The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Considering Media in the Light of Relationship and Attention
A Conversation with Mary Rothschild
Three bottom lines:
01 Digital world is a trap — everything is pre-programmed
02 First seven years are vital if a child is to grow up with a free open mind
03 Digital world has displaced parental attention.
Goodbye to All That: Why the UK Left the EU
Brexit proved that it’s immigration, stupid. And once again, it’s the economy, stupid (although the British neoliberal establishment never paid attention). But serious bets can be made the EU system in Brussels won’t learn anything from the shock therapy – and won’t reform itself.
Education and Underemployment in the Age of Machine Intelligence
What is the root cause of persistent underemployment in the United States today? The short answer is technology.
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Mark Zuckerberg’s Automated Teaching Idea Is Deeply Flawed
By 12/12/15 at 3:59 PM
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Although the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative’s Personalized Learning Platform is not part of Facebook, the underlying principles are the same: human work is replaced by technology, as algorithms provide users with content based on an analysis of their past behavior and demonstrated interests. . . . Zuckerberg’s idea of personalized learning has three major flaws.
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The Top 50 Educational Apps Are Mostly All Stuck In The Stone Age
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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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On Tuesday, we announced a major new initiative to bring this vision to reality, supported by a coalition of over 40 of the world’s essential scholarly organizations, such as JSTOR, PLOS, arXiv, HathiTrust, Wiley and HighWire Press, who are linking arms to establish a new paradigm of open collaborative annotation across the world’s knowledge.
Read full first newsletter, The Margin #1.
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Michelle Obama speaks on need for girls' education worldwide
DOHA, Qatar (AP) — U.S. first lady Michelle Obama on Wednesday called on the world to fund and promote societal change to support girls' education. Speaking at the 2015 World Innovation Summit for Education in Doha, Qatar, Obama said more needs to be done to ensure girls know their bodies “are a source of pride, not pain or shame.” . . .
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