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Seb Schmoller
I am based in Sheffield, UK. I am half-time head of the Association for Learning Technology (ALT) which I combine with work as an independent consultant.
Making, 45 years ago. "We Built Our Own Computers". The uniselector in ELCE defeated me, but not the rotary switches in my 8 place Binary Adder. I've still got a draw full of relays from a failed attempt to make a "Joint Arithmetic Calculator and Kinetic Input Evaluator". - http://yesterdaystechnology.com/html...
"Most of the learning technologies have actually got stuck at the point of 'feedback only'. And that’s why the effect is disappointing." I am re-reading Dylan Wiliam's truly brilliant ALT-C 2007 talk http://www.alt.ac.uk/sites... (transcript), which links to these slides: http://www.alt.ac.uk/sites...
"Lansley's battle should've never been fought" writes Fraser Nelson, Editor of the Conservative-leaning Spectator. Excerpt below. - http://www.spectator.co.uk/coffeeh...
"A small war has broken out over Lansley's NHS Bill — ConservativeHome has three Cabinet members attacking it. I find that shocking. At least a dozen want the Bill killed, and why ConHome found just three is beyond me. Politically, it's probably impossible for Cameron to drop it. But if it was torn up, I for one would shed no tears. For what it's worth, here's my take."
- Seb Schmoller
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Library News - via @dweinberger - a Hacker News inspired "gathering place for people to share and discuss news from the technology and library worlds". - http://news.librarycloud.org/newest
"Beyond marks: new tools to visualise student engagement via social networks" - @jobadage @neilfws @AJCann in @A_L_T #rlt #openaccess - http://www.researchinlearningt...
"The parable of the farmers and the Teleporting Duplicator" Mike Taylor writes in The Guardian about Open Access. - http://www.guardian.co.uk/science...
"How One Kitchen Table in Brooklyn Became a School for Coders" - Steven Heller explains, in the today's Atlantic. Via @jjn1 - http://www.theatlantic.com/technol...
Train teachers to teach Computer Science? Or teach CS using TEL "without" teachers. Interesting views from Mark Guzdal in the US. As usual, these crucial issues are being considered mainly in country-based silos. - http://computinged.wordpress.com/2012...
Netscape in 1996 - perhaps less has happened in 15+ years than some would have us believe. Via @Epigeum - http://web.archive.org/web...
"Microlistening". How software engineering may be the key to Obama’s re-election campaign. Julianna Goldman / Bloomberg. - http://www.bloomberg.com/news...
Richard O’Dwyer, a student and his computer – an American perspective by Jim Farmer - http://fm.schmoller.net/2012...
The Future of Networking - investor Ben Horowitz declares an interest in a business called Nicira Networks, which "makes networking every bit as flexible as a virtualized server, decouples networking software from proprietary hardware, and is infinitely scalable using commodity hardware". One to watch. - http://bhorowitz.com/2012...
NYT feature by Matt Richtel "Idaho Teachers Fight a Reliance on Computers" - http://www.nytimes.com/2012...
Electronics and the Dim Future of the University - http://fm.schmoller.net/2012...
Fortnightly Mailing - a largely copied and pasted blog post: "Electronics and the Dim Future of the University" - http://fm.schmoller.net/2012...
17 years later, Eli Noam's 1995 "Electronics and the Dim Future of the University" is on the money (via @jjn1) - http://www.asis.org/Bulleti...
Montessori schooling - http://fm.schmoller.net/2012...
Roy Lilley explains how a gaff by the King's Fund's Chris Ham prompted the normally neutral HSJ, BMJ, and Nursing Times to trash the Health Bill. - http://campaign.r20.constantco...
"The conscience of a hacker". Extremely prescient at several different levels. 2002, New York, - the author reads and comments on his widely quoted1986 piece. - http://download.2600.com/mediado...
The current (about-to-start) run of free Stanford online courses must be pushing 1m (you read that correctly) enrolments. Some back of fag packet calculations show that 9 classes between them have over 0.4m. But there are at least 7 others. [Some of those enrolling will only be semi-serious.] The numbers may explain - see below - the delay. - http://www.aiqus.com/questio...
Dear Seb Schmoller, We're very excited for the forthcoming launch of Human-Computer Interaction. We're sorry not to have gotten in touch lately - we've been busy generating lots of content, and the system is working really well. Unfortunately, there are still a few administrative i's to dot and t's to cross. We're still hopeful that we'll go live very soon. But since we don't have a firm timeline right now, we'd rather leave this open and get back to you with a definitive date soon (rather than just promise you a date that's far enough in the future that we can feel confident about it). We'll let you know a firm date as soon as we possibly can. We realize that some of you will have made plans expecting the course to start in January, and we apologize for any difficulties that this delay may cause. The good news is that the course is looking great, and we're thrilled that over 65,000 people have signed up - we can't wait for the course to start! See you soon online! Scott Klemmer and the HCI Course Staff
- Seb Schmoller
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The trouble with university: exclusivity, grades, and lectures - http://fm.schmoller.net/2012...
"Science is a community. You support it, it will support you." Just one bit of advice from Anthony Finkelstein [@profserious] for new research students, and not just STEM researchers. http://prof.so/advice
Computers Gone Wild: Impact and Implications of Developments in Artificial Intelligence on Society. Notes from a Berkman Centre seminar held on 8 December 2011. Unlike futuristic predictions involving the Singularity or the underlying technology, this workshop explored current technology. Sessions included discussions on warfare, finance,... - http://futureoftheinternet.org/compute...
Nik Rawlinson's tutorial about how to publish on Amazon's Kindle platform - http://www.webcitation.org/653nEMn.... With thanks to @danbarker
Explorations in Physics. The AAAS's Science describes this "Inquiry-Based Curriculum" that has an emphasis on student-directed projects and which successfully increases scientific literacy. - http://www.sciencemag.org/content...
Suffer the already vulnerable. An analysis of the effects of the coalition's cuts by gender and age by Ginn (KCL) and Himmelweit (OU): http://www.webcitation.org/65059ZW...
"Feeling mathematics is not just some optional extra." Conrad Wolfram's TED talk. "Teaching kids real maths with computers". Also argues for computers to be used in maths exams. - http://www.ted.com/talks...
The Economist comments on Google's rationalisation of, and fundamental changes to, its privacy policies. Google's own announcement is here: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012... - http://www.economist.com/blogs...
Notes on Emergent Learning by David Jennings. Perceptive stuff. - http://alchemi.co.uk/archive...
An interesting line on lectures: "Taking the red pill: Sebastian Thrun's candid reflection on the AI course" - http://fm.schmoller.net/2012...
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