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Bill Genereux

Why Are Young People Ditching Cars for Smartphones? - The Atlantic - 0 views

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    For cash-strapped twenty-somethings, staying connected may be worth more than a set of wheels.
Bill Genereux

The Creepy New Wave of the Internet by Sue Halpern | The New York Review of Books - 0 views

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    As human behavior is tracked and merchandized on a massive scale, the Internet of Things creates the perfect conditions to bolster and expand the surveillance state.
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How Einstein Thought: Why "Combinatory Play" Is the Secret of Genius | Brain Pickings - 0 views

  • he words or the language, as they are written or spoken, do not seem to play any role in my mechanism of thought.
  • certain signs and more or less clear images which can be “voluntarily” reproduced and combined.
  • the desire to arrive finally at logically connected concepts is the emotional basis of this rather vague play with the above-mentioned elements
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  • combinatory play seems to be the essential feature in productive thought
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Spain Takes a Giant Step Backward, Towards Its Dark Past | Wolf Street - 0 views

  • Criticizing or insulting the country, government or head of state during a protest or on social media: €30,000
  • efusal to show personal documentation (I.D. card, passport) to the police: €1,000
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Job survival in the age of robots and intelligent machines | IFLScience - 0 views

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      It is a sobering thought that in ten years, around 65% of the jobs that people will be doing have not even been thought of yet, according to the US Department of Labor.
Bill Genereux

Film studies promote a new kind of literacy in Hong Kong schools | South China Morning ... - 0 views

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    In an increasing number of Hong Kong schools, film studies are promoting a new kind of literacy. ...
Bill Genereux

If Your Robot Buys Illegal Drugs, Have You Committed a Crime? - 0 views

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    A group of Swiss artists recently set a bot free on the darknet, allowing it to purchase whatever it could with Bitcoins. Among other weird things it bought were a few ecstasy pills and a fake Hungarian passport. Now an attorney asks whether the artists could be arrested under the law as it currently stands.
Bill Genereux

Is Praise Undermining Student Motivation? | Faculty Focus - 0 views

  • Because failure is one of the most important tools for learning, growth requires a mindset that embraces challenge and the potential for failure.
  • when forced to do a difficult problem they will quickly give up if failure appears on the horizon
  • They start thinking that the goal of school is praise, or grades, rather than learning
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  • isk-adverse in an effort to prevent blows to their self-esteem
  • Dependency on praise stunts growth, creates a fragile psyche, and even a sense of helplessness that undermines achievement
  • educe respect for the instructor
  • praise for effort
  • praise the process, rather than the product
  • praise for process is far more effective than praise for product
  • the goal of education is to reach standards of excellence, not gain teacher approval.
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