by andflywrite | Jun 2, 2018 | BEST LINKS EVER
The problem of ethical decision making, which has long been a grand challenge for AI (Wallach and Allen 2008), has recently caught the public imagination. Perhaps its best-known manifestation is a modern variant of the classic trolley problem (Jarvis Thomson 1985):...
by andflywrite | Jun 1, 2018 | BEST LINKS EVER
PEW research has released a new report on what teens are up to with smart phones and cloud access. We are fortunate to have quality research done by an organization with unquestioned integrity on “the facts” current in US. Almost half of...
by andflywrite | May 13, 2018 | BEST LINKS EVER
A report from Pearson-Oxford…some of the text is tiny in the PDF, but will zoom up fine in a separate browser window. [gview file=”https://publicservicesalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Pearson-Oxford-Study-On-Work.pdf”]
by andflywrite | May 13, 2018 | BEST LINKS EVER
The top 10 skills a child born today should learn in a normal basic education, according to the Pearson-Oxford study: Learning strategies Psychology Instructing Social perceptiveness Sociology and anthropology Education and training Coordination Originality Fluency of...
by andflywrite | May 13, 2018 | BEST LINKS EVER
There is an ongoing debate on “what is education for?” in the US. Some would say we don’t need “well rounded” citizens as the “liberal arts” college education says it attempts to provide to US society. They would rather...
by andflywrite | May 13, 2018 | BEST LINKS EVER
Ivan Illich was a radical visionary writing about various aspects of civilization as he knew it back in the 60s and 70s. He covered an immense amount of ground, and his ideas were part of the general “countercultural” movement that was prevalent then. He...
