CIS2 Resources
Contents
- 1
- 2 1. Introduction
- 3 2. Privacy and Freedom of Speech - protect
- 4 3. Intellectual Property - use
- 5 4. Crime & Cybersecurity
- 6 5. Employment, Education and Entertainment - make
- 7 6. Midterm - Millennium Development Goals
- 8 7. Evaluating and Controlling Technology
- 9 8. Responsibilities and Technologies for Good
- 10 9. Anytime, Anywhere
- 11 10. Technology Advances, Social Trends - share
- 12 11. Final projects
- 13 12. Peer reviews
1. Introduction
There is no textbook for this course. There are selected Media - articles, videos, pictures, diagrams, podcasts,... listed as resources for each module. You don't need to study them all. Browse through SEVERAL and find 2-3 to review in detail. Or find your own..
SOCIETY
- Mapped: North America's Biggest Tech Talent Hubs
- As emerging technologies like artificial intelligence and quantum computing become increasingly mainstream, the demand for skilled developers, engineers, scientists, and other tech workers is more...
- Calculating Empires
- This wide diagram allows readers to "explore how technical and social structures co-evolved over five centuries in this large-scale research visualization." Time advances bottom to top. T...
- Women in AI: Urvashi Aneja is researching the social impact of AI in India | TechCrunch
- Urvashi Aneja is the founding director of Digital Futures Lab, an interdisciplinary research effort that seeks to examine the interaction between technology and society in the Global South. She’s...
- DID YOU KNOW 2023 - YouTube
- There has never been a Bigger force for Change than Technology. Some amazing facts about the Digital World, the Technology Evolution and the changes in society and business World. The digital world...
- A Computer Geek's History of the Internet - www.WBGLinks.net
- timeline of computers’ history you may never heard of before. This interesting information will help you to build a fundamental knowledge about the relationship between computers and our society,...
FIND IT
- What Are Research Skills? Definition, Examples and Tips | Indeed.com
- Research skills are the ability to find an answer to a question or a solution to a problem. They include your ability to gather information about a topic, review that information and analyze and in...
- How Search Works - YouTube
- The life span of a Google query is less then 1/2 second, and involves quite a few steps before you see the most relevant results. Here's how it all works. page rank, search results, ads transcr...
- Perplexity Blog
- "What's the difference between Quick Search vs. Copilot Search?While Quick Search gives you fast, basic answers, Copilot goes further. It asks for details, considers your preferences, dive...
- How to Be Amazingly Good at Asking Questions
- You might not be getting the feedback you need to make corrections in your behavior. You might not be getting type of answers that you need to hear. You also might just be getting downright wrong i...
2. Privacy and Freedom of Speech - protect
PRIVACY
- Privacy remains an issue with several women’s health apps
- With millions of users globally, the women’s health app market is projected to cross $18 billion by 2031. Yet these apps are among the least trusted. They collect data about users’ menstrual cy...
- Librarians Are Waging a Quiet War Against International “Data Cartels” – The Markup
- concerns. “For intellectual freedom, you have to have some degree of privacy to explore ideas,” Bettinger told me. She is a member of the Library Freedom Project, a coalition of librarians focu...
- Adtech giants like Meta must give EU users real privacy choice, says EDPB | TechCrunch
- The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) has published new guidance which has major implications for adtech giants like Meta and other large platforms. The guidance, which was confirmed incoming W...
INTERNET
- Your Info Is All Over the Internet – Here's How To Clear It Up - Newsweek
- with personal data increasingly becoming a commodity, concerns over privacy and data security are more relevant than ever.The advent of digital tools and services has made it easier for data broker...
- Types of central processing units (CPUs) - IBM Blog
- CPU types are designated according to the kind of chip that they use for processing data. There’s a wide variety of processors and microprocessors available, with new powerhouse processors always...
- What is Web3 and Why It Matters | On Digital Strategy | Dion Hinchcliffe
- the future of the Web, especially as it relates to creating, storing, and exchanging information, can be better achieved by incorporating decentralization based on blockchains. That’s really it,...
PROTECT IT
- Beat The Hackers and Stay Safe!
- Here are some other signs that might suggest you're the victim of a digital break-in: Your system or device is running way slower than it used to. Your devices seem to be overheating and...
- What is catfishing and what can you do if you are catfished? | CNN Business
- Catfishing is when a person uses false information and images to create a fake identity online with the intention to trick, harass, or scam another person. It is often on social media or dating app...
- 5 financial scams to watch out for in 2024
- "Fraud cost U.S. consumers more than $7 billion in the first three quarters of 2023, a 5% increase from the same period a year earlier, according to the Federal Trade Commission.If you are awa...
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
- Adtech giants like Meta must give EU users real privacy choice, says EDPB | TechCrunch
- The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) has published new guidance which has major implications for adtech giants like Meta and other large platforms. The guidance, which was confirmed incoming W...
- Denmark bans Chromebooks and Google Workspace in schools over data transfer risks – TechCrunch
- Denmark is effectively banning Google’s services in schools, after officials in the municipality of Helsingør were last year ordered to carry out a risk assessment around the processing of perso...
CULTURE
- List of banned video games - Wikipedia
- This is a list of video games that have been censored or banned by governments of various states in the world. Governments that have banned video games have been criticized for a correlated increas...
- Best Virtual Field Trips for Kids | Tech & Learning
- As ongoing social distancing and public health mandates have restricted travel, educators can help students experience these cultural institutions without getting on a bus, or even leaving their ho...
- How Do Social Media Algorithms Work? | Blog | Online Digital Marketing Courses
- Social media is so ingrained in our culture that it’s now a daily activity for the majority of people across the globe. And it’s not only the established networks that are gaining users every d...
- Exploration Technology Lab | National Geographic Society
- Deploying advanced imaging sensors, machine learning algorithms and systems to provide real-time data for monitoring biodiversity distribution, patterns and trends; detecting illegal fishing and po...
3. Intellectual Property - use
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
- Our Right To Challenge Junk Patents Is Under Threat | Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Through IPR, thousands of patents have been thrown out. The patent challengers who have kicked out some of these wrongly-granted monopolies have protected not just themselves, but countless other h...
- IP Primer: What are my Intellectual Property Rights, and How Do I Protect Them? | SCORE
- "Intellectual Property (IP) is often a company’s most valuable asset.Protectable Intellectual Property generally encompasses “creations of the mind,” like names, slogans, inventions, or...
- Do’s and Don’ts for Maintaining a Trademark | SCORE
- "Registering your trademark is the first step toward legally protecting your brand, but you must proactively protect and defend your trademark from infringement in order to keep your trademark...
RESEARCH
- Home - Evaluating resources - Library Guides at UC Berkeley
- When you encounter any kind of source, consider: Authority - Who is the author? What is their point of view? Purpose - Why was the source created? Who is the intended audience? Publicatio...
- Basic Steps in the Research Process - NHCC.edu
- simple and effective strategy for writing a research paper. Depending on your familiarity with the topic and the challenges you encounter along the way, you may need to rearrange these steps.Step 1...
- QUBES - Home
- Software For students and teachers Students can run free modeling and statistical software through their browser, eliminating the need to purchase or install software locally. Instructors can custo...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
- Sophisticated AI models are more likely to lie - Ars Technica
- in more recent versions of the AIs, the evasive “I don’t know” responses were increasingly replaced with incorrect ones. And due to supervised training used in later generations, the AIs deve...
- AI Tools - Artificial intelligence
- details of AI tools and features that we hear people are using and link to any story or information about how. Defining ‘AI tools’ is getting increasingly hard, as AI is built into more and mo...
- How to Use AI to Promote Equity Now
- actionable insights on introducing AI, how we're already using it, and ways we can understand how AI can be used positively. She also encourages us to look at AI startups and certifications wit...
USE IT
- Ditch Your To-Do List and Do This Instead | Sam Corcos | The Tim Ferriss Show - YouTube
- A different way to schedule your time based on your calendar and realistic times for tasks to do.
<p class="diigo-tags"><strong>Tags:</strong>... - Switching Between Skimming and Focusing | Edutopia
- kimming allows learners to broaden their horizons to a wide range of subjects and ideas without committing excessive time to any single one. This breadth of knowledge can lead to serendipitous disc...
- How to Excel at Self-Directed Learning in 5 Steps | Fuse Classroom
- Self-directed learning allows students to become independent learners, helping them not just obtain skills but also practice of independent learning. Students have the freedom to create their own c...
- Digital Citizenship | Common Sense Education
- Everything You Need to Teach Digital CitizenshipHelp students take ownership of their digital lives.All students need digital citizenship skills to participate fully in their communities and make s...
4. Crime & Cybersecurity
CRIME
- Popular Android TV boxes sold on Amazon are laced with malware | TechCrunch
- Milisic said the malware’s default payload is a clickbot, essentially code that generates ad money by surreptitiously tapping on ads in the background. After the affected Android TV boxes are pow...
- First man wrongfully arrested because of facial recognition testifies as California weighs new bills | California | The Guardian
- In 2020, Robert Williams was arrested for allegedly stealing thousands of dollars of watches. Detroit police had matched grainy surveillance footage of the crime to Williams’ driver’s license p...
- How can I check if my email account has been hacked?
- "Scams are rising, and more people are falling for phishing attacks and email hacks than ever. Tap or click here to see how COVID-19 scams have become rampant.Just think about how many times a...
- NetWalker ransomware affiliate sentenced to 20 years in prison | TechCrunch
- Authorities in the U.S. and Belgium also seized the dark web site used by NetWalker to publish data stolen from victims.In March, Vachon-Desjardins was extradited to the U.S. to face charges of con...
CYBERSECURITY
- Cost of a data breach 2022 | IBM
- data breach in the US costs over twice the global averageFor the 12th year in a row, the United States holds the title for the highest cost of a data breach, USD 5.09 million more than the global a...
- SANS NewsBites - Cyber Security News
- NewsBites - Cyber Security NewsSANS NewsBites is a semiweekly executive summary of the most important cyber security news articles published recently. Each news item is annotated with important con...
- Business email compromise attacks going mobile via SMS and social media apps | SC Media
- "BECs remain one of the biggest cybersecurity threats today. The FBI has reported that losses from BECs have surpassed $43 billion globally and as time goes by, scammers are becoming more cunn...
- Cybersecurity - Florida SBDC Network
- Cyber-attacks against small businesses are on the rise. Small businesses are, unfortunately, attractive targets because they have information cybercriminals want and often don’t have the expertis...
SOLVE IT
- 11 Active Listening Skills To Practice (With Examples) | Indeed.com
- One of the most critical skills in effective communication is active listening. Developing this soft skill will help you build and maintain relationships,solve problems, improve processes and retai...
- If you really want to reach your full potential, start saying “yes” to these 10 things
- For many of us, reaching our full potential seems like an impossible task. We’re stuck in our 9 to 5 jobs and don’t even know where to start.On the other side, there are people who have succeed...
- Steve Jobs Said Your Overall Success May Be Tied to This Powerful Thinking Habit | Inc.com
- Exercise "clean thinking"Before embarking on a new project or strategy, it's crucial to strip away the unnecessary complexities and, as Jobs stated, "get your thinking clean.&quo...
5. Employment, Education and Entertainment - make
Assistive Technology
- Better-performing prosthetic foot replicates the bones of the real thing
- the SoftFoot Pro incorporates five parallel chains of linked high-strength plastic segments. The front segments of each chain replicate the phalanges (toe bones) while the segments behind them repl...
- What is assistive technology?
- "Assistive technology devicesThere’s a wide range of AT devices for people with learning and thinking differences. Simple AT tools include highlighters, organizers, and timers.Other AT tools...
- Program helps students with disabilities
- Students from Orange High School come to the mock CVS every other week and learn different tasksLess than 50% of Ohioans, ages 18 to 64, who are living with a disability currently have a jobChristi...
Education
- Technology as a bridge--not a shortcut--to student relationships
- "what just one supportive relationship can offer to help a young person realize their academic and career potential. Today, far more of these stories are possible with technology that enables...
- Khanmigo Education AI Guide | Khan Academy
- World-class AI for educationSay hello to Khanmigo, Khan Academy’s AI-powered guide. Tutor for learners. Assistant for teachers.Tutoring for allEmpowering educatorsTake your teaching to the next l...
- TechLit Africa ~ Digital Skills unlock Global Opportunities
- Digital skills unlock global opportunities.Currently, we have 4,000 students from 10 schools across rural Kenya. We are selecting our next 100 schools in Kenya, to prepare an additional 40,000 stud...
Work
- Remote working case studies | GOV.WALES
- Remote working case studiesExamples of how employers and individuals benefitted from remote working.
<p class="diigo-tags"><strong>Tags:</strong>... - How To Be Happy at Work: 40 Tips To Improve Your Mindset | Indeed.com
- Feeling happy at your workplace can be important for many reasons, including improving your mental health, productivity and reputation. If you work a full-time job, your office is one of the places...
- 25 Side Jobs That Can Be Done From Home—Hiring Now | FlexJobs
- Call it a side hustle, a side gig, or even moonlighting, a side job is one you take on in addition to your primary job. You can do it part-time, seasonally, or even occasionally. Many people use si...
Xreality
- Should engineers buy the Apple Vision Pro? | Engineering.com
- Virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) have been slowly seeping into engineering offices over the past decade. The technology is being used to interact with CAD models, to help assemble sp...
- 360°, Northern lights in Norway, 12К video - YouTube
- "Don't forget that this is 360° video: you can change the angle of view.Lying north of the Arctic circle within the severe waters of the Norwegian sea, the Lofoten archipelago is known fo...
- Google Arts & Culture
- "Step inside a galleryWith Augmented RealityDiscover Indian MiniaturesSee the tiny works up closeInside the Jean Pigozzi CollectionArt from Africa to JapanGetty Museum: Immersive ExperienceDis...
MAKE IT
- Creativity Rubrics | MyPBLWorks
- 2022 Creativity Rubric These research-based rubrics are designed to provide useful, formative information that teachers can use to guide instruction and provide feedback to students on their overal...
- Scrintal is a great new tool for brainstorming ideas and projects
- Map out a project. Organizing multistep projects can be challenging. Scrintal lets you easily focus on one element at a time. Create notes for pieces of your project, then step back and look at the...
- With Just 2 Sentences, Steve Jobs Revealed a Beautiful Truth About Making Mistakes | Inc.com
- beautiful lesson about success. You see, success isn't the pursuit of not making mistakes. Almost always, mistakes are the way you find your way to whatever you define as success. Mistakes are...
Financial literacy
Dilbert’s One-Page Guide to Everything Financial
- if you like Dilbert and understand the corporate hell that he lives in. Otherwise, without further ado, here is Dilbert’s One-Page Guide to Everything Financial: Make a will. Pay off your credit cards. Get term life insurance if you have a family to support. Fund your 401k to the maximum.
- How to pay off credit card debt | U.S. Bank
- "With a few simple tips, you can learn how to tackle credit card debt and create a payment plan that works for you.If you’ve accumulated some credit card debt and are looking to pay it off o...
- 11 Free Personal Finance Excel Templates for Budgeting
- efficient, easy-to-use and free Excel template for personal budget or personal finance, Managing personal budget and finances are the necessary actions that help you save money. However, managing p...
6. Midterm - Millennium Development Goals
Sustainable Development Goals Challenges - sample resources
- 1. Global Risks 2023: Today’s Crisis - Global Risks Report 2023 | World Economic Forum
- With the global landscape dominated by manifesting risks, we introduce this year three time frames for understanding global risks: 1) current crises (i.e. global risks which are already unfolding),...
- 5 Global Issues to Watch in 2024 | unfoundation.org
- From major elections across the globe to simultaneous and converging catastrophes, 2024 will be a pivotal year that shapes the geopolitical landscape and humanity’s collective future.The new year...
- DevelopmentAid
- Annually, 297,000 children under the age of five die from diarrheal infections caused by poor sanitation, hygiene, or contaminated drinking water 80% of wastewater is discharged into the enviro...
- People Fixing the World: Coconuts fixing the world on Apple Podcasts
- podcast. We eat millions of tonnes of coconuts every year - with the dense white flesh of the fruit making a tasty snack and the juice a refreshing drink.But the inedible husk and shell go to waste...
- BBC World Service - People Fixing the World - Downloads
- Brilliant solutions to the world’s problems. We meet people with ideas to make the world a better place and investigate whether they work. Watch stories of people changing their world on the Worl...
Google docs
7. Evaluating and Controlling Technology
-- from a review of A Gift of Fire: Social, Legal, and Ethical Issues for Computing Technology previously used as the textbook for CIS2 Computers and the Internet in Society
- "how to evaluate and control technology ... Baase writes of the inherent conflict between a democracy and open Internet, while dealing with the plethora of incorrect, foolish and biased information. She makes note of some totalitarian regimes that prohibit anti-government use of social media. She illustrates cases where these countries (China and Syria are just two of them) that create bogus dissident sites, find out which people are sympathetic to the cause, and then arrests these people."
ETHICS
- Mozilla Foundation - With Great Tech Comes Great Responsibility
- "The ethical issues facing the tech industry are abundant — military contracts, invasive data mining, biased algorithms, inhumane warehouse conditions, racist facial recognition software, an...
- Who Is Liable When AI Kills? - Scientific American
- The key is to ensure that all stakeholders—users, developers and everyone else along the chain—bear enough liability to ensure AI safety and effectiveness, though not so much they give up on AI...
- How ethics will change the future of technology | Olivia Gambelin | TEDxPatras - YouTube
- Olivia Gambelin explains that it is time to pursue good technology through a new form of AI innovation that focuses on human well-being and values. Olivia is an AI Ethicist who specializes in the p...
CONTROL - technology, evaluate
- List of banned video games - Wikipedia
- This is a list of video games that have been censored or banned by governments of various states in the world. Governments that have banned video games have been criticized for a correlated increas...
- Brave New Planet: What Algorithms Say About You on Apple Podcasts
- podcast 1h15m Artificial intelligence is letting us make predictive algorithms that translate languages and spot diseases as well or better than humans. But these systems are also being used to mak...
AI and Machine Learning
- Sophisticated AI models are more likely to lie - Ars Technica
- in more recent versions of the AIs, the evasive “I don’t know” responses were increasingly replaced with incorrect ones. And due to supervised training used in later generations, the AIs deve...
- AI Tools - Artificial intelligence
- details of AI tools and features that we hear people are using and link to any story or information about how. Defining ‘AI tools’ is getting increasingly hard, as AI is built into more and mo...
- How to Use AI to Promote Equity Now
- actionable insights on introducing AI, how we're already using it, and ways we can understand how AI can be used positively. She also encourages us to look at AI startups and certifications wit...
TECH DESIGN
- Fix This: #31 - Expanding financial access on Apple Podcasts
- Whrrl uses blockchain and Amazon Web Services (AWS) to help farmers maximize profits on their crops. Next, the team is joined by Matthew Davie, chief strategy officer of Kiva, an AWS Imagine Grant...
- A metalens for virtual and augmented reality: Researchers develop a millimeter-size flat lens for VR and AR platforms -- ScienceDaily
- Despite all the advances in consumer technology over the past decades, one component has remained frustratingly stagnant: the optical lens. Unlike electronic devices, which have gotten smaller and...
SHARE IT
- Downes.ca ~ Stephen's Web ~ Tight 20
- talk about for twenty minutes simply by organizing and presenting my thoughts on the topic. Do a 'quick three' - past, present or future; my view, your view, synthesis; etc. For each six mi...
- The Content Every High School Student Should Learn (But Doesn’t) | Getting Smart
- "three core types of skills expected by schools: core skills (typically the skills of writing, reading, mathematics, history, arts found in state standards), technological skills (industry ski...
8. Responsibilities and Technologies for Good
Government
- Tech lobbyists are running the table on state privacy laws
- If any legislation emerged that would impose stronger privacy protections, industry successfully watered it down." Brendan Bordelon and Alfred Ng report on how the tech industry has "co-o...
- Nextgov - Federal Technology News and Analysis for IT Managers & Acquisition Teams
- Nextgov’s editorial mission is to lead the national discussion about how technology and innovation are transforming the way government agencies serve citizens and perform vital functions. Central...
Failure & Fault-tolerance
- What is Fault Tolerance? | Creating a Fault Tolerant System | Imperva
- The objective of creating a fault-tolerant system is to prevent disruptions arising from a single point of failure, ensuring the high availability and business continuity of mission-critical applic...
- The worst technology failures of 2023
- The Titan submersible, lab-grown chicken, and GM's wayward Cruise robotaxis made our annual list of the worst in tech. the spirit of innovation can pull ahead of reality, sometimes with unpleas...
- 8 biggest IT disasters this year | CIO
- From security flaws to software engineering fails, these high-profile IT disasters wreaked real-world havoc this year. Let them serve as cautionary tales. IT is synonymous with business operations...
- How pen and paper comes to the rescue in an IT crisis
- some cyber-experts are now advising companies to plan for switching to paper-based processes in the event of IT failure.Rather than an ad hoc workaround, pen and paper systems could be something st...
Internet of Things
- This Startup Is Building the Internet of Underwater Things
- WSense’s innovative networking systems are transforming how we explore ocean environments. Water covers 72 percent of the Earth’s surface, its volumes host 80 percent of biodiversity and play a...
- Casino Gets Hacked Through Its Internet-Connected Fish Tank Thermometer
- "cybercriminals hacked an unnamed casino through its Internet-connected thermometer in an aquarium in the lobby of the casino.According to what Eagan claimed, the hackers exploited a vulnerabi...
Technology Philanthropy
- The Next Opportunity For Tech Philanthropy: High-Growth Tech Nonprofits
- "philanthropists are seeing the potential for high-growth tech nonprofits to solve our biggest social problems. Philanthropists can make smart, meaningful investments in high-growth tech nonpr...
- MrBeast, Mark Rober Reteam for 'TeamSeas' Charity Fundraiser - Variety
- "#TeamSeas, a crowdfunding campaign to raise $30 million to remove 30 million pounds of plastic and trash from the world’s oceans, rivers and beaches.MrBeast (aka Jimmy Donaldson) and Rober,...
Global
- OPay, Nigeria’s biggest fintech app, is SoftBank-backed - Rest of World
- A revolutionary feature of OPay is its use of money transfer technology that does not rely on the traditional banking system. Anyone can transfer money via OPay — no matter what their bank is —...
- Google makes good on its $1B plan to support Africa’s digital economy, but there is a long way to go | TechCrunch
- Overall, Google’s $1 billion investment in the continent is focused on four key areas: providing affordable access and helpful (Google) products for Africans, supporting businesses with digital t...
- Getting in touch with Global Education - BBC News
- "The BBC's Global Education series looks at education from an international perspective. It examines how education is shaping the future in different ways around the world. It is the succe...
Data Visualization
- Mapping the Biggest Tech Talent Hubs in the U.S. and Canada
- cities like San Francisco and New York remain centers of tech talent and innovation, many other cities are growing extremely quickly in terms of the tech labor pool.This infographic draws from a re...
- What is Information Visualization? — updated 2023 | IxDF
- Information visualization plays an important role in making data digestible and turning raw information into actionable insights. It draws from the fields of human-computer interaction, visual desi...
- Mastering Interactive Data Visualization + Examples - Venngage
- Whether it’s finance data presented on a dashboard, geospatial data on a color-coded map or inventory statistics in an animated pie chart, interactive data visualization brings the art of storyte...
9. Anytime, Anywhere
Mobile
- Overview | Lighthouse | Chrome for Developers
- run Lighthouse in Chrome DevTools, from the command line, or as a Node module. You give Lighthouse a URL to audit, it runs a series of audits against the page, and then it generates a report on how...
- Page-oscope: Preview Websites on Various Phones
- Try the MobileMoxie Page-oscope without logging in...You can use it for free 3 times per day. TEST MOBILE LANDING PAGES ON MORE THAN 50 IOS & ANDROID DEVICESEmulate your mobile landing pages in...
Smart Photos
- Take Great Photos With an IPhone : 9 Steps (with Pictures) - Instructables
- "Before you take a photo, there are a few things you should do: Turn your phone's brightness ALL THE WAY up. This will ensure that you're seeing the best possible version of the pho...
- Dazzling hand-held winners of the 2023 Mobile Photography Awards
- With today's smartphones, everyone's got a monster of a digital camera in their pocket at all times. The result has been an utter decimation in camera sales, which peaked around 2010 and ha...
Food
- Our Story | Goodr
- We believe that hunger isn’t a scarcity issue. It’s a matter of logistics. Goodr was founded on the simple yet powerful idea that we need to feed more and waste less. What started as a local in...
- 8 Innovative Food Technology Trends for 2023 | FoodSafe Drains
- food technology trends have transformed the food and beverage manufacturing industry and associated businesses from within, leading to beneficial changes and improvements across the board. These tr...
Apps
- Dyslexia and Learning Disabilities | Reading Rockets
- The right app can help a child with dyslexia or other reading-based learning disabilities practice literacy and learning skills, while having fun. This collection of apps supports kids who struggle...
- GuidiGO on the App Store
- GuidiGO is your personal tour guide to the world. GuidiGO allows you to experience your destination like never before. Download guided tours created by cultural institutions, local experts, and pas...
MIXED REALITY (XREALITY)
- Should engineers buy the Apple Vision Pro? | Engineering.com
- Virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) have been slowly seeping into engineering offices over the past decade. The technology is being used to interact with CAD models, to help assemble sp...
- 360°, Northern lights in Norway, 12К video - YouTube
- "Don't forget that this is 360° video: you can change the angle of view.Lying north of the Arctic circle within the severe waters of the Norwegian sea, the Lofoten archipelago is known fo...
- Google Arts & Culture
- "Step inside a galleryWith Augmented RealityDiscover Indian MiniaturesSee the tiny works up closeInside the Jean Pigozzi CollectionArt from Africa to JapanGetty Museum: Immersive ExperienceDis...
MOOC
- Free courses - OpenLearn - Open University
- "Free coursesProduced by The Open University, a world leader in open and distance learning, all OpenLearn courses are free to study. We offer nearly 1000 free courses across 8 different subjec...
- Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) - The College of St. Scholastica
- "The future of higher education is online. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are classes that are offered online, free of charge. Students progress through the course material at their own p...
TRENDS
- How I Built This with Guy Raz: HIBT Lab! Tala: Shivani Siroya on Apple Podcasts
- "common justification banks used to deny loans to the entrepreneurs Shivani Siroya supported through her work with the United Nations. While it’s not unusual for a tech startup to raise mill...
- Top 5 Web Design Trends in 2021 - YouTube
- 2021 is going to be another important year for web designing since the outbreak has forced lots of business to have online presence. So in this video we're going to talk about 5 web design tren...
- Gartner Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends 2023
- Digital Immune SystemApplied ObservabilityAI Trust, Risk and Security Management (AI TRISM)Industry Cloud PlatformsPlatform EngineeringWireless-Value RealizationSuperappsAdaptive AI Metaverse Susta...
- 99% Invisible: Articles of Interest: American Ivy on Apple Podcasts
- about what we wear. investigates our collectively held beliefs about fashion and explores topics like style that keeps coming back again. insightful take on the clothing industry, for fashion ner...
FUTURE
- Video | Facebook
- Video of a robot working with a farmer
<p class="diigo-tags"><strong>Tags:</strong> <a href='https://www.diigo.com/user/vtayl... - How pen and paper comes to the rescue in an IT crisis
- some cyber-experts are now advising companies to plan for switching to paper-based processes in the event of IT failure.Rather than an ad hoc workaround, pen and paper systems could be something st...
- What is Web3 and Why It Matters | On Digital Strategy | Dion Hinchcliffe
- the future of the Web, especially as it relates to creating, storing, and exchanging information, can be better achieved by incorporating decentralization based on blockchains. That’s really it,...
ROBOTICS
- Design and Build a Robot in Less Than an Hour With Tinkercad & Arduino
- designing and constructing a robot within a tight time frame—just under an hour. The catch? They can only utilize a single actuator, a lone sensor, and one Arduino.To add a playful twist, I creat...
- Adorable buddy bot aims for the hearts and minds of future roboticists
- "A desktop companion. An open-source education platform. An AI-powered robotics lab. Doly is all that and more. "fusion of companionship, education, and technological innovation." It...
- Humanoid/quadruped transformer throws boxes like a baggage handler
- "Standing up leaves its front legs free to act as arms. And while it would be totally possible to have a set of hands tucked away that could fold out for dextrous manipulation in humanoid mode...
11. Final projects
Groups
- Best Communication Strategies for Virtual Group Projects | Fuse Classroom
- Online group projects prepare students for the modern workplace, where virtual teamwork and collaboration are indispensable. Nevertheless, one can succeed in a virtual group project if the team mem...
- Top Innovation Activities to Try
- These activities are designed to help organizations get started with innovation.Our ability to adapt and innovate is essential in an ever-changing technological landscape. Businesses and organizati...
- Peer assessment and groups formation in massive open online courses - Haddadi - 2018 - Computer Applications in Engineering Education - Wiley Online Library
- new method of peer assessment for MOOCs to improve the accuracy and exactitude of the learner grade. Our proposition is based on three main steps: the formation of learner groups, the assessment an...
12. Peer reviews
PEER REVIEW
- Peer Review: 5 Smart Tips for Providing Constructive Feedback - Enago Academy
- Constructive criticism can vary across reviews, but the underlying motive is to support and strengthen the writing in progress. Referees must walk a proverbial tightrope to provide strategically ar...
- How-to: Peer Feedback 1 - YouTube
- In this four-part series, we will introduce you to the concept of Peer Feedback (PF) and cover how to use it to enhance your own language learning. Part 1: Why Peer Feedback (PF)? https://youtu...
- 60-Second Strategy: TAG Feedback | Edutopia
- TAG feedback. T, tell something you like. A, ask a question. G, give a suggestion.always start with a positive, something that the student did well. Then A, ask a question. Why did you make this de...
- Common Guidelines for Peer-Review
- If you are the writer, think of peer-review as a way to test how well your writing is working. Keep an open mind and be prepared for criticism. Even the best writers have room for improvement. Even...