Chapter 4 – Making the Grade provides a close look at merit as it developed in U.S. schools. On pages 104-107 there is a nice discussion of the use of student exhibitions to share the […]
The coronavirus pandemic that has resulted in a large number of infections, a high death count, the suspension of much economic activity, and the closing of schools across the globe has highlighted the staying power […]
As the Coronavirus spreads death and fear throughout the world, the forces that have been chipping away at individual privacy and autonomy for decades have received a boost that will enable them to gather even […]
The clip above illustrates the power and impact of asynchronous video-based communication. In this instance, the video is a log of an astronaut left on the surface of Mars in the film, The Martian. Talk […]
US commentators have been quick to point to the growing surveillance capacities of the Chinese government powered by the network of cameras and more powerful facial recognition technologies. Such capacities are viewed as both positive […]
Chapter 3 on How to Work Remotely makes the point that remote work arrangements cause evaluation processes to focus on results and not things like arriving on time. In Chapter 5 the idea of assessing […]
Is AI being developed by the scientific community? governments? or nine giant corporations? Who is controlling the development and deployment of AI and for whose benefit? What does it mean that those developing AI function […]
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