Eagle: Blocking Media from Children…

04 Education, 06 Family, 11 Society, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, IO Sense-Making, IO Technologies, Media
300 Million Talons...
300 Million Talons…

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.

Pepe Escobar: Goodbye to All That – Why the UK Left the EU

04 Education, 08 Wild Cards, 11 Society, Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, Government
Pepe Escobar
Pepe Escobar

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.

Yoda: Internet Sucks 1 – Zuckerberg’s Deeply Flawed Idea for Automated Teaching

04 Education, IO Impotency

yoda with light saberMark Zuckerberg’s Automated Teaching Idea Is Deeply Flawed

By and 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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Yoda: Internet Sucks 5: Educational Apps Are Shit…

04 Education, IO Impotency

yoda with light saberThe 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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Hypothes.is: Coalition of 40+ Scholarly Publishers

04 Education, Advanced Cyber/IO

hypothes.isOn 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: 62 Million Girls Not in School

04 Education
Michelle Obama
Michelle Obama

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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