Otter.ai’s new Chrome extension can transcribe Google Meet calls in real time - The Verge
You can now use automated transcription service Otter.ai to transcribe and provide closed captions for Google Meet calls with the help of a new Chrome extension. Meetings will be transcribed in real time, and transcripts will be saved right to your Otter account so you can access and share them later.
The TLC Workshop Archive – CUNY Teaching and Learning Center
The TLC Workshop Archive contains materials for over 40 workshops developed by Teaching and Learning Center staff and fellows since 2016. Workshop materials presented here include agendas, outreach copy, activities, readings, and more. All materials in the workshop archive are presented as open educational resources (OER), meaning they are openly licensed and available for reuse and remixing by the public.
Digital Rights, Digital Citizenship and Digital Literacy: What’s the Difference? | Pangrazio | Journal of New Approaches in Educational Research
Using digital media is complicated. Invasions of privacy, increasing dataveillance, digital-by-default commercial and civic transactions and the erosion of the democratic sphere are just some of the complex issues in modern societies. Existential questions associated with digital life challenge the individual to come to terms with who they are, as well as their social interactions and realities. In this article, we identify three contemporary normative responses to these complex issues –digital citizenship, digital rights and digital literacy. These three terms capture epistemological and ontological frames that theorise and enact (both in policy and everyday social interactions) how individuals learn to live in digitally mediated societies. The article explores the effectiveness of each in addressing the philosophical, ethical and practical issues raised by datafication, and the limitations of human agency as an overarching goal within these responses. We examine how each response addresses challenges in policy, everyday social life and political rhetoric, tracing the fluctuating uses of these terms and their address to different stakeholders. The article concludes with a series of conceptual and practical ‘action points’ that might optimise these responses to the benefit of the individual and society.
Gallery of Artifacts from Vivid COVID Dreams is a collaborative, cross-community project involving students and alumni from Brock University in Ontario, and The University of the Fraser Valley in British Columbia. This project asked participants to respond to the recently identified phenomenon of vivid COVID dreams, related to sheltering at home during the global pandemic, and the accompanying unrelenting psychological stressors of COVID 19 (Bottary 2020). A lack of activity, and increased anxiety, combined with irregular sleeping patterns, can cause dreamers to improve dream recall, leading to mass reports of strange, vivid and memorable dreams in the time of COVID. It is hypothesized that a withdrawal from everyday environments and fresh stimuli creates a scarcity of new material for our unconscious to draw upon as it works to process heightened angst. This absence is said to result in vivid mashups between the unfamiliar “new” anxieties and themes from our past, which become the clothing we do have access to as we dress up the “new” anxiety through old fears, to establish recognition.
The Internet Is a Crime Scene, And After the Capitol Riots We Need Better Information Governance Rules for Treating It Like One.
In the aftermath of the Capitol siege, journalists, researchers, police, and archivists are racing to gather evidence as platforms purge content and accounts in record numbers. Although the scramble is reducing the capacity of Trump supporters to stage a second attack, it is also preventing others from identifying and collecting evidence for the trials of those involved in the first one. This moment shows the need for international data preservation laws that would require technology companies to create processes and protocols that make information accessible for journalists, civil society organizations, law enforcement, and researchers. As platform companies delete an incredible amount of content while the FBI calls on these companies to hold onto the information, it is clear that the absence of clear regulations benefits those who tried to overthrow the U.S. government, and serves authoritarians who use social media to misinform the public. The internet is a crime scene in the specific sense that its major platforms were used to connect, organize, and coordinate #StopTheSteal. As such, the technologies were not just reimagined, but also took on new meanings last week, even though their features remained largely unchanged. Social media on a lazy Sunday afternoon is of course different from social media during an insurrection. That’s why the context of use—who, what, when, where—is so important to identifying when it is being used for actionable offenses.
The short answer is “YES”, but not in the way you might think. Unless you’re in the field of data science and natural language processing (NLP). So, how can a machine learning system read? Reading is not an easy task even for humans, since the same text can be interpreted differently by different individuals. This problem is not as prominent in the field of computer vision as it is in NLP. Let’s suppose we are building algorithms that are able to classify images. The task, in general, is non-ambiguous. Unless you’ve never seen a bicycle before, if you see a picture of one you know what it is.
Rethinking Ethics in the Robotic Age | by MIT Press | Medium
How should we think about ethics at the dawning of the robotic age? Although considerable attention has already been devoted to the subject of robots and responsibility, the question concerning the social status of these artifacts has been largely overlooked. In Robot Rights, David Gunkel offers a provocative attempt to think about what has been previously regarded as unthinkable: whether and to what extent robots and other technological artifacts of our own making can and should have any claim to moral and legal standing. In his analysis, Gunkel invokes the philosophical distinction (developed by David Hume) between “is” and “ought” in order to evaluate and analyze the different arguments regarding the question of robot rights. In the course of his examination, Gunkel finds that none of the existing positions or proposals hold up under scrutiny. He offers an innovative alternative proposal that effectively flips the script on the is/ought problem by introducing another, altogether different way to conceptualize the social situation of robots and the opportunities and challenges they present to existing moral and legal systems.
Selling the Future of Ed-Tech (& Shaping Our Imaginations)
When I was a kid, my brother had this book called The Kids' Whole Future Catalog. The name was purposefully reminiscent of The Whole Earth Catalog, which was an important counterculture publication from the late 1960s (through the late 1980s) — one that was very influential on the development of early cyberculture. Like The Whole Earth Catalog, The Kids Whole Future Catalog was a mail-order catalog of sorts. Each page had addresses where you could write away for products and infomation. And like The Whole Earth Catalog, The Kids Whole Future Catalog claimed to be inspired by the work of Buckminster Fuller, the well-known futurist and architect. (The inventor of the geodesic dome and author of a series of lectures on the automation of education, among other things.) The book was published in 1982. I was 11; my brother was 8. 1982 was two years into the Reagan Presidency and two years before the broadcast of The Day After convinced me that there would be no future and that we'd all likely die in a nuclear holocaust. To be honest, I don't actually recall reading the parts of the book that have to do with the future of school. I remember reading the parts that said that in the future insects would be a major source of protein and that in the future we'd either live in space colonies or underground. The future sounded pretty terrible. The book offered six areas that might signal what "future learning" would look like, some of which were grounded in contemporary developments of the Eighties and some of which sound quite familiar today
Universities are outsourcing billions of dollars worth of services
What students won’t see in the promotional materials or when they register, however, is that the programs are being managed by a private, for-profit company called Noodle that is being paid $12,000 to $22,000 per month, per program, plus $88 per credit hour, per student, according to a list of fees disclosed by Noodle. Public and nonprofit colleges and universities have long outsourced such things as bookstores and dining and custodial services. Now they’re paying tens of billions of dollars a year to for-profit corporations to create and operate online courses, recruit and enroll students, advise and tutor those students once they start school, oversee research, manage information technology and utilities and build or manage dorms, classrooms, labs, parking and student unions that were previously all handled in house.
The Neuroscience of Everybody's Favorite Topic - Scientific American
Why do people spend so much time talking about themselves? If you’re like most people, your own thoughts and experiences may be your favorite topic of conversation. On average, people spend 60 percent of conversations talking about themselves—and this figure jumps to 80 percent when communicating via social media platforms such as Twitter or Facebook. Why, in a world full of ideas to discover, develop, and discuss, do people spend the majority of their time talking about themselves? Recent research suggests a simple explanation: because it feels good.
808303.studio is a new online music creation platform created by Yuri Suzuki, the Design Museum and Roland, which features Roland’s innovative Step Sequencer technique, as well as emulating the sound of the original TR-808 drum machine and TB-303 bass synthesiser.
Elektronisches Lernen Muzik explores the role that music plays in influencing, informing and inspiring learning activity. Participation is open to anyone who seeks out music - any sort of music - to support their writing, reading, research, thinking, creating or other aspect of learning activity. This project grew out of conversations between students and staff from the MSc in Digital Education at the University of Edinburgh. Since 2012 we have been collecting and sharing playlists and reflections which offer insights into how music affects our learning.
Ryan Mungia and Steven Heller’s new book examining classics of advertising across the modern computer age is a satisfying, hefty tome with more than 350 full-color photographs and illustrations — and it weighs about four times as much as your laptop. More than a history of computing itself, Do You Compute? traces the evolution of the commercial and cultural marketing that accompanied the emerging digital world.
iTerm2 is a replacement for Terminal and the successor to iTerm. It works on Macs with macOS 10.14 or newer. iTerm2 brings the terminal into the modern age with features you never knew you always wanted.
iTerm2 + zsh + oh-my-zsh The Most Power Full Terminal on macOS | by Ayuth Mangmesap | Ayuth’s Story | Medium
Are you struggling in the default terminal? Do you want your terminal to look like an image above? If you want your terminal to look like in the picture above. Come on, you’re the person who must worth reading this blog.
One web page for every book ever published. It's a lofty but achievable goal. To build Open Library, we need hundreds of millions of book records, a wiki interface, and lots of people who are willing to contribute their time and effort to building the site. To date, we have gathered over 20 million records from a variety of large catalogs as well as single contributions, with more on the way. Open Library is an open project: the software is open, the data are open, the documentation is open, and we welcome your contribution. Whether you fix a typo, add a book, or write a widget--it's all welcome. We have a small team of fantastic programmers who have accomplished a lot, but we can't do it alone!
Free program to make timeline images, aka slit scan or streak images. Bluebells by David. Turntable still life using using this program. Now you can use your DSLR or any other video or image sequence to create timeline images. It seemed obvious to me that all you needed to do was take some video and then process it to create an image - searching the internet, I found nothing so I decided to write a program to do it. I have written a utility that allows a movie or a series of images to be converted. You can control the slit position (any horizontal or vertical row on the frame) or the "slit" can scan the frame. There are some other helpful controls. The image is generated dynamically on the screen and saved as an image file. It should work in Windows, Apple and Linux.
Autocomplete with AJAX in WordPress: 2019 - David Nash
This is the second part of Create an autocomplete field in WordPress: 2019, which works well if you don’t have that many options. If you have less than 10 options, use a select element. Less than 100-1000 (depending), you don’t need AJAX. If you have more than 100-1000, you’ll probably need to use autocomplete with AJAX.
HTML5 achieved W3C recommendation in 2014 and added a lot of new tags. Some of them like , , or are semantic replacements for common used . Everybody was talking about those tags, but there a lot of different not so often used and not known. Let's discover together 6 form related HTML elements you might not know.
Before people accept a solution, they have to agree there’s a problem. Telling a story—and illustrating their part to play—can make transformation easier
No Sweat Tech: Colorized Images Can Enrich Our View of History | The Saturday Evening Post
History doesn’t age well, because the technology used to capture it is, well, it’s old technology. Photographs are black and white, sometimes blurry and indistinct. Video is fuzzy and jerky, with an odd frame rate that makes human figures look like clockwork people. I have been spending part of this pandemic exploring history to partially see how we got here, but also to try to appreciate it more. What I discovered is that the present has the tools to bring the past to life in a big way. Whether it’s through colorizing photos or using AI to enhance hundred-year-old videos, technology has made these windows to the past much clearer and brighter! I want to introduce you to three people bringing photos to life by colorizing them, and one person who turns old blurry video into a breathtaking, HD look at the past. The cliché “bringing history to life” is a bit shopworn for my taste, but it is true that these enhanced images and videos will help you feel closer to the people and the events that brought us to 2020.
Bibliotheca Philadelphiensis – Digitizing 160,000 glorious pages of medieval manuscripts
Bibliotheca Philadelphiensis is the online home for documentation and progress reports on PACSCL’s medieval manuscript digitization project. BiblioPhilly (our nickname for the project) includes high-resolution images of more than 160,000 pages of European medieval and early modern codices — virtually all of the holdings of PACSCL member libraries. These images will be freely available for downloading by the page, by the manuscript, or by the collection, under a Creative Commons license for you to reuse in any fashion whatever. Access the images via the OPenn repository, through our searchable interface, and through our collection on the Internet Archive
There’s an idea that starting a blog is harder than it used to be. That there used to be a way to write a few words, slap it online and wait for the traffic to roll in. I call BS. It’s not that it’s not true exactly - but that kind of thinking is living in the shadow of the Digg homepage. I’d like to propose a new mental model for blogging - small b blogging. Let me show you what I mean.
How to organize an online conference | Nature Reviews Materials
The first online-only meeting in photonics, held on 13 January 2020, was a resounding success, with 1100 researchers participating remotely to discuss the latest advances in photonics. Here, the organizers share their tips and advice on how to organize an online conference.
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