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The Department of Education released a draft report about big data and education today. It's called "Enhancing Teaching and Learning through Educational Data Mining and Learning Analytics," a title that's unlikely to win any converts to the notion of a data-curious* view of learning. Part of what's going to get stuck in the craw is that phrase "data mining," I reckon. Despite all the potential and all the buzz about (big) data, data-mining remains something with a fairly negative connotation. Advertisers. Political campaigns. Big government. All sifting through your personal data, trying to uncover the things that nobody knows about, trying to get you to buy or sell or vote. Add to that now the knowledge that every click we make online -- every YouTube view and Facebook like and Google query -- is eminently trackable, it's enough to make all those unsolicited phone calls and junk mail seem quite benign, not to mention old-fashioned.

Carl Bass is president and chief executive officer of Autodesk, Inc. Autodesk is the leader in 3D design, engineering and entertainment software. Formerly he was Autodesk's chief operating officer, responsible for worldwide sales, marketing, and product development. Earlier roles included CTO and EVP of product development.

Vidéo présentée dans le cadre de la rencontre nationale des gestionnaires de l'éducation, mars 2012

"Spot de présentation de la démarche d'ouverture des données numériques publiques, initié par LiberTIC, soutenu par Nantes Métropole et réalisé par A2B Production en licence Art Libre."

"Lors d'une conférence au Google Education Summit, cette petite brune à l'énergie adolescente assiste à une présentation de YouTube sur l'éducation. Elle bouscule ses voisins, sort en trombe. Elle tient son idée : jusqu'alors, l'élève écoute la leçon en classe (temps passif) et réalise des recherches, des devoirs à l'extérieur (temps actif). Mais si la leçon est disponible en vidéo, l'élève peut la visionner avant le cours et utiliser la classe pour la partie active (brainstorming, questions, cas). C'est le concept de "flip education", le renversement des tempos et la revalorisation du professeur. Elle n'est pas la première à y penser, elle propose une expérimentation. Le corps professoral dégaine une salve d'a priori : que deviendra l'expérience du face-à-face ? Ne transforme-t-on pas ainsi l'enseignement en marchandise ? Ne va-t-on pas marginaliser un peu plus les Humanités ?"

A short futuristic film by Eran May-raz and Daniel Lazo. This is our graduation project from Bezaleal academy of arts.

Get an under the hood look at the next frontier in Search, from the team at Google behind the technology. The Knowledge Graph is a huge collection of the people, places and things in the world and how they're connected to one another. With this technology, Google can get you the best possible answers and help jump start your discovery.

There's a Twitter account and a Flickr account and also a video up at YouTube - although this doesn't appear to have been embedded in the Canberra 2030 site itself. Despite a few basic usability issues and a little of a 'tickbox' approach, the site represents a real attempt to consult Canberrans in a more interactive way and it is worth a look.