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Cole Camplese

Virtual and Artificial, but 58,000 Want Course - NYTimes.com - 1 views

www.nytimes.com/...16stanford.html

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shared by Cole Camplese on 16 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • A free online course at Stanford University on artificial intelligence, to be taught this fall by two leading experts from Silicon Valley, has attracted more than 58,000 students around the globe — a class nearly four times the size of Stanford’s entire student body.
  • The three online courses, which will employ both streaming Internet video and interactive technologies for quizzes and grading, have in the past been taught to smaller groups of Stanford students in campus lecture halls. Last year, for example, Introduction to Artificial Intelligence drew 177 students.
  • How will the artificial intelligence instructors grade 58,000 students? The scientists said they would make extensive use of technology. “We have a system running on the Amazon cloud, so we think it will hold up,” Dr. Norvig said.
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  • Dr. Widom said that having Stanford courses freely available could both assist and compete with other colleges and universities. A small college might not have the faculty members to offer a particular course, but could supplement its offerings with the Stanford lectures.
  • Cole Camplese on 16 Aug 11
     
    Amazing trend happening with open and online courses. This is the second one of these I have heard about in a week. Maybe we need to try something similar with CI597?
  • gary chinn on 22 Aug 11
     
    good discussion about this course from CS faculty. they bring up some excellent points and have a healthy skepticism about the project: http://computinged.wordpress.com/2011/08/18/stanford-on-line-ai-course-draws-58000-but-is-it-real/
Chris Lucas

Google's 8-Point Plan to Help Managers Improve - NYTimes.com - 4 views

www.nytimes.com/...13hire.html

Google performance management

shared by Chris Lucas on 14 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • Google also tries to point out predictable traps in performance reviews, which are often done with input from a group. The company has compiled a list of “cognitive biases” for employees to keep handy during these discussions. For example, somebody may have just had a bad experience with the person being reviewed, and that one experience inevitably trumps recollections of all the good work that person has done in recent months. There’s also the “halo/horns” effect, in which a single personality trait skews someone’s perception of a colleague’s performance.
  • Cole Camplese on 14 Mar 11
     
    I read this today as well. Some really smart ideas in this article ... I love the way google is using data to help in these types of decisions. I am working on a blog post about it.
  • Allan Gyorke on 14 Mar 11
     
    I'd like to look over all 8 principles if anyone sees the full list. A lot of this reminds me of my organizational psychology classes in college. I thought the story about one of the worst managers was funny - "He's not great, but he's not the worst anymore, so we promoted him."
Cole Camplese

The Twitter Trap - NYTimes.com - 3 views

www.nytimes.com/...the-twitter-trap.html

twitter

shared by Cole Camplese on 24 May 11 - No Cached
  • bartmon on 25 May 11
     
    "But my inner worrywart wonders whether the new technologies overtaking us may be eroding characteristics that are essentially human: our ability to reflect, our pursuit of meaning, genuine empathy, a sense of community connected by something deeper than snark or political affinity. " "Genuine Empathy" is the one that really concerns me, and I see it in how my nieces, and others, use facebook. The FB birthday thing comes to mind...now people get as many "Happy birthday!" notes as they have friends...but are the well-wishers even thinking about my birthday? Probably not, it's just FB reminding them "Hey, it's bart's bday" and now the norm is to stop by and say "happy birthday" without even thinking about it. The end of the article has a nice quote from a novel as well: "The generation that had information, but no context. "
  • Jeff Swain on 26 May 11
     
    This is a well written piece. The author does a great job at tugging on our emotions. However, I believe he possesses only a superficial understanding of the medium.
Jeff Swain

When the Internet Thinks It Knows You - NYTimes.com - 1 views

www.nytimes.com/...23pariser.html

shared by Jeff Swain on 23 May 11 - No Cached
  • As a result, they’re racing to offer personalized filters that show us the Internet that they think we want to see. These filters, in effect, control and limit the information that reaches our screens.
  • the engineers who write the new gatekeeping code have enormous power to determine what we know about the world. But unlike the best of the old gatekeepers, they don’t see themselves as keepers of the public trust. There is no algorithmic equivalent to journalistic ethics.
  • We citizens need to uphold our end, too — developing the “filter literacy” needed to use these tools well and demanding content that broadens our horizons even when it’s uncomfortable.
Chris Millet

At Calhoun School, Longer Classes in 5 Short Terms - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...02calhoun.html

shared by Chris Millet on 01 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • Instead of the traditional schedule of eight 45-minute classes each day, with courses broken into two semesters, high school students at Calhoun intensively study three to five subjects in each of five terms, or modules, that are 32 to 36 days long. Classes are in blocks of 65 or 130 minutes each day. Every day, students have 45 minutes of “community time,” an intentionally unstructured period for the students to hang out.
  • What started five years ago as an effort to accommodate maddeningly complex schedules in a relatively small space quickly became a sort of evangelical mission to make progressive education more, well, progressive: embracing depth over breadth, allowing for more experiential learning in Central Park and at nearby museums, and, administrators said they hoped, reducing stress. Steven J. Nelson, Calhoun’s head of school, said the new schedule fostered teaching in the ways children learn best.
Cole Camplese

In Silicon Valley, Buying Companies for Their Engineers - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...18talent.html

HR startups

shared by Cole Camplese on 18 May 11 - No Cached
  • Some technology blogs call it being “acqhired.” The companies doing the buying say it is a talent acquisition, and it typically comes with a price per head.
Cole Camplese

Education Needs a Digital-Age Upgrade - NYTimes.com - 4 views

opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/...on-needs-a-digital-age-upgrade

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shared by Cole Camplese on 10 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • According to Cathy N. Davidson, co-director of the annual MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning Competitions, fully 65 percent of today’s grade-school kids may end up doing work that hasn’t been invented yet.
  • For those two-thirds of grade-school kids, if for no one else, it’s high time we redesigned American education.
  • What she recommends, in fact, looks much more like a classical education than it does the industrial-era holdover system that still informs our unrenovated classrooms.
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  • An institutional grudge match with the young can sabotage an entire culture.
  • When we criticize students for making digital videos instead of reading “Gravity’s Rainbow,” or squabbling on Politico.com instead of watching “The Candidate,” we are blinding ourselves to the world as it is.
  • But digital video and Web politics are intellectually robust and stimulating, profitable and even pleasurable.
  • It’s possible that any of these educational approaches would be more appropriate to the digital era than the one we have now.
  • “What if bad writing is a product of the form of writing required in school — the term paper — and not necessarily intrinsic to a student’s natural writing style or thought process?” She adds: “What if ‘research paper’ is a category that invites, even requires, linguistic and syntactic gobbledygook?”
  • Her recommendations center on one of the most astounding revelations of the digital age: Even academically reticent students publish work prolifically, subject it to critique and improve it on the Internet. This goes for everything from political commentary to still photography to satirical videos — all the stuff that parents and teachers habitually read as “distraction.”
  • The new classroom should teach the huge array of complex skills that come under the heading of digital literacy. And it should make students accountable on the Web, where they should regularly be aiming, from grade-school on, to contribute to a wide range of wiki projects.
  • Cole Camplese on 10 Aug 11
     
    Reminds me of the things Chris Long and I were trying to articulate in our Hacking Pedagogy talk from last year's LDSC.  Must read.
Derek Gittler

The Default Major - Skating Through B-School - NYTimes.com - 1 views

www.nytimes.com/...edl-17business-t.html

shared by Derek Gittler on 21 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • According to national surveys, they want to hire 22-year-olds who can write coherently, think creatively and analyze quantitative data, and they’re perfectly happy to hire English or biology majors
  • Virginia’s integrated course system is possible because the business school is swimming in money
    • Derek Gittler
      Derek Gittler on 21 Apr 11
       
      How could Social Media integrate these various fields, without hierarchical structures imposing a cost?  Let the network find a way?
Allan Gyorke

Facebook Introduces Video Chat in a Partnership With Skype - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...-a-partnership-with-skype.html

skype facebook videoconferencing

shared by Allan Gyorke on 07 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • Allan Gyorke on 07 Jul 11
     
    "Hoping to give its users a more intimate way to stay in touch, Facebook on Wednesday introduced video chatting inside its online social network through a deal with Skype, the Internet calling service. "
  • Allan Gyorke on 07 Jul 11
     
    Interesting partnership between two communication giants. Much of the rest of the article discusses this as a counter-attack on Google+. Honestly, this must have been in the works for a while, but it's also okay if it is true. When companies feel the need to innovate to stay competitive, users win.
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