The University of Minnesota (UM) has created the Hype Cycle for Education tool to create and share community-sourced information about educational technology to all University students, staff, and faculty. UM believes that the Hype Cycle Tool will provide data that help improve decisions regarding technology investments. UM states that:
The Hype Cycle for Education tool enables you to
Learn about new academic technologies being piloted here at the University and discover new ways of supporting teaching and learning with technology.
Share your experiences with emerging technologies, your resources and technology pointers, and your views on which technologies should be centrally piloted and where we ought to focus our attention and resources in the academic technology domain.
Innovate by adopting new technologies or applying new techniques in your courses, collaborating with peers to organize (and communicate about) local pilots, participate on the Hype Cycle advisory group, and/or join a centrally supported pilot.
Dan Ariely reveals that society doesn’t desire to walk the walk when it comes to equality. He also reveals just how ignorant we really are when we talk the talk of equality. Perhaps the most disturbing part of the presentation is the point where Ariely reveals just how inequitable things really are and how out of scale CEO compensation is compared to the average worker.
Ariely didn’t comment on why we are so tolerant of this inequality so I must speculate. Is that so many of us are holding out for that huge windfall or opportunity that will enable us to have a piece of that top 1%, the top 10% or even a move up to the next level?
Consider for yourself…
