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

Mark Zuckerberg’s Automated Teaching Idea Is Deeply Flawed By Natalia Kucirkova and Elizabeth FitzGerald 12/12/15 at 3:59 PM EXTRACT 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 …

Yoda: Internet Sucks 3 – Pirate Bay Founder “The Internet is shit today.”

Pirate Bay Founder: ‘I Have Given Up’ “The internet is shit today. It’s broken. It was probably always broken, but it’s worse than ever.” My conversation with, Peter Sunde, one of the founders and spokespersons of The Pirate Bay, did not start out optimistically. There’s good reason for that: In the last couple of months, …

Yoda: Internet Sucks 5: Educational Apps Are Shit…

The Top 50 Educational Apps Are Mostly All Stuck In The Stone Age EXTRACT 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 …

Yoda: Matt McAlister on Need for $1B Journalism Fund

Google and Facebook as the dark force… Silicon Valley should follow Google and create a $1bn journalism fund Matt McAlister of Publish.org The Guardian EXTRACT Europe has assumed the role of digital media regulator in the apparent absence of a moral compass within these platforms that exert increasing influence over our lives.

Yoda: Alternative Alternative Energy — Lasers Cool Water

UW Scientists Invent Laser That Can Refrigerate Liquid Water A new UW study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences last week revealed that a team of UW researchers has used an infrared laser to cool liquid water by about 36 degrees Fahrenheit (or about 20 degrees Celsius) — and they say it’s …