Here in one place are some largely unfiltered snippets from my FriendFeed "stream" (about 2 posts per day) for the period 2 to 18 May 2012.
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Unmissable. Matthew Bannister interviews John Carlos about his and Tommy Smith's
"gloved fist protest" on the Olympic 100m podium in Mexico in 1968. 40 years has
not dimmed Carlos's anger. 28m MP3. - http://www.bbc.co.uk/program...
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Google's "Knowledge Graph" looks like a response to / version of / alternative to
Wolfram Alpha [http://www.wolframalpha.com/] - http://www.google.com/insides...
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Workplace Safety Inspections Save Money, Jobs, Limbs. A strong argument against
deregulation - Scientific American piece by Katherine Harmon. -
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observa...
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Public access to publicly-funded research. Something is happening when Open
Access, Hargreaves, Kurzweil, Weinberger, Gordon Moore, Trip Advisor,
crowdsourcing, and Tim Berners Lee all get a mention in a UK Government
Minister's speech. - http://www.bis.gov.uk/news...
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Clayton Wright's June - December 2012 Educational Technology and Education
Conferences listing - http://fm.schmoller.net/2012...
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Welcome to Life (or the Singularity, ruined by lawyers), by Tom Scott. Wonderful.
Via Stephen Downes. - http://www.tomscott.com/life/
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Peter Sellers narrates the Denis Norden and Frank Muir's 'Balham - Gateway To The
South'. This arrived with a Dansette and a Lonnie Donegan record in about 1959. -
http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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@profserious on Digital Literacy. Anthony Finkelstein's is the first treatment of
the term by a computer scientist that I've come across, though I'm not with him
on the phrase "Digital literacy should provide an armature for skills
acquisition". Would "framework" or "motive force" be better? - http://blog.prof.so/2012...
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Is 3D printing the key to Utopia? Not according to @jjn1 in today's Observer. -
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technol...
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"The SIM-less Phone Is Coming. And It Should Scare The Shit Out Of You" by Terence
Eden. -
http://shkspr.mobi/blog...
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Knowledge Unlatched - an approach to making books Open Access. A consortium pays an
initial fee to the publisher to cover a book’s first copy costs.
In return for this fee, publishers agree to make a digital version of each book
available online at no cost on an Open Access licence. Publishers retain the right
to sell physical copies of books, as... - http://biginnovationcentre.com/Impact...
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Spector's cover of Kavinsky's Nightcall, recorded at the BBC's Maida Vale studio.
- http://ddais.tumblr.com/post...
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Children and online pornography – does the evidence justify
calls for more regulation? by LSE's Sonia Livingstone -
http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politic...
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Interesting [via @mattlingard]. Greta Munger's "Having Undergraduates Write for
Wikipedia". Excerpt below. -
http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index...
"When I read about the APS Wikipedia Initiative (APS WI) challenge to have
students help correct Wikipedia, I thought it sounded like a really neat idea. To
write a good Wikipedia article, the students need the same reading and research
skills that my old assignment required with the advantage of contributing to the
public good."
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You have to ask yourself why no UK universities (bar the OU?) seem yet to be
emulating MIT, Stanford, et al by making courses freely available online
worldwide http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...
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What France must tell Germany - Martin Wolf in the FT - http://on.ft.com/JQD4Y6 - what is needed is
"symmetrical adjustment of the imbalances that built up before the crisis, along
with reform in weaker countries". "The chances that Mr Hollande can deliver such a
changed perspective are small.... But he alone of European leaders has the desire
and the ability to try."
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Egalitarianism meets elitism? Specialist mathematics free schools - interesting
collection of articles from the London Mathematical Society. - http://education.lms.ac.uk/2012...
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Jonathan Portes (Lamont's speechwriter in 1993 when Cameron was L's 26-year-old
special advisor) shows how a previous Tory Chancellor made the right call on the
deficit. -
http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012...
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AI = "the theory and development of computer systems able to perform tasks that
normally require human intelligence". 2 minute snippet of a video interview with
Peter Norvig by James Temple. Direct link to video: http://vimeo.com/41632625 -
http://blog.sfgate.com/techchr...
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The 5 Best Toys of All Time - if you were a "tinkerer" you will understand. -
http://www.wired.com/geekdad...
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In praise of tinkering (by implication) Jonathan Drori's 2007 12 minute TED talk
on what we think we know. - http://www.ted.com/talks...
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@jjn1 "Finally, we need to stop being dazzled by the tech sensation du jour
(....) and focus instead on something mundane that really works, reaches
everyone, provides valuable services for poor people, exploits nobody and is
based on a sustainable business model." -
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technol...
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Links for a session about technology and learning -
http://fm.schmoller.net/2012...
May 6 from Fortnightly
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Lapsed Use of the Internet Amongst Young People in the UK: Digital Choice or
Digital Exclusion? Important current study by OII. Focus: the 10% of 17-19 year
olds in Britain who are lapsed Internet users, that is, young people who used to
use the Internet but no longer do. See also http://tinyurl.com/d45yvgx - http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/researc...
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Help your students become better searchers. Support resources from Google,
including lesson
plans and activities, an archive of past (with links to future) live training
sessions. - http://www.google.com/insides...
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Online learning is both coming of age and is in a state of flux.. Curtis Bonk's
Mayday post provides an optimistic and astute overview. - http://travelinedman.blogspot.co.uk/2012_05...
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Thrun - oozing optimism - explains. One of his main messages for innovators is
"Don't listen to your managers". 30 minute video about i) [0-13.30] self-driving
cars; ii) [13.30 to 23.52] online learning and the way it will transform education;
and iii) [23.52+] X - Google's innovation lab. - http://fora.tv/2012...
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