Category Archives: technology

Launching my new technology seminar

Posted on September 1, 2020 by Bryan Alexander

Tonight is the first session of my technology, innovation, and design seminar for Georgetown University’s Learning, Design, and Technology masters program.  This seminar is required for all LDT students, so the class tends to be among the largest. As usual … Continue reading →

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The little spreadsheet that could, and did: crowdsourcing COVID-19, higher education, data, and stories

Posted on March 12, 2020 by Bryan Alexander

I’ve been tracking the global coronavirus since early February, with a focus on how it impacts higher education worldwide.  That tracking has meant blogging here, tweeting, and creating a resource post. Then I made something new, and now I have … Continue reading →

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Snapshot of a conversational morning

Posted on February 11, 2020 by Bryan Alexander

I’d like to share a small sample of how I use social media.  Not for a spectacular event, nor a comprehensive overview, and definitely not in a professionally ethnographic way, but just to demo some ways social media can work … Continue reading →

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The dead won’t shut up: on Star Wars, The Rise of Skywalker

Posted on December 26, 2019 by Bryan Alexander

The movie theater showing Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker began by screening 35 minutes of trailers.  At first I thought this was because they had us trapped.  Then, once I saw The Rise of Skywalker, I realized it was … Continue reading →

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A warped AI Christmas

Posted on December 24, 2019 by Bryan Alexander

Some of you may know the Talk to Transformer AI tool.  It’s a website with a simple premise.  You type or paste in some text, and it uses machine learning to complete it. For example, I entered the first line … Continue reading →

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Have you played Webinar Bingo?

Posted on December 19, 2019 by Bryan Alexander

If you take in enough webinars, you notice certain patterns.  The same mistakes and weirdnesses keep cropping up. So my friend Steven Kaye and I decided to share our experiences in the time-honored tradition of turning these videoconferencing pains into… … Continue reading →

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How will we try to fix Facebook?

Posted on November 30, 2019 by Bryan Alexander
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What Americans think of the present and future of science and technology

Posted on September 29, 2019 by Bryan Alexander

Where will science go in the future, and how will that impact our lives? I’ve been tracking this question for a while, so it’s good to have fresh research to hand.  A new Pew Research survey asked Americans what they … Continue reading →

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Thoughts on chatbots

Posted on September 10, 2019 by Bryan Alexander

This week Inside Higher Ed interviewed me and some other folks about chatbots.  I was brought in as ed tech futurist.  Also on deck were leaders of companies actually making chatbots for education: Ivy.ai and Admit.hub.  Lindsay McKenzie did a … Continue reading →

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How far will digital video go?

Posted on August 15, 2019 by Bryan Alexander

In 2019 the growth of digital video looks like one enormous and steady trend.  We see video appear wherever we can wrangle a screen, from smartphones to large screen tvs to the backs of passenger airplane seats and the fronts … Continue reading →

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