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Teacher Magazine (ACER) | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: Teacher Magazine (ACER) Host: Jo Earp Category: Education Sub-Category: Careers First Episode: 2014 Podcast by Teacher Magazine for all school educators, published by the Australian Council…

Linkshare: AI Detectors are Silicon Snake Oil: https://mglinks.org/2024/05/15/linkshare-ai-detectors.html

teaching tech - nice article
"How to help someone use a computer"
by Phil Agre.
A lot of wisdom here about teaching & learning in general!
#teaching #learning #education #tech

“After 66 million years, a few more months doesn’t seem like too long a wait. That’s all the time that remains before the Jean & Ric Edelman Fossil Park is scheduled to open this summer.”
https://www.nj.com/education/2024/04/73m-n

$73M N.J. dinosaur fossil park, museum set to open this summer
The 65-acre facility will allow visitors to dig for actual dinosaur bones.

I feel like more ire should be directed at our governments that have put us in this impossible situation, and less at people who are given no good options. Did we incentivize or require ventilation/filtration upgrades in public spaces? No. Did we educate people about masks? No. Did we continue pushing regular vaccinations? Not really. How about a long covid research moonshot? Meh.
People are selfish. That's not going to change, that's just human. Govern accordingly.

« Un très mauvais signal », « un crime » : les sénateurs très remontés contre les 900 millions d’euros d’économies dans la recherche et le supérieur - Public Sénat
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« Un très mauvais signal », « un crime » : les sénateurs très remontés contre les 900 millions d’euros d’économies dans la recherche et le supérieur - Public Sénat
Sur les 10 milliards d’euros d’économies, la recherche et l’enseignement supérieur sont mis à contribution pour près d’un milliard. Une saignée dénoncée par les sénateurs de la commission de la culture et de l’éducation. « Cette coupe budgétaire rentre en totale contradiction avec la loi de programmation de la recherche », dénonce Laurent Lafon, président de la commission. Le ministère évoque des « ajustements sur les appels à projets de l’Agence nationale de r…

👍 Students Walk Out of Schools Across Alaska to Protest the Governor's Veto of Education Package
https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2024-04-04/students-walk-out-of-schools-acr…

QUOTE OF THE DAY
“Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly.”
— Arnold Edinborough
Agree, disagree — be inspired or not.
QOTD is fuel for conversation, and food for thought.
#QOTD
#QuoteOfTheDay

National Research and Education Networks (#NRENs) agree that the ‘human factor’ is a key element of #CyberSecurity, according to a survey conducted within the GÉANT GN5-1 project.
Read about the survey's main findings and next steps:

NRENs agree that the ‘human factor’ is a key element of cybersecurity | GÉANT CONNECT Online
In 2023, the Awareness subtask team, within the GN5-1 Security Work Package 8, Task 2 Human Factor (WP8 T2), conducted a survey on the status of cybersecurity awareness within the National Research and Education Networks participating in the project; 25 organisations took part in the survey: 24 NRENs plus GÉANT. Security awareness relates to the

I've been reading Ray Dailo's "Principles for dealing with the changing world order" in which he charts the rise and fall of empires and kingdoms and dynasties.
The main cycle, he reckons is:
1) Winner of a war consolidates power, unites the population (often through oppression)
2) A smart cooperative equitable educated society with meritocracy means good societal progress and wide sharing of the wealth.
3) Long period of peace, building good tech and military and financial systems.
4) Leadership corrupts: Excessive debt, money-printing, inequality, financial ruin, no sense of solidarity, then a natural disaster pushes it over the edge
5) The fall: Escalating rebellions, very bad inequality, internal conflicts
6) Civil war, revolution, eventually a strong leader proves the winner and back to 1.
We in the western civilization are very clearly in the late states of this kind of cycle, and it's frankly terrifying with the weapons we have these days when it comes to a war.
The leadership is too corrupt to try and fix the inequality or invest in that well educated, equitable, cooperative society.
He explicitly agrees with Marx and implicitly with me a lot more than I'd have expected from the rabid capitalist that Ray Dailo is.
It's interesting to hear his emphasis on inequality and how a prosperous society depends upon sharing the gains of prosperity widely. You tend to hear hyper-capitalists mostly emphasizing that capital's gains should go to capital, and Ray is certainly suggesting the opposite here. That if that happens, it corrupts the leadership and ends with cronyism and debt and revolution.
We seem to basically agree what creates good prosperous peaceful civil society, and that capitalism in the Anglican world isn't doing it, and that fucked up corrupt government is why we aren't doing it.
We'd offer fairly different prescriptions though I think.
#reading #books #economics