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His dark prediction about the future has become our present.
Jefferson: It wasn't enough to enshrine some rights in the constitution and the bill of rights, the people had to be educated and they had to practice their skepticism in their education otherwise we don't run the government- the government runs us.
We live in an age based on science and technology with formidable technological powers.
If we don't understand it, by we I mean the general public, if it's something that "oh I'm not good at, that I don't know anything about it", then who is making all the decisions about science and technology that are going to determine what kind of future our children live in? Just some members of congress, but there's no more than a handful members of congress with any background in science at all.
Future vision
“Negropodamus” disses Internet of Things, predicts knowledge pills,
just to give you a little background... this guy... founded the MIT MediaLab... he also gave a talk at the very first TED conference with 5 predictions.... after you read the article, watch the video and be prepared to have your mind blown (keep in mind, he made these predictions in 1984!!!).... Nigroponte is one of those tech visionaries.. like Kurzweil.... ('the singularity guy'... actually, there's a lot more to the singularity than good old Ray)
some sites futurists check out...
physorg.com singularity hub kurzweilAI
Professional Development, Collaboration and Finland
The Secret to Finland’s Success: Educating Teachers Stanford EdPolicy
Steady Work: How Finland Is Building a Strong Teaching and Learning System [PDF]
What we can learn from Finland’s successful school reform NEA NEA
Professional development: what can Brits learn from schools abroad? The Guardian
Creativity, Technology/Robots/Jobs, Futurism
Links discussed/related to a couple of conversations this week about the purpose of education and what is your purpose in life....
Creativity....
Carl Sagan, Stephen Hawking and Arthur C. Clarke - God, The Universe and Everything Else (1988) [52:10]
A couple of clips from this excellent video, an hour well spent… Big questions and Curiosity Science, Politics, and Skepticism Creativity
Is Stifling Creativity in the Classroom Preventing Future Problem Solvers?
Excerpts: "Dr. Mae C. Jemison, an American physician and NASA astronaut, correctly noted that the “majority of scientists say they developed their passion for science by age 11. That means that the educational experience children have in grade school profoundly impacts our nation’s ability to graduate a prepared STEM [science, technology, engineering and math] work force.”"
"Look at any truly stunning innovation and you’ll find creativity at play. Inspiring our students to think creatively while being trained in a specific discipline is vital for our country’s growth and development. But here is the sobering reality: according to researchers, scores on the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking (the standard test used to measure creativity, akin to IQ tests for measuring intelligence) have been declining in the U.S. during the past two decades, with the most significant decline among kindergartners through sixth graders. This leads to a fundamental question: Is our education system stifling creativity in today’s children, preventing them from becoming the world’s future creative problem solvers?
Some argue that the decline in creativity may be caused by excess media consumption, because students are spending countless hours interacting with smart phones, video games and television. Others may argue standardized testing or other root causes. However, a fundamental fact remains: most children spend the majority of their day in a highly structure, perhaps overly ridged learning environment. How are we supporting teachers and equipping classrooms in the battle to preserve the child’s inherent and natural curiosity?" MORE LINKS 18 Things Highly Creative People Do Differently TED Playlist: Where do ideas come from IN THE AIR New Yorker (Gladwell)
Technology, robots, and jobs...
10 Rad Jobs of the Future Infographic
Will Technology Make Work Better for Everyone? Slate
Here Comes The Future Of Education. Are We Ready? Mitch Joel Robots Are Already Replacing Us Wired (I like page 11) Better Than Human: Why Robots Will — And Must — Take Our Jobs Kevin Kelly, Wired Excerpts: "Robots create jobs that we did not even know we wanted done." "When robots and automation do our most basic work, making it relatively easy for us to be fed, clothed, and sheltered, then we are free to ask, “What are humans for?” Industrialization did more than just extend the average human lifespan. It led a greater percentage of the population to decide that humans were meant to be ballerinas, full-time musicians, mathematicians, athletes, fashion designers, yoga masters, fan-fiction authors, and folks with one-of-a kind titles on their business cards. With the help of our machines, we could take up these roles; but of course, over time, the machines will do these as well. We’ll then be empowered to dream up yet more answers to the question “What should we do?” It will be many generations before a robot can answer that." (also see Kevin Kelly's TED talk: The next 5,000 days of the web?)
The long view...
Have you seen Jason Silva's latest 'Shots of Awe' video? JASON SILVA’S LATEST: TO BE HUMAN IS TO BE TRANSHUMAN
The next species of human Juan Enriquez TED Talk I'm planning to give a talk on transhumanism (more than just Kurzweil's ideas on the singularity) next semester....
Still, Texas and Arizona show us sales go on when Tesla dealers are “banned.”
This one made my jaw drop, seriously????
Carl Sagan, Stephen Hawking and Arthur C. Clarke - God, The Universe and Everything Else (1988) [52:10]
Bummed I missed the first episode of the new Cosmos, but I'll catch it on Sunday!
A couple of clips from this excellent video, an hour well spent... Big questions and Curiosity Science, Politics, and Skepticism Creativity
http://io9.com/watch-classical-paintings-come-alive-in-beauty-1503708585
Creepy and beautiful
If the vision he laid out Friday prevails, mass surveillance on innocents will continue and we'll never enjoy pre-9/11 privacy again.
Net Neutrality, more bad news...
Not a huge Matt Damon fan, but these are not his words anyways (short but awesome video)... the speech he's reading is from a historian/author/activist:
"In one of his last interviews, Zinn stated that he would like to be remembered "for introducing a different way of thinking about the world, about war, about human rights, about equality," and
for getting more people to realize that the power which rests so far in the hands of people with wealth and guns, that the power ultimately rests in people themselves and that they can use it. At certain points in history, they have used it. Black people in the South used it. People in the women's movement used it. People in the anti-war movement used it. People in other countries who have overthrown tyrannies have used it.
He said he wanted to be known as "somebody who gave people a feeling of hope and power that they didn't have before."
Speaking of the government... more bad news.... you probably haven't heard anything about it on the mainstream news channels, but a federal court just struck down most of the FCC's net neutrality rules... [SCROLL TO BOTTOM OF PAGE TO CHECK OUT A COOL INFOGRAPHIC THAT WILL GIVE YOU A GOOD IDEA OF WHAT IT IS and WHY THIS IS A BFD]... "Indeed, the court has very nearly given the FCC — and state utility commissions, to boot — carte blanche to regulate the entire internet. And that’s the real story here."
The Feds Lost Net Neutrality, But Won Control of the Internet (Wired)
Ars Technica did a great job of summing up: ""In other words, the court is allowing the FCC to do anything except stop phone and cable companies from discriminating or blocking," Free Press wrote. "That’s right: They can do anything except protect Net Neutrality.""
FCC will find new way to prevent ISP abuse after net neutrality loss
One more quote for y'all "We must ensure the same quality access to online educational content as to entertainment and other commercial offerings. But without net neutrality, we are in danger of prioritizing Mickey Mouse and Jennifer Lawrence over William Shakespeare and Teddy Roosevelt. This may maximize profits for large content providers, but it minimizes education for all.
And with education comes innovation. While we tend to glorify industrial-park incubators and think-tanks, the fact is that many of the innovative services we use today were created by entrepreneurs who had a fair chance to compete for web traffic. By enabling internet service providers to limit that access, we are essentially saying that only the privileged can continue to innovate. Meanwhile, small content creators, such as bloggers and grassroots educators, would face challenges from ISPs placing restrictions on information traveling over their networks."
Why Net Neutrality's Demise Hurts the Poor Most (Wired)
I'm so disappointed in our government, in our country. When are people going to wake up????
Some more reading if you're interested:
What you need to know about the court decision that just struck down net neutrality U.S Court Throws Out Net Neutrality Rules – Explained
My bookmarks on Net Neutrality
bonus infographic
'They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety' Benjamin Franklin
The agency, President Obama, and members of Congress have all said NSA spying programs have thwarted more than 50 terrorist plots. But there’s no evidence the claim is true.
need to try this out on the tablet lol
Download Humorous Vector Badges - for Designers.
Ive noticed lately that all designers have the same thoughts, loves and pet hates about desig...
The agency, President Obama, and members of Congress have all said NSA spying programs have thwarted more than 50 terrorist plots. But there’s no evidence the claim is true.
The NSA has publicly identified four of the 54 cases.
In the last five months, the NSA's surveillance practices have been revealed to be a massive international operation, staggering in scope. But how do all of the NSA's programmes fit together â and what does it mean for you?
Open Remarks by Sir Tim Berners-Lee on Panel Discussion on Building a World Wide Human Rights Web: human rights and the free flow of information
According to the Coalition for the Homeless, during Bloomberg’s twelve years in office the number of homeless families in New York went up by seventy-three per cent. One child out of every hundred children in the city is homeless. For baseball games, Yankee Stadium seats 50,287. If all the homeless people who now live in New York used the stadium for a gathering, several thousand of them would have to stand. There are now two hundred and thirty-six homeless shelters in the city.
One of the many little thrills of being a part of the Obama campaign four years ago was a deep and abiding sense that, finally, a political leader had come along who could live up to our highest aspirations. Yes, Obama was cool and played basketball and was conversant in ironical youth culture, but when it came down to it, he was overwhelmingly serious. The other guys were hauling unlicensed plumbers onstage and suspending their campaign at the drop of a hat, but Obama kept his eyes on the prize and played the grown-up. Now he's talking about "Romnesia."
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
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.
When humans go to live on Mars those 300-pound space suits are going to get old fast. The Biosuit with its tight-fitting Spiderman look could make...
"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
Here is where we need a better sense of justice, and shame. For the outrageousness in this story is not just Aaron. It is also the absurdity of the prosecutor’s behavior. From the beginning, the government worked as hard as it could to characterize what Aaron did in the most extreme and absurd way. The “property” Aaron had “stolen,” we were told, was worth “millions of dollars” — with the hint, and then the suggestion, that his aim must have been to profit from his crime. But anyone who says that there is money to be made in a stash ofACADEMIC ARTICLES is either an idiot or a liar. It was clear what this was not, yet our government continued to push as if it had caught the 9/11 terrorists red-handed.
As a new year approaches, the University of Notre Dame's John J. Reilly Center for Science, Technology and Values has released its annual list of emerging ethical dilemmas and policy issues in science and technology for 2014.
He argues that rich nations should change their goal from one of economic growth to that of "increased happiness in a situation of stable income and declining population". This sentiment is echoed by both Graeme Maxton, leading economist and author of The End of Progress, while Charles Sturt University Professor of Public Ethics Clive Hamilton observes that in our developed economies, "people buy things they don't need, with money they don't have, to impress people they don't like".
http://phys.org/news/2013-12-population-growth-bodes-decline-standards.html
(Phys.org) âWhen NASA's Juno spacecraft flew past Earth on Oct. 9, 2013, it received a boost in speed of more than 8,800 mph (about 7.3 kilometer per second), which set it on course for a July 4, 2016, rendezvous with Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system. One of Juno's sensors, a special ...
Gotta check out the animated gif at the top of the page, #awesomeness
This is pretty over the top
New US Spy Satellite Features World Devouring Octopus
