Wikipedia Event 10/26/16

thoughts on google glass

cool...   actually, I think google glass is pretty important in that it's a transitional technology--- kind of in the way that Martin Cooper created the first handheld mobile phone:

that in no way resembles what our smartphones look like today, or what they're capable of...  but, that phone was a critical piece of electronics in the evolution of technology...  I already have my eyes on what's next, by the time they "do a good job" on glass, I think we'll be close to seeing that...  GG can still be useful, there's actually a bunch of cool ways that it can be used in education too-- the problem is that it's poorly executed, clunky and is just the start of what can be done with wearables, AR, and IoT...  

Peace or Violence?

Is World History Becoming More Peaceful or More Violent?

Updates:  

Ray Kurzweil: The world isn’t getting worse — our information is getting better

Why the World Is Better Than You Think in 10 Powerful Charts

Bharara, Teachout, Lessig are all going to be here... and it's free and open to the public...

program here: http://calendars.fordham.edu/EventList.aspx…

register here: http://calendars.fordham.edu/EventRegistration.aspx…

Cuomo vs Bharara

Cuomo's Office Hobbled Ethics Inquiries by Moreland Commission

Announcing the Web We Want

"Millions of people together have made the Web great. So, during the Web’s 25th birthday year in 2014, millions of people can secure the Web’s future. We mu

Higher Ed is the Province of the High Achieving and the Wealthy

I don’t want a society that massively excludes so many students, nor one where you have to be better than perfect to gain admission to your state university. For 20 years now, anyone with access to the internet has been able to publish ideas to anyone else in the world with an internet connection. That’s an amazing opportunity and a formidable responsibility. Yet our antiquated educational system rewards a hierarchical form of silo’d, standardized teaching and learning that was designed for the Taylorized Industrial Age. Our over-emphasis on standardized testing undermines the intellectual skills of critical thinking and productive contribution needed to thrive in our interactive Do-It-Yourself era.

Students Hate Writing Papers. Professors Hate Grading Papers. Let

Everybody in college hates papers. Students hate writing them so much that they buy, borrow, or steal them instead. Plagiarism is now so commonplace that if we flunked every kid who did it, wed have a worse attrition rate than a MOOC. And on those rare occasions undergrads do deign...

http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/an-open-letter-in-defense-of-rebecca-schuman/54301

https://www.change.org/petitions/scholars-writers-and-teachers-open-letter-in-defense-of-rebecca-schuman

Waiting for the Pope2

A major breakthrough.  

Cognitive creativity is inspiring artists like Alex Da Kid to make music unlike ever before. He used the emotional insights Watson found in millions of data points to create an original song about heartbreak. Now it’s your turn to see what Alex was inspired to do.

Watch the lyric video for Alex Da Kid’s ‘Not Easy’. →

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