Education Meanderings
Author: Stewart Marshall - Professor of educational technology, social network junky, infopreneur and coffee addict.
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Israeli startup Hyginex has developed digital bracelets that work alongside sensor-embedded soap dispensers to reduce healthcare risks.
The non-intrusive bracelet has a tiny red LED light to also remind the medical practitioner to wash their hands between patients.
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Agricultural workers in Ethiopia such as farmers and researchers came together in Addis Ababa to discuss a farmers market information system (FMIS).
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“There’s a growing interest in “flipping the classroom” to support differentiated instruction, allowing students to explore and learn at their own pace, and for buying time to do more project-based learning in class. It’s a simple idea that I first heard from a Virginia Tech engineering professor about 8 years ago when he called it “turning the classroom right side up”. Whatever you call it, the principle is the same – save class time for the most important “live interaction” activities, and assign everything else as homework.” …
“Now the same idea can be applied to lab science…”
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As marketers, what are the trends driving consumers from a socially based consumption model to one of experience? Here are the top five.
- “Visual thinking” - the use and exploration of images as tools for communication.
- “New aesthetic” - the blurring of digital and real.
- “Calm technology” - applications that cut down on the digital noise of high-volume data to show the user only enough information so that he or she is able to focus on a task.
- “Neuromarketing” - a new field of marketing research that studies consumers’ cognitive response to marketing stimuli.
- “Singularity” - the concept that technology is on the verge of becoming smarter than humans.
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This handy infographic breaks down salary norms for 10 positions in 20 markets to help you find out what you’re worth.
