But neither had given any clue that the abolition of NHS England, and its merger with the DHSC, was on the cards
It feels a bit contradictory to call it an abolishment and merger at the same time. Which one is it? What are the implications?
I thought NHS was patient facing
two layers of bureaucracy
Who is doing this second layer of work? NHSE and NHS?
DHSC
Will this be my case? And if so, will they still be able to provide sponsorship?
clinical commissioning groups – local NHS bodies, which replaced primary care trusts – to provide the range of clinical services needed in their areas
What is the difference between a clinical commissioning group and a primary care trust?
duplication in the course of justifying his shake-up of the NHS:
This duplication of work the same for HR too?
I don’t see why decisions about £200bn of taxpayer money on something as fundamental to our security as the NHS should be taken by an arm’s length body
Why is it a problem that NHSE make the decisions about 200 taxpayer money? What are the risks?
Streeting
Who is Streeting? Is this the health secretary?
How are they involved in this decision?
management of the health service
What does management look like not under NHS England?
NYSE or Nasdaq
Are these websites where people can log in and buy and sell stock? What do these acronyms represent?
Answer: these are stock exchanges that are separate from each other
laws against fraud and other unfair trading practices
What are examples of fraud? Like, identity theft where someone impersonates a trader when it isn't them so that person sold at a value that the real person wouldn't?
Both “stock market” and “stock exchange” are often used interchangeably, but they’re not the same.
What are stock exchange and stock marker conflated so much?
Traders in the stock market buy or sell shares on one or more stock exchanges, which are only part of the overall stock market
Is the hierarchy that
Stock market - stock exchange 1 - stock exchange 2 Etc.
Or the other way around?
What is the relationship
That’s because you can vote at shareholder meetings based on the number of shares you own.
Does having more shares means you have more voting power? Why is that the case?
What's the scenario on which someone with more or less shares would be voting?
dividends
What are dividend and how do you make money from this?
Not long ago, Americans hearing stock market news might be listening for indirect effects on their jobs—say, to see how their firm is doing—but now they are doing so more often for the direct impact on their own portfolios, including 401(K)s.
How does the stock market impact retirement funds like 401k
Stock exchanges are organized and regulated "places" (much trading today is virtual) where stocks and other types of securities are bought and sold
What are securities?
stock or a share
What's the relationship between stock and share?
The mechanism is an excellent means for businesses to raise capital from investors.
Why do people want to raise capital (e.g. money from investors) as opposed to other means?
This has been going on for decades, and it is completely unacceptable. However, we cannot allow three individual piglets to suffer in order to make our point.”
What is the rationale behind using these piglets as examples to prove something? Is this justified?
Evaristti
What role does Evaristti have in this story? Did they sponsor the theft of the pigs?
Police said that it was notified about the theft just before noon on Saturday and that nobody had been charged
Exactly who stole the piglets? What was the purpose of this act of theft?
three live piglets that were caged by two shopping carts on a pile of straw
What was the artist trying to accomplish by having them caged on a pile of straw?
Three piglets were stolen from an art exhibition in Copenhagen over the weekend after a provocative artist said they would be allowed to starve to death in a commentary about animal welfare in Denmark
Why were these three piglets stolen?
study leave, and the management of courses, events, cases and placements
How are each of these service deliverings related to each other? How is study leave related to management of courses for example?
How does placements impact cases, if at all?
It would be nice to learn more about the relationship between these different service elements.
We are planning to deploy to trusts in the next couple of months.
What does deploying to trusts imply? What is a trust?
Are members of trusts different end users?
Our first ‘release’ was designed for the revalidation of doctors in training, however since the launch of this, our major focus has been on our second release, known as TIS Core Services.
Are the revalidated doctors and the TIS Core Services end users different from each other? What are different ways they use the service?
The number and variety of these systems meant we were not able to manage trainees efficiently across our organisation.
Is TIS meant to serve as a one-size integrated system to accommodate for multiple systems?
is our new, web-based system that allows us to collect and track data as doctors, dentists and public health trainees pass through their training, enabling us to access real-time information at the click of a mouse
What are some examples of how this data is used? What type of policy or administrative decisions are made in response to the data?
Whether you are working with colleagues, classmates, or clients, headings create a seamless structure that allows multiple users to swiftly navigate and contribute to the document with ease
How do headings help colleages, classmates and clients collaborate between each other?
Headings, in the context of document formatting, serve as signposts that guide readers through the textual landscape.
Why do readers need to be signposted in the textual landscape of any document?
From 1 October 2018, over 600 new trust users starting using TIS.
What's the projected growth of the user based for the TIS?
In an LGBT Reddit group, one user posted shortly before the election that they and their husband feel that “leaving the USA as refugees may be necessary if Trump ends up winning.
Is it appropriate for LGBQIA+ Americans to use the term refugees for describing why they are leaving the US?
“I’ve been talking to people (whose) lives are at risk and their livelihoods are at risk,” Foster told CNN, referring to women, Black people, parents with transgender children and the LGBTQ+ community. “These people are not your golden visa people,”
What are the demands of non-Golden visa candidates who are still interested in living abroad?
“The main focus for most Americans is just having the optionality… like an insurance policy,
Why is it that Americans want the optionality to move abroad but don't want to make the move itself?
Conversion rates start to drop off after about 14 questions, with 11 to 14 being the optimal range
So the magic number is between 11 and 14 questions
the number of questions a salesperson asks and his or her sales conversion rate
Does this mean, the more or fewer questions the sales person asked the more likely they were to close a deal?
What's the magic number?
substantial methodological development component
What does substantial methodological development component mean in practice? What's an example of this?
This one-off call provides funding for software developers from any career stage and discipline to develop digital tools that will improve climate-sensitive infectious disease modelling.
Out of all of the professions, why is funding being allocated to software developers for this work and not other professions?
user’s perspective
Speaking of which, what type of user input was used to inform the end result. Did they test it with end users to ensure how affect this application of the strategy was?
The current brand guidelines do not offer any instruction on how to work within the WCAG guidelines
Why do the current brand guidelines not provide the instruction on how to work within WCAG guidelines?
HSB (Hue Saturation Brightness)
Designer: Can we make that box dark grey, please?Engineer: Sure, which dark grey? #3D3D3D or $Silvergrey?Designer: No, make it $BoulderdarkerEngineer: Great. There are two HEX values for $Boulderdarker… which one should we use?
I love this. This is very powerful because it exhibits the implications of this confusion in the day-to-day work of actors who make the decisions around color and it's products. I'm gonna use this technique.
This audit revealed two things
This is slightly similar to what I did with U of Michigan's Teach-Out with the accessibility audit
designs passed the WCAG for accessibility
When we say "passed the WCAG" were there specific standards within WCAG that are more relevant to color than others?
Did it need to pass all of the color-related standards or just some? What's kind of the threshold for passing?
equity of experience
What is the implication of this equity of experience in training?
TIS Admin: is a system developed by NHS England (formerly Health Education England)
What makes the current Trainee Information System different from the previous Health Education England?
governments, businesses, and other organisations
What knowledge, personal attributes or skills do you possess that you can offer to the benefit of this role/team?
I have experience working in the private sector (i.e. businesses), public sector (i.e. government) and civil society (i.e. organisations) which which has strengthened to speak different organisational language and build relationships.
One effective method to overcome task overwhelm in ADHD is breaking down large tasks into smaller, more manageable steps.
I kind of do this already but I feel like I need a better mechanism to keep myself on track. So maybe breaking tasks into smaller bits AND adding a timeline element so that I can see how it all works to the very end could help me.
How should time and timelines be incorporated into this breakdown big tasks into smaller tasks?
Additionally, setting clear, achievable goals and using positive reinforcement can further assist in overcoming initiation barriers
What type of language should be used in creating these goals and how and when do I remind myself of these goals?
task paralysis involves a temporary inability to initiate action, often due to overwhelming choices or sensory overload, executive dysfunction
How do task paralysis and executive function effect one another?
“Will this task take you three days?” ask, “How long do you think it will take you to complete this task?”
It sounds like asking open-ended questions is a good way to show genuine curiosity and create an environment in which people can express any issues or challenges that can come up.
Self-efficacy refers to a person’s belief in their ability to complete a given task and has been linked to increased motivation.
Self-efficacy feels like something I'm often lacking, which isn't good. I definitely question my ability to complete a task and this is impart due to my struggles of completing complex, long-term projects on time.
posing thoughtful and well-intentioned questions
What do these questions look like?
observe your stakeholders and see how this way of sharing research results is working. Ask them what they think.
Whaat's the value of checking in with your stakeholders about how you share your research findings with them?
f you involve stakeholders in the analysis phase, you can get more eyes and ears to help you make sense of the results
Is it possible to get the team too involved in analysis? Is it possible the team could think that as the UR you don't know how to do analysis on your own by getting them involved?
Is the assumptions validation an example of getting the team involved in analysis?
memorable quotes, annotated screenshots, or video clips of interview highlights.
I think this is what I'm missing from my playbacks. Annotated images and the voice of the user itself.
This is easier to digest than an information dump that happens all at once
What's an easy format and template for this?
This is a fantastic place to make brief, informal updates about the team’s user research.
Sharing my reflection of the UR and observations was a way of sharing informal updates with the team. It was scannable, had a structure, and was actionable as well.
stakeholders to get involved in the research process
I suppose running the problem statement workshop with others is a way of getting my internal stakeholders involved in the research process. We need to clearly define the problem together. It's not just what someone tells us is the problem.
Finding a time when everyone is available is tricky, but you manage to schedule yet another Zoom call two weeks from now. When you finally regroup, several people have to leave early to take care of critical issues.
Why does the timing of when you schedule a research playback or research readout, from when you finish the research, matter? What's the implication of sharing findings shortly after your UR vs weeks after?
Sharing short highlights soon after a user interview or testing session is powerful
Why is it valuable to share short highlights of user research instead of a full report? What are the pros and cons of this?
If the project stakeholders aren’t engaged throughout the research process, then the research won’t have an impact.
How do you involve the stakeholders?
donde no están permitidas las cámaras de televisión, en algún momento ha negado con la cabeza
Por no haberse reaccionado, por lo menos en con asentir su cabeza, pues parece que él ya intuía que su veredicto iba a resultar así. Culpable.
dictar la sentencia el 11 de julio,
El la fecha que van a decir cual es la sentencia de Trump ("dictar la sentencia")
a poco más
A little bit before..a poco más de....X tiempo. A poco más de 7 años (un ejemplo)
We might “want” a partner. We might think that the partnered existence is our preferred state of domestic being. But we don’t “need” one to live a social, domestic, professional, civic, loving, sexual life
I understand this point and I think he's right, but I thin in practice, given that humans are socialised to pursue partnership, inherent feeling of desiring partnership is very intrinsic to people. Consciously, we know we don't need a partner to feel accomplished or complete, but our emotions don't reflect that level of conscious thought.
Giving up can mean that we are calling “time out,” recess, break time. We use that to take a moment to take our power back and feel in control of our lives again. We use the self-compassion to just acknowledge “effort fatigue” in running around our community like we’re looking in a crowd to meet a friend for lunch: “Is it you? Is it you? Is it you?” You can only do that for so long before you just want to give it all a rest. In those times, we need to re-balance our empowerment to our side. We have to stop supplicating the Fates of Life to grant us a partner like The Great Oz would grant us brains and step back and regroup.
It sounds like he's saying that it can feel like we have to leave things up to fate when we actively engage in dating. And leaving things up to fate and the universe can feel like we don't have control over our lives and our end. So recusing oneself from dating is a way of getting control, because if you're not actively dating, then you don't have to leave anything up to fate to decide.
**How can cognitive reframe help gay men think of dating as not a luck of fate? **
Hopelessness, demoralization, a sense of futility, fatigue, or even cynicism are not attractive qualities for you to have if you’re trying to find guys who might want you for a relationship partner.
I think this is one of the reasons why I wasn't really as attracted to the guy that I met today. He spent a decent amount of time talking about past exes and how this, that and the other didn't go well. But I could sense that hopelessness from him and that fatigue especially. It wasn't very attractive, in addition to my lack of physical attraction to his physique.
**Is there anything I can do when I'm meeting gay men to evade that auro of hopelessness, demoralization, futility, etc. on the date? If so, what? **
It’s also about my challenging that person to let go of old patterns of thinking and behavior that no longer serve them, or do not give them the results they want.
Old patterns of thinking - this is interesting, because often gay men will say that they want a relationship, but they don't change their behaviour. Apart of changing one's behaviour is questioning if it's serving them and figuring out steps to reprogram one's self. Difficult to do.
What does helping gay men remove old patterns of thinking look like in practice?
“cognitively reframe
This is super powerful. Taking the same life event but putting a spin on it can change the mindset one has about it and maybe avoid depression?
Does cognitively reframing help gay men obtain a relationship though? Where can cognitively reframing things have negative consequences?
Discussions in psychology have said that if we are unhappy about a situation, and our attempts to change it fail, then depression can set in
When we don't see a change in the result despite our efforts, he says that we fall into a depression.
Why are some gay men getting the changes that they want but others are not with respect to finding love? Do the gay men, who obtain the changes that they seek experience less depression than those who do not obtain the changes they seek?
Internal resources are called upon to be evoked within us already, like courage, determination, hope, perseverance, resilience, strategy, compassion, and drive
This is timely that he mentions "resilience" and this is what Reggie emphasized both what Matthew and Jason lacked.
Why does resilience matter in gay men's relationship? What does it signify? And what's implied when it's absent?
“involuntarily”
The "involuntarily" part is important because in theory there are many out there that are interested in you and you and them but they're not always the same people.
Why does he quote involuntarily in this instance? What is he getting at?
And within that, it’s often about either finding a relationship, making a relationship better, or getting over the loss of relationship (especially in preparation for finding a new one).
Love and sex are the main topics that he finds that gay men focus on while he's providing treatment.
**I wonder why gay men care so much about sex and relationships? **
Strategic Reference Architecture (SRA)
What is this SRA and how will it promote more internal collaboration among teams? What are the implications of these enhanced collaborations?
Chief Digital and Information Officer
What does a Chief Digital and information Officer actually do?
making better use of HM Revenue and Customs real time information to manage expectations and deliver real-time decisions
How does the income reporter interact with other civil service systems and support other departments?
retains the duties
In other words: it removes the taxes places on political parties. The House of Commons introduced a clause that would require political parties to public how they used foreign donations as an annual risk strategy. This was rejected first but after the retention of the duties (or tax) on the political party, the House of Commons agreed to it
After consideration in the Commons, the government and Lords agreed to compromise on a change to require the Treasury to review the adequacy of the UK financial system in eliminating the financing of the use of prohibited forest risk commodities
In other words: The House of Commons (the government) and House of Lords, agree to have the Treasury review the UK financial system to ensure that commodities prosing a risk to forests are not financed.
What It Takes to Be a Fair-Pay Workplace
How does a company change its culture to become a fair-pay workplace? What does a fair-pay workplace accreditation do for people who are historically not paid fairly? - Provide job applicants with the documentation and process for how they calculation compensation and ask for pay ranges categorized by sex for workers doing the same type of work. Lastly, the employer won't be able to ask applicants about their salary history (which is already done in the US).
Why Pay Transparency Is Here to Stay
Pay equity is here to stay because it will help groups who are historically paid less advocate for themselves when negotiating salaries - The article says that pay transparency is here to stay because it will 1) attract more people, 2) reduce turnover during the early points in employment (i.e., first six months), and 3) increase task performance.
You’re Paid What You’re Worth
Why are some people not paid what they're worth? What does it mean to be paid what you're worth in the first place? - This question isn't answered in the text
The Push for Transparency
In practical terms, what does pushing for pay transparency actual mean in the day-to-day? - It means either revealing everyone's salary or a range of salaries which can be present on job descriptions but can have the consequential effects of highlighting discrimination within the same job because people can be getting paid at different salaries.
Practicing Salary Transparency
Who is practicing the salary transparency?
Ego
Leave the ego at the door means that you are more receptive to new ideas. One can have internal conversation's with themselves to evaluate their propensity toward openness when collaborating with others. If one finds that they haven't left their ego at the door then they can step into a mindset shift of being excited to learn new ideas that they can add to their bank of knowledge.
identified the circumstances
The author has observed different circumstances that promote synergy amongst multiple participants.
“shortage of data
The shared flow state, i.e., synergy, also helps people collectively be successful because it allows multiple taps of knowledge and experiences to work in unison. This unison is valuable because it foments new ideas and solutions that would not ordinarily be thought of or generated by one person.
hile I
The author isn't strong at collaborating with others and usually prefers to just take on work by themself because they don't like the circular discussions and unnecessary compromises. After learning about share flow state, the author realizes that she may not have been collaborating effectively.
flow state with other people
Shared flow state is when collaborative efforts amongst multiple people function very well, presumably with less friction, and with more of an enriching engagement, resulting in the creation of ideas and solutions.
‘flow’ state
Flow state is effortless work that one puts into their endeavors and is difficult to achieve due to constantly working with others
we are not
i.e., with other people.
viewed with
Viewed by who? I think it's important to emphasize that this "view" comes from multiple viewpoints. It comes from mothers, fathers, brothers, male and/or female peers, and young children of different gender expressions.
Black Male Masculinity
I think this article will talk about masculinity overall and add nuance to what masculinity looks like for Black men in the American context. I think this article will go into toxic masculinity and the implications that come with it, including lack of motivation for Black men to pursue mental health services, homophobia, and domestic violence. I think this article will highlight media scrutiny about Michael B Jordan and co-star from Creeds, friendship, noting suspicions that these men are gay because they show affection toward each other. I think the article will talk about why it's problematic that men are discouraged from showing affection to maintain a socio-cultural archetype of a hyper masculine Black man, and that this persona is characterized by the opposite of showing affection to another men.
sus aportes de capital
Qué son aportes de capital?
automatically import any orders from your eCommerce
What exactly is an integration?
El salario medio de un directivo del gigante tecnológico en Estados Unidos es de unos 165.000 dólares
¿Cuáles son los factores que contribuyen a que directivos ganen pro medio un salario de 165.000 dólares?
It was a nice way of giving back and closing the loop with the learnings I got from all of the sessions
I think the co-creation session is a great idea but I'm trying to understand the relevance for the purpose of this research. Was the idea to take the participant from a natural interactive environment (i.e., the normal meetings the participants had) to a more structured, artificial environment? If so, what type of data was collected in these co-creation sessions? What were the participants and internal stakeholders co-creating exactly?
The plan consisted of three phases. Phase one, participatory observation of an actual hybrid meeting. Phase two was follow-up interviews with a participant and a facilitator of that meeting. Phase three was a survey, and actually, I was missing, phase four was a co-creation session. I'll type it all together, but starting from the phase one, we could sit there and observe what the actual challenges are with the hybrid meeting.
PHASES OF PROJECT
participatory observation session where we sat with them to see a hybrid meeting or workshop
First batch and method - Participatory Observation Session
"Hey, these are the themes that we are going to explore. These are some of the research questions, and this is how we plan to tackle this in terms of methods.
1) themes, 2) research questions, and 3) methods. By themes, I'm wondering what he meant by that? Does he mean general topic areas and there are research questions nested within those?
It was funny. There was one in-person event and I went straight to one of them and say, "Hey, I need to hear two or three weeks from now, this is what I'm cooking." Then he said, "Hell, yes." Then we toasted with the beer. Then was the agreement.
This exhibits Edu's resourcefulness and creativity for research and building socio-professional networks at Miro.
might be at the office, might be in a booth in the office, devices, might be your laptop that was normal back then, but they might be an iPad, a mobile device, or simply at the screen in the median room.
Connection; While working at IP3, most of our users were using mobile devices to do virtual instructor-led courses including the live virtual courses (Mural, Zoom, and LMS).
so we wanted to understand that overlap between devices, environment, and culture, and find the right spot or produce the best practices and best product experiences that can support people at the intersection of these three.
Interest of that intersection of devices, environment and culture helped to share recommendations that both the larger user base can understand but also for the company internally can use to growth from.
arrows.”
Summary: Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was recently killed at a political campaign. Former Primer Minister Abe was known for having his Abenomics policy which entailed cutting corporate taxes and removing administrative red tape, and expanding the power of the aging population by having woman, immigrants and seniors participate more in the economy. Abe's economic policy was embraced by and less by others including by the Liberal Democratic Party which was his own party. The mixed opinions about his economic policy came from the lack of trade reform.
intractable
Define: hard to control or deal with
Abenomics
What? - economic develop program worked by cutting corporate taxes, removing administrative barriers, and encouraging the participation of more woman, immigrants, and seniors in the economy.
The lack of will to implement the third arrow of economic and trade reform, as Japan fell back into entrenched ways, meant the other arrows only really managed to keep the lights on through the 2010s,”
Why? - The mixed reviews from Abe's political party came from the lack of trade reform meant that Japan fell back into other ways to help finance needs, like keeping the lights on.
“mixed results”.
What? - Within Abe's political party Liberal Democratic Party, there were mixed reviews or opinions about Abe's economic policy.
ally Yoshihide Suga
Who? - Yoshihide was Abe's successor and had planned to maintain the Abenomics policy, however the current Prime Minister Fumio wants to take a different approach to economic development for the country.
Min Joo Kang, senior economist for South Korea and Japan at ING
Who? - Min Joo Kang, commented on self-reliance as a factor to enhance productivity and improve economic development in Japan.
nearly eight-year second stint as prime minister
When? - Abe served as prime minister during eight years, including close to when the COVID pandemic started.
Between 2015 and 2017
When? - For two those two or three years, Japan experienced economic growth in part due to abenomics
Japan may be losing its population
Why? - Abenomics came into place in part because of its rapidly aging population.
Former prime ministe
Who?
recurre
Acudir a los que uno apoye o en otras palabras ladearse con un grupo o una postura
diseñar, construir, operar y conservar
Termino: tipo de contrato tambien.
apuntalar
sostener o apoyar
un esquema de financiamiento
Termino
licitar el contrato
Termino
enables the organisation and its key stakeholders to understand, influence and shape the project’s scope and direction early on in the planning process
Key stakeholders understand better the different influences at play which helps to scope the project.
business products
Maybe the business product is a public service good.
appraising coverage levels of infrastructure services
Assessing the value of the services that infrastructure projects will have.
panacea
a solution or remedy for all difficulties or diseases.
This is especially true as infrastructure often carries a high price tag, paid by citizens
It's important to remember that it always comes back to citizens' tax dollars
find ways to hand the subject over to the learners to do something with it
Make the learning material practical in some way
guarantees, insurance policies, or hedging mechanisms under which, for a fee, the provider will agree to compensate the concessionaire (or its lenders) in case of default and/or loss due to some specified circumstance
Guarantees, insurance policies, etc are ways to ensure that people still get their money or don't have to pay a lot if something goes wrong. The third party helps to soften the financial blow from different type of risks
An alternative option is to assign some part of the project risk to a third party through a credit enhancement or risk transfer instrument.
When the risk on either the private company side or the government side is unbalanced and may result in negative impacts, a third party entity may bear the risk; this is where credit enhancement or risk mitigation comes in
level of risk allocated to the private party is too high, lenders may increase their lending rates or reduce their willingness to lend to the project to the point where the project becomes unviable or not bankable
If too much risk is put on the private sector lenders may be less unwilling to lend to the project or increase their lending rate (probably increase the interest on a loan)
The overarching goal is to align the profit incentives of the private parties with the government’s objectives for the project.
I can see aligning the private sector's goals with the governments goal to provide a public service as sometimes challenging.
How can educators use SA tools to support student learning?
Do educators know that SA exists? What needs to happen to stakeholders to emphasize the importance of virtual social learning to educators?
Formal incentives inspire students to annotate
How does intrinsic vs extrinsic incentivation impact students engagement with Hypothes.is?
Social annotation helps students feel connected
Is it possible for students to feel disconnected through social learning?
What about social learning helps students learn?
I like this sentence. It adds flavor
Another study found that white teachers were 30 percent less likely than black teachers to predict a black student of theirs would graduate college.
Black teachers were 70%more likely to believe their students would graduate from college
We will work with partners to identify and apply evidence-based strategies and tools that support quality teaching and student learning.
Potential technology-based solutions
lack of skills reduces job quality, earnings, and labor mobility.”
earnings, ability to move in between different jobs (labor mobility)
child-centered play therapy intervention
What - child-centered play is an exmple of EBT
black and Latinx students
Who - minority students
49,000 students, and more than 4,100 of those students are receiving ongoing,
Who - the 49,000 students
eight to eleven percent of all children in DC
Who - young students (the target population)
District of Columbia Public Schools Mental Health Team,
Where
blended trainings by combining elements of live learning (webinars & live chats) with aspects self paced learning (activities, final projects, & discussion forums) as well as merging the online and the offline (meetups & luncheons)
Blended learning seems to be a major aspect of TechChange's approach to learning in the digital era.
“When multiple similar objects are present, the one that differs from the rest is most likely to be remembered!”
Von Restoff Effect
Begin with task analysis and field studies to understand your users’ needs and workflows. Prototype and test low-fidelity ideas to rough out the essential structure of your app and its features, without committing many resources towards ideas that you will revise or abandon as you learn from your users. Design iteratively, and test each change with a small number of users. The more iterations, the better your application will be.
1) Essentially do usability test and observe users in the environment in which they would be using the technology
2) Prototyping and testing low-fi ideas allows you to get a structure down but not committing to specifics 3) Iterations
to set standards for investment
What does this mean?
The report commended school districts for increasingly demanding interoperability from vendors, but also recommended that the industry agrees on set data standards.
Systems need to be better connected. It is less cumbersome on the teachers and save the schools time and money.
school-based computer labs and classroom devices,” the authors write, “China and Indonesia rely heavily on more recent advancements in mobile technology and affordable mobile data, allowing them to create access at home and promote the large-scale use of EdTech for learning and test preparation.”
U.S. focuses on more class-based and lab technology implementations but in developing countries and China there is more mobile-based edtech initiatives. This allows users to do more at home.
Edtech ecosystems are becoming better developed by schools developing better achievement standards
Cait Holman, Associate Director for R&D
She sounds like an interesting point of contact. I wonder what research on her looks like? Does she do a lot of analystics type of stuff or is it more qualitative?
“Milton-Bradley Model: For Ages 8 to 88”
Is the implication that this model is accessible to people from different backgrounds? What does this mean exactly?
first ever University of Michigan Teach-Out Academy.
This just happened last Spring. Quite fresh. There is a lot of room to modify and enrich the experience of future participants.
offline society
"Offline Society" I like this phase. It should be included in the language about the teach-outs. Most logically, related to the actionable items section.
We see the project as a meaningful dialogue based on listening and mutual respect rather than a one-way platform for our academic expertise.
I think this should be a goal of all of the teach-outs
joint teach-out will showcase a selection of individual voices and personal narratives of those from Puerto Rico affected by the crisis
I think that this is important. It's nice for the audience to view and experience the voices and experience of people. I wonder how this can also be applied to other teach-outs. Maybe the teach-out on climate change for example could involve a visit to a local farm. Farmer(s) could be interviewed and that material could enrich the conversation. I puts a face on the issue. Climate change alone is not inspiring enough but when the face by someone who is drastically impacted by it is a child or low-income farmer, it has a more impact.
decision poin
A question that has either yes or no outcomes
a step or action taken.
Verb
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beginner’s group. Although students in both classes found the app easy to use and helpful in studying Spanish, clearly the students in this group did not enjoy using the app as much (only 43.8% said they Strongly Agree or Agree).
Finding #2: When honing in the groups themselves, the lower-level Spanish course students did not enjoy using the app as much with 43.8% of the students agreeing to the survey question, "Is Duolingo an easy to use, helpful, and enjoyable app to practice Spanish?" While this is true, the A2 level students still displayed a liking, in their survey responses, for Duolingo to be a good replacement for "other types of homework." According to some reasons, this is in part due to the activities including both writing and hearing, its simple and easy user interface, it was a game, and it was available on the app to use.
we observe that 91% found Duolingo easy to use, 82% found it helpful, 80.4% enjoyed using it and 78.3% were satisfied with the app.
Finding #1: When looking at the post survey administered after the study, the majority of student (both A1 and B2 level groups combined) had a positive positive experience using the app. This means that they responded to Duolingo app being easy to use (91% of students), helpful (80.4%), and generally satisfying to use (78.3%)
All students in both groups completed surveys at the end of the semester.
The findings of the student reflect more students' self-reported experience using Duolingo. The results do not reflect, per se, how much students learned. While the aspect of student learning was not measured, this study does still add value to understanding student experience with online language learning, because it provides other researches with insight on one of the most realistic contexts and uses for why university professors may use Duolingo. It also makes suggestions as to how the online user experience can be improved, which fueled future studies and future modifications that can be made to the app.
For both groups, Duolingo represented 10% of their final grade. Both groups took the free placement test offered by Duolingo when you sign up for a new course.
The students participation in the study, therefore their use of Duolingo, represented 10% of the final grade in the class. Baseline data was collected with respect to their starting level which allowed the researchers to gauge what levels of Spanish were represented in the same.
Krashen (2014) points out in his rebuke of the Vesselinov and Grego (2012) study, in which they equated 34 hours of Duolingo to a university language course, that language learning is different from language acquisition. Krashen states that the activities presented in Duolingo (or in similar tutoring programs such as Rosetta Stone) involve conscious learning. In his opinion, conscious learning does not lead to language competence. He presents a summary of the research done by Mason, 2004; 2011; and Mason, Vanata, Jander, Borsch, and Krashen, 2009, noting that in his view, acquisition-oriented methods, which use subconscious learning, are superior to skill-based methods such as those used by Duolingo
This part and relevant research is useful for the "learning/Pedagogical Theory" tab under the "what does it mean to learn a language?"
spaced repetition, in which its algorithms detect when a user needs to review words or chunks that may have faded from memory.
An important feature