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Ruth Cuadra

Linguist Finds a Language in Its Infancy - 0 views

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    young peopke in a remote village in northern Australia speak neither a dialect nor the mixture of languages called a creole, but a new language with unique grammatical rules.
Megan Conn

BBC News - Digital tools 'to save languages' - 0 views

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    Do museums have a role in dying language preservation?  Can we use technology to do so?  What are the dying languages in your community?
Ruth Cuadra

Curve - 0 views

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    Intriguing way to look for trends: analyze top-selling images of the last year ... produced five visual trends that are key to the visual language of sustainability across a broad range of industries.
Ruth Cuadra

Photorgaphy the killer app? On sharing, Flickr and visual language The Getty Images Blog - 1 views

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    Where will this lead us? Photosharing is so ubiquitous we've stopped thinking about what we want to photograph and why we want to share. We just do it.
David Bloom

20 Crucial Terms Every 21st Century Futurist Should Know - 2 views

  • We live in an era of accelerating change, when scientific and technological advancements are arriving rapidly. As a result, we are developing a new language to describe our civilization as it evolves. Here are 20 terms and concepts that you'll need to navigate our future.
Ruth Cuadra

Characteristics and Guidelines of Great Public Spaces - 1 views

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    Some useful language that echoes the definition and examples of third spaces that we've been working with.
Ariane Karakalos

Community Involvement : Discovery Center Museum : Rockford, IL - 0 views

  • Discovery Center Museum has provided after school activities within the Rockford School District #205 for the past 10 years. The After School Achievement Program is provided to schools within the Rockford School District that are defined as Title One schools. These schools are all located in predominately low-income neighborhoods and have a high number of children on the free or reduced lunch program, and have been placed on a statewide Watch List due to their low academic test scores. This program runs from September-May each year.
  • safe environment, positive mentoring and lessons that foster success in school and the community at large. Our program helps children succeed, develop a positive self-image and stay in school by improving their English language, reading, math, science and creative skills. Our program also teaches social and personal life skills, team building, and exposes children to a wide variety of cultural experiences
  • These after school programs are partially funded by the state of Illinois. Discovery Center provides approximately $100,000 of in-kind services for the five schools in which we serve as Lead Agency. This support is in the form of donated staff salaries, a free Family Nights at the museum for participating children and their families, materials, food, student incentives, contractual costs to other participating organizations, free admission to the museum for a field trip one time each year and free family memberships to the museum to all lead agency schools (approximately 500 families).
David Bloom

When 'Liking' a Brand Online Voids the Right to Sue - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • Might downloading a 50-cent coupon for Cheerios cost you legal rights?General Mills, the maker of cereals like Cheerios and Chex as well as brands like Bisquick and Betty Crocker, has quietly added language to its website to alert consumers that they give up their right to sue the company if they download coupons, “join” it in online communities like Facebook, enter a company-sponsored sweepstakes or contest or interact with it in a variety of other ways.
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    All I can say is, Wow!  This is the sort of thing that could have wide-ranging ramifications, and i suspect that museums will, one day, have to decide which legal direction they will head.  Could buying a membership at a museum exempt the member from legal protections?
Elizabeth Merritt

Hiring algorithms, artificial intelligence risk violating Americans with Disabilities Act, Biden admin says - 0 views

  • The Biden administration is concerned that the widely used technology can screen out people who have disabilities that do not affect their ability to do the job; gamified personality tests could select against even slight mental disabilities, while software that tracks speech and body language could discriminate against physical disabilities that may be invisible to the naked eye.
  • A week ago, the EEOC filed its first algorithmic discrimination case — an age-discrimination suit naming several Asia-based companies operating in New York under the brand name iTutorGroup.
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