The idea of a faculty team charged with investigating, recommending and training associates on educational technology, i.e. the Kirkwood Tech Scouts, is covered in an article in the Educause Review this month.
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Jan /
2017
Author: Kristi Murdock
Virtual reality promises to be a mega-trend that upends how we use computers and just plain get along. So why’s it such a snooze at the world’s biggest tech expo?
At Del Mar College in Corpus Christi, Texas, students are applying 3D drafting skills to the restoration of an historic theater. Talk about real-world experience! How are your students using classroom technology skills in “the real world”?
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Nov /
2016
Wearable Tech and student performance
This article about current use of wearable tech to try to better understand how student physiology and mental states affect their learning is a little scary, but pretty interesting. I’d get an Empatica wristband
Empatica’s “Embrace” Watch doesn’t just monitor activity and sleep, but also physiological stress and arousal
to help me understand just how I feel about the whole idea, but they retail for $1700…!
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Oct /
2016
V/R with Oculus Connect
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Oct /
2016
E-learning and Community Colleges
Community college students often don’t have good internet access from home, yet are the population most likely to benefit from the flexibility of online classes.
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Sep /
2016
Deep thought for the day
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Sep /
2016
ELI’S “Key Issues in Teaching & Learning”
ELI is the Educause Learning Initiative, and Educause is a nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher education through the use of information technology. So when ELI publishes the results of a survey about Key Issues in Teaching and Learning, you know the items identified will all be technology-related. Nonetheless, it’s an interesting list, and their historical list on which you can see the movement of items across the years in terms of priority by surveyees, is even more interesting.
My own major frustration continues to be in the extremely uneven and very basic misunderstandings, lack of knowledge and lack of ability that my students when it comes to using computers. They consider themselves exceptionally proficient, but are quickly out of their depth when faced with a different machine, a different network, a different application or operating system. And their troubleshooting skills are generally very poor. I don’t think that fits on this list, but I sure wish someone would begin to consider the critical importance of RELIABLY being able to use a computer in this day and age!
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