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The weird and wonderful world of Eiffel Tower replicas and derivatives - Geoguessr - Jon Worth
The weird and wonderful world of Eiffel Tower replicas and derivatives - Geoguessr - Jon Worth
It was one of those COVID-lockdown walks – go and explore every last street in my neighbourhood. At Bergholzstrasse 11 (edge of Tempelhof towards Neukölln) I stumbled across a replica Eiffel Tower made of bed springs, and tweeted about it. And then, as happens once in a while, Twitter users came up with all sorts of suggestions about other weird and wonderful Eiffel Towers worldwide. Wikipedia has a page of Eiffel Tower Replicas and Derivatives, and Wonders of the World has a detailed list too. Jimmy Wales even retweeted my tweet about it.
#weird#fun#rabbithole
·jonworth.eu·
The weird and wonderful world of Eiffel Tower replicas and derivatives - Geoguessr - Jon Worth
Why AI*?. * this should be read as if you are…
Why AI*?. * this should be read as if you are…
A rambling attempt at explaining AI in a North East England theme. I don’t know why except I thought the title was funny, and once I’ve started I’m committed…..
#ai
·tomcampbellwatson.medium.com·
Why AI*?. * this should be read as if you are…
Dear Friend: Let’s Talk About Mastodon - Lee LeFever dot com
Dear Friend: Let’s Talk About Mastodon - Lee LeFever dot com
I set out to write a letter to friends who know Twitter and are Mastodon-curious. As I worked on it, I thought: What if the letter could serve as a starting point for anyone explaining Mastodon?
#mastodon
·leelefever.com·
Dear Friend: Let’s Talk About Mastodon - Lee LeFever dot com
The First Nations Information Governance Centre
The First Nations Information Governance Centre
FNIGC is committed to providing quality information that contributes to improving the health and well-being of First Nations people in Canada. In collaboration with our regional partners, FNIGC conducts unique data-gathering initiatives that enable our partners to support First Nations governments to build culturally relevant portraits of their communities. FNIGC supports First Nations communities by contributing directly to building data and statistical capacities at national, regional, and community levels, including the provision of credible and relevant information on First Nations. In addition to conducting a number of surveys, FNIGC is responsible for a wide range of other work. We oversee data collection on First Nations reserves and in northern communities, conduct research, engage in knowledge translation and dissemination activities, offer education and training, and promote the advancement of the First Nations principles of OCAP®. Critically, FNIGC and our regional partners follow established protocols, policies, and procedures that are guided by a holistic cultural framework. Ultimately, FNIGC is a tool that rights-holding First Nations can use, via our governance, to assert sovereignty over their data and information.
#copyright#opencontent#indigenous
·fnigc.ca·
The First Nations Information Governance Centre
Indigenization, Decolonization, Reconciliation, and Education
Indigenization, Decolonization, Reconciliation, and Education
This site will be home to content used to advance Indigenous education primarily in higher education, but will look at education through a holistic lens. The journey is life-long and one event leads to another from the time we enter the world. Information will be shared that supports the physical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual education we experience each and every day. Enjoy the journey.
#openeducation#indigenous
·sites.usask.ca·
Indigenization, Decolonization, Reconciliation, and Education
Local Contexts – Grounding Indigenous Rights
Local Contexts – Grounding Indigenous Rights
Local Contexts is a global initiative that supports Indigenous communities with tools that can reassert cultural authority in heritage collections and data. By focusing on Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property and Indigenous Data Sovereignty, Local Contexts helps Indigenous communities repatriate knowledge and gain control over how data is collected, managed, displayed, accessed, and used in the future. Local Contexts recognizes the inherent sovereignty that Indigenous communities have over knowledge and data that comes from their lands, territories, and waters. Local Contexts Labels and Notices were created to ground intellectual and cultural property rights in cultural heritage, data, and genetic resources within digital environments. The Labels and Notices are generated and managed using the Local Contexts Hub.
#copyright#digital#indigenous#openeducation
·localcontexts.org·
Local Contexts – Grounding Indigenous Rights
The Learning is Open – Indigenization, Decolonization, Reconciliation, and Education
The Learning is Open – Indigenization, Decolonization, Reconciliation, and Education
A central tenet of Cree or nêhiyâwak ways of knowing is weechihitowin (being helpful and supportive). With open education, providing learners with free access to materials that can be shared models weechihitowin. The rising cost of textbooks and other education media, has long been a barrier for students. During my time as a learner on campus, I recall occasions when I would share the cost of the book with a friend, then quietly hope they would not continue with the class and I could have the text to myself. The other option was to arrive early and hope there was a used copy available for sale in Place Riel, even if it was an older edition. Open textbooks have changed this reality for the better, more people can access the same information for a reduced cost. Another connection to Cree teachings I found is know as kiskinaumatowin (teaching each other).  The use of open education practices provides opportunity for the teacher to become the learner and the learner to become the teacher. The partnership that can be formed models respect for multiple worldviews and creates shared responsibility in learning. As these relationships grow, learners can experience empowerment in learning and affirm individual identity.
#openeducation#indigenous
·sites.usask.ca·
The Learning is Open – Indigenization, Decolonization, Reconciliation, and Education
In the Library with the Lead Pipe
In the Library with the Lead Pipe
In the Library with the Lead Pipe is an open access, open peer-reviewed journal founded and run by a team of librarians working in various types of libraries. In addition to publishing articles and editorials by Editorial Board members, Lead Pipe publishes articles by authors representing diverse perspectives including educators, administrators, library support staff, technologists, and community members. Lead Pipe believes libraries and library workers can change the world for the better. We improve libraries, professional organizations, and their communities of practice by exploring new ideas, starting conversations, documenting our concerns, and arguing for solutions. In the Library with the Lead Pipe is an open access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or their institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles in this journal without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. This is in accordance with the BOAI definition of open access.
#openaccess#journal#library#oegconnect
·inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org·
In the Library with the Lead Pipe
Open Education Resources (OER) Directory for Saskatchewan Polytechnic
Open Education Resources (OER) Directory for Saskatchewan Polytechnic
An OER reference listed by subject area and School/Program at Saskatchewan Polytechnic. The Saskatchewan Polytechnic Open Education OER by Discipline Directory lists a wide range of open educational resources (OER) organized by academic programs available at Saskatchewan Polytechnic. OER are teaching, learning, and research resources that, through permissions granted by the copyright holder, allow others to use, distribute, keep, or make changes to them. This directory is updated as new resources are identified.
#OER#opencontent#oegconnect
·pressbooks.saskpolytech.ca·
Open Education Resources (OER) Directory for Saskatchewan Polytechnic
MITComic – Spin Weave and Cut
MITComic – Spin Weave and Cut
After two years of convening conversations about how to make comics accessible for blind and low vision readers, we decided it was time to try it ourselves! This page provides access materials and annotations that accompany the print comic “Comics Beyond Sight: A Highly Visual Case for Blind Access,” by Nick Sousanis and Emily Beitiks which appeared in MIT Technology Review’s June 2023 issue (See their interactive version here). LISTEN to the Audio version of the comic here. This Audio Comic features Emily and Nick introducing the comic, describing the imagery and reading the text, along with additional voice actors and other elements. (If trouble accessing Audio Comic, can also listen here.) The accompanying audio transcription is here. To read the panel by panel alt-text in a plain text document, visit here. Or, for a PDF alt-text tagged version of the comic, please click here.
#accessibility#comic
·spinweaveandcut.com·
MITComic – Spin Weave and Cut
A Call to Action: Universities of the World, Join the Fediverse!
A Call to Action: Universities of the World, Join the Fediverse!
While there is a lot of discussion about new Twitter alternatives and the relevance of journalists and other critical groups of users, the potential of university-based Fediverse instances has hardly been addressed. It is high time for universities to get involved in the Fediverse. This is a call to action.
#education#fediverse#mastodon#oegconnect
·netzpolitik.org·
A Call to Action: Universities of the World, Join the Fediverse!
Palace Bookshelf
Palace Bookshelf
The Palace Bookshelf is a collection of more than 15,000 open access ebooks that are available for free download. The collection includes classics, children's books, textbooks, foreign language titles, and more--made available from the Digital Public Library of America.
#publicdomain#opencontent#oegconnect
·palacebookshelf.dp.la·
Palace Bookshelf
How Google Reader died — and why the web misses it more than ever - The Verge
How Google Reader died — and why the web misses it more than ever - The Verge
Ten years after its untimely death, the team that built the much-beloved feed reader reflects on what went wrong and what could have been. Within the company, though, Reader’s future always felt precarious. “It felt so incongruent,” says Dolapo Falola, a former engineer on the Reader team. “Literally, it felt like the entire time I was on the project, various people were trying to kill it.”
#history#rss
·theverge.com·
How Google Reader died — and why the web misses it more than ever - The Verge
Open Educational Resources from Childhood Education International
Open Educational Resources from Childhood Education International
The Center for Professional Learning is a response to the ongoing desire among teachers for professional learning and leadership opportunities that address concerns of quality, equity, and holistic learning. Each of the open educational resources (OERs) in the periodically updated library below was guided by our own Sustainable Learning Framework and is the result of co-creating impactful professional development resources with educators who work in displacement contexts. As defined by UNESCO, open educational resources (OERs) are “learning, teaching and research materials in any format and medium that reside in the public domain or are under copyright that have been released under an open license, that permit no-cost access, re-use, re-purpose, adaptation and redistribution by others.” Our mission at CE International is to develop and amplify innovative solutions to education challenges that affirm children’s learning and development as the pathway to sustainable futures for all. Therefore, the creation of OERs is in our organizational DNA.
#OER#openeducation#oegconnect
·ceinternational1892.org·
Open Educational Resources from Childhood Education International
AI is the Scariest Beast Ever Created, Says Sci-Fi Writer Bruce Sterling
AI is the Scariest Beast Ever Created, Says Sci-Fi Writer Bruce Sterling
Large Language Models are remarkably similar to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein monster—because they're a big, stitched-up gathering of many little dead bits and pieces, with some voltage put through them, that can sit up on the slab and talk.
#ai
·newsweek.com·
AI is the Scariest Beast Ever Created, Says Sci-Fi Writer Bruce Sterling
AI is killing the old web, and the new web struggles to be born - The Verge
AI is killing the old web, and the new web struggles to be born - The Verge
In recent months, the signs and portents have been accumulating with increasing speed. Google is trying to kill the 10 blue links. Twitter is being abandoned to bots and blue ticks. There’s the junkification of Amazon and the enshittification of TikTok. Layoffs are gutting online media. A job posting looking for an “AI editor” expects “output of 200 to 250 articles per week.” ChatGPT is being used to generate whole spam sites. Etsy is flooded with “AI-generated junk.” Chatbots cite one another in a misinformation ouroboros. LinkedIn is using AI to stimulate tired users. Snapchat and Instagram hope bots will talk to you when your friends don’t. Redditors are staging blackouts. Stack Overflow mods are on strike. The Internet Archive is fighting off data scrapers, and “AI is tearing Wikipedia apart.” The old web is dying, and the new web struggles to be born.  The web is always dying, of course; it’s been dying for years, killed by apps that divert traffic from websites or algorithms that reward supposedly shortening attention spans. But in 2023, it’s dying again — and, as the litany above suggests, there’s a new catalyst at play: AI.  AI is overwhelming the internet’s capacity for scale
#ai#web
·theverge.com·
AI is killing the old web, and the new web struggles to be born - The Verge
Teaching AI Ethics: The Series – Leon Furze
Teaching AI Ethics: The Series – Leon Furze
Artificial Intelligence presents many complex ethical concerns which are well worth discussing with our students. The Teaching AI Ethics series started as a single post covering the nine areas I’d identified as particularly important to education, from bias and discrimination to reinforcing societal power structures. The original post was so popular that I broke it down into nine further posts. Each post includes a detailed discussion of the ethical concern along with links to other articles and resources. There are case studies, discussion questions for a variety of disciplines, and lesson ideas which can be used across the curriculum. Though I designed these posts with a K-12 audience in mind, they’ve since been picked up at a tertiary level for discussions with pre-service teachers and other undergraduate students. I’ve created this page as a single reference point for all 10 posts.
#ai#ethics
·leonfurze.com·
Teaching AI Ethics: The Series – Leon Furze
Ethics of AI
Ethics of AI
The Ethics of AI is a free online course created by the University of Helsinki. The course is for anyone who is interested in the ethical aspects of AI – we want to encourage people to learn what AI ethics means, what can and can’t be done to develop AI in an ethically sustainable way, and how to start thinking about AI from an ethical point of view.
#ai#ethics#course#openeducation#oegconnect
·ethics-of-ai.mooc.fi·
Ethics of AI
Canadian Mastodon Cooperative
Canadian Mastodon Cooperative
Cosocial.ca is a community service cooperative, officially Cosocial Community Cooperative, which means it’s member-run. You can join our community by signing up. We have a $50/year fee as we want to ensure moderation and technical support are available. Support a Canadian team running a Canadian Mastodon instance.
#mastodon#fediverse#coop
·cosocial.info·
Canadian Mastodon Cooperative
Open Education Librarianship Certificate - Open Education Network
Open Education Librarianship Certificate - Open Education Network
The Certificate in Open Education Librarianship is a structured and supportive professional development opportunity preparing librarians like you to champion open education. Guided by our expert mentors, you’ll hone critical skills, gain insight, and transform your librarianship into a catalyst for open education, all while working within a collaborative cohort of your peers.
#openeducation#library
·open.umn.edu·
Open Education Librarianship Certificate - Open Education Network
Can you beat this mind-reading machine invented in 1953? | Boing Boing
Can you beat this mind-reading machine invented in 1953? | Boing Boing
In 1953 information theorist Claude Shannon wrote a short memo titled "A Mind-Reading (?) Machine" (PDF). It describes a game between a human and an algorithm. The human sits at a table. On the table is a machine with a lever that can be moved left or right. The machine's algorithm makes a secret prediction about which way the human will move the lever. If the algorithm successfully predicted which direction the human moved the lever, it scores a point. If the algorithm failed to predict the correct move, the human scores a point. Try it yourself here. It's very difficult to beat the game!
#ai#bot#interactive
·boingboing.net·
Can you beat this mind-reading machine invented in 1953? | Boing Boing
AI.JSX
AI.JSX
AI.JSX is a framework for building AI applications using JSX. While AI.JSX is not React, it's designed to look and feel very similar while also integrating seamlessly with React-based projects. With AI.JSX, you don't just use JSX to describe what your UI should look like, you also use it to describe how Large Language Models, such as ChatGPT, should integrate into the rest of your application. The end result is a powerful combination where intelligence can be deeply embedded into the application stack. AI.JSX is designed to give you two important capabilities out of the box: An intuitive mechanism for orchestrating multiple LLM calls expressed as modular, re-usable components. The ability to seamlessly interweave UI components with your AI components. This means you can rely on the LLM to construct your UI dynamically from a set of standard React components.
#code#ai#javascript#webdev
·docs.ai-jsx.com·
AI.JSX
Qualities of life - Erin Kissane's small internet website
Qualities of life - Erin Kissane's small internet website
In an unfortunately fascinating 1963 collection of essays on computer-simulated personality, Silvan Tomkins, the founder of affect theory, wrote about: …the tendency of jobs to be adapted to tools, rather than adapting tools to jobs. If one has a hammer one tends to look for nails, and if one has a computer with a storage capacity, but no feelings, one is more likely to concern oneself with remembering and with problem solving than with loving and hating. Tomkins’ observation, which comes in the middle of an extended meditation on computer personality that is a wild ride for lay readers interested in AI, has concentrated my thinking about the tools that made our current networks: An ever-accelerating explosion of technical possibilities. Silicon Valley relationship networks. Venture capital’s it’s a fountain of money or a failure mandate. Open source’s programming-first culture. A lot of defensive libertarianism, a little charisma. The emotional range of a wellness beverage. We made what we made because of what we carried in with us.
#essay#ideas#design#collaboration#community#socialmedia
·erinkissane.com·
Qualities of life - Erin Kissane's small internet website
Séamas O'Reilly: The search for the Next Big Thing - and VR's permanent tomorrow
Séamas O'Reilly: The search for the Next Big Thing - and VR's permanent tomorrow
VR is more like an answer to a question everyone has already answered, every single year, for four decades, and to which no one is willing to take no for an answer. What’s more bizarre about Apple’s VR pivot is we’ve just emerged from the most comically inept attempt at virtual reclamation in many years. 
#virtualreality#vr#ideas#future
·irishexaminer.com·
Séamas O'Reilly: The search for the Next Big Thing - and VR's permanent tomorrow
In 1970, Alvin Toffler Predicted the Rise of Future Shock—But the Exact Opposite Happened
In 1970, Alvin Toffler Predicted the Rise of Future Shock—But the Exact Opposite Happened
Back in 1970, Alvin Toffler predicted the future. It was a disturbing forecast, and everybody paid attention. People saw his book Future Shock everywhere. I was just a freshman in high school, but even I bought a copy (the purple version). And clearly I wasn’t alone—Clark Drugstore in my hometown had them piled high in the front of the store. The book sold at least six million copies and maybe a lot more (Toffler’s website claims 15 million). It was reviewed, translated, and discussed endlessly. Future Shock turned Toffler—previously a freelance writer with an English degree from NYU—into a tech guru applauded by a devoted global audience. Toffler worried about all kinds of change, but technological change was the main focus of his musings. When the New York Times reviewed his book, it announced in the opening sentence that “Technology is both hero and villain of Future Shock.”
#future#Technology#ideas
·honest-broker.com·
In 1970, Alvin Toffler Predicted the Rise of Future Shock—But the Exact Opposite Happened
Communities of Practice within and across organizations a guidebook
Communities of Practice within and across organizations a guidebook
What does it take to launch and sustain a community of practice initiative? This book helps guide individuals, teams, and organizations through the process. It is for organizational leaders creating a conducive environment, community leaders launching and sustaining their communities, people in various roles facilitating meetings, activities, and the use of technology, and evaluators accounting for the value communities create. It reflects the combined experiences of the authors in cultivating communities of practice within and across organizations.
#book#guide#community#collaboration
·wenger-trayner.com·
Communities of Practice within and across organizations a guidebook