How to Teach Kids About Money
A recent article from Wired, How to Teach Your Kids About Money, got my attention. When I was a child, I didn’t receive any financial literacy. I had to learn the hard way. Throughout my life I’ve always heard, “why didn’t they teach us that in school?” There was no way a 13 year old […]
“Clean with Me” Culture on YouTube
There was a post by LINDA ZHAO on on May 30, 2020 on “Study With Me” Culture on Youtube. I find these studying videos can give viewers a sense of connectedness especially in the current pandemic situation where people cannot gather to study together. I remember that I was better focused and more productive while […]
UBC Library Access and RefWorks
The UBC Library has extensions to facilitate scholarly research. UBC Library Access offers a shortcut link to read the full document, and RefWorks provides a useful online site for storage and citation of research material.
Wrist-based Neural Interface by Facebook
Tech@Facebook published a wrist-based input device last week, which added a new tool to the family of VR/AR. Even though it is still in the prototyping stage, the device depicts the future possibility of neural interface equipped on our wrists. It will be amazing that the wrist-based wearable can free a user’s hands from holding or […]
Mind-Machine Interface for Augmented Intelligence
With the increase in the computational capability, the machine and human can interface with each other and will work in resonance to enhance the capability and intelligence of humans. The augmentation of the intelligence of humans can be achieved by using Brain-Computer Interface (BCI). The term ‘telepathy’ can be applicable where the users’ thoughts can […]
Can Deepfakes have positive applications?
Have you watched a series of Tik Tok deepfake videos of Tom Cruise gone viral earlier this month? These fake videos generated by artificial intelligence continue to become more convincing and it raises concerns about authenticity of online media contents and the danger with deepfakes. These days, it is hard to trust what we read […]
Machine Bias
Big Data, AI, and machine learning are hot topics in education. Before their popularity in education, however, they first boomed in commercial industries. For example, it was an algorithm that chose who to boot off that United Airlines flight when it was overbooked in 2017 (United Airlines faces backlash after dragging man from plane – […]
WEB 3.0
The dawn of Web 3.0 is among us! Anyone excited? https://medium.com/fabric-ventures/what-is-web-3-0-why-it-matters-934eb07f3d2b
A2 – Mobile Games
Hello everyone, Welcome to our Mobile Games OER! Please click the image to view our website. The greatest potential in mobile games is that they allow for mobility. Traditional games on the computer or on the table with piles of pieces fix students in place, which limits activities to be done indoors. The most exciting […]
Integrating tablet in the classroom
There has been talk of improving digital literacy for schools for many years, but with the COVID-19 pandemic, the need for it seems to be more urgent than ever. If digital natives are not learning through the use of digital devices in the classroom, does that make their learning unauthentic? What is your stance on […]