Tag: TED

Dina Katabi: A new way to monitor vital signs (that can see through walls) | TED Talk

Aug 22, 2018

in AI, Clinical

healthcare, machine learning, monitoring, TED, wearables

So if you think about it, wireless signals, they travel through space, they go through obstacles and walls and occlusions, and some of them, they reflect off our bodies, because our bodies are full of water, and some of these minute reflections, they come back. And if, just if, I had a device that can…
Will Marshall: The mission to create a searchable database of Earth’s surface | TED Talk

Aug 17, 2018

in Technology

earth, machine learning, search, TED

And 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…
Developing compassion and empathy as part of a Professional Ethics module

Jan 31, 2012

in Ethics, Health, Physiotherapy, Students

caring, compassion, courage, empathy, healthcare professional, personal development, professional development, shame, TED, tedx, virtue

I’ve been spending some time this week working with our 4th year students in the Professional Ethics module. One of our biggest challenges is that our students (and most other students in healthcare programmes) see characteristics like compassion, empathy, courage, shame, and emotional response as something that they need to “have”, like a stethoscope or…
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-09-12

Sep 12, 2011

in Digest

academic publishing, capability, collaboration, competence, digital books, digital natives, diigo, ebooks, educational research, inkling, knowledge and skills, personal experience, reflection, research, stories, story telling, TED

@ryantracey they’re passages I highlight using diigo, they get pulled into the blog post so I can find them later # @amcunningham Often use personal experience in class, never thought of them as stories. Maybe it’s the “telling” of the story that matters # We learn from stories and experience http://t.co/zJP85x9. Been thinking how to…
Developing cases for Problem-Based Learning

Mar 14, 2011

in Education, Health, PhD, Teaching, Workshop

case-based studies, cases, data representation, Ethel Stanley, founder, gapminder, hans rosling, Margaret Waterman, pbl, phd, problem based learning, research, statistics, student products, teacher, TED, workshop

Workshop on the development of case-based studies Facilitators: Dr. Ethel Stanley, Dr. Margaret Waterman Part of my PhD will be to look at alternative approaches to clinical education, including uses cases in problem-based learning (PBL). My specific interest is in the use of emerging technology to design and teach with those cases in small groups.…
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-03-07

Mar 7, 2011

in Digest

abstract, africa, angry birds, Bill Gates, books, China, Connect Teachers & Students Worldwide, Docs, education, emerging countries, gina tripani, Google, Google Docs, identity, Looking forward, mendeley, Naive teacher, online lectures, open content, poster design, Professor, research, RT, social media, TED, tedxcapetown, The Chronicle of Higher Education, twitter, uct, Wired Campus

Focus on the technology or not? http://ow.ly/1s78vm. Focusing on tech can highlight their relative strengths # Do you prefer printed books? http://ow.ly/1s78th. How we use books can impact format and device preferences # Making a Concrete Abstract http://bit.ly/gQzjN9. The most important part of your paper, the abstract determines whether your work is read # The…
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-01-17

Jan 17, 2011

in Digest

android, authenticity, brene brown, emotion, evernote, Geek Retreat, geekretreat, presentation, RT, social networks, springpad, TED, twitter, vulnerability

Brilliant presentation at TEDx. Brene Brown discusses the profound value in exposing our vulnerabilities (http://ht.ly/3DFcB ) # Presentation Zen: We don’t seek your perfection, only your authenticity http://bit.ly/gYv0Ni # Just got out of Nik Ribinowitz’s show. Haven’t laughed so much in years. Was brilliant # Just started using #Springpad for notes. It’s great & has…
Authenticity and vulnerability

Jan 14, 2011

in Learning, Students, Teaching

authenticity, brene brown, facebook, presentation, TED, vulnerability

Yesterday I posted a reflection on how I’m coming to realise that the personal and social aspects of myself are always present, even when I’m in professional mode. I discussed this as it related to connecting with students on Facebook and the possible benefits that might have for everyone involved. Coincidentally, I also came across…
Predictably irrational: decision-making in teaching

Feb 21, 2010

in Education, Ethics, Research, Students

assessment, cognitive domain, community of inquiry, dan ariely, drafting, emotion, irrational decisions, moral decision, predictably irrational, procrastination, social domain, social norms, teaching and learning practice, TED, writing

I’m busy reading Dan Ariely’s Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces that Shape Our Decisions, and wanted to share some of the takeaway points that made me think about how I could change my own teaching practice. I haven’t finished the book yet, so I may update this post when I do. The premise of the…
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-11-16

Nov 16, 2009

in Digest

biomimicry, cellphones in health, lapdesk, micro-investment, mobile health, mobile learning, oer, open educational resources, steve barnett, TED, tedx, tedxjb, tedxjhb

Just finished at #tedxjohannesburg, now the real work begins, researching and integrating great ideas into teaching practice # Malan Joubert (http://ow.ly/Cu5I) on changing health in SA with mobile tech, important ideas with real practical solutions #tedxjohannesburg # Claire Janisch on biomimicry (http://ow.ly/CtXr) at #tedxjohannesburg, beautiful ideas, she is going to change the world # PRof…
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-10-26

Oct 26, 2009

in Digest

gina tripani, Google, technology in education, TED, tedx, tedxjohannesburg, warlick

My profile for TEDxJohannesburg – hoping to be accepted as a speaker based on ideas for networks in teaching practice http://bit.ly/1JHt6c # Don’t teach your kids this stuff. Please? – Dangerously Irrelevant http://bit.ly/411wOy # Forget the Business Card. Just Google Me – Gina Trapani – HarvardBusiness.org http://bit.ly/STxX4 # @sbestbier just saw your recommendations now, thanks…
Giving good presentations

Jul 30, 2009

in Social media

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…
The Social Media Classroom: open source collaborative teaching tool

Oct 17, 2008

in Note

author, collaborative teaching tool, howard rheingold, social media, teaching, TED, video, web technologies, web-based teaching, web-based teaching platform

The Social Media Classroom is a web-based teaching platform developed by Howard Rheingold, the author of Smart Mobs, which uses new web technologies like blogs, wiki, RSS, etc. to encourage collaboration between students and teachers. I just came across it this evening and would love to play around with it a little bit. I may…
The “Hole in the wall” project

Sep 1, 2008

in Learning, Technology

children, hole in the wall, sugata mitra, teacher, technology, TED

In 1999, Sugata Mitra and his colleagues dug a hole in the wall bordering an urban slum in New Delhi, installed an Internet-connected PC, and left it there (with a hidden camera filming the area). What they saw was kids from the slum playing around with the computer and in the process learning how to…
Open source alternatives to proprietary applications

Jul 7, 2008

in Technology

cross platform, Discovery Channel, facebook, GIMP, instant messaging, Internet Explorer, Internet TV application, linux, microsoft, Microsoft Windows, National Geographic, open source, operating system, operating systems, proprietary, social networking, social networking service, software, software application, technology, TED, ubuntu, web browser, word processing

I thought I’d take a moment to briefly mention a few open source alternatives to popular computer applications. The following programmes are all: Here is my incomplete list of the open-source software I use: Firefox – A very popular web browser that offers a more secure, more intuitive and faster alternative to Internet Explorer. OpenOffice.org…