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Personal Learning Environments and Vygotsky
Thursday, April 22nd, 2010Vygotsky Research Poster
Wednesday, April 7th, 2010Vygotsky, Activity Theory and the use of tools for formal and informal learning
Monday, December 21st, 2009Looking further at Vygotsky’s ideas
Wednesday, November 11th, 2009Vygotsky and Personal Learning Environments
Thursday, October 1st, 2009Looking back at three years of Learning Layers – Part Two: Role of research in construction pilot
Sunday, October 25th, 2015Crossing boundaries at the Bremen International VET conference – Part Two: Learning Layers in dialogue with Activity Theory
Monday, September 14th, 2015How Babis Learn Tech
Friday, January 9th, 2015Personal Learning Environments, Self Directed Learning and Context
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Cyborg patented?
Forbes reports that Microsoft has obtained a patent for a “conversational chatbot of a specific person” created from images, recordings, participation in social networks, emails, letters, etc., coupled with the possible generation of a 2D or 3D model of the person.
Racial bias in algorithms
From the UK Open Data Institute’s Week in Data newsletter
This week, Twitter apologised for racial bias within its image-cropping algorithm. The feature is designed to automatically crop images to highlight focal points – including faces. But, Twitter users discovered that, in practice, white faces were focused on, and black faces were cropped out. And, Twitter isn’t the only platform struggling with its algorithm – YouTube has also announced plans to bring back higher levels of human moderation for removing content, after its AI-centred approach resulted in over-censorship, with videos being removed at far higher rates than with human moderators.
Gap between rich and poor university students widest for 12 years
Via The Canary.
The gap between poor students and their more affluent peers attending university has widened to its largest point for 12 years, according to data published by the Department for Education (DfE).
Better-off pupils are significantly more likely to go to university than their more disadvantaged peers. And the gap between the two groups – 18.8 percentage points – is the widest it’s been since 2006/07.
The latest statistics show that 26.3% of pupils eligible for FSMs went on to university in 2018/19, compared with 45.1% of those who did not receive free meals. Only 12.7% of white British males who were eligible for FSMs went to university by the age of 19. The progression rate has fallen slightly for the first time since 2011/12, according to the DfE analysis.
Quality Training
From Raconteur. A recent report by global learning consultancy Kineo examined the learning intentions of 8,000 employees across 13 different industries. It found a huge gap between the quality of training offered and the needs of employees. Of those surveyed, 85 per cent said they , with only 16 per cent of employees finding the learning programmes offered by their employers effective.
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