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I enjoyed reading (July)

Jul 30, 2014

in Note

artificial intelligence, Carl Sagan, communication, connectivism, garr reynolds, learning, luddite, massive open online course, networked learning, open assessment, open education, open learning, open networks, personal learning networks, science, spirituality

Artificial Intelligence Is Now Telling Doctors How to Treat You (Daniela Hernandez) Artificial intelligence is still in the very early stages of development–in so many ways, it can’t match our own intelligence–and computers certainly can’t replace doctors at the bedside. But today’s machines are capable of crunching vast amounts of data and identifying patterns that…
Giving good presentations

Jul 30, 2009

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design, Dick Hardt, garr reynolds, lawrence lessig, lessig, presentation zen, presentations, Seth Godin, TED, youtube

I gave my first conference presentation in June, 2008 and thought that it was terribly boring. I presented the results of my Masters thesis and since I’m quite new to the whole “being an academic” thing, I did it the same way that everyone else was doing it. In other words, I fired up OpenOffice…