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Pedagogies of online welcome | Faculty Focus

Pedagogies of online welcome | Faculty Focus | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"There's an important element about promoting welcome in online pedagogies and practices, which often provide numerous benefits for online students ..."

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Free Technology for Teachers: How to remove the background from your pictures 

Free Technology for Teachers: How to remove the background from your pictures  | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Thanks to the ever-clever Tony Vincent this week I learned about a neat tool called Remove.bg. Remove.bg is a free tool that will remove the background from your images ..." 

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Microsoft's speech recognition is now as good as a human transcriber

Microsoft's speech recognition is now as good as a human transcriber | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Microsoft's system for speech recognition achieved a 5.1% error rate, its best performance to date, bringing it to par with human transcribers ..."

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Deep learning isn’t a dangerous magic genie. It’s just math

Deep learning isn’t a dangerous magic genie. It’s just math | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Pundits often describe deep learning as an imitation of the human brain. But it's really just simple math executed on an enormous scale ..."

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Design thinking or the importance of being human

Design thinking or the importance of being human | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Having recently conducted a workshop on design thinking in Dubai at the 2016 Babson Connect: Worldwide conference, Babson College Professor Heidi Neck explains how design thinking can be used to shape forward-thinking business ideas ..."

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Will technology bring us together or tear us apart - Live Science

Will technology bring us together or tear us apart - Live Science | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Technology can serve to boost empathy or damage it, and the effects on society can be profound ..."

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A new, game-changing technology can put electronics directly into the brain - Business Insider

A new, game-changing technology can put electronics directly into the brain - Business Insider | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"It's extremely tiny ..."

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It's not enough to be fast: How emulating human interaction is key to improving digital communication

It's not enough to be fast: How emulating human interaction is key to improving digital communication | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Neuromarketing expert Douglas Van Praet says to improve digital messaging, think humans before apps and feelings before words ..."

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Story power: Why if you're not reading comics, you're selling yourself short

Story power: Why if you're not reading comics, you're selling yourself short | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Comics" get a bad rap; when they are really THE most effective  and entertaining teaching tool in the history of humankind ..."

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The humans that make the apps we love

The humans that make the apps we love | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"We use applications almost every day for all kinds of things. We use social apps for communicating, games for passing time, to-do lists to keep us on task, and so on. Most of the hugely successful applications are owned by some large company, but at some point, they started with an individual who had ..."

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Seven new rules for interacting with technology. - Slate Magazine

Seven new rules for interacting with technology. - Slate Magazine | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"With smartphones, social media, sensor networks, robotics, virtual worlds, and big data analysis, our relationship with technology is becoming more and more intimate: We are becoming techno-people, or cyborgs ..."

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Can Visually Creative Storytellers Change The Way We Think?

Can Visually Creative Storytellers Change The Way We Think? | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"A conversation with Gareth Cook, editor of The Best American Infographics..."

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Artificial intelligence to replace teachers soon? - EdTechReview™ (ETR)

Artificial intelligence to replace teachers soon? - EdTechReview™ (ETR) | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"What do you say is the next occupation to potentially end up on the ‘kill list’ by AI? Could ‘teaching’ be on that list? ..."

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Robots won’t replace instructors, two Penn State educators argue. Instead, they’ll help them be ‘more human.’ | EdSurge News 

Robots won’t replace instructors, two Penn State educators argue. Instead, they’ll help them be ‘more human.’ | EdSurge News  | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"How will artificial intelligence and machine learning change teaching? It’s a question that some higher education instructors have asked before, and ..."

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‘Our technology is our ideology’: George Siemens on the future of digital learning (EdSurge News)

‘Our technology is our ideology’: George Siemens on the future of digital learning (EdSurge News) | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"What does it mean to be human in a digital age? ..."

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Sensor technology can improve office design, says Haworth

Sensor technology can improve office design, says Haworth | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Sensors could contribute to a happier workforce by tracking the way offices are used and adjusting them automatically, according to research by Haworth ..."

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The Fourth Industrial Revolution: what it means and how to respond

The Fourth Industrial Revolution: what it means and how to respond | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"We stand on the brink of a technological revolution that will fundamentally alter the way we live, work, and relate to one another. In its scale, scope, and complexity, the transformation ..."

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Technology can transform education, but not without people #ISTE2015 - A.J. Juliani

Technology can transform education, but not without people #ISTE2015 - A.J. Juliani | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"It’s been five years since I joined Twitter. To be honest, I didn’t know what Twitter was all about when I joined ..."

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Why do we find it hard to torture robots?

Why do we find it hard to torture robots? | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Meet DAR-1. He might not look like much, but robots like him are showing startling new ways that humans can interact with machines ..."

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Teaching doctors how to engage more and lecture less - Washington Post

Teaching doctors how to engage more and lecture less - Washington Post | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Once known as having a “good bedside manner,” showing empathy benefits patients and physicians ..."

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Rise of the robots: how long do we have until they take our jobs?

Rise of the robots: how long do we have until they take our jobs? | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Google’s Ray Kurzweil predicts robots will reach human levels of intelligence by 2029 – if they overcome current limitations ..."

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There is no possible until an independent AI exists. What do you think?

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Meet Amelia: the computer that's after your job - Telegraph

Meet Amelia: the computer that's after your job - Telegraph | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"A new artificially intelligent computer system called 'Amelia' – that can read and understand text, follow processes, solve problems and learn from experience – could replace humans in a wide range of low-level jobs  ..."

James J. Goldsmith's curator insight, September 29, 2014 3:28 PM

From the article:  "Amelia has already been trialled within a number of Fortune 1000 companies, in   areas such as manning technology help desks, procurement processing,   financial trading operations support and providing expert advice for field   engineers.

In each of these environments, she has learnt not only from reading existing   manuals and situational context but also by observing and working with her   human colleagues and discerning for herself a map of the business processes   being followed." 

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Why the future of technology is all too human

Why the future of technology is all too human | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"While the past favored those who could retain and process information efficiently, the future belongs to those who can imagine a better world and work with others to make it happen ..."

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