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Immersive Edutainment: Exploring the World of E-Learning with Captivate, Unity, VR, and Mozilla Hub. Game-Based Learning and Buddhism, Obviously.
In the fast-evolving world of education, the integration of technology has revolutionized the way we learn and engage with content. As an eLearning instructor, I recently had an exhilarating experience producing and developing an interactive module that blended game-based learning, virtual reality (VR), and Mozilla Hubs to create captivating edutainment content. Join me on this exciting journey…
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#immersive technology#immersive learning#virtual reality courses#vr courses#NEP 2020#National Education Policy 2020#vr learning#immersive education#educational apps for students#immersive learning experience#immersive training#immersive technology course#vr immersive education#immersion training#educational app for k 12 school#immersive technology in education#vr benefits#immersive learning in education#benefits of immersive learning
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Everytime SQQ mentions how much of a lazy pretty boy he is an alarm in my head going "NO NO FALSE THATS SO WRONG" goes off in my head. Like, you're lying!! You're such a lier!! The moment you transmigrated you jumped head first in going above and beyond with your second life!! You know how I know?
...He hasn't done it because he had a twisted hobby inflicting corporal punishment upon the great male lead, but because he just couldn't endure it any longer. After taking over Luo Binghe's education, he'd mulled it over and decided that since he was to be a role model and worthy teacher, he ought to at least do some proper teaching. This way, after they fell out in the future, he would be able to utter the phrase, "Within a master-disciple relationship lies the grace of knowledge passed down," without reddening from shame before the words left his mouth. Volume 2 pg. 234.
SQQ went above and beyond, and honest to goodness, BECAME an actual attentive teacher. A good one at that apparently! His students adore and respect him, his colleagues see no fault in his teaching, no faults found among his community for years!
And we have proof that his teaching paid off with Luo Binghe specifically. Because earlier in volume 2 there is this whole thing about Shen Qingqiu being particular on teaching Binghe proper footwork and how to outmaneuver his enemies, which then cuts to Binghe using these particular skills against Shen Qingqiu and he's like "shit! He's using the stuff I taught him against me! And doing it flawlessly!"
Like, he didn't have to go all in and *literally* become a teacher/scholar/peak lord hybrid like SJ, and then also do every aspect of it ten times better. For funsies. For the immersion. But he did. Lazy my ass!
I mean, we already knew that SQQ was a lying lier who lies, but heres another example lmao.
#hes a not so secret follower of the toxic on the grind work place culture#oh no! i cant just hand off my students to other people for learning! thatll break mah immersion! my cool one liners!#*becomes legit educator*#hehe im so lazy and useless#*becomes trusted and knowledgable scholar in the cultivation community*#svsss#shen qingqiu#luo binghe#scum villain
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Anonymous asked: Of all the many languages you speak which is your weakest one? Do you use those languages?
It’s privilege to learn any language that isn’t your mother tongue. As Ludwig Wittgenstein correctly observed, “The limits of my language means the limits of my world”. If English is our native tongue we put ourselves at a disadvantage because we expect every other nationality to take the trouble to speak it. There seems no incentive to learn a foreign language. We become lazy not just in language but also in other ways including our cultural enrichment, our imagination, and a misplaced sense of our self-importance in the world.
Of the European languages I know, I probably think German would be my weakest. When I was in school in Switzerland you’re brought up in three languages: French, Italian, and German (even if the Swiss speak Swiss German). When I say weakest I mean I can converse fluently, but I don’t have time to read German literature in the same immersive way I would say with French literature or take any special interest in German affairs.
I would say I’m fairly fluent in French now but still prone to silly mistakes. I’ve been told that I can speak without an accent and that is heart warming to know, because that was always the goal once I moved here to France. I don’t really use French in my work as it’s a multi-national entity and so English is the default language of corporate world, but I’m speaking French pretty much the rest of the time outside of work.
I was extremely fortunate to be born into a multi-lingual family where Norwegian and English were spoken from birth. All my siblings were being versed in Latin (not Greek which came years later after doing Classics at university) by the time I was 8 or 9 years old because my father was a classicist and he felt Latin was the building blocks to mastering other languages.
All this occurring whilst we moved lived and moved around a lot in the world such as China, Japan, India, and the Middle East. When I was initially sent to one of the first of my English girls boarding schools I was horrified that most of the girls only spoke English. I thought I was the stupid one for only knowing 6. Boarding school, if nothing else, gave me a great privilege to hone in on the languages I did know and start to learn others.
My parents didn’t take the easy way out and put us children in international schools like all the other expat children. That would have been too easy given how tight knit the British expatriate community was out there. Instead we were left to sink or swim in local schools in places like Tokyo and Kyoto in Japan or Shanghai in China or in Delhi, India. It was a struggle but you soon find your feet and you stumble towards some basic level of fluency.
I’m fortunate that before Covid my corporate work took me often to the Far East and it was a great opportunity to hone what I already knew. The result is I can converse and take business meetings in Chinese and Japanese (though English gets thrown into the mix too).
I would say Chinese is more of a struggle for me these days because I’ve not been back since before the Covid lockdown in 2020. Chinese is one of those languages that can easily melt away if you don’t get the chance to converse in it on a regular basis. Japanese less so, probably because the culture had more profound impact on me than Chinese culture.
Hindi is less of an issue because I have close Indian friends and also I watch Bollywood movies as well as converse with Indian immigrants here in Paris who have local stores. Urdu I learned through the backdoor because Urdu has a spoken affinity with Hindi (if you know Hindi then you know spoken Urdu, more or less, especially in Northern India and cities like Delhi where Urdu was born in the burnt ashes of Mughal India). Reading is another matter because they each use different scripts - Sanskrit for Hindi and Arabic and Persian script for Urdu.
Strangely enough when I was doing my tour in Afghanistan years ago with the British army, I would speak Urdu with local Afghans who served as official translators or were selling goods on the base. These Afghans knew Urdu because an entire generation of Afghan boys and girls grew up in refugee camps on the Pakistani border during the different phases of the Afghan war. I have very fond memories of their friendship and hospitality, but less so of the war itself.
With Arabic, it had lapsed woefully until I did a posting in Dubai in the past year (as catalogued in my blog) and I found myself suddenly remembering a lot and asking Arab friends. Soon I was able to hold my own amongst my colleagues and corporate clients. In these cultures it’s really hard to stay focused because so many of them speak very good English. So it’s hard to get them to stick with their own language because you want to learn from them - but they want to show off their English proficiency - and so you have to be polite but persistent to stick with Arabic.
If you’re learning a new language then I hope you stick with it. There’s almost nothing more rewarding in your life than the disocovery a rich culture through language. The key is to find a way to make it fun rather than a trip to the dentist chair for a root canal operation.
Thanks for your question.
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if there's one thing I personally focus on when I draw something, it would be the emotions. I try to convey the exact emotions of a character when I make art, and portray how they'd be feeling at that exact situation, as they say something, and so on...
I try to feel the same feelings they would when I draw an expression, as close as I can get at least, it's what I do over and over. You don't really have to do that ofc, but for me, it's a huge part of the point and it's really fun to do! It's what I believe could give my drawings more life and make them more genuine, even if it's a sketch (in fact, sometimes sketches can be more powerful on that aspect so I used to stick to drawing exclusively those for a very long time). That's how I pour my heart in, and I'm sure a lot of artists would do the same in their own ways when they create their works.
For that same reason, I really like drawing smiles (and characters that can make genuine ones) because that makes me happy. Other feelings are cool, too, but drawing happy art is so soothing, so I draw a lot of smiles!! It's also why I feel the need to understand a character, because you can't exactly feel what they'd be feeling unless you aren't so aware of what they're going through. I wouldn't be entirely right, I'm sure, but I really want to try. It's maybe why I usually stick to drawing a select few characters from a series all the time, because there are some characters I "get" better than others, and feel I can bring out better(and most of the time, luckily, those kinds of characters end up to be my favs, so I can draw then alot ;v;) Then again, I'm seeing them through my own lens of thinking, I'm just putting out what I see in those characters in the end. But it's usually the good things I love! Or something I feel is really intriguing and want to think about, or want to explore on, emphasize? Anyhow, it's the feelings and emotions part I've always been interested about! So I hope I can do that well!
My drawings aren't perfect, but they aren't too bad either, and I've been trying all the way. If they could imbue some sort of feeling for you, that's definitely what I wanted to accomplish! It makes me so excited when I get feedbacks about it being able to make someone "feel" something.. it means what I wanted got across so I'm like "yes"!!
it'd be nice if they will feel genuine one way or another!! I was and is and will be happy to continue to share my works with you all
#random blabbering#hehe#I recently got really nice tags and I#I kind of want to go and thank ppl individually for that but I was out of energy... I missed the timing..#drawing makes me think about feelings#characters too#so I really like seeing characters that can make big genuine smiles from the heart#ofc I love other types of characters too#but sometimes you just need to think about that kind of feeling and it exists#and I love characters that are literal saints right.. those kind of characters have always been my favs#they are very inspiring and thinking-not just thinking but trying to feel how they would be feeling..is really good for the soul I think#I wish I could be strong like them and genuinely feel like that#(you could a little as you draw#being immersed is very nice#and I hope what I draw could be that way for someone#here I am writing at midnight..I don't know if what I'm writing's making good sense but wish you all the best#thank you for seeing my drawings together with me!!#I CAN draw some self-indulgent stuff that'd not exactly cater to be educational or inspiring yeah but#I probably won't mean bad. I want to have fun~which I've been!! for so long
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By: Erec Smith
Published: May 17, 2024
Recently, the University of North Carolina‐Chapel Hill Board of Trustees voted, unanimously, to divert money from its Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives into public safety. This is on the heels of other institutions shuttering diversity offices and laying off or repurposing positions focused on DEI work. Are we starting to see a trend? Is this the beginning of a “Great Diversion”?
Contemporary DEI initiatives have been a point of contention for years now. Anti‐DEI sentiment, which does not necessarily mean an aversion to the concepts of diversity, equity, and inclusion per se, grows with every exposition of DEI’s driving ideology, Critical Social Justice, which is inherently divisive, illiberal, and, actually, racist.
However, any opposition to DEI programs is usually seen as a right‐wing attack on anything that can improve the lives of minoritized groups. That accusation holds more water in response to calls for the eradication of DEI initiatives. But the diversion of DEI funds to another worthwhile endeavor—that is, trading one good for another good—is harder to scrutinize.
Yes, UNC‐Chapel Hill has chosen to divert DEI’s funding to public safety to prevent disruption of university operations. Whether the good of public safety constitutes a “good for good” trade is understandably debatable. However, DEI funds can also be diverted to initiatives more clearly aligned with diversity, equity, and inclusion in the true sense of those words. Initially, I thought of outreach and immersion programs.
Outreach programs geared toward K‑12 students are created by colleges and universities in collaboration with local high schools to help students understand what is necessary to get into college, what they need to do to prepare, and what to expect when they get there. When I say “immersive,” I refer to outreach programs where students visit campuses and experience what it is to be a college student or a particular major. According to the Compass Education Group’s “Guide to Successful Outreach Programs,” students and colleges benefit from such programs in distinct ways.
According to Compass, outreach programs can achieve the following for students: clarify career goals, assistance with access to resources, assistance with the application process, academic advising, introduction to a college’s academic support services, and, obviously, better prepare students for college‐level work. This kind of outreach can assuage any “culture shock” that may set in among students from marginalized communities. It can also introduce students to the necessary merits for college success at a younger age, thus demystifying academic merits.
The benefits to participating colleges include greater student readiness, better resource management, and increases in enrollment, retention, and, of course, diversity. Regarding diversity, Compass does not mince words: “Helping these students prepare for and transition to postsecondary education helps colleges meet their diversity goals.” Redistributing money from DEI initiatives to outreach programs that can be geared toward underrepresented students may be a better way to achieve diversity, equity, and inclusion. Perhaps outreach programs are the new—and more effective—DEI initiative.
Several colleges already have outreach programs that, typically, take place in the summer. However, with sufficient funding, these programs can become more robust. In fact, non‐profit organizations exist to do that. For example, The Hidden Genius Project, started by five black professionals, “trains and mentors Black male youth in technology creation, entrepreneurship, and leadership skills to transform their lives and communities.” This project has locations all over the country and offers a variety of programs to introduce students to entrepreneurs, leaders, and technologists through either single or multiday events or deeper and longer immersion into a professional culture. What’s more, this project’s effects align with concepts important to DEI initiatives, like cultural representation.
Hidden Genius alum, Tehillah Hephzibah says,
Growing up, I was never really in a place where a majority of the people looked like me. In the program, I enjoyed being around people who look more like myself and connecting with them. Throughout my life, all of the schools I attended were predominantly white or Hispanic students so joining The Hidden Genius Project was a sigh of relief and comfort for me.
Another program graduate, Brandon Bazile, shares a similar sentiment.
As a Black man who has only ever had at most two other Black boys in my grade, to suddenly having a group of Black males who look like me was eye‐opening. Being taught and surrounded by excellent Black minds, inspired me to believe that I could always better myself, which was a feeling I had never felt before.
This program is a clear source of agency and empowerment for young black students, a goal DEI proponents claim to have.
MIT’s Introduction to Technology, Engineering and Science (MITES) is an outreach program that has strong partnerships with universities nationwide. The program “provides transformative experiences that bolster confidence, create lifelong community, and build an exciting, challenging foundation in STEM for highly motivated 7th–12th grade students from diverse and underrepresented backgrounds.” As with the Hidden Genius Project, representation and confidence building are some of the most salient effects of MITES.
Indigo Davitt‐Liu, a graduate of the program, stated, “I’ve always loved math, but I always saw STEM kids as a group removed from me, a type of person I could never be. Through this program, I realized the true amount of diversity there is in STEM fields. I now see myself as part of a STEM community.” Also similar to the Hidden Genius Project, MITES immerses students in environments indicative of a given STEM field. This immersion helps students gain merits they would not have otherwise. MITE graduate Moses Stewart says,
MITES connected me with so many other brilliant and passionate people and gave me an avenue to explore a brighter future for myself. It gave me the opportunity to learn about career paths that would have otherwise been inaccessible. And, to apply and assert myself in challenging courses. Most of all, it gave me guidance and helped me grow into someone who is more confident, hard‐working, and optimistic about the future.
The outcomes of MITES, the Hidden Genius Project, and comparable programs strongly suggest that funding for DEI programs that have proven to be more ineffective than effective could be put to better use elsewhere.
I must be clear, current DEI initiatives are often undergirded by Critical Social Justice, an ideology that frames the world into an oppressor/oppressed dichotomy and insists that oppressive forces are present in every human interaction. Surely, funds should be diverted to initiatives that don’t promote divisiveness, resentment, and even a kind of racism. However, I believe diverting funds to immersive outreach programs for K‑12 students is so important that even DEI initiatives steeped in classical liberal values cannot be justified. Workshops on the history and nature of discrimination, cultural differences, and policy are important and should take place, but these things need not be expensive or necessarily whole offices.
No matter what ideological foundation a DEI program has, funds are better spent on programs like The Hidden Genius Project and MITES.
A great diversion is in order. DEI programs have proven relatively ineffective at enhancing diversity, equity, and inclusion, thus proving to be a waste of money. Continuing to spend money on these programs is indefensible, especially when better ways to help our students abound. The day after UNC‐Chapel Hill diverted funds away from its DEI initiatives, Virginia Commonwealth University and George Mason University did away with required DEI courses for students. The tide is turning when it comes to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Let’s make sure it turns in a healthy and generative direction.
#Erec Smith#University of North Carolina#diversity equity and inclusion#diversity#equity#inclusion#DEI must die#DEI bureaucracy#outreach programs#immersion programs#higher education#religion is a mental illness
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oh also I got a REALLY good message about AR on.... August 29 (damn) and I just wanna say that I am waiting to be able to record some video to answer it with!!!!
it's hard for me to keep up with messages lately but I appreciate everyone who talks with me about virtual/augmented reality because it is my FAV thing right now 💖💖💖💖 love u guys
#incessant meowing#the ask was about the potential of showing life-size scale of both real and fantastical things#like mechs and blue whales in specific - and the applications for both art and science education associated with immersive simulations#and i've been wanting to make a video showing life-size sunlith in his exopod next to his mech (also life size)#and now i DEFINITELY wanna throw a blue whale in there for comparison too#because there's an animated blue whale model i bring out fairly regularly during demos just to make huge and menace people with ahaha#BUT YEAH preparing for the quest 3 launch is just consuming my whole life rn so i haven't been able to make many fun vids lately
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the young royals x sex education crossover we didn't know we needed
#young royals#its the way you just KNOW this was edvin's idea#todays dose of brainrot is brought to you by our lord and savior lisa ambjörn who said no one had figured out what they were watching in e3#and i took that personally#also edvin ryding the actor that you are to look /that/ distraught during this scene of sex ed#and while watching your favorite show???#simply who is doing it like him#also ik everyone hates this yr scene (understandable) so i took one for the team and did the recon myself#i would also like to thank my pos brain for deciding that this scene in sex ed was crucial information i needed to keep stored#ft the side by side comparison for full immersion into the scene 🥰#sex education#yr s2 spoilers#young royals season 2 spoilers#my yr thoughts
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oh you know it's a problem when you start trying to read academic articles in a language you barely speak
#save me 3-4 years of sheer immersion combined with about a year of actual education. i am going to try and read this in italian#neon has thoughts#unfortunately to find anyone saying anything useful to me about diabolik i have to work in italian. sigh#ANYWAY#having a good time. would be helpful if i didn't feel kinda ill. but oh well
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Bonjour, hello! :)
I'm going to snag the question you asked Sofia and send it back your way: Which languages do you speak? Do you have any you are learning or want to learn?
or, alternatively - if you would like to instead answer something else - do you have a favourite piece of your writing? (One you are most proud of or had a lot of fun creating?)
I'll actually answer both!
Language
Currently, I am only fluent in English, as it was the language I was only immersed in growing up. Je parle un petit peu francais; but the education system is awful at really doing anything to cement it in if you didn't attend a French immersion school. I need to work on getting it back, but that's going to be a long work in progress. Just happy my accent is good (aka not a baguette accent).
As for languages I want to learn;
Spanish will be after French since both are based in Latin.
Ojibwe, as Indigenous languages are dying; there used to be over 3,000 distinct Indigenous languages in Canada and the handful that are left are dying too.
American Sign Language, since it is super useful; currently I just know a few signs. Another reason is that places rarely have someone who can sign and translate signs.
Dutch for family reasons.
Eventually I would like to know a bit of Mandarin, but that is far into the future.
Favourite Piece of My Writing
Right now it would have to be Ruggie's Soul Match story; first off it made me cry in the first 800 words and then I cried again later. I rarely cry while reading books, so I was very surprised that it happened twice.
Jade's Soul Match story is my second favourite and was only demoted off the throne once I finished writing Ruggie's; he got to be a lil shit in his story. Also, it was a great chance to get in his head.
I quite like how all of the Soul Matches came out, and it was my first time in years writing more long-ish form fics; each story is 5K. Had really bad art/writing block for years.
I really need to re-read some of my works; I don't really read them once I 'publish'.... Also in total, there are 69 pages so far for the Soul Match AU, and for the first round, there are 10 characters, 6 of which are now completed.
*Don't be like Dove and write 31K in 34 days. Don't do it. I just have a lot of free time rn
#krenenbaker!#dove lore#how the hell did i write that much?#that doesn't include the matchups either; which are all 350-ish words long#... so it would be like 35K together#also the education system in canada sucks ass for french if you aren't in quebec or a french immersion school#language recs#reading recs#<- ig; all on the writing blog
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I have so many opinions on the x reader/reader-insert franchise that I really can't open up about it without sounding like a crotchety old man.
#rambles#one day i'll post them to here but will make it sound more educational#my biggest beef though is that nobody wants to tell a story#like an actual story#there's no actual conflict#there's no beginning middle or end#people say 'here have some fluff. just accept that this man is madly in love with reader and treats them like a princess'#'no i will not tell you concrete reasons why he likes them. i will not demonstrate why they make a good couple'#'i will not tell you how they've overcome challenges together. i will not show you how they've grown'#'i'm not even going to tell you why reader likes him so much or what they're dynamic is like'#'all you need to do is accept they're perfect for each other and then immerse yourself in fluff :)'#the thing that people don't get is for fluff and happy endings to be satisfying the reader has to earn it#they have to put in effort#a story is not a story if you only write the climax and not any other part#it just frustrates me#tell me a story. i want to read a story
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Ojibwemodaa! Let’s speak Ojibwe!
Gidaa-giziibiigininjiin- you should wash your hands
Wiisinidaa- let’s eat!
Geyaabi wiisinin! Keep eating!
Gimino-pidaan ina? Do you like the taste of it?
Aaniin ezhinikaazoyin? What are you called/what’s your name?
Cedar indizhinikaaz- I’m called Cedar
How old are you? Aaniin endaso-biboonigiziyan?
I’m 34 years old. Nisimidana shi niiwin nimbiboonigiz.
Ambegish minwendaman ji-ani-gimendaman owe! I hope you enjoyed learning this!
#ojibwe#ojibwemowin#anishinaabe#anishinaabemowin#immersion#immersion teaching#kindergarten#k 12 education#early childhood education#culture#language#ojibwe language#elementary education
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community experts around the world take note, ashton irwin has channeled his alter ego psychology (honours) student to demonstrate the ultimate strategy for community engagement on important issues using the low budget technology of Instagram—
#and he may or may not be stealing our lines as lyrics or at least inspo for them#fr though crowdsourcing life advice is something I would do. go king#and the way it gives you such a visceral picture in snippets of what life looks like for a bunch of people#empathy education by immersion. you get a vibe#someone write a paper in this pls xx#ashton irwin#5 seconds of summer#5sos#ashton on instagram january 2024#it’s wednesday morning let’s get deep#and other variations
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Pixel Dailies #78 | 11/24/22 | Theme: Pepper
The Ghost Peppurr Gang get lost, find cannibalism.
#no data#dataisgone#pixel art#pepper#ghost pepper cats#these are based on little characters I made for my school group project#it was an educational game#immersive language learning (Spanish) in VR#they're called Ghost Peppurrs and they'd speak to you in Spanish#you have to speak Spanish aloud and the game uses Azure to have the Ghost Peppurrs respond to you#almost got A+ in that class
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