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Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore. We have seen the future, and the future is ours. César Chávez (via crookedindifference)
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The Chumby Hacker Board is a cool single board Linux computer that has much of the same hardware as the famous Chumby One. It’s great for people who are experienced with Linux and want to have the power of a microcomputer with audio and video output while at the same time getting all the peripherals…
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Policy Brief: Game Changer: Investing in Digital Play to Advance Children’s Learning and Health by Ann My Thai et al. | June 2009 | View Bio DOWNLOAD: Executive Summary | Report Children as young as 4 are immersed in a new gaming culture, but many parents, educators, and health professionals, concerned over violence, sexual content,…
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Your point with the Viridian Design movement, that the best way to rewire culture and thought is by hacking design, made great sense, and Viridian succeeded in drawing designers and futurists to the problem of global warming and accelerating global awareness of the potential problem, but it was hard to imagine the backlash. Global warming’s…
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Why Watson Thought Toronto was a US City
Why Watson Thought Toronto was a US City heyitsnoah: In an interview over at The Browser, Stephen Baker, who has a new book on IBM’s Watson and computer intelligence, explains how the computer could have possibly thought Toronto was a US city: Let’s review this. TheJeopardy! category was U.S. Cities, and the clue was, ‘This…
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Editor’s Note: Today we announced the full availability of Microsoft Kodu Game Lab for the PC and the launch of a nationwide Kodu Cup competition. We’re inviting students, aged nine to 17 to design, build and submit their own video games. The following is a guest blog post about the educational benefits of video games…
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After minimalism, conceptual and performance art, the idea of the artist as someone in a skilled and thinking occupation, engaged with a particular set of materials and visual ideas, has been thoroughly suppressed in favour of the idea of art as mainly an intellectual activity. The artist as thinker, manager, intellectual rather than maker, worker,…
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Sometimes I feel bad for these gamification enthusiasts. Priebatsch longs to change the term valedictorian to White Knight Paladin. And McGonigal, whose games are filled with top-secret missions in which you get to play the superhero, says “reality is broken” because people don’t get to feel “epic” often enough. This is a child’s view of…