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And perhaps this lack of educational benchmarks explains why, overwhelmingly, most of the apps are basically just animated interactive quizzes. The study found that 71% “contained at least one activity that we classified as a puzzle, game, or quiz. These were activities which had right and wrong answers, rather than open-ended designs.” 92% “contained some form of animation.” 45% included “interactive ‘hotspots,’ or sections of the screen that more and/or make noise when touched in ways that are not central to the game or story.”

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Niels Harrit: University Not (Completely) Dead — ONE Will do WTC-7 Simulation That Will Probably Refute Government Narrative

Corruption, Government, IO Deeds of War

I wish to say a few words about the new project Professor Leroy Hulsey has launched at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. (You may listen to my statement here.)

Many of you may have wondered why all the universities and high schools have been silent about the collapse of the three World Trade Center skyscrapers on September 11th, 2001. At our universities, we have a constant flow of seminars, conferences, symposia, presentations, defenses, lectures, etc., where everything is discussed in assemblies of peers.

Everything is discussed — except 9/11.

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Anonymous Hacker Interview

Advanced Cyber/IO

Anonymous Hacker Interview

CNN Money ran a series on hackers recently, one which had all the usual mainstream biases. There was the assumption that all hackers working for corporations were “good hackers”… the assumption that encrypted communication protects terrorists… and the assumption that there are easily-identifiable “good guys” and “bad guys” to begin with… with the government and the NSA being the good guys of course.

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Tom Atlee: Listening for Change

Cultural Intelligence, IO Deeds of Peace

Good facilitation can help us hear each other in ways that free up our collective energy for change. Here is a provocative story about how nonviolence activists can use that power – and the spirit with which it needs to be used to be most effective.

Listening for Change: A remarkable essay by a remarkable colleague

Rosa Zubizarreta and I have been colleagues for more than two decades. She was part of a group in the early-mid 1990s that critiqued drafts of a book I was writing on co-intelligence. Years later, she was the driving force to get my first published book, THE TAO OF DEMOCRACY, actually written, edited, and out in the world. She became my closest companion in the realm of Dynamic Facilitation and Wisdom Councils, vital tools in both our efforts. Her masters thesis on Dynamic Facilitation evolved into a DF training manual and then into her truly breakthrough book FROM CONFLICT TO CREATIVE COLLABORATION. I recommend her Dynamic Facilitation trainings whenever I can.

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Robert Steele: What Business Is Google In? Mass Surveillance. Period.

#OSE Open Source Everything, Commerce, Corruption, IO Impotency

Robert David Steele Vivas

Reflecting on Eric Schmidt's idiocy of yesterday, and the failure of Google to render useful tools enhancing public understanding and power, I asked a few folks what business Google was in, and how we should interpret their introducing of Google Fiber to major cities.

The answer is: Google is in the business of mass surveillance, and Google Fiber is how NSA takes the next step. Never mind that they will not process more than 1% of what they capture — they will have to power to zero in on anyone.

In my view, we need to accelerate attention toward decentralized blockchain forms of technology as well as increased valuation of face to face human interaction. I have called for the elimination of the NRO, NSA, and NGA and the creation of an Open Source (Technologies) Agency. I still see potential in Amazon, ESRI, Facebook, Google, and Oracle, to name a few large firms, but they lack the commitment to creating public wealth for the good of all that I see as the essence of our role going forward. It's worth noting that AT&T is kicking Google's ass on the fundamentals while Verizon is looking at Yahoo for the wrong reasons.

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Stephen E. Arnold: Understanding the 50% (or More) of the Internet that is Outright Crap

Cultural Intelligence, IO Impotency

Understanding Trolls, Spam, and Nasty Content

“From terrorist propaganda distributed by organizations such as ISIS, to political activism, diverse voices now use social media as their major public platform. Organizations deploy bots — virtual, automated posters — as well as enormous paid “armies” of human posters or trolls, and hacking schemes to overwhelmingly infiltrate the public platform with their message. A professor of information science has been awarded a grant to continue his research that will provide an in-depth understanding of the major propagators of viral, insidious content and the methods that make them successful.”

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