“Journalists are coping with the rising information flood by borrowing data visualization techniques from computer scientists, researchers and artists.”
I found that very interesting, very well made and also very long (54 mins) video on Vimeo. But there is another version available which includes much more information and access by chapters: http://datajournalism.stanford.edu/
Interesting stuff by TED’s Chris Anderson says the rise of web video is driving a worldwide phenomenon he calls Crowd Accelerated Innovation — a self-fuelling cycle of learning that could be as significant as the invention of print. But to tap into its power, organizations will need to embrace radical openness.
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Storytelling Part 1: Change of Storytelling from ith storytelling on Vimeo.
I found this video on Jim Groom’s website set up to support a course on storytelling. Jim says “Here is a fascinating and quick seven minute video that features interviews with a variety of scholars, theorists, activists, and participants in the changing nature of storytelling. How do they frame social media and participatory culture in this equation?”
It is particularly good to see that Jim has put the whole course up on an open WordPress blog. There’s lots of explore there – Open Learning at its best!
I have been working on a literature review looking partly at Continuing Professional Development for teachers in the use of ICT for tecahing and learning. And one of the ‘organisations’ which has most impressed me is Teachmeet. Here is this great movie, Time and Moby explain what it is all about (NB Had a lot of fun working out an academic citation for the movie).
Well made video summarising latest social science research on social networking and the use of social media in the UK. A couple of things – the first is that I like the use of short videos like this for presenting research findings. The other is the results of the survey. Whilst most of it rings pretty true, I do not believe one in four of us is writing a blog – or does that include micro blogging?
Neat video introduction to Critical Pedagogy from the Freire Project.
Here is the promised second batch of videos from the Personal Learning Environments Conference held in Barcelona earlier this month. Joyce Seitzinger interviewed a number of organisers, unkeynote speakers and participants as part of her “What my PLN means to me” project.
Shaping Space: The d.school’s Environments Collaborative from Stanford d.school on Vimeo.
There are some great ideas emerging about how we can design learning spaces. this makes even more criminal the UK CONDEM government’s decision to abolish the school rebuilding programme, condemning thousands of teachers and learners to struggling in old, inadequate and frequently run down buildings totally unsuited to learning.
Multi media was very much in evidence at the PLE conference in Barcelona earlier this month. Besides the live streaming and a dazzling array of ipads and other handheld devices, we were able to use CitiLab’s own wonderfully appointed multimedia studio. Joyce Seitzinger interviewed a number of organisers, unkeynote speakers and participants as part of her “What my PLN means to me” project. There is some good stuff here, well worth viewing.
More videos to follow
This is brilliant.I found it on the Bravatuesdays web site. As edupunk pin-up boy Jim Groom says “This is a remarkable talk, and once again David Harvey nails it. What’s more, the RSA animation crew make the talk that much more powerful and entertaining—there’s really a there there with this kind of visualization.”
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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