e-LEARNING & DIGITAL SCIENCES

How Big Data (Artificial Intelligence) Could Improve Your Next Therapy Session Why my experience in therapy and working at The Crisis Text Line has taught me to trust the ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (BIG DATA). Photo: Lucy Lambriex/Getty Images About eight months ago, I sat in a counselor’s office at my university and we closed the therapy session with her asking me how I was doing. “I’m doing a lot better,” I said. “Thanks for all the help you’ve been. It means a lot.” But in truth, I was lying. I was actually doing worse. Life had gotten harder and I was faced with unorthodox challenges and grief that inevitably made me barely able to sleep. I was drinking too much, taking out my anger on my friends, and behaving in a multitude of other self-destructive ways. I was more depressed than I was the first time I saw the counselor, but I didn’t want her to know it. I didn’t want her to see it as an affront to her competence or aptitude as a social worker.  The tr...

       Learning online has particular challenges for students. It has been found in several studies that online courses differ from face-to-face ones in a number of aspects, so do the study techniques! Here is a list of practical advice for those students who target remarkable success in their studies. 1.      Know course/instructor expectations and the syllabus: Knowing what the instructor expects of you is especially important for an online course. You will need to read the syllabus carefully and keep up with course announcements. Examine every course you take, its goals, the syllabus, and try to understand what the course expects you to achieve and gain in terms of life skills. MAKE A LIST of these. 2.      Establish a Good Study Space   Find a quiet place with a good internet connection, access to power, and freedom from distraction. Ideally, this would be a place you can ONLY VISIT for the cours...

(E)LEARNING ACTIVITIES FOR FACE-TO-FACE & ONLINE CLASSROOMS 1- ART PROJECTS 2- ARTICLE / TEXT CRITIQUES 3- AUDIO RECORDING / PODCASTING 4- BLOGGING AND REFLECTING 5 - BRAINSTORMING, CONCEPT MAPPING AND LISTING FACTS / OPINIONS / MAIN IDEAS 6 - BRIEF DEBATES IN PAIRS / GROUPS 7 - BRIEF E-PRESENTATIONS (BY SCREEN SHARING) 8 - BRIEF LITERATURE REVIEW 9 - CASE STUDIES 10 - DATA COLLECTION ON WEB, WIKIS & BLOGS AND SHARING WITH CLASS 11- DISCUSSION QUESTIONS & DISCUSSION LEADERSHIP 12 - E-PORTFOLIO 13 - FISHBOWL 14 - FINDING ''REASONS & RESULTS'' & ''COMPARE & CONTRAST'' POINTS 15 - HYPOTHETICAL SITUATIONS 16 - KEY-WORD POOL 17 - KWL (WHAT I KNOW, WHAT I WANT TO KNOW, WHAT I'VE LEARNED) 18 - MAKING IMAGINARY JOURNAL TITLES 19 - PAIR / GROUP PROBLEM-SOLVING / EDIT / PEER-FEEDBACK / ORAL - WRITTEN REPORT 20 - PRODUCING WORK ON SOCIAL MEDIA AND SHARING IT WITH E-CLASS 21 - SOCRATIC DIALOGUE 22- VLOG / YOUTUBE / F...