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20Nov

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SOCIETY, WORK

Pants or no pants? Tips for virtual job interviews from home

If you have the good fortune of scoring a virtual job interview in the middle of a pandemic, the initial euphoria of potential employment may soon be replaced with anxiety over what to wear – as well as putting your home life on display for a potential employer. And with good reason. Social scientists have found that traditional interviews – without set questions or scoring metrics – are poor predictors of job performance. When this happens, interviewers make subjective judgments based on irrelevant information, like physical appearance and nonverbal cues. Illegal stereotypes based on gender and race may also be at play. And unfortunately, employment litigation has not succeeded in tamping down these practices. Although many companies were successfully sued in the early 2000s for making...

Working In The Metaverse: What Virtual Office Life Could Look Like

3Apr

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BUSINESS, TECHNOLOGY

Working In The Metaverse: What Virtual Office Life Could Look Like

In the context of work, the digital divide has become less about access to devices and connectivity and more about skills and mindset. Many experienced professionals have never learned more than the rudimentary basics of email, web search and Microsoft Office. Instead, they lean hard on nearby colleagues or the IT helpdesk when things go wrong. By contrast, young people have already demonstrated a competitive edge in the virtual workplace. They come equipped with a more intuitive grasp of digital technology and the initiative to troubleshoot problems via YouTube tutorials, social media and subreddits. As a generation, they’re also bigger gamers. As more and more work takes place in virtual reality (VR) – and one does not have to share the somewhat eccentric vision of the metaverse Mark Z...

17Jul

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A Law Professor Explains How Blockchains And NFTs Don’t Protect Virtual Property – Can You Truly Own Anything In The Metaverse?

22Apr

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BUSINESS, IN OTHER NEWS

A Law Professor Explains How Blockchains And NFTs Don’t Protect Virtual Property – Can You Truly Own Anything In The Metaverse?

In 2021, an investment firm bought 2,000 acres of real estate for about US$4 million. Normally this would not make headlines, but in this case the land was virtual. It existed only in a metaverse platform called The Sandbox. By buying 792 non-fungible tokens on the Ethereum blockchain, the firm then owned the equivalent of 1,200 city blocks. But did it? It turns out that legal ownership in the metaverse is not that simple. The prevailing but legally problematic narrative among crypto enthusiasts is that NFTs allow true ownership of digital items in the metaverse for two reasons: decentralization and interoperability. These two technological features have led some to claim that tokens provide indisputable proof of ownership, which can be used across various metaverse apps, environments an...

Why You’ll Be On A Blockchain When You’re Virtual-World Hopping – The Metaverse Is Money And Crypto Is King

3Apr

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IN OTHER NEWS, TECHNOLOGY, VIDEO REELS

Why You’ll Be On A Blockchain When You’re Virtual-World Hopping – The Metaverse Is Money And Crypto Is King

You may think the metaverse will be a bunch of interconnected virtual spaces – the world wide web but accessed through virtual reality. This is largely correct, but there is also a fundamental but slightly more cryptic side to the metaverse that will set it apart from today’s internet: the blockchain. In the beginning, Web 1.0 was the information superhighway of connected computers and servers that you could search, explore and inhabit, usually through a centralized company’s platform – for example, AOL, Yahoo, Microsoft and Google. Around the turn of the millennium, Web 2.0 came to be characterized by social networking sites, blogging and the monetization of user data for advertising by the centralized gatekeepers to “free” social media platforms, including Facebook, SnapChat, Twitter an...

During Virtual Learning – What Young Kids Say Worked And Didn’t Work For Them

7Sep

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EDUCATION

During Virtual Learning – What Young Kids Say Worked And Didn’t Work For Them

Mari Altshuler, Northwestern University On Aug. 30, 2021, my kid joined millions of children in walking through school doors as he began first grade. Despite the ongoing pandemic, school buildings are almost universally open. While there are many voices expressing health and safety concerns, policymakers have decided that the best choice for children’s well-being is for them to be in school, in person in all but the most extreme cases of medical need. But what if we asked the children? What would they say? News articles have quoted teenagers reflecting on Zoom fatigue and loneliness, but much less has been reported about what our youngest students think. Children have now experienced nearly a year and a half of schooling during a pandemic, and this presents an opportunity to pause, refl...

Alliance Virtual Village Innovative Online Entertainment

16Jul

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Alliance Virtual Village Innovative Online Entertainment

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3Apr

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SOCIAL MEDIA, TECHNOLOGY

Make the most of virtual events

Debra Saxon, founder of 10-year-old Celebration Senior Magazine based in Dallas, Texas, has been working overtime since early March to bring virtual events and activities to seniors nationwide. She believes that while virtual opportunities have exploded in recent months due to COVID-19, the medium will continue as an ongoing trend, especially for seniors and house- or facilities-bound individuals. “We’ve had well over 11,000 people join us for online events,” said Saxon in mid-August. “Seniors who never thought they could do technology have been enjoying virtual tours of places like the Dallas Museum of Art or the LBJ Presidential Library, music concerts, learning programs and more, that we can offer free because of our advertising partners.” Saxon said that while virtual may not replac...

3 ways to get kids to tune in and pay attention when schools go virtual

17Aug

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EDUCATION

3 ways to get kids to tune in and pay attention when schools go virtual

When nearly all U.S. brick-and-mortar schools suddenly closed in March 2020 and went online, large numbers of students simply didn’t log into class. Even if they did show up, many more weren’t paying much attention or doing their schoolwork. As a new school year gets underway, is there anything that teachers and families can do to curb these problems with remote learning due to COVID-19? Having spent our careers doing research on student motivation and learning with technology, we recommend these three strategies. 1. Go out of your way to build relationships The importance of the relationships that develop in classrooms is often taken for granted. With online learning, students and teachers can no longer greet each other with high-fives and fist bumps or develop a sense of connection thro...

Online Christian pilgrimage: How a virtual tour to Lourdes follows a tradition of innovation

4Apr

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Religion, TECHNOLOGY

Online Christian pilgrimage: How a virtual tour to Lourdes follows a tradition of innovation

The Catholic Church held what is being termed as the first online pilgrimage to the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes in France. Earlier this spring, for the first time in its 162-year existence the shrine was closed as part of measures to stem the spread of the coronavirus. This online pilgrimage included many elements of the actual journey such as traditional prayers and communion, but recreated for a virtual experience. Prayers and services were offered in both English and Spanish. Participants were shown scenes of the healing waters, taken on a virtual tour of the cave and heard music that is part of the normal, in-person experience. As a scholar of the Bible, Judaism and Christianity, I know the importance of pilgrimages. But rituals have often been adapted in the face of difficult c...