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Centre for Technology e-Magazine (September 2023)
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Proactive debt management for a financially stable future
A 2022 study conducted by TransUnion revealed that nearly half of South African consumers (44%) anticipate difficulties in paying their bills and loans in the coming months. This situation poses challenges for business owners who struggle to collect outstanding debts. Effective debt management becomes crucial, especially given the current high inflation and interest rate hikes. CBJ Attorneys specialises in debt recovery for businesses, consumer collections, asset attachment, and overall fund recoveries. Our dedicated team offers expert advice, support, and legal services to our clients. With a deep understanding of various litigation tactics, we skillfully assist our clients in recovering assets and funds: https://tinyurl.com/2xzycyun
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Four ways that AI can help students (News24)
Artificial intelligence (AI) systems are changing the world of education, and while there are risks, there are also major opportunities.
Associate professor of literacy education, Ian OByrne, shares the four ways that AI can be used positively in education.
OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Microsoft’s Bing and Google’s Bard all come with both risks and opportunities.
I am a literacy educator and researcher, and here are four ways I believe these kinds of systems can be used to help students learn.
1. Differentiated instruction
Teachers are taught to identify the learning goals of all students in a class and adapt instruction for the specific needs of individual students.
But with 20 or more students in a classroom, fully customised lessons aren’t always realistic. Everyone learns differently.
An AI system can observe how a student proceeds through an assigned task, how much time they take and whether they are successful.
If the student is struggling, the system can offer help; if the student is succeeding, the system can present more difficult tasks to keep the activity challenging.
This type of real-time feedback is often difficult for an educator or school to do for a single student, let alone an entire class or campus.
AI adaptive learning tools have been shown to quickly and dynamically make changes to the learning environment, content, and tasks to help individuals learn more and quickly improve.
For instance, researchers at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University taught a system how to solve a math problem.
The system can follow instructions from a human supervisor to understand mathematical rules and adapt its approach to problems it has never seen before.
The system can also identify areas where it had to make multiple attempts before arriving at the correct answer, flag those for teachers as places human students may get confused, and highlight methods the system used to more efficiently arrive at the right answer.
2. Intelligent textbooks
Researchers at Stanford have been developing and testing a prototype of what’s called an “intelligent textbook,” titled “Inquire.”
It is an iPad app that monitors students’ focus and attention while they read by paying attention to how students interact with the app.
The interactive text includes definitions of key words accessible by touch or click and allows students to highlight and annotate while reading.
It can change the reading level of the text and also include supplemental photos, videos and materials to help students understand what they’re studying.
3. Improved assessment
Educational assessment focuses on how an educator knows whether a student is learning what is being taught.
Traditional assessments – essays, multiple-choice tests, short-answer questions – are little changed from a century ago.
Artificial intelligence has the potential to change that by identifying patterns in learning that may not be apparent to individual teachers or administrators.
For instance, the language-learning company Duolingo uses AI and machine learning to create and score tests of English proficiency for universities, companies and government agencies.
The tests start with a series of standard questions, but based on how the student does with those, the system will select harder or easier questions to more quickly identify a student’s exact abilities and weaknesses.
Another assessment project, Reach Every Reader, staffed by the Harvard Graduate School of Education, MIT and Florida State University, creates educational games for parents to play with their children while teaching them to read.
Some of the games have adults and children role-play as characters based on real-life scenarios.
These games can help parents and teachers efficiently determine whether children are reading at their appropriate grade level and get them on track if they are not.
4. Personalised learning
Personalised learning occurs when the students’ interests and goals guide learning.
The teacher is more of a facilitator, while the what, why and how of learning are mostly dictated by the student.
Artificial intelligence systems can provide individualised instruction tailored to each student’s individual interests.
AI adaptive learning systems can quickly identify when a student is struggling and then provide more or different support to help them succeed.
As the student shows that they have mastered the content or skill, the AI tool provides more difficult tasks and materials to further challenge the learner.
Chatbots have been used to respond to typed or spoken input. Many individuals interact with a chatbot when they ask Alexa or Siri a question.
These chatbots can answer questions about course content or structure. This helps students keep track of their own learning while keeping them motivated and engaged.
Much like an automated playlist of musical or video recommendations, an AI-powered recommender system can generate tailored assessment questions, detect misunderstandings and suggest new areas for a learner to explore.
These AI technologies have the potential to help learners today and in the future.
- W. Ian O’Byrne, Associate Professor of Literacy Education, College of Charleston
- This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.
Centre for Technology e-Magazine (March 2023)
The latest version of our Centre for Technology e-Magazine – Move the boundaries – is now available.
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FEDSAS Online TechTalk with d6 (14 March @ 15:00)
Are you looking for ways to improve communication and streamline payments at your school? Then join us for an exciting webinar featuring Willem Kitshoff, CEO of d6, and Riaan van der Bergh, Deputy CEO of FEDSAS, as they discuss the value of effective school management.
During this webinar, Willem will unveil d6’s updated Communicator, an innovative communication platform that is transforming the way schools and parents interact. Willem will also introduce Sticitt, d6’s cutting-edge integrated payment solutions provider, and share how it can help schools simplify the receiving and management of payments… all in one App!
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Revolutionary Results: Improving Grades and Wellbeing with Dugga Assessment and SIS Global
As technology continues to play a major role in education, the search for the best online assessment platform has been ongoing. The Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT), with its vision of being a global leader in applied education and tech-based skills training, took on the task of finding the perfect solution. After extensive research, SAIT set its focus on Dugga, the award-winning digital assessment platform.
The results of the eight-month study, which involved technical students from ten countries worldwide, were nothing short of ground-breaking. The research showed that the use of Dugga improved students’ learning outcomes by 75%, reduced stress by 60%, and increased teacher time efficiency by 98%. Furthermore, there was a clear reduction of exam-related stress and improvement in students’ overall wellbeing.
Dr. Amir Fard, from Southern Alberta Institute of Technology, comments, “The results confirmed the outstanding ability of the Dugga platform to improve students’ subject-matter retention, reduce stress, and improve class average grades. The anonymous feedback from students showed that over 96% of them were strongly satisfied with their Dugga experience.”
SIS Global is the sole authorized Dugga Partner for Africa, bringing this cutting-edge technology to schools in the region. SIS Global has implemented the Dugga solution for various schools in South Africa and offers first line support locally, ensuring a seamless experience for both students and teachers. A perfect example of this is the recent implementation at Christel House – a non-profit school with a single mission: to break the cycle of poverty. It offers no-fee scholarships to students from some of Cape Town’s poorest neighborhoods and supports them for 18 years (Grade R to Grade 12 and five years post matric) through character-based and career-focused education.
“With the proven results of the research conducted at SAIT, we are confident that the implementation of Dugga will have a positive impact on the education system in South Africa. The platform’s ability to improve learning outcomes, reduce stress, and increase teacher efficiency is sure to make a significant difference in the classroom’, says Ian Bailey, Head of Education at SIS Global.
The co-founders of Dugga, Dr. Claudia Rademaker and Dr. Patrik Nilsson, were ecstatic about the results of the study. They stated, “We are thrilled to learn about these results of this new independent research study. It gives our entire team an energy boost to continue developing our platform to help schools worldwide improve learning outcomes and wellbeing with quality and equality in assessment.”
The platform has received high praise from students and is a testament to the potential of technology in education. SIS Global’s mission is to bring innovative technology solutions to Africa and improve the quality of education in the region. The company’s partnership with Dugga is a testament to this mission and will help shape the future of education in Africa.
TechTalk e-Magazine – Budget 2023 (August 2022)
TechTalk e-Magazine – Budget 2023 (August 2022)
The latest version of our Centre for Technology e-Magazine is now available.
This is our budget edition and has loads of useful information from the Centre and from the members of the Centre for Technology.
As always, we feature some new trends, have leadership input and also showcase the solutions and services our corporate members offer.
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