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Maria Gurova

Your First-Grader is Going to Be A High School Drop Out | TIME.com - 0 views

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learning big data Technology behavior education

shared by Maria Gurova on 06 Aug 13 - No Cached
  • The predictive factors themselves—behavior problems, frequent absences from school, reading skills that are below grade level—are not so surprising.
  • Thanks to widespread automation and digitization, we now have access to more information, gathered at ever-earlier stages, about individuals’ performance at school
  • There is a danger, of course, that people who struggle early on will be written off too soon, before they’ve had a chance to prove themselves.
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  • The availability of very early indicators of performance puts a whole new spin on the Matthew effect: teachers can use these indicators to address trouble spots before the student or employee ever has a chance to fall seriously behind.
  • the evaluation specialist West pointed out that his formula only spots “signs of students who drop out—it doesn’t mean they are dropouts.” But the research is clear that we also shouldn’t wait to help them avoid that fate.
Maria Gurova

A New Version Of Monopoly That Isn't About Getting Rich And Bankrupting Your Friends | ... - 0 views

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social KE entertainment learning kids game gamification community

shared by Maria Gurova on 20 Sep 13 - No Cached
  • "Unlike Monopoly, the goal of Commonopoly is not the exhaustion, through monopolization, of a virtual stock of goods, but rather the expansion and preservation of a self-propelling sustainable system of recycling, production and distribution," the creators write.
  • Commonopoly, which has recently resurfaced in a couple of places online, demands that players brainstorm alternative economic systems through activities placed around the board.
  • Commonopoly also triggers another recent memory. In 2012, a team of psychologists from the University of California, Berkeley, designed several experiments to measure how wealth impacted unethical behavior.
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  • The results of the other experiments came to the controversial conclusion that those with wealthier backgrounds were more likely to cut off other drivers, lie in negotiating, or cheat.
Maria Gurova

Rentals Delivered By Drone Could Make Ownership Obsolete | TechCrunch - 0 views

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Technology ownership Amazon Prime Air robotics Economy

shared by Maria Gurova on 04 Dec 13 - No Cached
  • Today, the most convenient way to have access to something you want is to own it and keep it where you live. That's because the process of having something delivered is too costly, cumbersome, and slow to do every time you need it.
  • Still, people don't want things soon. They want them NOW. A 30-minute Amazon Prime Air is the closest approximation of “now” we've seen yet.
  • Yet the greatest impact of robotic delivery might not be owning things quicker, but rather not having to own them in the first place. That's because once you can have something approximately now, the functional difference between ownership and rental disappears
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  • Maybe we'll 3D print what we currently buy. And there will always be things too big to be conveniently shlepped around. But eventually, I'd bet it won't be humans delivering the pizzas, tools, electronics, clothes, and many other things we buy or borrow today.
  • We might buy less stuff and all objects would spend more of their existence being used rather than in a closet, so we wouldn't have to manufacture as many copies of things
  • Perhaps most exciting of all is what the transition from owning to sharing could mean for our psyches
Maria Gurova

FiLIP Smartwatch Helps Parents Track Their Child's Location [VIDEO] - 0 views

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Technology human tracking wearable parenting kids

shared by Maria Gurova on 04 Dec 13 - No Cached
  • Parents can program up to five numbers into the gadget, which kids can call with the touch of a button.
  • The FiLIP's simple interface only includes two buttons, one of which is bright red. In case of emergency, the child can hold down the red button, prompting the watch to call the first person in its contact list.
  • Maria Gurova on 04 Dec 13
     
    First smart watch designed for kids
Maria Gurova

5 | 5 Visions For What Families Will Look Like In 2030 | Co.Exist | ideas + impact - 2 views

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social family Technology

shared by Maria Gurova on 04 Dec 13 - No Cached
  • As more people move into cities, natural resources decline, climate change heats up, and the "sharing economy" continues to pick up steam, our notions of family will continue to shift.
  • the local Marks & Spencer department store (this is the U.K., after all) has been converted into a combination cafe, store that both shares and rents items, and maker-space outfitted with the requisite 3-D printer
  • The Multi-Gens are exactly what they sound like--multiple generations of families living together.
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  • with a "cloud-based family hub" that allows family members to divvy up chores and financial transactions
  • five different types of families of the future: the Multi-Gens, the Silver Linings, Ruralites, the Tandem Tribe, and Modular Movers. The firm also work out how different brands might service each family type
  • The Silver Linings families live in community-centric villages for active older people that offer amenities like yoga and fitness classes
  • The Ruralites are families living in rural areas that live at the cutting edge of technology--using 3-D printers to get replacement parts for household items and "video walls" to communicate with friends and family
  • Dragon Rouge refers to single parents sharing a family home as members of the Tandem Tribe. In this vision, energy and resources are tracked individually and a larger micro-community offers shared resources, including tools and vehicles.
  • Finally, there are the Modular Movers--professionals who hop from one megacity to the other, exploring the world while they work and opting to walk and use bikes whenever possible. Like some of the other family types, this group relies on shared resources and subscription plans.
  • Maria Gurova on 04 Dec 13
     
    what would families look like in 20 years
Maria Gurova

The Future of Advertising Hinges on Understanding Identity | Adweek - 0 views

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Technology social security cyber safety identity google internet of things big data behavior

shared by Maria Gurova on 10 Dec 13 - No Cached
  • . The future of identity lies in digitizing the physical world, and the context in which we collect data about identity needs to become transparent.
  • Will consumers understand that better identity data equals higher-quality messaging to them throughout their lives? Context will allow us to exchange value better and build deeper networks in physical world data collection.
  • We need better systems to understand and provide access to individuals’ identity by service and by object
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  • How do we get the right message to the right user to maximize the value to the consumer? In doing so, we can minimize waste and theoretically deliver a much more accurate and compelling experience
  • The Internet of Things phenomenon is in the early days of posing the question: Can we, or should we, bring the intelligence and efficiency of the Internet to everyday objects?
Maria Gurova

Мигранты : Профессор Сорбонны об этнопреступности в Европе - Перемены - Афиша... - 0 views

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shared by Maria Gurova on 11 Dec 13 - No Cached
  • Но самое интересное, что совершенно зашкаливающий уровень ксенофобии обнаруживается у людей, обитающих еще дальше от Парижа, в богатых зеленых пригородах.
  • Это кажется странным — почему они так боятся иммигрантов, если они с ними практически никогда не сталкиваются?
  • их ксенофобию подпитывает экономическая неуверенность:
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  • после погромов в Лондоне в 2011 году британская полиция распространила фотографии подростков, грабивших магазины, с призывом помочь их найти.
  • во Франции, все были бы в шоке: как, им предложили на кого-то доносить! Я думаю, это отчасти последствия Второй мировой войны: до сих пор силен комплекс вины за выдачу немецкому правительству французов-евреев.
  • когда общество неблагополучно, ему требуются козлы отпущения. Чаще всего таковыми оказываются люди, во-первых, отличающиеся внешне, а во-вторых, стоящие ниже всего на социальной лестнице
  • за время работы я пришла к выводу, что независимо от того, идет ли речь о религиозных, этнических или культурных различиях, идеальные кандидаты на роль посредников — это молодые матери с колясками. У них всех исключительно похожий образ жизни
  • Если в неблагополучном районе создать место, где молодые мамы разных национальностей смогут встречаться и общаться между собой, считай, полдела сделано.
  • один архитектор предложил просто снести два здания и построить на их месте торговый центр — достаточно крупный, чтобы туда стали приезжать люди из соседних районов. И тогда подростки, раньше тусовавшиеся в подъездах, волей-неволей начали встречаться и взаимодействовать с людьми из более благоустроенного мира, и это само по себе постепенно поменяло их поведение.
  • Не стоит недооценивать цивилизующее влияние торговых центров.
Maria Gurova

8 Unexpected Ways Technology Will Change The World By 2020 | Co.Exist | ideas + impact - 3 views

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Technology Political social predict the future health education internet of things devices

shared by Maria Gurova on 17 Jan 14 - No Cached
  • NEW EDUCATION MODELS
  • education will become an "on-demand service" where people "pull down a module of learning" when they need it.
  • "School kids will learn from short bite-sized modules, and gamification practices will be incorporated in schools
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  • Making will go mainstream
  • not just with the creative class, but with people who would never consider themselves to be traditionally 'creative'--opening up a whole population of pragmatists who now make extremely useful 'artwork'
  • dark imaginings: The end of privacy and the continued rise of surveillance. The personalization of everything and the end of serendipity. Dependence on devices. Loss of human autonomy in the face of artificial intelligence.
  • Africa embraces technology to solve health and education challenges, it may start exporting its models elsewhere
  • By 2020, mobile money will have spread throughout Africa, enabling some of the 2 billion people without access to financial services to come into the formal system.
  • In the past, innovative products flowed from rich countries to poor countries. By 2020, the pipeline may start flipping
  • Machines
  • running our lives to a very large degree...
  • Maria Gurova on 17 Jan 14
     
    Many of things we've already discussed
Maria Gurova

What Happens When Medical Science Meets Data Science? | Co.Exist | ideas + impact - 0 views

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Technology health human tracking big data legal privacy wearable cyber safety wellbeing

shared by Maria Gurova on 27 Jan 14 - No Cached
  • If data from personal biometric devices is ever going to be truly useful to researchers, big medical centers will have to pull it into electronic health records (EHRs), de-identify it, and make it public. Without the medical data found in EHRs, like CT scans, X-rays, and blood tests, researchers have little context for wearable sensor data and there is little useful information that can be gleaned from just the raw data
  • Practice Fusion, a popular EHR company, will begin opening up its API over the next year to pull in data from wearable sensors to its platform.
  • Basis, a startup that makes a health sensor-laden watch, is working on the first step: a device-agnostic platform that puts all of a person’s health sensor data into a single online repository.
Maria Gurova

A DIY Platform For Building Devices You Control With Your Mind | Co.Design | business +... - 0 views

www.fastcodesign.com/...cts-you-control-with-your-mind

Technology science brain-computer interface kickstarter open source

shared by Maria Gurova on 27 Jan 14 - No Cached
  • OpenBCI, a Kickstarter project by Conor Russomanno and Joel Murphy, aims to fill this need by offering makers, hobbyists, and other geeky tinkerers a fully open-source prototyping platform for designing whatever mind-control UIs they can dream up
  • 100 Famous Movie Quotes, Visualized
  • The only thing that will lead to the tipping point of BCI practicality is simultaneous and rapid hardware and software iteration; Joel and I both believe that this type of rapid technological innovation cannot take place behind closed doors, hence our unfaltering mission to keep OpenBCI totally open source and include as many people of varying disciplines as possible
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  • OpenBCI is designing the Lego blocks; someone else will build the castle.
  • Making EEG-controlled novelties is one thing, but designing better medical devices to enable paralyzed people to move their wheelchairs, or locked-in patients to communicate, is a truly noble enterprise
  • Maria Gurova on 27 Jan 14
     
    watch the video in the article, it's really comprehensive in understanding the idea
Maria Gurova

Google: The new GE: Google, everywhere | The Economist - 0 views

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Google Technology big data collection internet of things robotics human tracking smart home

shared by Maria Gurova on 27 Jan 14 - No Cached
  • Its latest purchase is Nest Labs, a maker of sophisticated thermostats and smoke detectors: on January 13th Google said it would pay $3.2 billion in cash for the firm. Google’s biggest move into hardware so far is its $12.5 billion bid for Motorola Mobility
  • With Google’s collection of hardware businesses, the common factor is data: gathering and crunching them, to make physical devices more intelligent.
  • Packed with sensors and software that can, say, detect that the house is empty and turn down the heating, Nest’s connected thermostats generate plenty of data, which the firm captures.
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  • This month Samsung announced a new smart-home computing platform that will let people control washing machines, televisions and other devices it makes from a single app. Microsoft, Apple and Amazon were also tipped to take a lead there, but Google was until now seen as something of a laggard.
  • it is likely to do what it did with driverless cars: take a technology financed by military contracts and adapt it for the consumer market.
evgeny lavrov

One Day, Google Will Deliver the Stuff You Want Before You Ask | Wired Business | Wired... - 0 views

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Technology shopping anticipation tracking tech

shared by evgeny lavrov on 26 Sep 13 - No Cached
  • As personal digital assistant apps such as Google Now become widespread, so does the idea of algorithms that can not only meet but anticipate our needs
  • eBay lets you shop at only one store at a time and promises delivery “in about an hour,” while Google lets you shop at multiple stores and pick your own delivery time window.
  • customers won’t be ordering stuff from eBay anymore. Instead, they’ll let their phones do it.
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  • “Ambient commerce is about consumers turning over their trust to the machine,” Sheldon says
  • Between what these companies know about our interests, our friends, our whereabouts, our purchases, and anything else we’re willing to feed them, whether by email, Twitter, Facebook, GPS, or credit card, they probably should have a very good idea of what we want and when and where we want it.
evgeny lavrov

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Technology 3D printing Environment

shared by evgeny lavrov on 26 Sep 13 - No Cached
  • architectural experiment constructed at MIT, was “3-D printed” using 6,500 live silkworms
  • The project started with experiments to see if the spinning patterns of the silkworms could be controlled by altering the environment they operated in. It turns out they could,
  • a silkworm is a sophisticated multi-material, multi-axis 3-D printer.
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  • Potential applications are varied, but include fashion and architecture, and it’s possible to imagine a system like this being deployed in the aftermath of a natural disaster to build environmentally friendly shelters for refugees
Maria Gurova

3 | This Is What It Looks Like When A School Becomes A Community Hub | Co.Exist | ideas... - 0 views

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social community public spaces CIS

shared by Maria Gurova on 22 Oct 13 - No Cached
  • collaboration of architecture and design firms consisting of MKThink, Concordia, and DSK are creating what the developers call "a full service community, where the school district and city work cooperatively to improve access to learning and opportunities to all members of the community through a highly coordinated City/School partnership.”
  • The local community contributed heavily to the school design. "I’ve been doing this for 30 years, and there’s never been a project that I’m aware of that has required and gone through such an open and transparent communication process with the community,"
  • The design team drew inspiration for its "school as the center of community" project from the Harlem Children’s Zone (HCZ)
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  • education programs for residents of all ages--an attempt to create a healthy environment for local kids
Maria Gurova

Hand Gestures Could Make Kids Smarter | TIME.com - 0 views

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shared by Maria Gurova on 22 Oct 13 - No Cached
  • Using hand gestures may be important for more than just making a point; they could help children to learn.
  • Once something is learned, however, it’s a challenge to unlearn and inhibit the reflexive response. That’s why it helps to develop good habits early
  • It’s easier to learn something correctly the first time than it is to unlearn ineffective techniques and relearn better ones.
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  • During the task, some of the children instinctively used gestures — making rabbit ears when they knew shape mattered, or moving their palms from facing up to turning sideways when they were sorting by the teddy bear’s orientation — to guide themselves.
  • What’s more, she found that this effect had a stronger effect on successful performance than age — a powerful finding given that children’s skills improve rapidly with age during this stage of development.
  • The toddlers’ gestures could be interpreted as a glimpse of their brains at work, as they figure out how to exert the cognitive control necessary to complete their tasks.
  • Earlier work showed that older children were better able to learn math if taught to use gestures while doing so. And they often found the right answer physically — for example, by making movements to signify the numbers that needed to be kept together to add correctly — before finding it verbally
  • That has implications for improving the way we communicate and think, and could help to address developmental disorders associated with cognitive control issues, such as autism
Maria Gurova

Brown University creates first wireless, implanted brain-computer interface | ExtremeTech - 0 views

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Technology science wireless implants brain-computer interface

shared by Maria Gurova on 22 Oct 13 - No Cached
  • Researchers at Brown University have succeeded in creating the first wireless, implantable, rechargeable, long-term brain-computer interface. The wireless BCIs have been implanted in pigs and monkeys for over 13 months without issue, and human subjects are next.
  • Brown’s wireless BCI allows the subject to move freely, dramatically increasing the quantity and quality of data that can be gathered — instead of watching what happens when a monkey moves its arm, scientists can now analyze its brain activity during complex activity, such as foraging or social interaction
  • the device’s power consumption, which is just 100 milliwatts. For a device that might eventually find its way into humans, frugal power consumption is a key factor that will enable all-day, highly mobile usage
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  • Amusingly, though, the research paper notes that the wireless charging does cause significant warming of the device
  • While the wireless BCI isn’t approve for human use (and there’s no indication that they’re seeking approval yet), it was designed specifically so that it should be safe for human use.
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