pinboarded

12669 bookmarks
Custom sorting
The Impact of COVID-19 on Education: A Meta-Narrative Review
The Impact of COVID-19 on Education: A Meta-Narrative Review
The rapid and unexpected onset of the COVID-19 global pandemic has generated a great degree of uncertainty about the future of education and has required teachers and students alike to adapt to a new normal to survive in the new educational ecology. Through this experience of the new educational ecology, educators have learned many lessons, including how to navigate through uncertainty by recognizing their strengths and vulnerabilities. In this context, the aim of this study is to conduct a bibliometric analysis of the publications covering COVID-19 and education to analyze the impact of the pandemic by applying the data mining and analytics techniques of social network analysis and text-mining. From the abstract, title, and keyword analysis of a total of 1150 publications, seven themes were identified: (1) the great reset, (2) shifting educational landscape and emerging educational roles (3) digital pedagogy, (4) emergency remote education, (5) pedagogy of care, (6) social equity, equality, and injustice, and (7) future of education. Moreover, from the citation analysis, two thematic clusters emerged: (1) educational response, emergency remote education affordances, and continuity of education, and (2) psychological impact of COVID-19. The overlap between themes and thematic clusters revealed researchers’ emphasis on guaranteeing continuity of education and supporting the socio-emotional needs of learners. From the results of the study, it is clear that there is a heightened need to develop effective strategies to ensure the continuity of education in the future, and that it is critical to proactively respond to such crises through resilience and flexibility.
#reading#ideas#education
·link.springer.com·
The Impact of COVID-19 on Education: A Meta-Narrative Review
How to Use DuckDuckGo’s Privacy-First Email Service | WIRED
How to Use DuckDuckGo’s Privacy-First Email Service | WIRED
Tired of advertisers spying on your private communications? This beta promises to kick tracking technology to the curb. Having offered a privacy-focused search engine since 2008, DuckDuckGo is now turning its attention to email: Its new Email Protection service gives you an @duck.com email address, which you can use as a buffer between your actual email inbox and the outside world. As well as forwarding your incoming messages to your main email address, DuckDuckGo Email Protection strips them of the tracking technologies so often embedded in the emails that inform the senders of when and where you're viewing your messages, and even which links you're clicking through. You can also use the service to create email aliases, temporary addresses that you can use with sign-up forms on the web and then delete if you find they're attracting too much spam or too many marketing missives. (The Hide my Email service offered by Apple works in a similar way.)
#privacy#email
·wired.com·
How to Use DuckDuckGo’s Privacy-First Email Service | WIRED
Open Data Barometer
Open Data Barometer
A global measure of how governments are publishing and using open data for accountability, innovation and social impact. The Leaders Edition looks at the 30 governments that have adopted the Open Data Charter and those that, as G20 members, have committed to G20 Anti-Corruption Open Data Principles. See the updated methodology for more. Open Data Barometer - 4th Edition is the latest full edition. + - 0 25 50 75 100 Open Data Barometer - Leaders Edition
#opendata#openaccess
·opendatabarometer.org·
Open Data Barometer
Digital Public Goods Alliance
Digital Public Goods Alliance
The Digital Public Goods Alliance is a multi-stakeholder initiative with a mission to accelerate the attainment of the sustainable development goals in low- and middle-income countries by facilitating the discovery, development, use of, and investment in digital public goods.
#opensource#reference#resource#sustainability
·digitalpublicgoods.net·
Digital Public Goods Alliance
AI Platforms for Interactive Storytellers | MIT – Docubase
AI Platforms for Interactive Storytellers | MIT – Docubase
At the beginning of 2018, I curated a list of five accessible tools aimed at anyone with basic Python scripting abilities for _Docubase. I was a beginner in the field of machine learning and overwhelmed by its complexity. Machine learning can be a fantastic tool for creators, but integrating AI into your workflow is a challenge for those who don’t have much coding experience. Two years later I recognize it was naive of me to think that it is possible to just “discover the complex ideas and building blocks of deep learning and machine learning technology” with only basic familiarity with Python. The responsibility to uncover and challenge the stories behind the machine learning algorithms is not on the individual itself but on the creative community as a whole. Luckily, wonderful people are thinking creatively about how we can bring everyone into the process of working with complex technologies. It is our responsibility towards one another. I hope this will encourage more people to join the conversation and diversify the voices that manufacture our reality. In the last two years, more accessible platforms have been developed; therefore, we find it necessary to update this list.
#ai#art#Storytelling
·docubase.mit.edu·
AI Platforms for Interactive Storytellers | MIT – Docubase
AIArtists.org
AIArtists.org
The world’s largest community of artists exploring Artificial Intelligence. We curate historically significant Artificial Intelligence art, AI art tools to use in your creative practice, and serve as a global clearinghouse for AI’s impact on art and culture. Scroll down to explore our artists and the critical questions they’re investigating, learn about AI Art history, explore ethical issues in AI, and more. AIArtists.org is curated by Marnie Benney. AI is not only transforming our ability to create, but posing critical questions about our relationship with technology. Will AI be our greatest invention, or our last one? Our community of artists is exploring important questions raised by Ai through their art. For example, how can AI expand human creativity? How can we use AI to mirror back our humanity and learn about ourselves? How can we avoid embedding bias and discrimination into the datasets used to train AI? How can we navigate intimacy and privacy with intelligent machines? Will AI help or hurt our chances of living sustainably on this planet? Can AI be autonomously creative in a meaningful way? How can AI help us learn about our collective imagination? Can AI make a building become conscious? How can artists build creative and improvisational partnerships with AI? How can we ensure certain populations aren’t marginalized by AI systems? Can Ai write poetry and screenplays? Can Ai learn what moves us aesthetically, and create genuinely beautiful new forms? What does a machine see when it looks at the depth and breadth of our human experience? Can AI paintings, AI music albums or robot art be as moving as works made by humans?
#ai#art#community
·aiartists.org·
AIArtists.org
Using SQL to find my best photo of a pelican according to Apple Photos
Using SQL to find my best photo of a pelican according to Apple Photos
Apple Photos keeps photo metadata in a SQLite database. It runs machine learning models to identify the contents of every photo, and separate machine learning models to calculate quality scores for those photographs. All of this data lives in SQLite files on my laptop. The trick is knowing where to look. I’m not running queries directly against the Apple Photos SQLite file—it’s a little hard to work with, and the label metadata is stored in a separate database file. Instead, this query runs against a combined database created by my new dogsheep-photos tool.
#apple#photography#photos#code
·simonwillison.net·
Using SQL to find my best photo of a pelican according to Apple Photos
Podcast Archive - Deep Dive: AI
Podcast Archive - Deep Dive: AI
What’s an “Open Source” AI system? The traditional view of open source code implementing AI algorithms may not be sufficient to guarantee inspectability and replicability of the AI systems. Algorithms are deciding who stays in jail or which customers deserve credit to buy a house. Learn more about the challenges of AI.
#ai#podcast
·deepdive.opensource.org·
Podcast Archive - Deep Dive: AI
Wikidata Query Service Tutorial
Wikidata Query Service Tutorial
This tutorial aims to give you a friendly introduction to SPARQL so you can learn to query Wikidata even if you have no background in writing queries or programming languages. Each chapter contains lessons that teach various principles of SPARQL, using examples and exercises. We strongly recommend you try and do the exercises and not just jump to the solution. By the end of the tutorial you will be able to use SPARQL to query the huge amount of linked data available on Wikidata. We hope this will encourage you to become an active editor on Wikidata – the world’s largest free database.
#wikidata#tutorial#howto#data
·wdqs-tutorial.toolforge.org·
Wikidata Query Service Tutorial
SPARQL tutorial - Wikidata
SPARQL tutorial - Wikidata
WDQS, the Wikidata Query Service, is a powerful tool to provide insight into Wikidata's content. This guide will teach you how to use it. See also the interactive tutorial by Wikimedia Israel.
#api#tutorial#wikidata#data
·wikidata.org·
SPARQL tutorial - Wikidata
How Photography Became an Art Form | by Aaron Hertzmann | Medium
How Photography Became an Art Form | by Aaron Hertzmann | Medium
Prior to the invention of photography, realistic images of the world could only be produced by skilled artists. In today’s world, we are so swamped with images that it is hard to imagine just how special and unique it must have felt to see a well-executed realistic painting. And the skills of professional artists had steadily improved over the centuries; by the 19th-century, artists such as the Pre-Rafaelites and the French Neoclassicists have achieved dazzling visual realism in their work. The technical skills of realism were inseparable from the other creative challenges in making images. This changed when photography automated the task of producing images of the real world.
#art#ai#ideas
·medium.com·
How Photography Became an Art Form | by Aaron Hertzmann | Medium
On the Relationship Between Adopting OER and Improving Student Outcomes – improving learning
On the Relationship Between Adopting OER and Improving Student Outcomes – improving learning
This article started out with my being bothered by the fact that ‘OER adoption reliably saves students money but does not reliably improve their outcomes.’ For many years OER advocates have told faculty, “When you adopt OER your students save money and get the same or better outcomes!” That claim is fine enough if your primary purpose is saving students money (which feels like the direction that OER and ZTC degree advocates have been moving for some time now, and explains why I don’t feel like I’m part of that community any more). But if your primary purpose is improving student outcomes, the shrugging “sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t” uncertainty is utterly unacceptable. So I’ve been thinking more than I’d care to admit about the relationship between OER and improving student outcomes. This thinking, with all the benefit that hindsight affords, doesn’t always reflect well on some of my earlier research. But that’s no reason not to share it.
#OER#openeducation
·opencontent.org·
On the Relationship Between Adopting OER and Improving Student Outcomes – improving learning
Introduction to Open Educational Practices - Fall 2022
Introduction to Open Educational Practices - Fall 2022
Welcome to Introduction to Open Educational Practices. I'm Heather Ross, an Educational Development Specialist at the Gwenna Moss Centre for Teaching and Learning at the University of Saskatchewan. In this course, I'll act as your guide as you learn about the various aspect of open educational practices, including open licenses, open teaching, open pedagogy, and open educational resources.
#openeducation
·canvas.usask.ca·
Introduction to Open Educational Practices - Fall 2022
Ruth Stout - Wikipedia
Ruth Stout - Wikipedia
Ruth Imogen Stout (June 14, 1884 – August 22, 1980) was an American author best known for her "No-Work" gardening books and techniques.
#gardening
·en.wikipedia.org·
Ruth Stout - Wikipedia
100-Year-Old 360-Degree Film Camera That Uses 98-Feet Long Film | PetaPixel
100-Year-Old 360-Degree Film Camera That Uses 98-Feet Long Film | PetaPixel
Photographer Richard Malogorski uses an incredibly complex 1915 Cirkut camera to capture 360-degree panoramics on film. Despite most modern smartphones having a panoramic mode and an increasingly expanding 360-degree camera market, Malogorski chooses to use a large-format 100-year-old analog camera for his 360 panoramics.
#photography
·petapixel.com·
100-Year-Old 360-Degree Film Camera That Uses 98-Feet Long Film | PetaPixel
Scunthorpe problem - Wikipedia
Scunthorpe problem - Wikipedia
The Scunthorpe problem is the unintentional blocking of websites, e-mails, forum posts or search results by a spam filter or search engine because their text contains a string (or substring) of letters that appear to have an obscene or otherwise unacceptable meaning. Names, abbreviations, and technical terms are most often cited as being affected by the issue. The problem arises since computers can easily identify strings of text within a document, but interpreting words of this kind requires considerable ability to interpret a wide range of contexts, possibly across many cultures, which is an extremely difficult task. As a result, broad blocking rules may result in false positives affecting innocent phrases.
#censorship#language#curiosities
·en.wikipedia.org·
Scunthorpe problem - Wikipedia
Museum technology keynote — words from ICOM 2022 Prague | by Seb Chan | Aug, 2022 | Medium
Museum technology keynote — words from ICOM 2022 Prague | by Seb Chan | Aug, 2022 | Medium
Presented at ICOM Prague. August 24, 2022. Because I don’t ever fully ‘write’ talks but instead assemble slides which I then talk ‘around’, what follows is a very slightly more verbose version. The images used in the presentation, of which some are included here, were generated using the ‘of the moment’ AI image synthesis tools Midjourney and DALL-E2, I have included the relevant prompts used in the image captions. I wanted to use those images as a means of hinting at some of what I didn’t talk about.
#museum#Technology#ideas#presentation#art#media#Web
·sebchan.medium.com·
Museum technology keynote — words from ICOM 2022 Prague | by Seb Chan | Aug, 2022 | Medium
Scholia
Scholia
Scholia is a service that creates visual scholarly profiles for topics, people, organizations, species, chemicals, etc using bibliographic and other information in Wikidata.
#data#wikidata#research
·scholia.toolforge.org·
Scholia
The 3 Best RSS Feeders (2022): Feedly, Inoreader, and Tips | WIRED
The 3 Best RSS Feeders (2022): Feedly, Inoreader, and Tips | WIRED
WHETHER YOU ARE sick of social media, want to get away from endless notifications, or just want to read all your news all in one spot, an RSS reader can help. RSS stands for “really simple syndication.” It's a protocol that allows an RSS reader to talk to your favorite websites and get updates from them. Instead of visiting 10 different sites to see what's new, you view a single page with all new content. There are two parts to RSS: the RSS reader and the RSS feeds from your favorite websites. RSS has been around a while now, so there are a lot of very good RSS readers out there. Most of them feature built-in search and suggestions too, so you don't have to go hunting for RSS feeds yourself. You just might discover some cool new sites to read, too. I've been using RSS for over a decade, and recently spent a few months trying out almost a dozen different RSS reader services. The picks below are the best RSS readers available right now
#RSS
·wired.com·
The 3 Best RSS Feeders (2022): Feedly, Inoreader, and Tips | WIRED
The "Digital Schools" programme : actively supporting education for the poorest
The "Digital Schools" programme : actively supporting education for the poorest
a kit that includes a mini server of educational content connected to 50 tablets. We provide each school with this Raspberry Pi mini server and the tablets that the children use for instant access to hundreds of items of essential content: books from the school curriculum and also: Khan Academy lessons, the Wikipedia encyclopaedia, the Wiktionary dictionary, the Gutenberg project, a library with more than 42,000 free digital books in English, MOOC online teaching. We deliver these programmes in partnership with the Education ministries of each country. They work with us to identify the most appropriate school text books for their pupils, which we then upload into the kit.
#offline#internet
·fondationorange.com·
The "Digital Schools" programme : actively supporting education for the poorest
Frontiers | Mastering uncertainty: A predictive processing account of enjoying uncertain success in video game play
Frontiers | Mastering uncertainty: A predictive processing account of enjoying uncertain success in video game play
Why do we seek out and enjoy uncertain success in playing games? Game designers and researchers suggest that games whose challenges match player skills afford engaging experiences of achievement, competence, or effectance—of doing well. Yet, current models struggle to explain why such balanced challenges best afford these experiences and do not straightforwardly account for the appeal of high- and low-challenge game genres like Idle and Soulslike games. In this article, we show that Predictive Processing (PP) provides a coherent formal cognitive framework which can explain the fun in tackling game challenges with uncertain success as the dynamic process of reducing uncertainty surprisingly efficiently. In gameplay as elsewhere, people enjoy doing better than expected, which can track learning progress. In different forms, balanced, Idle, and Soulslike games alike afford regular accelerations of uncertainty reduction. We argue that this model also aligns with a popular practitioner model, Raph Koster’s Theory of Fun for Game Design, and can unify currently differentially modelled gameplay motives around competence and curiosity.
#gamebasedlearning#gaming
·frontiersin.org·
Frontiers | Mastering uncertainty: A predictive processing account of enjoying uncertain success in video game play
Recognizing and Overcoming Obstacles: What It Will Take to Realize the Potential of OER | EDUCAUSE
Recognizing and Overcoming Obstacles: What It Will Take to Realize the Potential of OER | EDUCAUSE
Most educators believe that OER present benefits unmatched by traditional copyrighted resources, yet most faculty still don't use them and do not have any plans to use them in the future. Why this disparity? Failure to shift to OER cannot be interpreted simply through a lens of faculty deficiency—such as laziness, lack of interest, or greed—because faculty generally want to shift to OER. Rather, they are met by systemic and institutional barriers—including perceived lack of OER quality, issues surrounding accessibility and usability, and perceived lack of time—which prevent progress. For OER to proliferate, institutions need to address barriers that short-circuit positive motivations among faculty, giving them space to make these valuable shifts.
#OER#opencontent
·er.educause.edu·
Recognizing and Overcoming Obstacles: What It Will Take to Realize the Potential of OER | EDUCAUSE
nulib-oer/lantern
nulib-oer/lantern
Lantern is a Pandoc template and toolkit for making OER in multiple formats. Lantern helps you typeset OER projects with Markdown (.md) from common word processing formats (.docx) so that you can generate HTML, PDF, and EPUB versions for the public. All of the source control, file processing, and web hosting is handled automatically with GitHub, but you are encouraged to use Lantern on your own computers.
#oer#publishing#opencontent
·github.com·
nulib-oer/lantern