Calenda Online participation » Annual Conference 2014 Social media Share your photos, videos, links, blog posts using the #altc tag Remote viewing of streamed sessions A number of the sessions at this years conference will be streamed live. These are marked on the Programme as ‘Live Streamed’. To view a live streamed session open the session details page e.g. here’s the welcome from co-chairs. Missed a live session? Recordings of live sessions are immediately available so don’t worry if you miss a session. Contributing to the ‘session chat’ Each live stream session has the facility for a shared chat window. The following is a video demonstrating how to use session chat: Help, none of this is working Try our Help section and if you are still having problems email helpdesk@alt.ac.uk Google Calendar of Live Events
Innovations: Technology, Governance, Global Philip E. Auerswald and Iqbal Z. Quadir, Editors Innovations is about entrepreneurial solutions to global challenges. The journal features cases authored by exceptional innovators; commentary and research from leading academics; and essays from globally recognized executives and political leaders. The journal is jointly hosted at George Mason University's School of Public Policy, Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, and MIT's Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship. Authors published in Innovations to date include three former and one current head of state (including U.S.
China has started a grand experiment in AI education. It could reshape how the world learns. Zhou Yi was terrible at math. He risked never getting into college. Then a company called Squirrel AI came to his middle school in Hangzhou, China, promising personalized tutoring. He had tried tutoring services before, but this one was different: instead of a human teacher, an AI algorithm would curate his lessons. “I used to think math was terrifying,” he says. Experts agree AI will be important in 21st-century education—but how? Silicon Valley is also keenly interested. But experts worry about the direction this rush to AI in education is taking. As one of the largest AI education companies in China, Squirrel highlights this tension. The learning center that Zhou attends, one of the first that Squirrel opened, occupies the second floor of an unassuming building on a busy commercial road in Hangzhou, a second-tier city in Zhejiang province. The school’s interior decorations are modest. The vehicle of instruction is the laptop. Three things have fueled China’s AI education boom.
Home - Association for Educational Communications and Technology Association des Chercheurs et Enseignants Didacticiens des Langues Étrangères Virtual Law Update Comments on Virtual Law Update: On the Bettina Chin note, I'm more than a little concerned with this line: "because users have imported real-world concepts, specifically currency and economy, into the metaverse, it would behoove brick and mortar societies to provide for redress if a user suffers pecuniary loss in these worlds." This would seem to imply that if some users did this against the wishes of the developer (or the majority of other users), they could still claim redress. Blizzard would have to compensate gold farmers for the monetary loss the suffered when their accounts were shut, for example. Skimming the paper itself, it seems that the author is careful to talk about Second Life as distinct from game-like worlds. Richard Posted Oct 17, 2007 4:05:39 AM | link An opening ode to play and then an immediate segue way into money as the root of all significance. Obligatory terra novan citations. Ah, Huizinga in depth. Obligatory terra novan citations. Here is my major concern. p.s.
The Ultimate Beginners Guide to Design Thinking | AJ&Smart Education You’ve probably heard of design thinking – the go-to term for ‘forward-thinking’ businesses since the ’80s. Maybe your colleagues have taken an online course on it, or maybe you’ve just heard the term thrown around so ubiquitously that it feels like a phenomenon you’ll never really understand in a tangible sense. Design thinking, put very simply, is a human-centered approach to creative problem-solving, and has made a looot of noise all over the internet and beyond in the latest years. Although the buzz around design thinking has been on the rise, the concept itself has been around for a few decades already. What is Design Thinking? In simple words, design thinking is a mindset that helps you solve problems creatively. In detail, design thinking is a human-centric approach to innovation, which helps teams find the intricate balance between what makes sense to the end-users, what is technologically doable, and what is viable for a business to undertake. So why is design thinking important?