LTEC 6030: Emerging Technologies in Education
6030: Week 8: Extended Reality (VR, AR, MR)
Prompt: In your educational domain (e.g., K-12, higher ed, corporate), what type of XR would be useful to enhance your instructional activity? Why? I am lucky to work at an innovative institution where XR technologies are used to enhance student learning. I recently changed positions within my department to lead the 3D innovations team, and I am…
Keep reading6030: Week 7: REALLY Fake News: Text and Video
Prompt: What is the role of the federal government and/or big tech companies is policing deepfakes and shallowfakes? Response: Ironically, the system used by the deepfakes industry to create and distribute false imagery is the same one in which some services including Facebook and Twitter are investigating how to remove them. It is by drawing…
Keep reading6030: Week 5: Gamification of Learning
Prompt: Why is it so difficult to bring gamification to K-12 when it appears to be happening in the corporate training world? When considering the prompt, the initial question instead should be: to what degree should gamification be integrated into K-12 education? One could argue that gamification has already been implemented within the K-12 environment…
Keep reading6030: Week 4: Learning Analytics
In your educational domain, for example, K-12, higher ed, or corporate, what type of learning analytic data would be useful to enhance your instructional activity? Why? In the domain of employee professional development, learning analytics is not currently utilized at my higher education institution. We conduct employee training opportunities in the form of live webinars, archived recorded…
Keep reading6030: Week 3: Personalized Learning and Personalized Instruction
How do machine learning techniques make the “new personalized learning ” possible? Machine learning technologies can support higher education students by designing a personalized learning path that is unique to each student, and caters to their interests and strengths. Current challenges in higher education institutions include “disengaged students, high dropout rates, and the ineffectiveness…
Keep reading6030: Week 2: Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning
Prompt: The major weakness of AI/ML systems is that they can’t explain “why”. That is, an AI/ML system can perhaps prescribe a medication for a cancer treatment, but the system can’t provide an analysis of why it made that decision. Humans typically wouldn’t trust a physician who couldn’t explain the basis for a prescription decision. …
Keep reading6030: Week 1: Nature of Technological Change and Digital Transformation – Discussion Activity
Now that you’ve seen examples of how digital transformation happens, explain why you believe education hasn’t been digitally transformed like other organizations. What will it take to truly digitally transform K-20 education? Truth be told, there is no incentive for teachers to support digital transformation efforts within educational institutions. The administration has invested in technology…
Keep reading6030: Week 2: AI and Machine Learning
What was different about DeepMind’s AlphaGo program beating the human Go champ vs IBM’s Watson beating the Jeopardy champs? Deepmind’s AlphaGo utilized machine learning, and during the Go match that was played against a human player, AlphaGo became increasingly stronger in its ability to make decisions over the course of the match. Whereas IBM Watson…
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