Via SangyeH on Twitter. As SangyeH says “Very cool video about corporations in America. From the makers of The Story of Stuff” I fear that in many European countries we are not far behind America.
Another neat presentation by Steve Wheeler bringing together research and development in a vivid, visual format
This video appears to have gone viral on YouTube with over one million views. Nice to see that viral videos are beginning to address serious topics.
I am not sure if I have published this before! But never mind, it is well worth another view. Wonderful 1988 interview with Isaac Asminov where he talks about the potential of computers for opening learning to everyone. I especially like his understanding of the intrinsic motivation to learn, based on people’s interest and desire for knowledge. Thanks to Tobias Nelkner for sending the link.
This prezi presentation discusses the relationship between games and learning. Designed in the form of a game itself and with different mediums along the way, including video, images, the presentation presents a new perspective on the value of games in learning. It can also be worth checking out other prezi presentations by Maria Andersen such as Mathmatweets.
Ever a lover of infographics this new video caught my attention. With a tetris like theme it presents various UK financial statistics simply and effectively.
There have been many videos of student protests in the UK posted recently. But student protests are nothing new and neither are videos! This video documents the protests at Columbia University in the USA in 1968
I picked up this video from Jim Groom. Jim says “erchache2000 shared the link to the above video of Isaac Asimov talking with Bill Moyers in “The World of Ideas” back in 1988. His fascinating discussion of the idea of computer mediated instruction being anything but dehumanizing. I love Asimov’s idea that rather reproducing a model of privilege that had been available only to the few, i.e. 1-on-1 instruction, is now available to the many: the one-to-one amongst the many. He gets beautifully at how the internet allows for a radically different paradigm for thinking about education, while at the same time touches on the thrust behind unschooling when talking about not only allowing, but encouraging, kids to follow their own interests. What’s more, Asimov seems so cool in this video, I love his final comment “why not?…why not?” Spoken like a true believer, I love that about this video, it’s speculative, visionary, and in many ways idealistic—what we don’t seem to realize is we have that platform, and it’s time for us to use it with some of that vision.”
This video is important. the cutbacks are not an inevitable consequence of some mysterious economic force but are a deliberate and ideologically driven economic policy – and there is an alternative!
Here is the first in a series of videos we are going to be featuring looking at the present economic and social crisis and the future of educatio0n. In this video comedian Stewart Lee talks about university funding and the arts and refers to government policy as a deliberate strategy to rid us of “troublesome thinkers and artists.”
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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