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The Bell Curve Refuted
categories: academic library
Getting the most out of Wikibase4Lib
Getting the most out of Wikibase4Lib
Jim Hahn, Timothy Ryan Mendenhall, Esther Jackson
Monday May 23, 2022 | 9am-12pm EDT | Hayes Hall, University at Buffalo | Conference Website
Workshop Summary
This three hour session will provide an introduction to getting Wikibase, the software that powers Wikidata, configured on your local machine by way of Docker Desktop. The session includes an accessible and newbie friendly introduction to using Docker on your laptop, followed by a necessary (though not overly technical) delineation of the unique technology stack that makes up the Wikibase linked data system.
5 MB of data in 1966
Student Privacy and Security Risks
Student Privacy and Pandemics: Understanding and Reducing Privacy and Security Risks
Ancient Greek pedagogues
Artwork for GMoL S2E12 Greeks with Donald Clark
GREAT MINDS ON LEARNINGGMoL S2E12 Greeks with Donald Clark
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At the very origin of our ideas of about learning, as well so much else that defines our culture, lies the extraordinary flowering of thought and discovery centred on Athens from the fifth to the second century BC. This episode takes us back to the very earliest group of thinkers this series will cover, the ancient Greeks.
- 1:02 – Introducing the Greeks
- 11:36 – Socrates (c. 470–399 BC)
- 23:34 -Plato (428/427 or 424/423 – 348/347 BC)
- 34:06 – Aristotle (384–322 BC)
- 47:25 – Pythagoras (c. 570 – c. 495 BC)
- 53:57 – Euclid (c. 325 – c. 270 BC)
- 57:46 – Archimedes (c. 287 – c. 212 BC)
- 1:05:41 – Summing Up
The Blog that started it all: http://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/2020/08/100-learning-theorists-2500-years-of.html
- Socrates bit.ly/2FQz0hH
- Plato bit.ly/386Cd96
- Aristotle bit.ly/2tdGUzi
- Pythagoras, Euclid, Archimedes bit.ly/38hEL46
autocrats and Soviet children’s literature
To understand modern autocrats, read Soviet children’s literature
The dragons are back, from Ankara to Moscow, hoodwinking their peoples while claiming to protect them from non-existent threats. Some of their subjects tolerate them; many cheer them on. Shvarts captures it all: the lies which tyrants spread to mask their depredations as patriotism, their cynical insistence that resistance is futile and their need to murder those who speak the truth.
History Eastern Europe
categories: academic library
Plokhy, S. (2011). The “New Eastern Europe”: What to Do with the Histories of Ukraine, Belarus, and Moldova? East European Politics and Societies, 25(4), 763-769. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0888325411398914
my note: this 2011 article, suddenly becomes relevant, considering the current situation in Ukraine. My opinion as a historian is that further “decentralization” of the 20th century definition of “Eastern Europe,” as contested as it is (e.g., are Poland, the Czech R, Slovakia, and Hungary “Central Europe” or “Eastern Europe?” Are the Balkans In EE?), will further exacerbate the debate around the definition.
on the other hand, the author may have a point, by claiming Central European and Balkan countries are now generally referred as the “European Union,” but that also is not as simple, considering the exclusion of some former Yugoslav/Balkan countries.
other complexities (similarly to the downfall of Yugoslavia): religion[s], ethnicity, geopolitical issues.
“Thus, the NEE is not just a figment of current geopolitical imagination. There are geographic, cultural, ethnic, and historical factors that set it apart from its neighbors. But can history as a discipline and we as its practitioners benefit from this new conceptualization of the old Eastern Europe?”
Open Skills Management Toolkit (OSMT)
Western Governors University Releases Open-Source Code to Facilitate Universal Skills Language
he Open Skills Network (OSN), a community of practice focused on skills-based education and hiring that represents more than 1,200 employers, educational providers, and technology companies,
By launching OSMT as an open-source project, WGU has enabled any educational institution, training program, or employer to freely deploy and use OSMT to translate curriculum, training and development programs, and job profiles into real world skills statements to inform educational program and curriculum design, as well as job role and task definitions.
learner-workers are empowered to use their skills as currency. OSMT has been integrated into Concentric Sky’s Badgr micro-credentialing platform, facilitating the creation of digital credentials that align to Open Skills, creating the building blocks for the shift to skills-based education and hiring.
Social Engagement Ladder
categories: academic library
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/cultivating-support-your-library-ladder-engagement-sweeney/
