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  Large study shows little difference between human and robot essay graders

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  Art in the Era of the Internet (and Why Open Education Matters)

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  With children so easy to embrace robotics, it’s clear that there’s a ton of potential for integrating intelligent technologies into learning environments. Besides, the idea of “exploring and creating” sounds a…

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  The US schools with their own police

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• Bookmark Inside the Box: Notes From Within the European Artistic Research Debate

  The debate over artistic research, particularly its appeal to scientificity, often rests on defining one’s terms. Thus, an examination of some of the keywords deployed might be instructive, especially when their…

  June 16 2011, 3:13am | Comments

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  Reports of the demise of the humanities are exaggerated, suggest these panelists, but there may be reason to fear its loss of relevance. Three scholars whose work touches a variety of…

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• Bookmark Open Media (lecture series schedule)

  The concept of openness is often employed as part of a radical critique of the closed-off worlds of what might be called ‘traditional media’. It is variously used to urge for…

  February 16 2011, 6:54am | Comments

• Bookmark Doctoral degrees: The disposable academic

  Why doing a PhD is often a waste of time: In research the story is similar. PhD students and contract staff known as “postdocs”, described by one student as “the ugly…

  December 20 2010, 9:47am | Comments

• Bookmark The Shadow Scholar

  In the past year, I've written roughly 5,000 pages of scholarly literature, most on very tight deadlines. But you won't find my name on a single paper. I've written toward a…

  November 17 2010, 2:56pm | Comments

• Bookmark What Are Books Good For?

  I've been wondering lately when books became the enemy. Scholars have always been people of the book, so it seems wrong that the faithful companion has been put on the defensive.…

  September 30 2010, 4:23pm | Comments

• Bookmark Will the Book Survive Generation Text?

  Over the next 10 years, scientific experts will be dealing with "extreme weather." No one knows how weird and dangerous it will get. Moscow already faces Bahrain-like temperatures. Downpours swamp a…

  September 1 2010, 11:17am | Comments

• Bookmark The illustrated guide to a Ph.D.

  Every fall, I explain to a fresh batch of Ph.D. students what a Ph.D. is. It's hard to describe it in words. So, I use pictures. Read below for the illustrated…

  August 11 2010, 1:47am | Comments

• Bookmark 12 Events That Will Change Everything, Made Interactive

  This Web-only article is a special rich-media presentation of the feature, "12 Events That Will Change Everything," which appears in the June 2010 issue of Scientific American. The presentation was created…

  July 14 2010, 9:05am | Comments

• Bookmark Losing our minds to the web

  Enter Nicholas Carr, a technology writer and Silicon Valley’s favourite contrarian, whose book The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains (Norton) has just come out in the US…

  July 1 2010, 6:50am | Comments

• Bookmark "The Ignorant Schoolmaster" by Jacques Rancière

  We are all here to speak about the virtue of masters. I wrote a work called The Ignorant Master. Therefore it falls to me to defend on this subject the most…

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• Bookmark Writing off the UK's last palaeographer

  Dry, dusty and shortly to be dead. Palaeographers are used to making sense of fragments of ancient manuscripts, but King's College London couldn't have been plainer when it announced recently that…

  May 29 2010, 10:04am | Comments

• Bookmark Five Creatures That Prove Life Could Exist On Other Planets (Or In…

  Want to know what life will look like on other planets? Look no farther than these five creatures, who are already prepared for life on Saturn's moon Titan - or in…

  May 14 2010, 3:34am | Comments

• Bookmark Giorgio Agamben - What is a Paradigm - Lecture, 2002

  ...we all make use of paradigms in our work, but do we really know what a paradigm is, and what does it mean to use a paradigm in philosophy, in the…

  April 30 2010, 6:39am | Comments

• Bookmark Bad Writing and Bad Thinking

  Orwell leaves us with a list of simple rules: * Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. * Never use…

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• Bookmark Think Globally

  The most familiar ideas of geometry were inspired by an ancient vision — a vision of the world as flat. From parallel lines that never meet, to the Pythagorean theorem discussed…

  March 26 2010, 5:54am | Comments

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• Twitter Favourites

  Large study shows little difference between human and robot essay graders

  April 13 2012, 7:30am | Comments

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  April 9 2012, 4:38am | Comments

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  Art in the Era of the Internet (and Why Open Education Matters)

  March 29 2012, 1:35am | Comments

• YouTube

  March 9 2012, 1:18am | Comments

• YouTube

  February 16 2012, 5:35am | Comments

• Bookmark Kids, unlike adults, think technology is fundamentally human

  With children so easy to embrace robotics, it’s clear that there’s a ton of potential for integrating intelligent technologies into learning environments. Besides, the idea of “exploring and creating” sounds a…

  January 19 2012, 2:13am | Comments

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  The US schools with their own police

  January 10 2012, 9:36am | Comments

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  January 4 2012, 2:02am | Comments

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  October 2 2011, 2:40pm | Comments

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  August 23 2011, 3:52pm | Comments

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  August 19 2011, 2:16pm | Comments

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  August 12 2011, 7:50am | Comments

• Wikipedia moodlegoodpractice - home

  August 10 2011, 5:53pm | Comments

• Bookmark Inside the Box: Notes From Within the European Artistic Research Debate

  The debate over artistic research, particularly its appeal to scientificity, often rests on defining one’s terms. Thus, an examination of some of the keywords deployed might be instructive, especially when their…

  June 16 2011, 3:13am | Comments

• Bookmark Humanities in the Digital Age

  Reports of the demise of the humanities are exaggerated, suggest these panelists, but there may be reason to fear its loss of relevance. Three scholars whose work touches a variety of…

  March 6 2011, 12:02pm | Comments

• YouTube

  February 16 2011, 7:38am | Comments

• Bookmark Open Media (lecture series schedule)

  The concept of openness is often employed as part of a radical critique of the closed-off worlds of what might be called ‘traditional media’. It is variously used to urge for…

  February 16 2011, 6:54am | Comments

• Bookmark Doctoral degrees: The disposable academic

  Why doing a PhD is often a waste of time: In research the story is similar. PhD students and contract staff known as “postdocs”, described by one student as “the ugly…

  December 20 2010, 9:47am | Comments

• Bookmark The Shadow Scholar

  In the past year, I've written roughly 5,000 pages of scholarly literature, most on very tight deadlines. But you won't find my name on a single paper. I've written toward a…

  November 17 2010, 2:56pm | Comments

• Bookmark What Are Books Good For?

  I've been wondering lately when books became the enemy. Scholars have always been people of the book, so it seems wrong that the faithful companion has been put on the defensive.…

  September 30 2010, 4:23pm | Comments

• Bookmark Will the Book Survive Generation Text?

  Over the next 10 years, scientific experts will be dealing with "extreme weather." No one knows how weird and dangerous it will get. Moscow already faces Bahrain-like temperatures. Downpours swamp a…

  September 1 2010, 11:17am | Comments

• Bookmark The illustrated guide to a Ph.D.

  Every fall, I explain to a fresh batch of Ph.D. students what a Ph.D. is. It's hard to describe it in words. So, I use pictures. Read below for the illustrated…

  August 11 2010, 1:47am | Comments

• Bookmark 12 Events That Will Change Everything, Made Interactive

  This Web-only article is a special rich-media presentation of the feature, "12 Events That Will Change Everything," which appears in the June 2010 issue of Scientific American. The presentation was created…

  July 14 2010, 9:05am | Comments

• Bookmark Losing our minds to the web

  Enter Nicholas Carr, a technology writer and Silicon Valley’s favourite contrarian, whose book The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains (Norton) has just come out in the US…

  July 1 2010, 6:50am | Comments

• Bookmark "The Ignorant Schoolmaster" by Jacques Rancière

  We are all here to speak about the virtue of masters. I wrote a work called The Ignorant Master. Therefore it falls to me to defend on this subject the most…

  June 23 2010, 9:48am | Comments

• YouTube

  June 15 2010, 2:35pm | Comments

• Bookmark Writing off the UK's last palaeographer

  Dry, dusty and shortly to be dead. Palaeographers are used to making sense of fragments of ancient manuscripts, but King's College London couldn't have been plainer when it announced recently that…

  May 29 2010, 10:04am | Comments

• Bookmark Five Creatures That Prove Life Could Exist On Other Planets (Or In…

  Want to know what life will look like on other planets? Look no farther than these five creatures, who are already prepared for life on Saturn's moon Titan - or in…

  May 14 2010, 3:34am | Comments

• Bookmark Giorgio Agamben - What is a Paradigm - Lecture, 2002

  ...we all make use of paradigms in our work, but do we really know what a paradigm is, and what does it mean to use a paradigm in philosophy, in the…

  April 30 2010, 6:39am | Comments

• Bookmark Bad Writing and Bad Thinking

  Orwell leaves us with a list of simple rules: * Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. * Never use…

  April 29 2010, 2:55pm | Comments

• YouTube

  April 2 2010, 4:21am | Comments

• Bookmark Think Globally

  The most familiar ideas of geometry were inspired by an ancient vision — a vision of the world as flat. From parallel lines that never meet, to the Pythagorean theorem discussed…

  March 26 2010, 5:54am | Comments

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