Skip to main content

Home/ ThoughtVectors2014/ Group items tagged media

Rss Feed Group items tagged

Filter: All | Bookmarks | Topics Simple Middle
anonymous

Why Wikipedia Does Belong in the Classroom - ReadWrite - 1 views

readwrite.com/...a-does-belong-in-the-classroom

education research technology inquiry process #ThoughtVectors wikipedia classroom

shared by anonymous on 30 Jun 14 - No Cached
  • Teach students that the act of writing in any setting is defined by both form and content. I don’t let my students cite Wikipedia in their academic papers (GASP!) because I don’t believe it to be proper academic form. I don’t let them cite the Britannica or dictionary either. In an effort to shape informed consumers of information I teach them how Wikipedia should and should not be used. I agree with Proffitt when he says it’s a great place to start and a terrible place to finish. Though in some academic circles, the tide is turning.
jwatts55

Music Insiders Tell Us How Social Drives Album Sales and Revenue | Sprout Social - 0 views

sproutsocial.com/...social-media-music-industry

shared by jwatts55 on 01 Jul 14 - No Cached
  • jwatts55 on 01 Jul 14
     
    The only non-musicians populating the ten most followed Twitter accounts are President Barack Obama and reality megastar Kim Kardashian. And not surprisingly, the top five trends of 2011 were all music related, according to Twitter's head of music industry relations Tatiana Simonian.
Kathleen Hancock

Greenpeace Fund | Consider the cost if we don't act now - 0 views

www.greenpeacefund.org

whale greenpeace nonprofits media internet fund

shared by Kathleen Hancock on 15 Jul 14 - No Cached
  • Kathleen Hancock on 15 Jul 14
     
    Greenpeace online donations
Kathleen Hancock

Whale Defenders | Greenpeace - 0 views

www.greenpeace.org/...whale-defenders

whale greenpeace nonprofits media internet

shared by Kathleen Hancock on 15 Jul 14 - No Cached
  • Kathleen Hancock on 15 Jul 14
     
    Greenpeace with whale info
Kathleen Hancock

How Your Nonprofit Can Accept Donations Online Right Now - 0 views

wiredimpact.com/...ept-donations-online-right-now

nonprofits media internet donations

shared by Kathleen Hancock on 15 Jul 14 - No Cached
  • Kathleen Hancock on 15 Jul 14
     
    How nonprofits use the internet to receive donations
George Neff

Your Brain While Watching Orange Is the New Black - Shape Magazine - 0 views

www.shape.com/...your-brain-binge-watching-tv

#ThoughtVectors bingewatching media netflix brain

shared by George Neff on 15 Jul 14 - No Cached
  • Like a perfectly addictive drug, almost every aspect of the television viewing experience grabs and holds your brain’s attention, which explains why it’s so tough to stop watching after just one (or three) episodes of Orange is the New Black.
  • Characters run or shout or shoot accompanied by sound effects and music. No two moments are quite alike. To your brain, this kind of continuously morphing sensory stimulation is pretty much impossible to ignore, explains Robert F. Potter, Ph.D., director of the Institute for Communication Research at Indiana University.
  • “Our brains are hardwired to automatically pay attention to anything that’s new in our environment, at least for a brief period of time,” he explains. And it’s not just humans; all animals evolved this way in order to spot potential threats, food sources, or reproductive opportunities, Potter says.
  • ...5 more annotations...
  • “This also explains how you can sit in front of the TV and binge for hours and hours at a time and not feel a loss of entertainment,” he says. “You brain doesn’t have much time to grow bored.”
  • 
Studies show that, by this point, most of your brain activity has shifted from the left hemisphere to the right, or from the areas involved with logical thought to those involved with emotion. There has also been a release of natural, relaxing opiates called endorphins, research indicates.
  • You’re noodle isn’t really analyzing or picking apart the data it’s receiving. It’s basically just absorbing. Potter calls this “automatic attention.” He says, “The television is just washing over you and your brain is marinating in the changes of sensory stimuli.”
  • At the same time, the content of your television show is lighting up your brain’s approach and avoid systems, Potter says. Put simply, your brain is pre-programmed for both attraction and disgust, and both grab and hold your attention in similar ways. Characters you hate keep you engaged just as much (and sometimes more) than characters you love.
  • 
Like any addictive drug, cutting off your supply triggers a sudden drop in the release of those feel-good brain chemicals, which can leave you with a sense of sadness and a lack of energy, research shows. Experiments from the 1970s found that asking people to give up TV for a month actually triggered depression and the sense that the participants had “lost a friend.”
George Neff

Ovid: External Link - 0 views

ovidsp.tx.ovid.com.proxy.library.vcu.edu/...ovidweb.cgi

#ThoughtVectors media television

shared by George Neff on 22 Jul 14 - No Cached
  • George Neff on 22 Jul 14
     
    On the psychological effects of television
anonymous

Pepper the Robot: Tech News Today 1022 - YouTube - 0 views

www.youtube.com/watch

pepper robot #ThoughtVectors technology media education artificial intelligence socially assistive

shared by anonymous on 29 Jul 14 - No Cached
  • anonymous on 29 Jul 14
     
    This "humanoid robot" has lots of sensors, facial recognition, voice recognition, articulate hands. Design company claims to be able to read and express human emotions. Suggested plans are to use robot for babysitting and storytelling with young children. I wonder whether young children left alone with a robot limited to artificial intelligence would respond positively or would be frightened or upset without the presence of a parent, caregiver, or teacher to mediate their interactions with the robot. I imagine an early childhood classroom would be highly entertained and their attention stimulated by the presence of this humanoid robot. But I can't imagine having this robot replace responsible teaching or caregiver staff with the social interactions presented in this video. Based on Alan Kay's comments that computer artifacts are meta-medium that need to go beyond demonstrations and build artificial intelligence for specific user groups and age-appropriate curriculums, I will review the literature about interactive storytelling with socially assistive robots in early childhood classrooms.
anonymous

Storytelling Theory and Practice - YouTube - 0 views

www.youtube.com/watch

storytelling theory practice media education #ThoughtVectors robot socially assistive

shared by anonymous on 29 Jul 14 - No Cached
  • anonymous on 29 Jul 14
     
    Sturm argues that storytelling provides something larger: a way of organizing information. He says we can look at these characteristics as dots of data on a screen, where the story is the way we connect the dots. And how we connect the dots, changes the kinds of stories we create. Storytelling ethics and the need for trust and truth are discussed. Comments include his Story Listening Experience Model http://ils.unc.edu/~sturm/storytelling/storyexperience.pdf I wonder if this model could be used to create better programming routines for socially interactive storytelling robots? I have no idea how it would be possible to create a script for conveying ethics and the need for trust and truth using artificial intelligence. I think such activities require mediation by authoritative human participants to connect the dots and to establish a teaching presence that can address issues of ethics, trust, and truth for the listening audience upon reflection. I can easily see teachers, parents, caregivers "remix" what a storytelling robot presents to facilitate deeper reflection by young children in early childhood classrooms.
anonymous

IEEE Xplore Abstract - The RUBI/QRIO Project: Origins, Principles, and First Steps - 0 views

ieeexplore.ieee.org/...login.jsp

ieee robot technology media #ThoughtVectors education socially assistive early childhood humanoid robot

shared by anonymous on 29 Jul 14 - No Cached
  • Computers are already powerful enough to sustain useful robots that interact and assist humans in every-day life. However progress requires a scientific shakedown in goals and methods not unlike the cognitive revolution that occurred 40 years ago.
  • The document presents the origin and early steps of the RUBI/QRIO project, in which two humanoid robots, RUBI and QRIO, are being brought to an early childhood education center on a daily bases for a period of time of at least one year. The goal of the RUBI/QRIO project is to accelerate progress on everyday life interactive robots by addressing the problem at multiple levels, including the development of new scientific methods, formal approaches, and scientific agenda.
anonymous

Supporting augmented reality based children's play with pro-cam robot - 0 views

dl.acm.org/citation.cfm

supporting augmented augmented reality reality based children play #ThoughtVectors technology media education

shared by anonymous on 30 Jul 14 - No Cached
  • The study has found that robot-assisted AR based play showed improved learning effects, compared to the conventional play, in language and creativity and this is attributed to the operational flexibility, novelty, robotic mediation and capturing the attention of the children. The result was also made possible in part by designing an effective interface for the teachers to control the robots and manage the simultaneously occurring tasks.
anonymous

Nao the Amazing Robot - YouTube - 1 views

www.youtube.com/watch

robot #ThoughtVectors technology media education socially assistive

shared by anonymous on 29 Jul 14 - No Cached
  • anonymous on 29 Jul 14
     
    I think this humanoid robot is the one to watch with more than 300 universitie in 30 countries using NAO for Research and Education.
anonymous

Casper - Socially Assistive Humanoid Robot - YouTube - 0 views

www.youtube.com/watch

robot technology media #ThoughtVectors education socially assistive assistive

shared by anonymous on 29 Jul 14 - No Cached
  • anonymous on 29 Jul 14
     
    I am not sure how this socially assistive robot designed for cognitively impaired older adults to improve independent living would be received in an early childhood classroom setting. But the level of artificial intelligence programming is impressive and intriguing.
normonique

The Future of Communication? Let's Ask the Experts - 1 views

thenextweb.com/...unication-lets-ask-the-experts

bioengineering brain neurocommunication neurodevelopment neurogrowth normonique neurology neuroscience neurotechnology pychology technology

shared by normonique on 30 Jun 14 - Cached
  • Technology has been helping us to communicate easier, faster and more often. We’re now at a point where we’re “always on” and panic sets in when we temporarily lose the ability to communicate – for example when we lose the data connection our mobile phone.
  • However, in spite of technological developments, we still don’t seem to understand each other.
    • normonique
      normonique on 30 Jun 14
       
      The african drum simple tool but very powerful 
  • ...14 more annotations...
  • Long before today’s technology existed, the African drum was perhaps the most powerful messaging technology,
  • When the telephone was invented, the fabulous reality was that we could hold distant conversations and spend as long as we liked adding context.
  • Remember the last text you sent that someone didn’t understand? Remember the email that got misunderstood? Or maybe a tweet that you realize could be interpreted in a different way (but you only had 140 characters to use)?
    • normonique
      normonique on 30 Jun 14
       
      This relate to the article that social networking makes communication fast but sometimes ineffective because of misinterpretation due to not having the face to face interaction
  • It’s possible we will look to create more communication tools that will advise us how to reason, and advise us how to feel. If you think about it, this may well remove what is left of being a human from our race.
    • normonique
      normonique on 30 Jun 14
       
      This article relates to my question of technology communicating with the nervous system. 
  • Intelligent personal assistants such as Apple’s Siri and Samsung’s S-voice allow us to input text or speak commands with our voice instead of typing.
  • An important element will probably also be mood-communication: that our mood (reflected in brain wave patterns) will affect our surroundings in order for them to give feedback and for example lift our mood and shape it in various ways.
  • Dream modification will be another interesting area – the dream we wake up from in the morning largely determines in what mood we start the day. So if that last dream period can be modified in a positive direction through fx soundscapes played softly by your iPhone (by your bed) it would potentially mean a lot for your life, work and productivity.
  • It’s amazing. In only a few years touchscreens in our smartphones and tablets drastically changed the way we interact with humans and machines. In the next few years we’ll see an explosion of touchscreens invading every part of our lives; from the bathroom mirror, to the touchscreen table and even the possibility to interact with your living-room touch window.
  • Whether we will have direct communication brain-to-brain via some sort of implanted or just attached devices I’m not sure.
  • Combining sophisticated and surprisingly detailed user profiles with online technologies and “old” tech as direct mailing, robocalls and TV ads, strategists can now truly microtarget voters.
  • Securing communications presents us with a challenge of enormous importance and complexity.
  • The future of communication is already here, it’s just – to paraphrase William Gibson – not evenly distributed. Instead of radical departures from what we have, we will most likely see incremental improvements.
  • normonique on 30 Jun 14
     
    This article answer my question of the speed of communication through technology in the future
« First ‹ Previous 101 - 120 of 172 Next › Last »
Showing 20▼ items per page