New technologies like AI, machine learning, and educational software are sending rigid bell schedules, credit requirements, age-based grade levels and physical specifications to Wikipedia’s “History of Higher Education” page. More...
18 avril 2019
18 avril 2019
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Will Give $1.6 Million to Study Educators’ Experiences With Ed Tech
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative announced Monday it is providing more than $1.6 million over two years to the Jefferson Education Exchange, a nonprofit that helps educators nationwide make informed decisions about education technology. More...
18 avril 2019
Tech giants are seeking help on AI ethics. Where they seek it matters
Tech giants are starting to create mechanisms for outside experts to help them with AI ethics—but not always in the ways ethicists want. More...
18 avril 2019
The Growing Marketplace for AI Ethics
Unfortunately, there’s no industry-standard, best-practices handbook on AI ethics for companies to follow—at least not yet. Some large companies, including Microsoft and Google, are developing their own internal ethical frameworks. More...
18 avril 2019
Tech firms scramble to make AI unbiased
Google, for example has now established an external advisory council to help the tech giant develop AI technology in an ethical and responsible way. More...
16 avril 2019
Orthographe. Le marché de la remise à niveau des salariés
Un sondage OpinionWay pour Becherelle indique que 92 % des DRH estiment qu'une mauvaise expression écrite des salariés peut avoir un impact sur l'image de leur entreprise. La moitié d'entre eux indiquait même que le niveau d'expression écrite avait pu jouer dans la mise à l'écart d'une candidature lors d'un recrutement. De nombreux stages de remise à niveau en français ont vu le jour.
Source : http://www.gref-bretagne.com/Actualites/Revue-de-presse/Orthographe.-Le-marche-de-la-remise-a-niveau-des-salaries
11 avril 2019
New Macs: Intel Inside
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. New Macs: Intel Inside
There has been a wave of commentary across the internet about Apple's decision to switch to Intel processors. See the Edu_RSS Apple category for coverage. More...
11 avril 2019
Summer of Code
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Summer of Code
Google will be very popular with developers for a while as it sponsors students to create open source code over the summer. More...
11 avril 2019
Réduire les produits phytosanitaires de moitié d'ici 2025 et sortir du glyphosate pour une majorité d'usages d'ici fin 2020
Ce premier Comité de lancement a permis au gouvernement de ré-affirmer, au travers du nouveau plan Ecophyto II+, sa volonté ferme d'atteindre les objectifs de réduction de l'utilisation des produits phytopharmaceutiques de moitié d'ici à 2025 et de sortie du glyphosate pour une majorité des usages d'ici fin 2020. Plus...
9 avril 2019
Why You Should (or Should Not) Use the Yahoo! Music Engine
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Why You Should (or Should Not) Use the Yahoo! Music Engine
I figure that this is about the best marketing blog post ever, and after giving it a read I downloaded Yahoo!'s new music player. The player connects to Yahoo!'s Launch music service, which has been around for a while now (I gave up on it when the ads outnumbered the songs). The download was a breeze, but the player uses Internet Explorer, which fired off a stream of Javascript errors while failing to import my local music. More...
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