Internet safety and Facebook
August 9th, 2010 by Graham Attwell
A useful article in the Guardian newspaper putting moral panics about the dangers of the internet into perspective.
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PLEs and Personalised Learning
August 7th, 2010 by Graham Attwell
This is important – personalised learning as Wendy points out is still controlled by Institution. But within a PLE there is still need for support for learning through scaffolding.
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Physical Electronic Energisers
August 4th, 2010 by Graham Attwell
I am not sure what I think about this project. On the one hand it is a brilliant idea and I can see it working. On the other hand there is something which just seems uncomfortable about it all….
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Digital identites and twitter
August 2nd, 2010 by Graham Attwell
Excellent article from New York Times looking at how social network applications like Twitter are changing the way we portray our identities
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Digital Literacy
August 1st, 2010 by Graham Attwell
Yet another of a series of recent studies disproving the net generation idea.
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Internet connectivity in India
August 1st, 2010 by Graham Attwell
Guardian newspaper article pointing out issue for use of computers in India is not access to hardware but connectivity to the internet.
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Cyborg patented?
Forbes reports that Microsoft has obtained a patent for a “conversational chatbot of a specific person” created from images, recordings, participation in social networks, emails, letters, etc., coupled with the possible generation of a 2D or 3D model of the person.
Racial bias in algorithms
From the UK Open Data Institute’s Week in Data newsletter
This week, Twitter apologised for racial bias within its image-cropping algorithm. The feature is designed to automatically crop images to highlight focal points – including faces. But, Twitter users discovered that, in practice, white faces were focused on, and black faces were cropped out. And, Twitter isn’t the only platform struggling with its algorithm – YouTube has also announced plans to bring back higher levels of human moderation for removing content, after its AI-centred approach resulted in over-censorship, with videos being removed at far higher rates than with human moderators.
Gap between rich and poor university students widest for 12 years
Via The Canary.
The gap between poor students and their more affluent peers attending university has widened to its largest point for 12 years, according to data published by the Department for Education (DfE).
Better-off pupils are significantly more likely to go to university than their more disadvantaged peers. And the gap between the two groups – 18.8 percentage points – is the widest it’s been since 2006/07.
The latest statistics show that 26.3% of pupils eligible for FSMs went on to university in 2018/19, compared with 45.1% of those who did not receive free meals. Only 12.7% of white British males who were eligible for FSMs went to university by the age of 19. The progression rate has fallen slightly for the first time since 2011/12, according to the DfE analysis.
Quality Training
From Raconteur. A recent report by global learning consultancy Kineo examined the learning intentions of 8,000 employees across 13 different industries. It found a huge gap between the quality of training offered and the needs of employees. Of those surveyed, 85 per cent said they , with only 16 per cent of employees finding the learning programmes offered by their employers effective.
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