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Norie Huddle: Kids are Born Geniuses — Schools Kill Their Creativity

04 Education, Collective Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence
Norie Huddle

Study Shows Kids are Born Creative Geniuses But the Education System Destroys Imagination

98 percent of 5-year-olds tested at the “genius” level.

Upon entry into the school system, those numbers started to drop dramatically. When the team returned to test those same subjects at age 10, the percentage of genius-level imaginative and innovative thinkers fell to an unthinkable 30 percent.    . . .    The downward spiral continued to be demonstrated at age 15.  When the researchers returned, the percentage of genius-level students had dropped to an abysmal 12 percent.

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Robert Steele & William Binney: #UNRIG #TrumpTriumph — Open Source Agency Merges with Thin Thread to Offer Trump Channel with 200 Million Voices and Votes

#OSE Open Source Everything, #UNRIG, 03 Economy, 04 Education, 09 Justice, 10 Security, 11 Society, Advanced Cyber/IO, Autonomous Internet, Collective Intelligence, Communities of Practice, Earth Intelligence, Ethics, Liberation Technology, Officers Call, Peace Intelligence

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Yoda: 21st Century Education — the Netflix Option….

04 Education, Civil Society, Collective Intelligence

In the knowledge economy, we need a Netflix of education

With 4.6 billion pieces of content produced daily, it might seem that our hunger for knowledge should be satisfied — but information production and distribution is not the same as consumption and it’s not as simple as just putting information out there.

The problem is that we are drowning in content — but are starving for knowledge and insights that can help us truly be more productive, collaborative and innovative. When we want to acquire useful knowledge, we have to search the web broadly, find experts by word-of-mouth and troll through various poorly designed internal document sharing systems.

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Stephen E. Arnold: #GoogleGestapo Defines Censorship Terms

04 Education, 07 Other Atrocities, 09 Justice, 11 Society, Commerce, Corruption, Government, IO Impotency, Media, Officers Call
Stephen E. Arnold

Google and Hate Speech: None of This I Know It When I See It

I read “YouTube Clarifies “Hate Speech” Definition and Which Videos Won’t Be Monetized.” I don’t know much about defining abstractions because I live in rural Kentucky. Our governor just recommended prayer patrols to curb violence in Louisville, home of the Derby and lots of murders on weekends.

Google has nailed down the abstraction “hate speech.” According to the write up, Google’s definition is:

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Nafeez Ahmed: Militarizing Social Media

04 Education, 07 Other Atrocities, Government, Idiocy, IO Deeds of War, IO Impotency, Military
Nafeez Ahmed
Nafeez Ahmed

Your Government Wants to Militarize Social Media to Influence Your Beliefs

A global conference of senior military and intelligence officials taking place in London this week reveals how governments increasingly view social media as “a new front in warfare” and a tool for the Armed Forces.

The overriding theme of the event is the need to exploit social media as a source of intelligence on civilian populations and enemies; as well as a propaganda medium to influence public opinion.

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Edward Schumacher-Matos – A New Vision for IR Schools in the Platformed World

04 Education, 11 Society, Analysis, Counter-Oppression/Counter-Dictatorship Practices, Cultural Intelligence, Ineptitude, InfoOps (IO), IO Impotency, IO Sense-Making, IO Technologies, Media, Methods & Process, Misinformation & Propaganda, Open Government
Edward Schumacher-Matos
Edward Schumacher-Matos

A New Vision for IR Schools in the Platformed World

Key points:

Whole way in which information and society are organized has changed. From stovepipes to networks — growing power of audience and authentity. This is a threat to the whole Westphalian order of nations (i.e. top-down “because we say so” hierarchical authority). State-owned media now setting the new standard for message delivery while the Western media is collapsing for lack of viability of the advertising – print – broadcast models. Western media is spending too much time on minutia of single events and not enough time on framing, context, and meaning.

“It is time for schools to come down from the ivory tower…and start engaging with the public, doing news analysis, data dives, informing the public [in ways  that] the media cannot.   . . .   This is an opportunity as well as a responsibility.”

YouTube (14:17) Below the Fold

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