Category: Technology
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Who is planning for the future of physiotherapy?
In the middle ages, cities could spend more than 100 years building a cathedral while at the same time believing that the apocalypse was imminent. They must’ve had a remarkable conviction that commissioning these projects would guarantee them eternal salvation. Compare this to the way we think about planning and design today where, for example,…
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Are you ready? Here is all the data Facebook and Google have on you
Google offers an option to download all of the data it stores about you. I’ve requested to download it and the file is 5.5GB big, which is roughly 3m Word documents. This link includes your bookmarks, emails, contacts, your Google Drive files, all of the above information, your YouTube videos, the photos you’ve taken on…
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Delete All Your Apps
in TechnologyA good question to ask yourself when evaluating your apps is “why does this app exist?” If it exists because it costs money to buy, or because it’s the free app extension of a service that costs money, then it is more likely to be able to sustain itself without harvesting and selling your data.…
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My presentation for the Reimagine Education conference
Here is a summarised version of the presentation I’m giving later this morning at the Reimagine Education conference. You can download the slides here.
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E.J. Chichilnisky | Restoring Sight to the Blind
Source: After on podcast with Rob Reid: Episode 39: E.J. Chichilnisky | Restoring Sight to the Blind. This was mind-blowing. The conversation starts with a basic overview of how the eye works, which is fascinating in itself, but then they start talking about how they’ve figured out how to insert an external (digital) process into…
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a16z Podcast: Network Effects, Origin Stories, and the Evolution of Tech
If an inferior product/technology/way of doing things can sometimes “lock in” the market, does that make network effects more about luck, or strategy? It’s not really locked in though, since over and over again the next big thing comes along. So what does that mean for companies and industries that want to make the new…
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In Beta and sunsetting consumer Google+
Action 1: We are shutting down Google+ for consumers. This review crystallized what we’ve known for a while: that while our engineering teams have put a lot of effort and dedication into building Google+ over the years, it has not achieved broad consumer or developer adoption, and has seen limited user interaction with apps. The…
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Mozilla’s Common Voice project
Any high-quality speech-to-text engines require thousands of hours of voice data to train them, but publicly available voice data is very limited and the cost of commercial datasets is exorbitant. This prompted the question, how might we collect large quantities of voice data for Open Source machine learning? Source: Branson, M. (2018). We’re intentionally designing…
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Technology Beyond the Tools
You didn’t need to know about how to print on a printing press in order to read a printed book. Writing implements were readily available in various forms in order to record thoughts, as well as communicate with them. The use was simple requiring nothing more than penmanship. The rapid advancement of technology has changed…
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With every answer, search reshapes our worldview
Our search engines tried to impose structure and find relationships using mainly unintentional clues. You therefore couldn’t rely on them to find everything that would be of help, and not because the information space was too large. Rather, it was because the space was created by us slovenly humans. Source: Weinberger, D. (2017). With every answer,…
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The future is ear: Why “hearables” are finally tech’s next big thing
Your ears have some enormously valuable properties. They are located just inches from your mouth, so they can understand your utterances far better than smart speakers across the room. Unlike your eyes, your ears are at work even when you are asleep, and they are our ultimate multi-taskers. Thousands die every year trying to text…
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Will Marshall: The mission to create a searchable database of Earth’s surface | TED Talk
in TechnologyAnd we now have over 200 satellites in orbit, downlinking their data to 31 ground stations we built around the planet. In total, we get 1.5 million 29-megapixel images of the Earth down each day. And on any one location of the Earth’s surface, we now have on average more than 500 images. A deep…
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The Industrial Era Ended, and So Will the Digital Era
While there is limited new value to be gleaned from things like word processors and smartphone apps, there is tremendous value to be unlocked in applying digital technology to fields like genomics and materials science to power traditional industries like manufacturing, energy, and medicine. Essentially, the challenge ahead is to learn how to use bits…
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OpenPhysio abstract: Artificial intelligence in clinical practice – Implications for physiotherapy education
Here is the abstract of a paper I recently submitted to OpenPhysio, a new open-access journal with an emphasis on physiotherapy education. About 200 years ago the invention of the steam engine ushered in an era of unprecedented development and growth in human social and economic systems, whereby human labour was supplanted by machines. The…
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Is that it? More, better apps?
It seems that much of the literature on the use of technology in education focuses on apps (Instagram, WhatsApp), services and platforms (Google Docs, Facebook) and hardware (tablets, laptops and phones). This is fine, of course. We need to understand how students and teachers use these things in the classroom. But is this really what…
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SAAHE podcast 05 – A critical pedagogy for online learning, with Michael Rowe
Earlier this year the Critical Physiotherapy Network published Manipulating practices: A critical physiotherapy reader. The book is a collection of critical writing from a variety of authors dealing with a range of topics related to physiotherapy practice and education. One of the interesting features of this collection is that it is completely open access, which…
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Critical digital pedagogy in the classroom: Practical implementation
Update (12-02-18): You can now download the full chapter here (A critical pedagogy for online learning in physiotherapy education) and the edited collection here. This post is inspired by the work I’ve recently done for a book chapter, as well as several articles on Hybrid Pedagogy but in particular, Adam Heidebrink-Bruno’s Syllabus as Manifesto. I’ve been wanting…
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Give feedback on “A critical digital pedagogy for education in the 21st century”?
Update (12-02-18): You can now download the full chapter here (A critical pedagogy for online learning in physiotherapy education) and the edited collection here. I finally managed to put together some ideas for my chapter on critical digital pedagogy in the CPN book on critical perspectives in practice. I split the chapter into 4 sections, excluding an introduction and conclusion…
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Critical digital pedagogy: Teaching at the edges of chaos
Update (12-02-18): You can now download the full chapter here (A critical pedagogy for online learning in physiotherapy education) and the edited collection here. Update (22-02-17): This post has been modified from the original. Changes include updated in-text citations, minor grammatical improvements and an added reference list. This is the fourth and final section of…
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Critical digital pedagogy: Education as the practice of freedom
Update (12-02-18): You can now download the full chapter here (A critical pedagogy for online learning in physiotherapy education) and the edited collection here. Update (22-02-17): This post has been modified from the original. Changes include updated in-text citations, minor grammatical improvements and an added reference list. This is the third section of my CPN…