Stanford Professors Daphne Koller & Andrew Ng Also Launching a Massive Online Learning Startup. These are interesting times to be a Stanford professor. Or to stop being a Stanford professor, as the case may be... Last week, news broke that Professor Sebastian Thrun would be stepping down from teaching at Stanford to launch an online learning company called Udacity. Udacity is an outgrowth of his incredibly popular Artificial Intelligence class offered through Stanford last fall. Now it appears that two other Stanford professors Daphne Koller and Andrew Ng (Ng taught last term's massive Machine Learning class) have started their own company, Coursera, one that offers a very similar service as Thrun's. According to the startup's jobs page, the two are "following up on the success of these courses to scale up online education efforts to provide a high quality education to the world.
But rather than leaving the university and the professoriate entirely, it appears as though Koller and Ng are working with universities to extend their reach online. Childhood being eroded by modern life, experts warn. ThanksForTeaching.Us. What Will School Look Like in 10 Years? Children's Imagination Important for Cognitive Development.
Learn to code. Via Frank : Designers vs Coding. Social Media's Slow Slog Into the Ivory Towers of Academia - Josh Sternberg - Technology. Underpinning a disdain for social media in higher education is the assumption that incoming students have an inherent aptitude for new technologies "If you took a soldier from a thousand years ago and put them on a battlefield, they'd be dead," Howard Rheingold, a professor teaching virtual community and social media at Stanford University, told me one morning via Skype. "If you took a doctor from a thousand years ago and put them in a modern surgical theater, they would have no idea what to do. Take a professor from a thousand years ago and put them in a modern classroom, they would know where to stand and what to do.
" Terms like "digital native" and "digital immigrant" have been used by marketers as a way of differentiating generations. This tale is not new. The vaunted halls of academia move slowly and cautiously. But as social interactions and technologies mature, there has been a swing in the pendulum. Teaching Social Media Theory The Anti-Social Media Faction Image: Creative Commons. Kids today need a licence to tinker | Technology | The Observer. Back to school time and millions of British kids are heading back to classrooms to embark on the national curriculum so beloved of busybody ministers. One item in particular on that curriculum will bemuse the youngsters.
It goes by the initials ICT, short for information and communication technology. If they are in primary school, they will have to get through key stages 1 and 2. Secondary pupils have to get through stages 3 and 4 which, the soon-to-be-abolished Qualifications and Curriculum Development Agency tells us, "have been developed to enable schools to raise standards and help all their learners meet the challenges of life in our fast-changing world". Michael Gove, the government's education supremo, has set in train a root-and-branch overhaul of the national curriculum, but for the time being our kids are stuck with the current version. Reading through it, one is struck by its quaint, well-intentioned style.
What do you do if you're a teacher of this stuff? Eduquer au XXIe siècle. Entre 1900 et 2011, tout a changé pour les écoliers qui vivent à présent dans le virtuel et dans une société multiculturelle, analyse Michel Serres. Il faut aider l'école à prendre la mesure de cette nouvelle ère. Le Monde.fr | • Mis à jour le | Par Michel Serres, de l'Académie française Avant d'enseigner quoi que ce soit à qui que ce soit, au moins faut-il le connaître. Qui se présente, aujourd'hui, à l'école, au collège, au lycée, à l'université ? Ce nouvel écolier, cette jeune étudiante n'a jamais vu veau, vache, cochon ni couvée. En 1900, la majorité des humains, sur la planète, travaillaient au labour et à la pâture ; en 2011, la France, comme les pays analogues, ne compte plus qu'un pour cent de paysans. Sans doute faut-il voir là une des plus fortes ruptures de l'histoire, depuis le néolithique.
. - Il habite la ville. . - Son espérance de vie va vers quatre-vingts ans. . - Alors que leurs parents furent conçus à l'aveuglette, leur naissance est programmée. Bilan temporaire. Je répète.