Global Interdisciplinary College Course: Wired IDS394 By Sandra Rogers for AACE Review Are you looking for lessons to teach your students how to interact online with benevolent intention and personal safeguards? This spring semester, I teach a component of an interdisciplinary college course on technology called, Wired, with a dozen … Read more
A Rubric to Identify Online Course Plans for a Community of Inquiry By Sandra Rogers for AACE Review Community of Inquiry A community of inquiry (COI) is what it sounds like—people gather to learn from each other. I argue that a COI can be preplanned to engender a robust learning environment. What that entails is under … Read more
Interview with the Creators of Hoaxy® from Indiana University By Sandra Rogers for AACE Review Figure 1. A Hoaxy® diffusion network regarding claims about the HPV vaccine. Falsehoods are spread due to biases in the brain, society, and computer algorithms (Ciampaglia & Menczer, 2018). A combined problem is “information overload and limited attention … Read more
Attendee’s Notes from AppState’s 2018 Free-Learning Conference By Sandra Rogers for AACE Review I attended Appalachian State University’s (AppState) 1-day, virtual, Free-Learning Conference in July. Their website stated it would be “…a day of exploration designed to promote and evaluate effective uses of technology for teaching and learning while also providing … Read more
A Review of ‘Media Manipulation and Disinformation Online’ By Sandra Rogers for AACE Review In Media Manipulation and Disinformation Online, Marwick and Lewis (2017) of the Data & Society Research Institute described the agents of media manipulation, their modus operandi, motivators, and how they’ve taken advantage of the vulnerability of online media. … Read more
The Challenges of Combating Online Fake News: A Review of ‘Dead Reckoning’ By Sandra Rogers for AACE Review The Data & Society Research Institute has produced and shared informative articles on the many facets of fake news producers, sharers, promoters, and denouncers of real news as part of their Media Manipulation Initiative. In Dead Reckoning (Caplan, … Read more
Interview with SoapBox Labs Founder on Speech Recognition API to Enhance Children’s Interactions with Smart Devices By Sandra Rogers for AACE Review Advances in application programming interface (API) for speech recognition are impacting our everyday lives from smartphones to the Internet of Things (IoT). According to Katy Levinson on Quora.com, “…an API forces structured data-based … exchanges between what the … Read more
Navigating Post-Truth Societies: Strategies, Resources and Technologies By Sandra Rogers for AACE Review This post is the second in a series in which AACE social media interns follow up on the latest Innovating Pedagogy Trend Report 2017 – read the review and summary by Allie Aylan. As Ferguson et al. (2017) … Read more
Computer-Assisted Language Learning & Media Selection By Sandra Rogers for AACE Review Computer-assisted language learning (CALL) is the interactive use of technology to foster second language acquisition by providing meaningful opportunities to practice a language in environments beyond that which is available in the confines of a classroom. It began … Read more
What’s Grit Got To Do with Learning? By Sandra Rogers for AACE Review In terms of education, ‘grit’ is a combination of your passion for learning, perseverance at task, and purposeful activities. Volition and conation are synonyms for grit. During his AECT 2017 keynote, Thomas Reeves, professor emeritus at the … Read more