21st Century Learning and Teaching

THE T4 SOLUTIONS CHALLENGE
Creating a strategy for a better world: How the Sustainable Development Goals can provide the framework for education to deliver progress on our global challenges.

T4 and Take Action Global (TAG) are presenting a $10,000 challenge encouraging teachers to share practical ideas on how we can accelerate progress on the 17 SDGs.

Teachers will submit two-minute videos to demonstrate either what they did or what they would do. A 200 word written summary will accompany each video on the TAG website, and each applicant will be encouraged to share and promote their solution on social media platforms with a call to action to vote for their project.

Learn more / En savir plus / Mehr erfahren:

• https://globaleducationandsocialmedia.wordpress.com/2014/03/22/practice-learning-about-sustainability-up-from-the-early-age-a-must/
• https://gustmees.wordpress.com/2011/12/29/for-a-better-world-test/

As you might expect, Brin expects Alphabet and others to find more uses for AI. But he also acknowledges that the technology brings possible downsides. “Such powerful tools also bring with them new questions and responsibilities,” he writes.

AI tools might change the nature and number of jobs, or be used to manipulate people, Brin says—a line that may prompt readers to think of concerns around political manipulation on Facebook. Safety worries range from “fears of sci-fi style sentience to the more near-term questions such as validating the performance of self-driving cars,” Brin writes.

All that might sound like a lot for Google and the tech industry to contemplate while also working at full speed to squeeze profits from new AI technology. Even some Google employees aren’t sure the company is on the right track—thousands signed a letter protesting the company’s contract with the Pentagon to apply machine learning to video from drones.

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https://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?&tag=AI

https://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?&tag=Ethics

Early Friday morning the world experienced the year’s latest cyberattack. Starting first in the United Kingdom and Spain, the malicious “WannaCrypt” software quickly spread globally, blocking customers from their data unless they paid a ransom using Bitcoin. The WannaCrypt exploits used in the attack were drawn from the exploits stolen from the National Security Agency, or NSA, in the United States. That theft was publicly reported earlier this year. 

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https://gustmees.wordpress.com/?s=cybersecurity

https://gustmees.wordpress.com/?s=5+minutes

Contemporary extremism is designed to increase polarization. One tactic is to twist frames. For example, “ideological diversity” has been deployed to suggest that people who hold conservative viewpoints experience a loss of opportunity similar to those who have faced systemic racism and sexism. But this isn’t about the history of economic inequality in the US. It’s a dogwhistle. It’s about using nominal conservatism as a cloak to promote toxic masculinity and white supremacy.

It’s about extremists using conservatives. And it’s about intentionally twisting historical pressure to diversify newsrooms and Silicon Valley to open the Overton Window. Fundamentally, it’s a technique to grab power by gaslighting the public and making reality seem fuzzy.

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https://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?&tag=press

Every day, it seems, we’re bombarded with news of leaders, corporate heads, politicians and other key figures in our society whose behavior shocks and deeply disappoints us.

Whether it’s egregious lying, or a lack of accountability, or rampant narcissism or indifference to others, we’re reminded daily of how important character is in our lives and in the successes (or failures) we create and achieve.

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http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?&tag=LeaderShip

http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?&tag=LeaderSkills

http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?&tag=Character

Die meisten Software-Fehler erschweren nur etwas die Bedienung - ansonsten ist alles im grünen Bereich. Doch es gab auch heftige Bugs, die Millionen Menschen in ernsthafte Gefahr gebracht und einige sogar getötet haben. Denn der Software-Code wird von Menschen geschrieben und Menschen machen manchmal gravierende Fehler.

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https://gustmees.wordpress.com/2015/08/13/responsibility-of-programming-coding/

https://gustmees.wordpress.com/2014/08/24/coding-a-new-trend-in-education-and-a-big-responsibility/