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Designing Artificial Intelligence Equipped Social Decentralized Autonomous Organizations for Tackling Sextortion Cases Version 0.7

With the rapid diffusion of social networks in combination with mobile phones, a new social threat of sextortion has emerged, in which vulnerable young women are essentially blackmailed with their explicit shared multimedia content. The phenomenon of sextortion is now widely studied by psychologists, sociologists, criminologists, etc. The findings have been translated into scattered help from NGOs, specialized law enforcement units, and therapists, who usually do not coordinate their efforts among each other. This paper addresses the gap of lacking coordination systems to effectively and efficiently use modern information technologies that align the efforts of scattered and non-aligned sextortion help organizations. Consequently, this paper not only investigates the goals, incentives, and disincentives for a system design and development that not only governs effectively and efficiently diverse cases of sextortion victims, but also leverages artificial intelligence in a targeted manner. It explores how AI and, in particular, autonomous cognitive entities can improve victim profiles analysis, streamline support mechanisms, and provide intelligent insight into sextortion cases. Furthermore, the paper conceptually studies the extent to which such efforts can be monetized in a sustainable way. Following a novel design methodology for the design of trusted blockchain decentralized applications, the paper presents a set of conceptual requirements and system models based on which it is possible to deduce a best-practice technology stack for rapid implementation deployment

Student-Centered Learning: Functional Requirements for Integrated Systems to Optimize Learning

The realities of the 21st-century learner require that schools and educators fundamentally change their practice. "Educators must produce college- and career-ready graduates that reflect the future these students will face. And, they must facilitate learning through means that align with the defining attributes of this generation of learners."Today, we know more than ever about how students learn, acknowledging that the process isn't the same for every student and doesn't remain the same for each individual, depending upon maturation and the content being learned. We know that students want to progress at a pace that allows them to master new concepts and skills, to access a variety of resources, to receive timely feedback on their progress, to demonstrate their knowledge in multiple ways and to get direction, support and feedback from—as well as collaborate with—experts, teachers, tutors and other students.The result is a growing demand for student-centered, transformative digital learning using competency education as an underpinning.iNACOL released this paper to illustrate the technical requirements and functionalities that learning management systems need to shift toward student-centered instructional models. This comprehensive framework will help districts and schools determine what systems to use and integrate as they being their journey toward student-centered learning, as well as how systems integration aligns with their organizational vision, educational goals and strategic plans.Educators can use this report to optimize student learning and promote innovation in their own student-centered learning environments. The report will help school leaders understand the complex technologies needed to optimize personalized learning and how to use data and analytics to improve practices, and can assist technology leaders in re-engineering systems to support the key nuances of student-centered learning

Quasi-School Leaders: The Lived Experiences of High School Counseling Directors and Their Role In Schools

The aim of this study is to explore the lived experiences of high school counseling director’s and how their principal and district school counseling supervisor shape their experiences as leaders. The role of high school counseling director’s is increasingly complex, unique, and oftentimes misunderstood. They are often viewed as leaders and change agents in student’s overall success due to their unique skill levels in advocacy and collaboration (Kaffenberger, Murphy, & Bemak, 2006; McMahon, Mason, Daluga-Guenther, & Ruiz, 2014; Young, Millard, & Kneale, 2013). However, principal’s and district school counseling supervisors are key players in defining the role and responsibilities of a high school counseling director (Perusse, Goodnough, Donegan, & Jones, 2004). Therefore, this study examined the experiences of high school counselors as directors to understand how their leadership role is actualized within schools by their two supervisors: the principal and district school counseling supervisor. Utilizing two rounds of semi-structured interview questions, the study revealed high school counseling director’s experiences as leaders guided by the subsystems where they work and by the people they interact with in the subsystems. These findings add to a growing body of literature on school counselor leadership in education as well the development of leaders within schools

VICA, a visual counseling agent for emotional distress

We present VICA, a Visual Counseling Agent designed to create an engaging multimedia face-to-face interaction. VICA is a human-friendly agent equipped with high-performance voice conversation designed to help psychologically stressed users, to offload their emotional burden. Such users specifically include non-computer-savvy elderly persons or clients. Our agent builds replies exploiting interlocutor\u2019s utterances expressing such as wishes, obstacles, emotions, etc. Statements asking for confirmation, details, emotional summary, or relations among such expressions are added to the utterances. We claim that VICA is suitable for positive counseling scenarios where multimedia specifically high-performance voice communication is instrumental for even the old or digital divided users to continue dialogue towards their self-awareness. To prove this claim, VICA\u2019s effect is evaluated with respect to a previous text-based counseling agent CRECA and ELIZA including its successors. An experiment involving 14 subjects shows VICA effects as follows: (i) the dialogue continuation (CPS: Conversation-turns Per Session) of VICA for the older half (age > 40) substantially improved 53% to CRECA and 71% to ELIZA. (ii) VICA\u2019s capability to foster peace of mind and other positive feelings was assessed with a very high score of 5 or 6 mostly, out of 7 stages of the Likert scale, again by the older. Compared on average, such capability of VICA for the older is 5.14 while CRECA (all subjects are young students, age < 25) is 4.50, ELIZA is 3.50, and the best of ELIZA\u2019s successors for the older (> 25) is 4.41

Quasi-School Leaders: The Lived Experiences of High School Counseling Directors and Their Role In Schools

The aim of this study is to explore the lived experiences of high school counseling director’s and how their principal and district school counseling supervisor shape their experiences as leaders. The role of high school counseling director’s is increasingly complex, unique, and oftentimes misunderstood. They are often viewed as leaders and change agents in student’s overall success due to their unique skill levels in advocacy and collaboration (Kaffenberger, Murphy, & Bemak, 2006; McMahon, Mason, Daluga-Guenther, & Ruiz, 2014; Young, Millard, & Kneale, 2013). However, principal’s and district school counseling supervisors are key players in defining the role and responsibilities of a high school counseling director (Perusse, Goodnough, Donegan, & Jones, 2004). Therefore, this study examined the experiences of high school counselors as directors to understand how their leadership role is actualized within schools by their two supervisors: the principal and district school counseling supervisor. Utilizing two rounds of semi-structured interview questions, the study revealed high school counseling director’s experiences as leaders guided by the subsystems where they work and by the people they interact with in the subsystems. These findings add to a growing body of literature on school counselor leadership in education as well the development of leaders within schools

Society-in-the-Loop: Programming the Algorithmic Social Contract

Recent rapid advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning have raised many questions about the regulatory and governance mechanisms for autonomous machines. Many commentators, scholars, and policy-makers now call for ensuring that algorithms governing our lives are transparent, fair, and accountable. Here, I propose a conceptual framework for the regulation of AI and algorithmic systems. I argue that we need tools to program, debug and maintain an algorithmic social contract, a pact between various human stakeholders, mediated by machines. To achieve this, we can adapt the concept of human-in-the-loop (HITL) from the fields of modeling and simulation, and interactive machine learning. In particular, I propose an agenda I call society-in-the-loop (SITL), which combines the HITL control paradigm with mechanisms for negotiating the values of various stakeholders affected by AI systems, and monitoring compliance with the agreement. In short, `SITL = HITL + Social Contract.'Comment: (in press), Ethics of Information Technology, 201

Digitalization and digital platforms as a facilitator for project finance access for entrepreneurs: Exploratory study

If you are not sure what digitalization is, allow us to explain it. The internet has seen a large increase in the amount of data available, and as more and more information becomes connected on the internet, we are seeing an exponential surge in the amount of data being produced and shared. This is known as 'the digital revolution'. Research defines the “digitalization” term as introducing digital technologies in business, firms, or lifestyle. This integration can enhance a firm’s competitiveness and increase their performance by offering services throughout virtual channels. Moreover, they can operationalize operations management firms. The major problem for entrepreneurs and project carriers is funding, this issue obstructs starters and funding seekers to start and develop their projects and ideas because of multiple conditions that should be respected by this target to get funding. There are a lot of funding mechanisms that have proven their effectiveness in promoting and supporting small and medium-sized projects. Countries are always seeking to give support and develop small projects to improve their idea and make it real in the market. In light of the digital revolution, many ways of funding small and medium projects are developed, by returning to the last experiences of leading countries and try to dress a new map of funding programs. This article aims to present an exploratory study of project funding through digital platforms as a facilitator for project finance access for entrepreneurs and funding seekers, and how it can be useful for entrepreneurs. Our sample is a combination of Experts, professional executives in charge of accompaniment, Engineers, and entrepreneurs. We are oriented to a qualitative approach for data collection. We will divide our study into two axes, the first axis dealt with the traditional mechanisms of funding and supporting small projects, and the second dealt with digital platforms as a facilitator of finance access for entrepreneurs and funding seekers.  Keywords: Digitalization; Digital platforms; Entrepreneurs; Funding; Facilitator. JEL Classification: M15, L26 Paper type: Empirical researchIf you are not sure what digitalization is, allow us to explain it. The internet has seen a large increase in the amount of data available, and as more and more information becomes connected on the internet, we are seeing an exponential surge in the amount of data being produced and shared. This is known as 'the digital revolution'. Research defines the “digitalization” term as introducing digital technologies in business, firms, or lifestyle. This integration can enhance a firm’s competitiveness and increase their performance by offering services throughout virtual channels. Moreover, they can operationalize operations management firms. The major problem for entrepreneurs and project carriers is funding, this issue obstructs starters and funding seekers to start and develop their projects and ideas because of multiple conditions that should be respected by this target to get funding. There are a lot of funding mechanisms that have proven their effectiveness in promoting and supporting small and medium-sized projects. Countries are always seeking to give support and develop small projects to improve their idea and make it real in the market. In light of the digital revolution, many ways of funding small and medium projects are developed, by returning to the last experiences of leading countries and try to dress a new map of funding programs. This article aims to present an exploratory study of project funding through digital platforms as a facilitator for project finance access for entrepreneurs and funding seekers, and how it can be useful for entrepreneurs. Our sample is a combination of Experts, professional executives in charge of accompaniment, Engineers, and entrepreneurs. We are oriented to a qualitative approach for data collection. We will divide our study into two axes, the first axis dealt with the traditional mechanisms of funding and supporting small projects, and the second dealt with digital platforms as a facilitator of finance access for entrepreneurs and funding seekers.  Keywords: Digitalization; Digital platforms; Entrepreneurs; Funding; Facilitator. JEL Classification: M15, L26 Paper type: Empirical researc

A Model Student Personalized Education Plan into a Portfolio through the Use of Career Pathways in South Kitsap High School

The purpose of this project was to create a Personalized Education Plan and Portfolio system to support secondary students to acquire the skills necessary to ensure employment in South Kitsap High School Port Orchard, Washington. To accomplish this purpose, current research and information related to Personalized Education Plans and Portfolios were reviewed. Additionally, career pathways were established, personal data, resume, individual career planning portfolio, and career goals inventory review worksheets were adapted and developed

Exploring Ecological-Systems Barriers to Implementing a Recognized American School Counselor Association Model Program (RAMP)

The American School Counselor Association National Model was developed to unify the profession and to ensure that students receive equitable access to comprehensive, developmental, and preventive school counseling programming through the delivery of school counseling curriculum and services (ASCA: 2003, 2005, 2012). Designed to promote the well-being of all students and to close the achievement gap, the ASCA National Model mirrored the standards-based models adopted in public education. To encourage implementation, the ASCA established the Recognized ASCA Model Program (RAMP) designation to reward school counseling programs for following the Model (ASCA: 2003). Evidence supports the effectiveness of comprehensive school counseling programs, yet, as of February 2019, there are less than 500 RAMP schools nationwide. Using the McMahon and colleagues, Ecological School Counseling Model (2014) as the framework, I used archival data to explore micro-level (school) and macro-level (cultural/environmental) barriers to RAMP attainment. Participants included a subset (N = 349) of the original study’s national sample (N =1,729) of practicing school counselors. Logistic regression analyses were conducted to explore what ecological-systems variables predicted the likelihood of achieving RAMP status. Regression results suggested that five variables related to the community setting (urban, suburban, rural), lack of other stakeholder support, and administrative support were reasonably accurate in predicting the RAMP status of a school. The results have implications for future research, advocacy, and professional development in school counseling