Tag: culture

This morning I walked to France and Germany

Jul 6, 2024

in Travel

border, culture, security, travel

I walked to the Three Countries Bridge from the Swiss side, into France and then cross the bridge into Germany. The border crossing was not what I expected it to be.
Integrating AI in higher education needs a culture shift

Mar 22, 2024

in AI, Assessment, Video

culture, culture shift, higher education, product launch, technology rollout, university

Integrating AI into higher education requires a questioning of assumptions, and a re-evaluation of attitudes, behaviours, and beliefs. In short, it requires a change in culture.
Culture is what culture does

Sep 20, 2023

in Note

culture, organisation
A culture of thinking…

Sep 6, 2023

in Note

culture, joy, learning, thinking
A culture of iterative improvement in healthcare

Aug 28, 2023

in Conference

agile methodologies, AMEE, AMEE23, culture, improvement, iteration, software development, software development principles

Lucas, B., & Nacer, H. (2015). The habits of an improver: Thinking about learning for improvement in health care. Health Foundation. For several decades we have known about the importance of education which builds improvement capability. But, looking across the professions and occupations that plan and deliver health and social care services in the NHS,…
Link: Realistic bookshelf murals on buildings in the Netherlands

Aug 16, 2023

in Note

art, books, culture

https://mossandfog.com/hyperrealistic-bookshelf-murals-in-the-netherlands/
Social digital cyborgs

May 12, 2023

in AI, Note, Robotics

artificial intelligence, culture, cyborg, dance, robotics, social interaction, surgery

Papadopoulos, L. (2023, May 7). Spider-like robotic AI arms can be attached to and controlled by humans. Interesting Engineering. The primary goal of Jizai Arms is to ensure that human beings can act with robots and AI in a way that feels natural and comfortable as if the artificial components are but mere extensions of…
Strong cultural norms…

May 3, 2023

in AI, Note

artificial intelligence, culture
Learning organisations…

Apr 27, 2023

in Learning, Quote

culture, higher education, learning community, learning organisation, Peter Senge, teams

The quote above is from Peter Senge’s The Fifth Discipline, which I’m slowly working my way through. But when it came up in my Readwise review today, it reminded me of another piece that recently came across my desk, asking if universities are learning organisations? We have: If we really want higher education institutions to…
We’re more honest with machines than we are with people

Jul 2, 2021

in AI, Clinical

artificial intelligence, chatbot, culture, hci, human-computer interaction, personal information, sensitive information, social norms, user interface, user interface design

The use of chatbots in some areas of healthcare (psychology, for example) seems to be a promising space for the early integration of AI-based systems, especially given the massive improvements in natural language processing over the past few years. You may be thinking that we’ll be less likely to share personal information with a machine…
Exposing the culture of professional practice

Nov 27, 2012

in Curriculum, Physiotherapy

becoming, belief systems, community, culture, language, norms, profession, social networks, values

I often forget that learning is not only mediated by social relationships, but by cultural relationships as well. To a large degree we are the products of influence that emerge from interactions between thousands of variables within our families, groups of friends, communities, religions and countries. The process of becoming a physiotherapist is also embedded within…