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Education Sciences | Free Full-Text | Metaphors in Educational Videos
Education Sciences | Free Full-Text | Metaphors in Educational Videos
Traditionally, metaphors have been used as a pedagogical tool to facilitate the processes of educational mediation. From a medial perspective, there are various ways to implement educational mediation, and currently, we are witnessing an increase in the use of videos. Given the historical pedagogical role of metaphor and the widespread use of videos, we expected to find a significant amount of the scientific literature exploring metaphors in educational videos. However, studies establishing a direct connection are rare. Motivated by this gap, we decided to present users with a metaphorical educational video, intending to observe and analyze, through a phenomenological approach, how the metaphor is perceived by users. To gather data on users’ experience, we applied the think-aloud protocol during video consumption and then we conducted semi-structured interviews. Subsequently, we analyzed the collected data using phenomenological procedures. Our results highlighted that the use of metaphor can stimulate engagement and facilitate the educational mediation, as long as the metaphor is shared and perceived as coherent by users. Finally, we have highlighted some distinctive aspects of using metaphor in educational videos, such as the ability to visually represent metaphors, create metaphorical contexts, and reinforce the processes of embodied simulation that occur during video viewing.
·mdpi.com·
Education Sciences | Free Full-Text | Metaphors in Educational Videos
GitHub - everywall/ladder: Selfhosted alternative to 12ft.io. and 1ft.io bypass paywalls with a proxy ladder and remove CORS headers from any URL
GitHub - everywall/ladder: Selfhosted alternative to 12ft.io. and 1ft.io bypass paywalls with a proxy ladder and remove CORS headers from any URL
Ladder is a web proxy to help bypass paywalls. This is a selfhosted version of 1ft.io and 12ft.io. It is inspired by 13ft. Freedom of information is an essential pillar of democracy and informed decision-making. While media organizations have legitimate financial interests, it is crucial to strike a balance between profitability and the public's right to access information. The proliferation of paywalls raises concerns about the erosion of this fundamental freedom, and it is imperative for society to find innovative ways to preserve access to vital information without compromising the sustainability of journalism. In a world where knowledge should be shared and not commodified, paywalls should be critically examined to ensure that they do not undermine the principles of an open and informed society. Disclaimer: This project is intended for educational purposes only. The author does not endorse or encourage any unethical or illegal activity. Use this tool at your own risk. h/t https://mastodon.social/@grantpotter/111901913227686410
·github.com·
GitHub - everywall/ladder: Selfhosted alternative to 12ft.io. and 1ft.io bypass paywalls with a proxy ladder and remove CORS headers from any URL
The fediverse, explained: Mastodon, Threads, and the open future of social networking - The Verge
The fediverse, explained: Mastodon, Threads, and the open future of social networking - The Verge
The buzziest new thing in social networking is a big deal. It’s also very confusing. And it’s not actually new. Let’s talk about it. At some point over the last year, you’ve probably come across the term “fediverse” a few times. Maybe you’ve read about it here at The Verge or seen some internet oldhead talking on their blog about how this is the internet they were hoping for back in 1993. Maybe someone sent you that “Protocols, Not Platforms” article so you’d think they were smart. The fediverse is a little like HTTP or the nitrogen to oxygen ratio in the air: very important, all around you, but probably not something you need to think about in your day to day. But if the fediverse is actually going to change the internet — and I think it might — it’s worth understanding just a little better. So I’ve read the posts. I’ve talked to the oldheads. I have protocol-ed. I have platform-ed. And I think I can help. Let’s just dive in:
·theverge.com·
The fediverse, explained: Mastodon, Threads, and the open future of social networking - The Verge
Lights, Camera, Victory! Public Domain Day 2024 Remix Contest Winners Revealed | Internet Archive Blogs
Lights, Camera, Victory! Public Domain Day 2024 Remix Contest Winners Revealed | Internet Archive Blogs
After sifting through a sea of talent and creativity, we are thrilled to present the cinematic achievements of three winners and two honorable mentions in our Public Domain Day 2024 Remix Contest. These winning entries not only captivated our imaginations, but also showcased the immense power of remixing, reimagining, and breathing new life into public domain works. View the winning entries & honorable mentions below. Rick Prelinger, noted film archivist, helped judge the competition and offers why each film was selected for recognition.
·blog.archive.org·
Lights, Camera, Victory! Public Domain Day 2024 Remix Contest Winners Revealed | Internet Archive Blogs
How to teach this paper | The Transmitter: Neuroscience News and Perspectives
How to teach this paper | The Transmitter: Neuroscience News and Perspectives
In this series associate teaching professor of neurobiology Ashley Juavinett guides educators and self-learners through recent seminal neuroscience papers. The goal here is not to dissect these papers but rather to translate and contextualize them for aspiring neuroscientists and their educators. Columns include a summary of the paper's relevance, pre-reading activities,"Sticky points", information on the scientists behind the paper, and suggestions for more activities. Here is a great model for teaching with real research papers.
·thetransmitter.org·
How to teach this paper | The Transmitter: Neuroscience News and Perspectives
Exa: Search Rebuilt for AI
Exa: Search Rebuilt for AI
The Exa API retrieves the best content on the web using embeddings-based search. Exa was built with a simple goal — organize all knowledge. Today, the world’s knowledge is scattered across billions of sites and we find things based on keywords. Exa will organize this knowledge into an intelligent database and we’ll find things based on meaning. For example, keywords can’t handle these queries, but Exa will: “Extract all ideas from New York newspapers in the 1960s talking about the future of AI systems”. “Find every person in SF who has worked on rust compilers and would disagree with this blog post I wrote”. If we handle these types of queries, we won’t merely have a better search engine — we’d be unlocking knowledge in a way not seen since the printing press.
·exa.ai·
Exa: Search Rebuilt for AI
The Speaking Part
The Speaking Part
The story of a woman from Gaza City who ran out of words. Seventy-two days into the war, Youmna stopped talking.
·thisamericanlife.org·
The Speaking Part
Genesis of the Open Learning Institute of British Columbia
Genesis of the Open Learning Institute of British Columbia
As "correspondence study" gave way to "distance education," so now the latter is giving way to "open learning," as distance and face-to-face education converge; an outcome of the increasing availability of information and communications technologies. The change raises important questions about the nature and practice of distance education in the future and about relations among institutions and with government. The roots of present policy, practice, and political tensions are to be found in the history of distance education institutions, including the factors giving rise to the institution's creation. Analysis of these factors can illuminate the forces driving distance education. This paper addresses these issues in relation to a notable Canadian single-mode institution, the Open Learning Institute (OLI) of British Columbia (1978–1988). It explores the significance of external political and educational influences on the nature and shape of a new, unusual educational institution. The educational and political context of British Columbia prior to 1978 is briefly described as a prelude to closer examination of the events, attitudes, and conflicts following the 1975 election of a Social Credit government, through to OLI's creation. Conclusions are drawn about implications of this period of OLI's history for analysis of current changes in distance and higher education.
·ijede.ca·
Genesis of the Open Learning Institute of British Columbia
This American Life Episode 822: Prologue
This American Life Episode 822: Prologue
Sometimes we don’t want to say what’s going on because putting it into words would make it real. At other times, words don’t seem to capture the weight of what we want to say. Susanna Fogel talks about her friend Margaret Riley, who died earlier this week.
·thisamericanlife.org·
This American Life Episode 822: Prologue
Friends – WordPress plugin | WordPress.org
Friends – WordPress plugin | WordPress.org
The Friends plugin allows you to follow content from other WordPress sites, and interact with them on your own site. You can follow friends and others via RSS. If you also have the ActivityPub plugin installed, you can follow people on Mastodon and other ActivityPub-compatible social networks. Combine this plugin with the ActivityPub plugin to make your own WordPress your own Mastodon instance. Use the Enable Mastodon Apps to use mobile and desktop Mastodon apps with your own site. The Friends Plugin also has a “friend request” function which allows blogs to become friends with each other. This then allows private publishing on your blog while each of their friends has their own blog but will be able to see your privately published posts.
·wordpress.org·
Friends – WordPress plugin | WordPress.org
AzuraCast
AzuraCast
AzuraCast is a self-hosted, all-in-one web radio management suite. Using its easy installer and powerful but intuitive web interface, you can start up a fully working web radio station in a few quick minutes. AzuraCast works for web radio stations of all types and sizes, and is built to run on even the most affordable VPS web hosts.
·azuracast.com·
AzuraCast
GatherPress – the open source project
GatherPress – the open source project
GatherPress is the result of the WordPress community’s desire for new event management tools that meet the diverse needs of event organizers and members. 📃 The Project This project is for the collaborative effort to build a compelling event management application using open source tools such as WordPress and BuddyPress and the grit sweat and love of the community, for the community. We’re creating the very network features we need to host events and gather well.
·gatherpress.org·
GatherPress – the open source project
When Is Your Memory Truly Forgotten? | Legacy Multimedia
When Is Your Memory Truly Forgotten? | Legacy Multimedia
“I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.”  — Banksy While this quote was directly attributed to the graffiti artist Banksy, the sentiment is not his alone and appears all over the place, attributed to several different people.
·legacymultimedia.com·
When Is Your Memory Truly Forgotten? | Legacy Multimedia
Project Tapestry by The Iconfactory — Kickstarter
Project Tapestry by The Iconfactory — Kickstarter
Online media is fragmented. Your news, info, and updates come from countless sources. Blogs, microblogs, social networks, weather alerts, webcomics, earthquake warnings, photos, RSS feeds - it’s all out there in a million different places, and you’ve gotta cycle through countless different apps and websites to keep up. It doesn’t have to be that way. What if you had one app that gave an overview of nearly everything that was happening across all the different services you follow? A single chronological timeline of your most important social media services, RSS feeds, and other sources. All of the updates together in one place, in the order they’re posted, with no algorithm deciding what you should see or when you should see it. That’s what we’d like to build. With Project Tapestry, we'll create a universal, chronological timeline for iOS for any data that’s publicly available on the Internet. A service-independent overview of your social media and information landscape. Point the app toward your services and feeds, then scroll through everything all in one place to keep up-to-date and to see where you want to dive deeper. When you find something that you want to engage with or reply to, Tapestry will let you automatically open that post in the app of your choice and reply to it there. Tapestry isn’t meant to replace your favorite Mastodon app or RSS reader, but rather to complement them and help you figure out where you want to focus your attention.
·kickstarter.com·
Project Tapestry by The Iconfactory — Kickstarter
Now the Humanities Can Disrupt "AI" - Public Books
Now the Humanities Can Disrupt "AI" - Public Books
Ahuman toddler usually requires just a few examples to recognize that a kangaroo is not an elephant, and that both real-world animals are different than, say, pictures of animals on a sippy cup. And yet, the powerful statistical models now driving “artificial intelligence” (AI)—such as the much-discussed large language model ChatGPT—have no such ability. The human brain evolved over 500 million years to help people make sense of a world of multifarious objects, within the lived contexts that embed their learning in social relations and affective experiences. Deprived of any such biological or social affordances, today’s machine learning models require arsenals of computer power and thousands of examples of each and every object (pictured from many angles against myriad backgrounds) to achieve even modest capabilities to navigate the visual world. “No silly! The cup is the thing that I drink from. It doesn’t matter that there’s a kangaroo on it–that’s not an animal, it’s a cup!,” said no statistical model ever. But then no toddler will ever “train on” and effectively memorize—or monetize—the entirety of the scrapable internet. The key takeaway? Today’s machine “intelligence” bears little resemblance to the human thought processes to which it is incessantly compared, both by those who gush over “AI,” and by those who fear it. The distinction between machine calculation and human reasoning has a substantial history.1 But the profound anthropomorphisms that characterize today’s “AI” discourse—conflating predictive analytics with “intelligence” and massive datasets with “knowledge” and “experience”—are primarily the result of marketing hype, technological obscurantism, and public ignorance. The point is not for educators to kill ChatGPT on the mistaken assumption that it obviates the need for humanistic labor, knowledge, and experience. Rather, precisely because it does no such thing, the time has come to cut through the hype, and claim a seat at the table where tech entrepreneurs are already making their pitch for the future.
·publicbooks.org·
Now the Humanities Can Disrupt "AI" - Public Books
How AI Works
How AI Works
An entirely non-technical explanation of LLMs For all the talk about AI lately—its implications, the ethical quandaries it raises, the pros and cons of its adoption—little of the discussion among my non-technical friends touches on how any of this stuff works. The concepts seem daunting from the outside, the idea of grasping how large language models (LLMs) function seemingly insurmountable. But it’s not. Anyone can understand it. And that’s because the underlying principle driving the surge in AI is fairly simple. Over the years, while running Anchor, leading audiobooks at Spotify, and writing my weekly newsletter, I’ve had to find ways to distill complicated technical concepts for non-technical audiences. So bear with me as I’ll explain—without a single technical word or mathematical equation—how LLMs actually work. To do so, I’ll use a topic we all know well: food. In the analogy to LLM, “dishes” are words and “meals” are sentences.
·every.to·
How AI Works
Sixteen Stories for Flickr Commons' Sixteenth Birthday - Flickr Foundation
Sixteen Stories for Flickr Commons' Sixteenth Birthday - Flickr Foundation
On January 16th, the sixteenth birthday of Flickr Commons, we did an Explore takeover. Following in the footsteps of the Flickr.com blog’s “story behind the story” here are sixteen stories about some of the less well-known images in Flickr Commons’ Explore set, along with some of the nifty ways the Flickr ecosystem works within Flickr Commons. We have so many great stories to share with you!
·flickr.org·
Sixteen Stories for Flickr Commons' Sixteenth Birthday - Flickr Foundation
The War on Gaza - 1.26.24 - The Comics Journal
The War on Gaza - 1.26.24 - The Comics Journal
After the October 7 Hamas massacre and the Israeli military assault on Gaza, I turned to two cartoonists who knew far more than I did to help me make sense of it - Steve Brodner and Joe Sacco. They both took time away from their own priorities to engage with me. The result of this conversation led us to take two courses of action: a statement from the publishers of Fantagraphics, released publicly yesterday and reproduced below, and this column, “The War on Gaza,” a series of graphic commentary and reflections by Joe Sacco that he will draw as often as time permits. It is surely not enough, but it’s what we can contribute.
·tcj.com·
The War on Gaza - 1.26.24 - The Comics Journal
cohost! - "AI Is Already Better Than You"
cohost! - "AI Is Already Better Than You"
Late last year I was having a coffee with narrative designer, historian and researcher Holly Nielsen. I always enjoy talking to Holly about games because she has a great supply of anecdotes both about her work in today's games industry, and also about her research on the games industry of a hundred years ago. We often talk about AI, and the arguments people use to criticise it (which we largely agree with), and she said something that's kind of stuck in my head since: people often point out the errors AI make in things like writing or art, but that didn't seem to her like a very good basis on which to criticise it. She's right. AI may be better than you one day. It might already be, right now. If you want to organise, criticise or simply understand AI better, you need to come at it from a different angle.
·cohost.org·
cohost! - "AI Is Already Better Than You"
Innovative books | Open Book Publishers
Innovative books | Open Book Publishers
At OBP, all our books are published in both physical (paperback and hardback) and digital (PDF, XML, HTML, EPUB and MOBI) formats. We believe Open Access publications can embrace the possibilities of digital publishing – by, for example, embedding audiovisual material or enabling greater interactivity with readers – without abandoning the printed form. While the digital elements discussed here are obviously most easily and effectively accessed from digital editions of the book, we make it easy for readers of the print edition to make use of them by providing web links, and also scannable QR codes wherever possible. Here are examples of our titles that experiment with techniques including: incorporating audio/visual material into the fabric of the text; zooming functions on selected images; using commentary functions to enable reader annotation and discussion; and creating publications from database content.
·openbookpublishers.com·
Innovative books | Open Book Publishers
Identify trusted publishers for your research • Think. Check. Submit.
Identify trusted publishers for your research • Think. Check. Submit.
Think. Check. Submit. helps researchers identify trusted journals and publishers for their research. Through a range of tools and practical resources, this international cross-sector initiative aims to educate researchers, promote integrity, and build trust in credible research and publications. Sharing research results with the world is key to the progress of your discipline and career but with so many publications, how can you be sure you can trust a particular journal? Follow one of these checklists (CC BY) to make sure you choose trusted journals and publishers for your research. h/t @weblearning https://social.ds106.us/@weblearning/111817451410664093
·thinkchecksubmit.org·
Identify trusted publishers for your research • Think. Check. Submit.
Statement on Online Education | AAUP
Statement on Online Education | AAUP
In the 1999 statement, the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) established principles with regard to what was then known as “distance education.” Despite significant technological changes in the last twenty-five years, these basic principles continue to apply: 1. the use of new technologies in teaching should be for the purpose of advancing the basic functions of colleges and universities to preserve, augment, and transmit knowledge and to foster the abilities of students to learn and 2. as with all other curricular matters, the faculty should have primary responsibility for determining the policies and practices of the institution with regard to online education. Note as well the lower section "III. Intellectual Property in Online Education and Open Educational Resources"
·aaup.org·
Statement on Online Education | AAUP
Make Academy
Make Academy
The Make Academy is a free online resource designed to enable you to grow with Make at your own pace. Earn badges and certifications that you can share with your network!
·academy.make.com·
Make Academy
Download your life into this computer | New Scientist
Download your life into this computer | New Scientist
IT WILL come as no surprise to Microsoft’s critics to learn that the software company wants full control of everybody’s life. New Scientist can reveal that Bill Gates’s software engineers are working on ways to load every photo you take, every letter you write – in fact your every memory and experience – into a surrogate brain that never forgets anything. It’s part of a curious venture dubbed the MyLifeBits project
·newscientist.com·
Download your life into this computer | New Scientist
A Digital Life | Scientific American
A Digital Life | Scientific American
New systems may allow people to record everything they see and hear--and even things they cannot sense--and to store all these data in a personal digital archive
·scientificamerican.com·
A Digital Life | Scientific American
MyLifeBits - Microsoft Research
MyLifeBits - Microsoft Research
MylifeBits is a lifetime store of everything. It is the fulfillment of Vannevar Bush’s 1945 Memex vision including full-text search, text & audio annotations, and hyperlinks. The book Total Recall(opens in new tab) (paperback title Your Life, Uploaded) is the culmination of our thoughts regarding MyLifebits and the larger CARPE research agenda. There are two parts to MyLifeBits: an experiment in lifetime storage, and a software research effort. The experiment: Gordon Bell has captured a lifetime’s worth of articles, books, cards, CDs, letters, memos, papers, photos, pictures, presentations, home movies, videotaped lectures, and voice recordings and stored them digitally. He is now paperless, and is beginning to capture phone calls, IM transcripts, television, and radio.
·microsoft.com·
MyLifeBits - Microsoft Research