No doubt that the internet has transformed the education business model, but, as Pew Internet’s research points out, teachers say the top priority in today’s classrooms should be teaching students “how to judge the quality of online information!”
Author: neil
Big Data: A marketing campaign [Article]
Stephen Few has a scathing commentary on the marketing of Big Data – on why the Big Consultants are in bed with the Big Vendors. Riveting, if you are into such stuff. Big Data, Bad Math: Gartner Consults Its Crystal Ball:
A talking elephant? [Article]
5 words. In Korean. Move over, Parrot: Elephant Mimics Trainer At Zoo.
Future of education [Article]
Education is an industry that has not kept up with the times. How has the internet disrupted this “very important to our future livelihood” kind of industry? Read the other links I posted on the subject here, here & here.
Disaster preparedness
A hurricane survivors musings – New York City gets a small dose of reality that a large portion of the rest of the world lives with every day (lack of water, electricity, cabs, transportation, gridlock, & lots of human interaction!)
Insta-pictures of Sandy
The story of hurricane sandy told through Instacane. Over 400,000 photographs posted. Instagram is quickly proving to be a very powerful tool to publish stories as they happen. I have my reservations about whether discovering news without context (provided by journalism) is such a good idea, but this site is, as Andrew Sullivan referred to in his blog, Instant Ruin Porn.
No longer ComfortablySmug [Article]
A twitter user @comfortablysnug, was criticized for fake news reports about Hurricane Sandy. His identity was ousted as Shashank Tripathi, a Republican campaign manager. This, & the recent outing of a reddit poster called Violentacrez who was involved with posting (& encouraging others to post) pictures of young women (& sometimes children) without their consent, have raised some challenging questions about community action against anonymous users, as this article points out.
Don’t worry, be happy! [Article]
First understand, then destroy stress. Mr. Money Moustache retired from his job at 40 – and this site is his full time job. Read at your own risk!
Downtown Manhattan
This is what a concerned resident of Manhattan discovered, despite Bloomberg’s comment that “we’ve come to the end of the downside” of Hurricane Sandy.
Lydia Calas’s Face For NYC Mayor
Lydia Calas is Michael Bloomberg’s sign language interpreter, & has become a surprise hero with her animated face contrasting Bloomberg expressionless one.