Twitter Meltdown
https://www.statista.com/statistics/303681/twitter-users-worldwide/ Despite the number of high profile Twitter users who have said that they were going to quit after Elon Musk took over, Twitter ended 2022 with it’s highest numbers. While it is predicted to decrease in number of active monthly users, until the numbers actually come out, there is no way to say for […]
Cospaces Edu – Another Look
Cospaces Edu is a powerful website that enables students to explore and create VR and AR worlds. Although this website and app was mentioned in this post (CoSpaces Edu | ETEC523: Mobile and Open Learning (ubc.ca)) I think it is worth a second look. In the classroom, students can create worlds in VR that are […]
Ford Trucks and their adaptive learning
TL;DR: Automatic truck shifted badly, no mechanical issues, adaptive transmission needed to relearn our driving – ultimate UX My recent experience with my truck has made me think about how much machine learning is actually involved in driving my truck. I drive a 2013 Ford F150 FX4 with EcoBoost. We had a problem where one […]
Google Classroom App- most friendly online classroom platform for all learners, an excellent teaching tool during pandemic
Google Classroom has long been a favourite of mine. As this relatively simple tool develops and expands, I continue to be amazed. The Google Classroom mobile app is a great example mobile technology. It can be challenging as an ESL teacher to ensure that your students comprehend the instructions.They sometimes dislike reading, or it can […]
eSIMs
Another mobile technology worth recognizing is the eSIM, which is a permanent SIM card embedded into devices. Unlike traditional SIMs, which are tied to one network/mobile carrier, eSIMs allow for connection to any carrier’s network through digital activation. The mainstream use of eSIMs currently is to have mobile data access while travelling abroad, rather than […]
WO2: How to Live Forever
HOW TO LIVE FOREVER Resource Review This is an interesting exercise – to read through the ideas of my predecessors. I felt confused at first because it’s much more common to deal with the new articles from savants every week. But then I was coming across the familiar names of people with whom I started […]
OCR on Mobile Devices – Vision Engines
Although it has been around for a few years, I recently encountered Photomath by Blink. This app leverages the company’s OCR technology for mobile device cameras (now called a Machine Vision Engine) to input a math equation and “instantly” solve it, and display the solution as multiple steps. Originally designed with an on-device math engine, […]
Know More About MoBI
“Mobile brain/body imaging (MoBI) is an integrative multimethod approach used to investigate human brain activity, motor behaviour, and other physiological data associated with cognitive processes that involve active behaviour” (Jungnickel et al., 2019, p.59). The most significant advantage of MoBI is moving lab environments toward more naturalistic ones. The experiments can be done by getting […]
OwlBearRodeo and Story Telling
I have been an avid role playing game (RPG) player for more than half my life. It began in my first year of high school and has continued on, evolving from forum based writing until I was introduced to dice-based tabletop role playing games (TTRPG). My interest and dabbling with TTRPGs began before the pandemic […]
Garmin Jr. – Gamifying Movement for Kids
As an elementary school teacher that has a passion for physical movement and physical literacy, I am interested in educational tools that encourage kids to move. Although the Garmin Jr. app wouldn’t currently be easily integrated into the classroom (due to the limitations of needing to own specific kid friendly Garmin watches), this is still […]