Today's teachers need to evolve with their students and society. It is no longer enough to master the basics--students need and want 21st century skills.
My keynote from the AIS NSW ICT Integration Conference 2009: eConsumers or eProducers? (http://bit.ly/1ri5ka).
Details and contact for slide notes at http://www.acidlabs.org/2009/09/29/only-connect/.
The ppt presentation by Cathy Oxley to the Ipswich Library & Information Service in October 2008 on web 2.0 tools suitable for teachers to engage the 12-17 years cohort.
My keynote from the AIS NSW ICT Integration Conference 2009: eConsumers or eProducers? (http://bit.ly/1ri5ka).
Details and contact for slide notes at http://www.acidlabs.org/2009/09/29/only-connect/.
The ppt presentation by Cathy Oxley to the Ipswich Library & Information Service in October 2008 on web 2.0 tools suitable for teachers to engage the 12-17 years cohort.
The ELT environment has seen enormous changes over the past decades. Now as we enter the 21st century we find ourselves in a new era where digital technologies will be key to enhancing the learning experience. In this talk we will look at these new tools and how our concepts of education are evolving around them. We will also discuss what impact this has on the relationship between teachers and students.
21st Learning - Transforming a Board or District. This 3 hour workshop was delivered to the Newfoundland and Labrador Directors of Education (NLADE) on December 8, 2011. The presentation looks at the dynamic process of transforming a Board as a 21st Century Learning and Teaching School Board.
Presentation Anti-Patterns: 10 things you should avoid in your next presentation. Taken from the book, "File > New > Presentation" by Simon Guest. http://goo.gl/FAZZms
The term sketchnoting describes a style of visual note-taking recently gaining popularity among conference attendees. Contrary to popular belief, you do not have to be an artist to sketchnote and to take advantage of a different type of learning and making content connections beyond conference keynotes . Sketchnoting is helping make your thinking visible and shareable as you are reading a professional book, watching a movie clip, reading an educational blog post or article or listening to a lecture of conference keynote.
This workshop is for educators who want to hone their abilities to listen more intently, summarize and organize their notes in a visual way and learn how to do this with their students. NO artistic talent required.
Want to work with me? Contact me via http://www.globallyconnectedlearning.com
What we know today about the brain suggest a completely different way to teach than we've been doing already. This is sticky teaching - 6 ways to re-think our approach to audience engagement.
Between a lack of know-how and a pile of limiting beliefs, you have put that book idea you have on the back burner for far too long. Now is the time to take charge of your legacy and write the book you were always meant to publish.
What to Write About When There's Nothing to Say (the Mediabistro Edition)MarketingProfs
Stuck on what to write about for your company blog or website? Check out these content-creating tips from Ann Handley of MarketingProfs. The visual story of a frustrated writer aided by her faithful pets (and talking office supplies) will help you conquer your writer's block and get creative!
This slideshow lists what techy tools you can’t teach without this academic year and how you can use them with your students in and outside the classroom.
What makes a strong education sector plan? The Global Partnership for Education and International Institute for Education Planning have published guidelines to help countries prepare a credible strategy
Slides to support a master class on making student thinking visible through practical hands-on activities and structured around the Dylan Wiliam's work on formative assessment and active learning.
All the resources for this master class are available online here:
http://dkworkshops.wikispaces.com/Making+Student+Thinking+Visible+at+ManACE+SAGE+2014
MOVE - don't sit still (by Jimmy Janlén)Jimmy Janlén
Presentation created by Jimmy Janlén, Certified TBR Trainer and Agile Coach at Crisp (Sweden).
Movement trumps sitting is the first and most important of the six learning trumps from Sharon Bowmans book "Using Brain Science to make learning stick".
This presentation summarizes why and gives 7 examples of how you can add movement into your class and workshops.
The ELT environment has seen enormous changes over the past decades. Now as we enter the 21st century we find ourselves in a new era where digital technologies will be key to enhancing the learning experience. In this talk we will look at these new tools and how our concepts of education are evolving around them. We will also discuss what impact this has on the relationship between teachers and students.
21st Learning - Transforming a Board or District. This 3 hour workshop was delivered to the Newfoundland and Labrador Directors of Education (NLADE) on December 8, 2011. The presentation looks at the dynamic process of transforming a Board as a 21st Century Learning and Teaching School Board.
Presentation Anti-Patterns: 10 things you should avoid in your next presentation. Taken from the book, "File > New > Presentation" by Simon Guest. http://goo.gl/FAZZms
The term sketchnoting describes a style of visual note-taking recently gaining popularity among conference attendees. Contrary to popular belief, you do not have to be an artist to sketchnote and to take advantage of a different type of learning and making content connections beyond conference keynotes . Sketchnoting is helping make your thinking visible and shareable as you are reading a professional book, watching a movie clip, reading an educational blog post or article or listening to a lecture of conference keynote.
This workshop is for educators who want to hone their abilities to listen more intently, summarize and organize their notes in a visual way and learn how to do this with their students. NO artistic talent required.
Want to work with me? Contact me via http://www.globallyconnectedlearning.com
What we know today about the brain suggest a completely different way to teach than we've been doing already. This is sticky teaching - 6 ways to re-think our approach to audience engagement.
Between a lack of know-how and a pile of limiting beliefs, you have put that book idea you have on the back burner for far too long. Now is the time to take charge of your legacy and write the book you were always meant to publish.
What to Write About When There's Nothing to Say (the Mediabistro Edition)MarketingProfs
Stuck on what to write about for your company blog or website? Check out these content-creating tips from Ann Handley of MarketingProfs. The visual story of a frustrated writer aided by her faithful pets (and talking office supplies) will help you conquer your writer's block and get creative!
This slideshow lists what techy tools you can’t teach without this academic year and how you can use them with your students in and outside the classroom.
What makes a strong education sector plan? The Global Partnership for Education and International Institute for Education Planning have published guidelines to help countries prepare a credible strategy
Slides to support a master class on making student thinking visible through practical hands-on activities and structured around the Dylan Wiliam's work on formative assessment and active learning.
All the resources for this master class are available online here:
http://dkworkshops.wikispaces.com/Making+Student+Thinking+Visible+at+ManACE+SAGE+2014
MOVE - don't sit still (by Jimmy Janlén)Jimmy Janlén
Presentation created by Jimmy Janlén, Certified TBR Trainer and Agile Coach at Crisp (Sweden).
Movement trumps sitting is the first and most important of the six learning trumps from Sharon Bowmans book "Using Brain Science to make learning stick".
This presentation summarizes why and gives 7 examples of how you can add movement into your class and workshops.
Agile and Beyond 2017 Presentation on Tuckman's Theory of Team Development. This theory was based on non-scientifically gathered surveys and has never been empirically proven despite dozens of scientific attempts. This talk covers why stable teams may have been a good thing and why we want to consider dynamic teams as we face new challenges.
5 Creative Principles for Remarkable PresentationsMichelle Mazur
Every time I ask the question “what’s the most difficult part of writing a speech?” the answer is always the same. STARTING.
Writing a presentation is inherently a creative process. It’s no different than painting a picture, choreographing a ballet, or writing a novel. Every artist (and speakers ARE artists) starts with a blank canvas, page, or PowerPoint slide.
To write a remarkable presentation, you’ve got to get your creative juices flowing. You’re not writing just another speech – a remarkable presentation is an artistic creation.
Step away from the computer and take a more creative approach to writing your speech.
So let’s get to the work of creating with these five creative principles for remarkable presentations, shall we?
Rethinking Learning in the Age of Digital FluencyJudy O'Connell
Digital connectivity is a transformative phenomenon of the 21st century. While many have debated its impact on society, educators have been quick to mandate technology in school development - often without analysing the digital fluency of those involved, and the actual impact on learning. Is being digitally tethered creating a new learning nexus for those involved?
The famous educational philosopher, John Dewey, stated “We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.’ Maker education involves hands-on and experiential activities. Learning can occur through the act of making but having learners reflect on their making experiences increases the likelihood of learning. It is not left to chance.
Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach explores the importance of blending learning with digital literacy skills to ensure success for our most at-risk students. Come hear about ways of broadening your technology program's reach and effectiveness for a full range of students, including those who have the most to gain from successful implementations.
Fun quiz over a few of the educational technology tools and toys some of us have been able to put to good use in the classroom over the past few decades.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
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