The Tipping Point Case Study – Digital Books

According to Vannevar Bush’s ideas in 1945, if digital books are defined as storable, personal library collections, they were first introduced to the world as early as 1949, referred to as “ebooks”. With the evolutionary transformation of portable electronic devices over the last century, the development of digital books has also made considerable progress in …

IP5: COVID-19, Educational Technology and Global Health

COVID-19 has been going on around the world for nearly three years. With the continuous mutation of this virus and the repetition of COVID-19 prevention policies in all countries worldwide, people gradually began to develop the habit of keeping physical distance. As a result, although we have effectively reduced the infectious hazard posed by the …

IP8: Attention Economy vs. Attention Ecology

12-hour Record of My Attentional Activities     Since I am an analyst studying the education technology industry, I am wary of the attention economy tactics spread through the mass media and have taken precautions to avoid devoting my attention to unnecessary entertainment activities. However, throughout learning the attention ecology and recording my attentional activities, …

Task 12: Speculative Futures

PART I Today is the first day of Alex’s first job as a financial consultant at G&S Wealth Management. He is nervous. He is only 18 years old and graduated from the academy of finance 2 months ago. In the academy, Alex spent the first year learning all potential career paths in the finance industry, …

Task 11: Algorithms of Predictive Text

In what textual products have you read statements like the one you generated? In blogs? Academic articles? Magazines? Novels?  I read similar statements only in titles of news or on Instagram, so I used my Instagram as my microblog channel for this task. How are these generated statements different from how you would normally express …

Task 9: Network Assignment Using Golden Record Curation Quiz Data

“For this task, you will view the visualizations (3) posted in CLAS and reflect on the implications and outcomes of their generation. The visualizations show not only connections between the participants’ music choices, but also groups participants based on the strength of these choices, creating communities of “like-minded” individuals. But exactly how like-minded are you?” …

Task 8: Golden Record Curation Assignmen

I must admit the edit of the album is representative and inclusive of different cultures and nationalities on our beautiful planet, which makes the eliminations very difficult. In considering the purpose of this album, I want to deliver peaceful and joyful songs from people from all continents. At the same time, I would like to …