Time to start collecting useful bits of writing, maybe for teaching, but maybe just to think about. Source: Half an Hour: An Ethics Primer
Author: lwise
I am a cognitive scientist, psychologist, and online learning specialist with an interest in taekwon-do, web stuff, cycling, indoor soccer and sundry other things. My staff profile at Swinburne is at http://www.lilydale.swinburne.edu.au/staff/profiles/lwise.htm. My lab website is at http://mocapsuite.edublogs.org/. I have bursts of web activity, and then large lapses. And so it's been since Al Gore invented the internet.
Wedgetailed Eagles bring down drones
http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2016-11-17/wedge-tailed-eagles-bring-down-drones-in-goldfields/8033056?pfmredir=sm&sf42669975=1 Apparently wedgetailed eagles are more than a match for drones used in mining – they have brought down 9 of them at a substantial cost!
Internet of Broken Things
A couple years back, in 2014, Ward Cunningham wrote a piece on wiki called “Internet of Broken Things”. After dealing with the failure of a home sensor network he wrote: This is how the… Source: Internet of Broken Things This…
Working with Ionic framework
IPhone Apps and Websites So I have been acting as a client for some software engineering students from the University of Melbourne who are developing an iPhone app for taking class lists at my taekwondo club. Both of the groups…
Self-driving taxis roll out in Singapore – beating Uber to it
Nutonomy has begun the world’s first consumer trial of driverless cabs in Singapore – the first self-driving taxis anywhere in the world Like Uber’s upcoming rides, this is a controlled experiment with a safety driver behind the wheel and a…
The power within vulnerability – Juice Daily
How does “the power of vulnerability” sit within a context that eschews victim-blaming? While I have no issue with accepting that we each have weaknesses and limitations, it seems like turning vulnerability into a “power” is delegating responsibility to others…
This temporary tattoo can control your phone
This looks pretty awesome!! DuoSkin temporary tattoos, which can be made at home and wash off in a day, use the electrodes present in inexpensive gold leaf to create a conductive surface Researchers design metallic body art that can control…
University students, you are being watched
You are being watched and tracked “to help understand learning processes” – really???? And if I wanted to do this for a research project, rather than for business purposes (student “engagement” is about student retention, which means students continuing to be…
Good set of articles on open research and its challenges
Could Open Research benefit Cambridge University researchers? Lauren Cadwallader, Joanna Jasiewicz, Marta Teperek, Unlocking Research, 2016/08/09 Good series from the University of Cambridge Office of Scholarly Communications on the challenges facing contemoporary scientific research. Here’s the list of articles: The mis-measurement problem – 11…
Students taught pseudo scientific “rubbish”, experts warn
A popular teaching style embraced by teachers across Australia has been condemned as nothing more than a fad. Source: Students taught pseudo scientific “rubbish”, experts warn Yay this guy for calling out the “rubbish” – in this case, teaching to…