How it all ends
February 9th, 2011 by Graham Attwell
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.
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Isaac Asimov on computers and learning
January 24th, 2011 by Graham Attwell
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.
Playing to Learn? Maria Andersen
January 10th, 2011 by Jo Turner-Attwell
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.
Information is beautiful’s first infographic
January 10th, 2011 by Jo Turner-Attwell
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.
Student protests in Columbia University
December 13th, 2010 by Graham Attwell
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
Isaac Asimov on education in the future
December 12th, 2010 by Graham Attwell
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.”
Cuts in services a deliberate ideologically driven policy
November 28th, 2010 by Graham Attwell
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!
Government policy to rid us of troublesome thinkers and artists
November 23rd, 2010 by Graham Attwell
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.”
Impressions of ECER2010
November 22nd, 2010 by Graham Attwell
The latest production from the Pontydysgu studios! Regular readers may recall that in August we worked with the European Educational Research Association on ‘amplyfying’ their annual conference, the European Conference on Educational Research, held in 2010 in Helsinki.
One of the things we did was to make a short ‘impressions’ video, intended both as a record of the conference and as a trailer for the 2011 conference to be held in Berlin.
Most of the video used here was shot on a Flip camera and was edited with Apple’s iMovie ’09 software. Great work by Jo Turner-Attwell.
You can see more multimedia from Helsinki 2010 and find out about the 2011 conference on the ECER web site.
The Culture of our Institutions
October 31st, 2010 by Graham Attwell
Great stuff from Ken Robinson in this RSA Animate production. Central to Ken’s argument is that school is modelled on the basis on Enlightenment thinking and industrial production system organisation. For many this culture is not conducive to learning!
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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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