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The Future of College Looks Like the Future of Retail

4/17/2018

As online learning extends its reach, though, it is starting to run into a major obstacle: There are undeniable advantages, as traditional colleges have long known, to learning in a shared physical space. Recognizing this, some online programs are gradually incorporating elements of the old-school, brick-and-mortar model—just as online retailers such as Bonobos and Warby Parker use relatively small physical outlets to spark sales on their websites and increase customer loyalty. Perhaps the future of higher education sits somewhere between the physical and the digital.
Source: Theatlantic

Online Charter Schools: 3 Reasons Why They Fail And What Could Be Done About It

4/3/2018

Many parents confess that studying at home has a negative impact on their children’s behavior: they become moody, sad and even, depressed. No wonder! After all, it’s a public school where you make first friendships. Thus, kids who learn at home, go out less often and have fewer possibilities to meet kids in their age, play together, socialize and make friends.
Source: EmergingEdTech

How Apple Lost Its Place In The Classroom

3/30/2018

Apple designed a heap of devices over the years specifically for use in the classroom. For generations of American school kids, learning to type, write papers, and research school projects was something you did on a Mac. Not anymore. Today’s classrooms are powered by Chromebooks and, to a lesser extent, Windows laptops. These are sturdy, versatile, and inexpensive machines that have revolutionized how schools incorporate technology into their classrooms. Steve Jobs wanted to put a computer in the hands of every student. But Chromebooks—not Macbooks—have made that vision a reality.
Source: Wire

Having Your Smartphone Nearby Takes a Toll on Your Thinking

3/23/2018

Students, employees, and CEOs alike may wish to maximize their productivity by defining windows of time during which they plan to be separated from their phones, allowing them to accomplish tasks requiring deeper thought. Moreover, asking employees not to use their phones during meetings may not be enough. Our work suggests that having meetings without phones present can be more effective, boosting focus, function, and the ability to come up with creative solutions. More broadly, we can all become more engaged and cognitively adept in our everyday lives simply by putting our smartphones (far) away.
Source: HBR

Science Finds Once Again That Violent Video Games Don't Turn People Into Rage Monsters

3/20/2018

One could also point out, anecdotally, that violent video games are played all over the world, but certain countries like the US have a much higher rate of mass shootings and gun violence compared to places like Japan. Research, including several studies performed at Harvard’s Injury Control Research Center, has found that a country’s gun laws and amount of firearms have a much higher impact on gun violence.
Source: Gizmodo

Microsoft announces breakthrough in Chinese-to-English machine translation

3/15/2018

A team of Microsoft researchers announced on Wednesday they’ve created the first machine translation system that’s capable of translating news articles from Chinese to English with the same accuracy as a person.
Source: TE

I Know How You Felt This Semester

2/26/2018

With sentiment analysis software, set for trial use later this semester in a classroom at the University of St. Thomas, in Minnesota, instructors don’t need to ask. Instead, they can glance at their computer screen at a particular point or stretch of time in the session and observe an aggregate of the emotions students are displaying on their faces: happiness, anger, contempt, disgust, fear, neutrality, sadness and surprise.
Source: InsideHigherEd

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