Time to start collecting useful bits of writing, maybe for teaching, but maybe just to think about. Source: Half an Hour: An Ethics Primer
Category: readings
Aeon | ideas and culture
Aeon is a magazine of ideas and culture. We publish original essays, incisive opinions, and outstanding non-fiction films, free for all. Source: Aeon | ideas and culture This is a pretty cool repository of really interesting ideas and opinions, with…
Society of mind (Minsky) on the web
Society of Mind book in html form This is the entire “Society of Mind” book by Marvin Minsky on the web! This is an awesome read (or series of awesome reads) that I recommend to everyone!
Competency based training, productivity and performance
Competency based training, productivity and performance. Jason – we should look at this.
Elizer Yudkowsky’s Cognitive Science posts
This isn’t directly relevant to the topic of the group, but since I was asked last week to post it, here’s the majority of the works of Eliezer Yudkowsky that I’ve been reading lately. http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Sequences It’s been taking me a good…
Cyberostracism: Might be useful for some of you?
Found a little bit of work on the effects of ostracism in social setting which take place online. I really just skimmed it but it sounds like it might be of use for anyone doing social media or cyberbullying work.…
Target Journals for DT&T
Jason asked me to start compiling a list of Journals that our group should aim to publish in (and keep an eye out for ‘Special Issue’ call for papers that might be relevant) – please add to the list! Computers…
Major task of parenting is to help kids regulate their emotional arousal state
This article from The Age proposes that exposure to prolonged stress through domestic violence can lead to toxic stress in children – ongoing stress that leads to brain damage. It also identifies the role of parenting as helping children to…
Google faces
Googling for faces in maps of the earth (via Stephen Downes) The way we perceive our environment is a complex procedure. By the help of our vision we are able to recognize friends within a huge crowd, approximate the speed…
Been Bored lately?
Been Bored lately? from The Age Social media and iPhones aren’t a cure for boredom so much as a distraction from it. And it is a distraction that has the twin effect of contributing in the end to the very…