauser, Campus Technology
In a survey of 1,500 students who are seriously considering, currently enrolled in or recently graduated from a fully online program, most (86 percent) considered the value of their degree equal to or greater than the cost they paid to take it. Among those who have attended face-to-face and online courses, the majority (85 percent) said that online learning is as good as or better than attending courses on campus. In fact, two-thirds of online college students (67 percent) reported that they’d achieved the original goal that motivated them to enroll in their program; graduate students were more likely than undergraduates to feel that way (76 percent vs. 62 percent).

https://campustechnology.com/articles/2018/06/18/most-students-say-online-learning-is-as-good-or-better-than-face-to-face.aspx

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Survey: Students Choosing Online Programs Closer to Home

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By Dian Schaffhauser, Campus Technology
In spite of the notion that students could conceivably take online courses from an institution anywhere in the world, two-thirds stick close to home — choosing a college or university within 50 miles of where they live. In fact, 44 percent selected a school within 25 miles of their homes. And the share of students enrolling in a school more than 100 miles from home fell from 37 percent in 2014 to 15 percent in 2019.

https://campustechnology.com/articles/2019/06/04/survey-students-choosing-online-programs-closer-to-home.aspx

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How an Online Degree Can Advance Your Career

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CAROL TREHEARN, AZ Big Media

Online courses or e-learning has quickly transformed from what many originally regarded as a passing fad, to an increasingly popular alternative to classroom-based study through to today. Today online courses are considered the norm and have enabled thousands and thousands of people all over the world to access education and professional training. Often these courses are favored by people who are already in work or have family commitments which make the rigidity of scheduled classroom study unrealistic. If you are trying to take the next step on the career ladder or looking for a complete change of industry, an online degree could open the door.

https://azbigmedia.com/how-an-online-degree-can-advance-your-career/

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June 14, 2019

Universities try to catch up to their growing Latinx populations

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by AARON CANTÚ, The Hechinger Report

Across the country, many universities are seeing increases in Latinx populations. Between 2000 and 2015, the number of Latinx college students more than doubled, to 3 million. Their share of overall college enrollment rose between 1996 and 2016 from 8 to 19 percent, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. In response, some universities are starting to cater to their growing Latinx populations. They’re adding more faculty who reflect the school’s increasing diversity, introducing cultural programming and establishing counseling and mentoring programs to help Latinx students overcome stubborn academic resource gaps.

https://hechingerreport.org/universities-try-to-catch-up-to-their-growing-latinx-populations/

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How to Improve Digital Instruction with Learning Science

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by Matthew Lynch, Tech Edvocate

Learning science, how we learn, and how we apply the knowledge of how we learn, is a relatively new field of study. It draws from various disciplines including cognitive neuroscience, learning analytics, data science, behavioral economics, and educational psychology to create education solutions that work for educators and learners. In a recent webinar on edWeb, Paul W. Ownby, senior product manager at Learning.com, went into detail on what is needed for learning to take place and how digital instruction can be leveraged to enhance learning. Ownby explains that real learning occurs when the thinking, sensing, and feeling systems in the brain are activated at the same time or close to the same time. When this can be accomplished, the teacher can maximize the retention of the information.

https://www.thetechedvocate.org/how-to-improve-digital-instruction-with-learning-science/

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7 Things You Should Know About LTI Advantage

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EDUCAUSE

LTI Advantage is the next generation of the Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) standard, which was designed to enable plug-and-play integration of educational applications and tools within an institution’s digital learning environment. LTI Advantage features three extensions that enable faster setup and configuration, improved user functionalities, and more advanced security to protect student data. LTI Advantage improves an institution’s digital learning ecosystem by making it more intuitive for faculty to integrate third-party resources, applications, and tools into a course.

https://library.educause.edu/resources/2019/4/7-things-you-should-know-about-lti-advantage

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June 13, 2019

To Catch a Fake: Machine learning sniffs out its own machine-written propaganda

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Tiernan Ray, ZD Net
The “Era of neural disinformation” is upon us, a future in which machines can generate fake news articles in enormous volume that humans will get suckered into believing is real.  The only hope for society lies with … another machine.  Researchers at Allen Institute and the Paul Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington have tuned the “GPT-2” neural network to create “Grover,” a program that both creates convincing fake articles but also is able to detect those fakes, pointing to a way to combat propaganda.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/to-catch-a-fake-machine-learning-sniffs-out-its-own-machine-written-propaganda/

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Learning Analytics and Campus Instructional Design Teams

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Joshua Kim, Inside Higher Ed

For my money, the most disappointing late arrival to higher ed is actionable data.  Colleges and universities seem to be diverging from the data-driven present of almost every other industry. It is so common to hear that “data is the new oil” that this sentiment has become conventional wisdom. Can you imagine Amazon or Netflix running their businesses as data free?  Name any company with a marketplace advantage, and you will find that the key differentiating factor is most often the smart use of data. Colleges and universities? Not so much.

https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/technology-and-learning/learning-analytics-and-campus-instructional-design-teams

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College grads still earn more than workers with no university degree

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Allana Akhtar and Andy Kiersz, Business Insider

College is more expensive than ever, leading many business leaders and experts to offer ways to get good jobs without needing a degree. Yet college graduates still earn more than non-college graduates in every state in the US, according to data from the 2017 American Consumer Survey. Here’s how much more college graduates make in every state.

https://www.businessinsider.com/how-much-more-college-graduates-earn-than-non-graduates-in-every-state-2019-5

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June 12, 2019

12 tools for courage and SEL in the classroom

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BY DANNY WAGNER, eSchool News

While some tools focus specifically on courage, the websites and apps that you use daily (in all subjects) can be used to promote bravery, too. You don’t have to stop using the tools you love or toss out your lesson or curricular plans to start developing SEL in the classroom. Below, we have included some tips, tools, and actionable ideas for seamlessly integrating courage and life skills-building into your content classroom.

https://www.eschoolnews.com/2019/06/03/tools-sel-in-the-classroom/

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IBM CEO: AI-driven ‘new collar’ jobs are coming, and it’s up to businesses to prepare a new generation of workers

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Tyler Clifford, CNBC

IBM CEO Ginni Rometty said Friday that corporations owe it to society and their shareholders to help prepare people for AI-driven changes to the workforce. In a world where it is expected that artificial intelligence will impact every existing job, she said business leaders have an important social, corporate and economic responsibility to help high school students develop skills for what she called “new collar” jobs at the intersection of business and technology. Think cloud and cyber careers, she said. ”[There’s] a different paradigm that I think is going to be needed to make this an inclusive era. I

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/31/ibm-ceo-companies-must-prepare-society-for-the-impending-ai-workforce.html

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Why does Beijing suddenly care about AI ethics?

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by Will Knight, MIT Technology Review

New guidelines on freedom and privacy protection signal that the Chinese state is open to dialogue about how it uses technology. And while China’s government is widely criticized for using AI as a way to monitor citizens, the newly published guidelines seem remarkably similar to ethical frameworks laid out by Western companies and governments.

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/613610/why-does-china-suddenly-care-about-ai-ethics-and-privacy/

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June 11, 2019

Learning Crypto and Blockchain is Now Made Easy by an Ivy League University

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Abeer Anwaar, Block Publisher

According to the press release published on May 30, the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania has officially introduced a new online program focusing on fintech in general, which also includes digital currencies and the distributed ledger technology (DLT). As the acceptance and popularity of cryptocurrency and its underlying blockchain technology increases, the need to study it in more detail also becomes necessary. In light of that necessity, several universities around the globe are offering courses on the new technology. Among them is an Ivy League university from United States, the University of Pennsylvania.

https://blockpublisher.com/learning-crypto-and-blockchain-is-now-made-easy-by-an-ivy-league-university/

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Criminals learning how to commit card fraud from dark web

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Miles Brignall, the Guardian

Tutorials available online showing how to get details of stolen cards, says tech firm. Want to use stolen credit card details to buy online? There’s a class for that. Card fraud is evolving, with amateur fraudsters able to “enrol” in online “classes” where they can learn how to use stolen card details to buy smaller-value items. That’s the claim from a UK tech firm, which says a new breed of opportunistic fraudster is learning how to commit crime via online tutorials and guides available on the so-called “dark web”. Featurespace, a Cambridge-based artificial intelligence (AI) firm, showed Guardian Money examples and screengrabs of these tutorials, many of which will point people towards specific “carding” sites that sell people’s details.

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2019/jun/01/now-there-are-online-classes-in-how-to-use-stolen-cards

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Why Mark Cuban is taking coding classes

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JP Mangalindan, Yahoo Finance

Cuban told Yahoo Finance Editor-in-Chief Andy Serwer in a recent interview he has taken several online courses to stay up-to-date on programming languages and evolving technologies, including machine learning. Doing so arguably makes him a savvier investor when some tech startups pitch him. “I mean, I’ve been on Amazon doing the machine learning tutorials,” Cuban said. “Right now I’m going through… I’ve taken Python online classes.” “I just started JavaScript neural networks,” added Cuban, referring to computing systems that act similarly to biological neural networks and adapt to perform tasks. “There’s a little tutorial where they’ve got most of the libraries … And if you have a background in programming, it’s not hard.”

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/mark-cuban-coding-113412974.html

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June 10, 2019

7 Strategies to Promote Community in Online Courses

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By: Brian Udermann, Faculty Focus
One of the concerns I frequently hear from instructors considering teaching online is that they will lose the interaction and sense of community they have with their students when they teach face-to-face. That doesn’t have to be the case; many online instructors successfully create a sense of community in their courses. There are a variety of definitions of community. Most include wording or phrases such as “having something in common,” “feelings of being connected,” “shared goals or aspirations,” and “regular interaction.” This article will explore seven strategies faculty can use to promote and increase community in the online environment.

https://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/online-education/seven-strategies-to-promote-community-in-online-courses/

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The future of work: Being a cashier is Maryland’s most common occupation, but it’s likely vanishing

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Yvonne Wenger, Baltimore Sun

The number of cashiers in Maryland has grown steadily for decades, and more than 80,000 people work as cashiers in the state’s grocery and department stores, pharmacies and boutiques. An occupation practically as old as the economy, the job employs more people here than any other, according to the U.S. Labor Department. But the job is also among the most likely to be replaced by machines. Many bigger stores already offer the option of self-checkout, shifting the task of scanning and bagging items onto customers who then pay a computer that spits out change and receipts. Economists say many cashiers’ jobs will go away over the next decade, but an estimate on just how many is elusive.

https://www.baltimoresun.com/business/bs-md-cashier-20190305-story.html

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How micro-internships work for students and companies

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Riia O’Donnell, Education dive
“Micro-internships,” or project-based internships, are emerging as a way for students to get a foot in the door and for employers to test talent before making a commitment. Lasting just days or weeks, micro-internships can create a more meaningful experience, too, according to Jeffrey Moss, CEO of Parker Dewey, a platform that enables such arrangements. Rather than longer programs that involve a fair bit of busy work, micro-internships often focus on one, substantive project. This could have an intern writing a blog post or compiling research, for example, he said. For many companies, these are tasks that are important, but don’t always get done.

https://www.educationdive.com/news/how-micro-internships-work-for-students-and-companies/556022/

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