The Future of Education Includes Learning Outside of the Classroom
Shireen Jaffer, Getting Smart, 2018/02/19
It's a bit funny because I am sometimes tempted to say "the future of education is learning outside of the classroom." Certainly it includes it. More...
Why even a moth’s brain is smarter than an AI
Emerging Technology from the arXiv, MIT Technology Review, 2018/02/19
A moth can recognize odour after just few exposures. The olfactory learning system in moths is completely mapped, but artificial neural networks do not perform the same task as well as moths. The difference, explains the article, lies in how the two types of neural networks learn (that is, how the two types of neural networks create and adjust connections between neurons). The artificial neural network uses back propagation. In other words, it is given feedback from a training set. More...
College and Career Readiness; What is the Purpose of School?
Nocking The Arrow, Robert Schuetz, 2018/02/19
How reflective it is of today's society that we would think that school is something we create to serve our needs, rather than (say) where we offer our wisdom and experience to our children so that they may make the best use of it they can to lead fulfilling and rewarding lives. But no. More...
Link educational occupational credentials to courses
Phil Barker, W3C Wiki, 2018/02/21
This is some work being done at the W3C and schema.org. "Having found an educational or occupational credential, and possibly identified the competencies required to obtain that credential, an individual may find courses (and hence perhaps learning materials or other things).". More...
Career Perspectives of Elementary, Middle, and High School Students: Results of a Cross-Sectional Survey
Karyssa Siegel, randr Blog, 2018/02/21
This is marketing for a company called randr, a job search service, but it is well done, and makes a good point. The good point is this: " Students are expected to make decisions impacting the rest of their lives at age 18, despite the fact that they have had very little exposure to the abundance of options." This has a range of undesirable impacts. More...
The JavaScript Learning Landscape in 2018
Jason Rodriguez, CSS-Tricks, 2018/02/21
This is textbook. Not your textbook; my textbook. As I've been converting gRSShopper into a modern web application slash personal learning environment, I've had to dramatically improve my knowledge of Javascript. This article describes my learning landscape in this endeavour (minus the actual textbooks, because I'm cheap - but I have done that, with other subjects, working through the examples beginning to end). More...
IMS Global Learning Consortium Announces Caliper Analytics v1.1
Press Release, IMS Global, 2018/02/16
The Caliper specification "was initially released in 2015, to enable the collection of valuable learning and tool usage data from digital resources, which can be used for predictive analytics." This is an update. More...
Universities and the “democracy of the gullible”
Jean Winand, UNESCO Courier, 2018/02/16
This is a good article and a weak article at the same time. It's a good article in the sense that it raises a significant issue and discusses it clearly and precisely. But it's a weak article in that it overstates the problem (it's simply not true that "no one thinks of criticizing the technical elite") and offers an overly broad resolution, taking a classic 'defense of the humanities' position. More...
Anger at Google image search 'peace deal'
BBC News, 2018/02/16
The essence of the deal Google struck with Getty Images is that it has removed the 'view image' button from its image search application. Now I personally don't know why you would search for images unless you wanted to view them. But more to the point, it seems wrong to me that one company with a few million commercial images would dictate the terms of access to an entire web full of billions of all sorts of images (including my openly licensed images that I want people to be able to view). More...
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