Jan
2018
Google scan books
WHAT HAPPENED TO GOOGLE’S EFFORT TO SCAN MILLIONS
from the Information Media Department
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More on OER in this IMS blog:
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=OER
Digital Literacy for St. Cloud State University
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More on OER in this IMS blog:
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=OER
con?:with the advent of personal assistants like Siri and Google Now that aim to serve up information before you even know you need it, you don’t even need to type the questions.
pro: Whenever new technology emerges — including newspapers and television — discussions about how it will threaten our brainpower always crops up, Harvard psychology professor Steven Pinker wrote in a 2010 op-ed in The New York Times. Instead of making us stupid, he wrote, the Internet and technology “are the only things that will keep us smart.”
Pro and con: Daphne Bavelier, a professor at the University of Geneva, wrote in 2011 that we may have lost the ability for oral memorization valued by the Greeks when writing was invented, but we gained additional skills of reading and text analysis.
con: Daphne Bavelier, a professor at the University of Geneva, wrote in 2011 that we may have lost the ability for oral memorization valued by the Greeks when writing was invented, but we gained additional skills of reading and text analysis.
con: A 2008 study commissioned by the British Library found that young people go through information online very quickly without evaluating it for accuracy.
pro or con?: A 2011 study in the journal Science showed that when people know they have future access to information, they tend to have a better memory of how and where to find the information — instead of recalling the information itself.
pro: The bright side lies in a 2009 study conducted by Gary Small, the director of University of California Los Angeles’ Longevity Center, that explored brain activity when older adults used search engines. He found that among older people who have experience using the Internet, their brains are two times more active than those who don’t when conducting Internet searches.
the Internet holds great potential for education — but curriculum must change accordingly. Since content is so readily available, teachers should not merely dole out information and instead focus on cultivating critical thinking
make questions “Google-proof.”
“Design it so that Google is crucial to creating a response rather than finding one,” he writes in his company’s blog. “If students can Google answers — stumble on (what) you want them to remember in a few clicks — there’s a problem with the instructional design.”
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more on use of laptop and phones in the classroom in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2017/04/03/use-of-laptops-in-the-classroom/
https://www.facebook.com/techinsider/videos/784689798396045/
Google offers now #BooleanSearch as do your campus-subscribed dbases
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more on search techniques in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=search+techniques
more on digital literacy in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=digital+literacy
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2016/11/how-to-use-whiteboard-in-google-hangouts.html
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More on Google Hangouts in this IMS blog
BY TOM BRANT OCTOBER 28, 2016 04:45PM EST
http://www.pcmag.com/news/349154/google-researchers-create-ai-that-builds-its-own-encryption
Alice and Bob have figured out a way to have a conversation without Eve being able to overhear, no matter how hard she tries.
They’re artificial intelligence algorithms created by Google engineers, and their ability to create an encryption protocol that Eve (also an AI algorithm) can’t hack is being hailed as an important advance in machine learning and cryptography.
Martin Abadi and David G. Andersen, explained in a paper published this week that their experiment is intended to find out if neural networks—the building blocks of AI—can learn to communicate secretly.
As the Abadi and Anderson wrote, “instead of training each of Alice and Bob separately to implement some known cryptosystem, we train Alice and Bob jointly to communicate successfully and to defeat Eve without a pre-specified notion of what cryptosystem they may discover for this purpose.”
same in German
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more on AI in this IMS blog:
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=artificial+intelligence
https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/beta/
iOS App:
https://itunes.apple.com/app/arts-culture/id1050970557
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more on virtual tours of museums in this IMS blog:
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=museum
Google Phones
the media of this morning is filled with reports about google phones:
Everything there is to know about Google’s new Pixel phones just leaked
http://bgr.com/2016/10/03/google-pixel-specs-pixel-xl-specs-release-date/
and much more on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/search/google+phones
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more on mobile devices for education in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=mobile+devices
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more on privacy in this IMS blog