Good Enough: A lament for our benighted times Toronto man finds a lasting living in cobbling Canadians, obesity and the Double Down from KFC Topping the news, naturally, was the March 1863 marriage of the Prince of Wales — Queen Victoria’s lad, later Edward VII (and great-great-great-great grandfather of recently arrived HRH George Alexander Louis) — to Princess Alexandra of Denmark. The princess, it was reported, showed herself “endowed with rare powers of nerve and endurance.” It soon became apparent to a modern reader of Illustrated London News that “nerve and endurance” were the very motto of the age. The pages, reaching back as 1854, were full of stories of great undertakings and — here is where those times diverge from ours — of confidence, grand ambition and enterprises meant to last. Here, for instance, is a report on the Crumlin Valley Viaduct: Consider now a report on the building of an iron clock-tower in the faraway town of Geelong — hailed as “the Liverpool of Australia.” Economic and political institutions fail.
Curso Fundación Kasparov – CURSO EN LÍNEA PARA LA CERTIFICACIÓN DE PROFESORES EN LA ENSEÑANZA-APRENDIZAJE DEL AJEDREZ 50 Powerful Web 2.0 Tools for the Classroom The purpose of this website is to provide the staff of Hiland High and Middle School with the knowledge and a stepping stone to begin to utilize more effectively free online resources that could be highly beneficial in our classrooms, Web 2.0 tools. In a recent survey of our staff, one of the main concerns was that there was not enough opportunities and time to find resources that can aid and support the content that we teach. This site is here to provide an introduction to several Web 2.0 resources, that can be utilized in the classroom. What is Web 2.0?: Web 2.0 can be defined as any number of different websites or web applications that allow the user to create and share information that they have created online. Why Use Web 2.0? This is the million dollar question. a. b. c. d. e. f. g. h. How to Use This Site: Please click on a Web 2.0 resource link in the left hand column. Contact Information: email: ehlm_chochst@tccsa.net
الشيخ الروحاني لجلب الحبيب Meet the scientists who are training AI to diagnose mental illness I slide back into the MRI machine, adjust the mirror above the lacrosse helmet-like setup holding my skull steady so that I can see the screen positioned behind my head, then I resume my resting position: video game button pad and emergency abort squeeze ball in my hands, placed crosswise across the breast bone like a mummy. My brain scan and the results of this MRI battery, if they were not a demo, would eventually be fed into a machine learning algorithm. A team of scientists and researchers would use it to help potentially discover how human beings respond to social situations. They want to compare healthy people’s brains to those of people with mental health disorders. That information might help make correct diagnoses for mental health disorders and even find the underlying physical causes. But the ultimate goal is to find the most effective intervention for any given mental health disorder. Mental health disorders haunt a sizable portion of humanity at any given time.
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50 Web 2.0 Sites for Schools Web 2.0 sites are built for interactivity and collaboration—two features essential to education. Web 2.0 sites are also ideal for teaching almost any subject, as a wide array of tools are available to create and manage learning materials. Students can actively and enthusiastically approach any subject, from creative writing to STEM explorations, on these sites. Moreover, Web 2.0 sites support robust teaching and learning—even when students and teachers are at home instead of the classroom. In alphabetical order, the following list includes established, tried-and-true sites, as well as the latest cutting-edge Web 2.0 sites for education. ACMI Generator - From Australia’s national museum of film, TV, video games, digital culture and art, this terrific free site lets students explore digital storytelling, video game building, the art of filmmaking, animation, and much more.Anchor - An all-in-one platform that allows users to create and distribute their own podcasts easily.
Generation Z Looks a Lot Like Millennials on Key Social and Political Issues Among Republicans, Gen Z stands out in views on race, climate and the role of government By Kim Parker, Nikki Graf and Ruth Igielnik No longer the new kids on the block, Millennials have moved firmly into their 20s and 30s, and a new generation is coming into focus. Generation Z – diverse and on track to be the most well-educated generation yet – is moving toward adulthood with a liberal set of attitudes and an openness to emerging social trends. On a range of issues, from Donald Trump’s presidency to the role of government to racial equality and climate change, the views of Gen Z – those ages 13 to 21 in 2018 – mirror those of Millennials. It’s too early to say with certainty how the views of this new generation will evolve. Only about three-in-ten Gen Zers and Millennials (30% and 29%, respectively) approve of the way Donald Trump is handling his job as president. The younger generations are also more accepting of some of the ways in which American society is changing.
101 Web 2.0 Teaching Tools Online tools and resources have made it easier for teachers to instruct students, and for students to collaborate with those teachers and with other students and parents. These "Web 2.0" teaching tools aren't magical, but they may seem to defy definition at times since they save time, help you to stay organized, and often take up little space on a computer. Some of these applications are Web-based, which means that they can be accessed from any computer. The following list is filled with tools that will make a teacher's, or those enrolled in the best online education programs, life easier. The categories are listed in alphabetical order and the links to each tool are also listed alphabetically within those categories. Aggregators The following list includes free tools that you can use to stay on top of current events, including headlines and blogs. Aggie: Aggie is an open source news aggregator that's also a desktop application. Bookmark Managers Classroom Tools Collaboration E-learning
For $29, This Man Will Help Manipulate Your Loved Ones With Targeted Facebook And Browser Links Elliot Shefler sits waiting in the lobby of a co-working office in London and immediately stands out from others around him. He’s not on his phone. As he starts to expound on the dark arts of targeted online tracking, you start to understand why. “If I want to tell you a story,” he says, leaning back into his chair and staring through black-rimmed spectacles, “I can target you. Shefler is the Israeli-Turkish cofounder of The Spinner, a basic-looking website that sells a unique, online-manipulation service. Two women used it subtly encourage a co-worker they disliked to quit their job. Most articles appear in the random, eye-grabbing batch of headlines that populate the sidebars and foot of other articles via content platforms like Outbrain, Revcontent and Adblade. Since its founding last April, around 146,000 people, mostly in the U.S. and Canada, have paid for the service, Shefler tells Forbes, showing a screenshot of his Google Analytics interface as evidence. “Who will complain?
GIPHY | Search All the GIFs & Make Your Own Animated GIF Capitalism is failing. People want a job with a decent wage – why is that so hard? Before capitalism, there was work. Before markets, before even money, there was work. Our remotest ancestors, hunting and gathering, almost certainly did not see work as a separate, compartmentalized part of life in the way we do today. But we have always had to work to live. Even in the 21st century, we strive through work for the means to live, hence the campaign for a “living wage”. As a species, we like to define ourselves through our thoughts and wisdom, as Homo sapiens. Industrial capitalism sliced and diced human time into clearly demarcated chunks, of “work” and “leisure”. For Karl Marx, the whole capitalist system was ineluctably rigged against workers. The problem of alienation is far from solved. There are many variants of capitalism, of course, from welfarist Scandinavia through Anglo-Saxon laissez-faire to Chinese market statism. But now? Certainly, the Great Recession was a massive economic shock. Why? There are two problems with this story.
DARPA wants to build an AI to find the patterns hidden in global chaos That most famous characterization of the complexity causality, a butterfly beating its wings and causing a hurricane on the other side of the world, is thought-provoking but ultimately not helpful. What we really need is to look at a hurricane and figure out which butterfly caused it — or perhaps stop it before it takes flight in the first place. DARPA thinks AI should be able to do just that. A new program at the research agency is aimed at creating a machine learning system that can sift through the innumerable events and pieces of media generated every day and identify any threads of connection or narrative in them. It’s called KAIROS: Knowledge-directed Artificial Intelligence Reasoning Over Schemas. “Schema” in this case has a very specific meaning. Although these are easily imagined inside our heads, they’re surprisingly difficult to define formally in such a way that a computer system would be able to understand. And the more data there are, the more difficult it is to define.
Capitalism used to promise a better future. Can it still do that? Capitalism is intrinsically futuristic. The ideas that underpin market economies – growth, accumulation, investment – express an unspoken assumption, that tomorrow will be different, and probably better, than today. The question that murmurs through markets is not “What is good?” or “What is fair”, but: “What’s new?” This future orientation is one of the most striking hallmarks of modernity. Pre-capitalist societies looked to the past – to founding myths, old religions and ancestral lines. Change is of course a mixed blessing. Capitalism has kept this promise quite well over the broad span of history. The idea of economic improvement is now so culturally embedded that even half a decade of no progress sends alarm bells ringing, let alone half a millennium. “The past is another country”, is the opening of LP Hartley’s 1953 novel The Go-Between. But once the capitalism engine revved up, the future entered our collective imagination. Markets run on psychology. Mood matters.