Category: Technology Management

Buckman Waste Water Treatment Facility, Jacksonville, Florida. #GlobalLearningMaps #OutdoorsLearning

Buckman Waste Water Treatment Facility, Jacksonville, Florida. #GlobalLearningMaps #OutdoorsLearning. Walking tour of a waste water treatment Facility in Jacksonville, Florida. Outdoors Learning Experience to know City Management practices with Dr. Jose G. Lepervanche, Professor of Management and Information Systems. Video based on ArcGISStoryMaps.

See Global Story Map https://arcg.is/0D8OLC

Cities use companies to provide water services to their citizens. Waste water is treated in facilities like this one. This case includes releasing treated water to a local rivers. Automated Systems and a few employees control all stages from a control room. #ManagementInformationSystems #WasteWaterManagement #GlobalLearningMaps #InternationalBusinessManagement #CityManagement #SustainableDevelopmentGoals

Google Maps aerial map of Buckman Waste Water Treatment Facility in Jacksonville, Florida. Buckman Wastewater Treatment Facility is the largest regional sewer plant with advanced nutrient removal. Ref. https://www.jea.com/About/Wastewater/

As we study this topic, it is important to explore how other cities and local governments treat their waste water and how emerging Information Systems are supporting these processes. Let’s compare and contrast how well our local city is doing it when we explore other worldwide cities. #CityManagement #WasteWaterManagement #InformationSystems #GeographicInformationSystems #OutdoorsLearning

FSCJ Spring 2019 A7 & SDGs / #DrLepervancheCampus

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Welcome back to #FSCJ #Spring2019 semester and A7 term. Our courses will continue adding global best practices in #BusinessManagement with the Sustainable Development Goals #SDGs. More #GLOBE4SDGs initiatives, outdoors #Scouts4SDGs with emphasis on #My4SDGs in content, assignments, discussions, and projects. Happy new year and welcome back.

#DrLepervancheCampus #globalgoals #act4sdgs #youth4sdgs 

#outdoorslearning #outdoorsuniversity  

TECHKnowledge: Global Management Online Education and Technology | Dr. Jose G. Lepervanche

TECHKnowledge: Online Education and Technology

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Be outside of the box! Analyze, Evaluate, Create (vs Remember, Understand, Apply)

We combine two popular ideas. 1. “Think outside of the box”used to expand our way of thinking to explore different perspectives. It was a popular concept during our MIT courses in the 70s. We expanded this idea to “Be outside of the box”. This idea is to go beyond thinking and be an instrument of action and change outside your comfort zone. 2. Incorporate the use of the top of Blooms’ Taxonomy in our learning initiatives. Education should move from “Remember, Understand, and Apply” to more “Analyze, Evaluate, and Create”. 

New management, leadership, and technology realities require people with TECHKnowledge who can combine organization and management skills with emerging technologies to create new products and services. It is not enough to think outside of the box. We need to be outside of the box to assess risks, explore new opportunities, and take creative actions. 

What is your organization doing to improve training, education, performance, and systems to cope with today’s global and local challenges? Why or why not these ideas could be useful in your organization?

#TECHKnowledge: Five knowledge trends using technology

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1. Connected Learning = Social media learning. #socialmedialearning

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2. Device Oriented Learning = Mobile knowledge. #mlearning

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3. Team Based Learning = Share individual strengths for collaborative solutions.#teamlearning.

4. Outdoors Classrooms = Connect learners with nature. #outdoorsuniversity #outdoorslearning

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5. Leadership Learning = Lead yourself and others.#youthleaders #drjosecampus

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TEDxFSCJ Learning Adventures using TED-Ed Lessons and Social Media Learning to Enhance Online Learning Experience

TECHKnowledge: Device-Oriented Learning combining technology and knowledge with TED-Ed lessons and social media learning are used to expand online and offline discussion in different management courses. Combined discussions allow students from different sections to participate.

Discussions can be hosted in TED-Ed platform, or personal or professional social media networks.

Learning-to-go revolution or evolution | Dr. Jose G. Lepervanche

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Lessons from the 23rd International Conference on Teaching and Learning. Shared with all students across my current courses regardless of the topic.

After attending the International Conference on College Teaching and Learning and presenting two times, it was good to see the evolution of online to mobile learning in the last four years. On 2009 I presented about blogs and wikis for collaborative learning, and then moved into testing new technologies for management and systems learning. Information overload hit my students and me while we started moving into tablets and smartphones for personal, business, and education.

These technologies waves have been moving up and down and several models have helped us in narrowing  widgets and gadgets in our “Reduce Information Overload” movement. We are in a “learning-to-go” revolution or evolution that is bringing knowledge to our mobile devices. All generations are now attached to a device (or the opposite) that is impacting the way we communicate and gather information.

Eating at Panera Bread with my iPad while writing and posting this note before the afternoon workshop allowed me do a quick visual survey to see who was alone using a device, or eating with another person and….using a device. We are connected and disconnected on a table. I was tempted to take a picture of the table next to me where a couple had been eating and texting for five minutes…

What do you think about public use of these devices? How to take advantage of these time slots to update our social or learning connections at the same time we are enjoying some free offline time? Please share your practices and help others (and me) to optimize our online learning experience without losing our mind, sanity, eyes, and table companions.

Have a great weekend. I will be updating our courses in my “after-the-conference” weekend. 🙂

News Websites: Real-Time News to Enhance Classroom Presentations | International Conference on College Teaching and Learning | Dr. Jose G. Lepervanche

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The Web is an additional medium used by major TV cable news networks to expand and complement the dissemination of international, national, local, or other news that help users improve their knowledge and make informed professional and personal decisions. News websites provides an excellent way to present news to users who are willing to accept this technology and perceive that it is useful and easy to use. News websites allow professors to bring current events to the classroom in real time.

The Fact

Mayor TV cable networks, TV broadcast networks, local stations, newspapers, news agencies, radio and web-only news provides have been developing news websites.

The Benefit

News websites bring extensive detail and coverage of the news, allowing users to go beyond regular television programming.

The Issue

Web design, navigation scheme, and news content organization may affect the capability of these news websites to reach major users due to lack of usefulness or difficulty in navigating the sites to find the desired news. Usefulness and ease of use are two of the major problems encountered by web developers when creating and maintaining informational websites.

The News Web Sites

Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy

The Bottom Line

  • Content, content organization, and navigation scheme could have impact on users.
  • Perceived usefulness is the factor that predicts user’s acceptance and intended usage.

How I’m fighting bias in algorithms | Joy Buolamwini | TEDxBeaconStreet

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How I’m fighting bias in algorithms | Joy Buolamwini | TEDxBeaconStreet

LESSON CREATED BY JOSE G. LEPERVANCHE USING VIDEO FROM TED for non-native English speakers YOUTUBE CHANNEL

MIT Media Lab grad student Joy Buolamwini was working with facial recognition software when she noticed a problem: the software didn’t recognize her face — because the people who coded the algorithm hadn’t taught it to identify a broad range of skin tones and facial structures. Now she’s on a mission to fight bias in machine learning. She spoke at TEDxBeaconStreet in Boston. Join #codedgaze. (Ref: TED.com)

TED Video Link:  http://www.ted.com/talks/joy_buolamwini_how_i_m_fighting_bias_in_algorithms

What is the social impact of facial recognition? How developers can use full spectrum inclusion coding to improve our lives?

Topic includes logic programming, coding, facial recognition software, and related uses of technologies to solve social issues.

History of the Internet (2009)

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“History of the internet” is an animated documentary explaining the inventions from time-sharing to filesharing, from Arpanet to Internet. The clip was made by Melih Bilgil — http://www.lonja.de
The history is told using the PICOL icons, which are available on picol.org. You can get news about this project on blog.picol.org

From Data to Business Intelligence. #DrJoseWhiteboard

This graphic shows the steps to convert data into Business Intelligence. We go from big data warehouses to do data mining and extract the pieces that we will filter, analyze and store as records in databases.

We then organize, sort, and clean records to produce information.  We start the process of selecting useful information that we can convert into intelligence. Similar to military intelligence, we study this meaningful information to produce business intelligence for our organization. This business intelligence  allows leaders and managers to make decisions keeping the competitive advantage. Business intelligence is also useful to expand to new markets, explore new countries, and try new systems. Two important considerations are: Control Information Overload and Validate Sources. These will help to have better Data at the Base. It is called “database” for a reason. We are using this graphic and video in our courses. #DrLepervancheCampus