The Global Consciousness Project Buckminster Fuller and Education's Automation 7 min read You can trace the history of ed-tech through many education philosophies and through many technologies. Too often we fail to trace that history at all – a pity because then we don’t think about the trajectory that our storytelling places us on. And too often, we focus simply on technologies related to the computer and the Internet. One of the things that’s striking about the passages below – taken from a lecture delivered by Buckminster Fuller in 1961 (and published in Education Automation) – is how much his descriptions of educational television and two-way TV sound like today’s MOOCs. I have taken photographs of my grandchildren looking at television. What teaching consists of, according to this framework, is repeating the same “curriculum cards” year after year. Image credits: North Carolina State Archives Fuller predicted that television wouldn’t simply involve the broadcast of one (station, signal) to many (households, individuals).
Chaos theory A double rod pendulum animation showing chaotic behavior. Starting the pendulum from a slightly different initial condition would result in a completely different trajectory. The double rod pendulum is one of the simplest dynamical systems that has chaotic solutions. Chaos: When the present determines the future, but the approximate present does not approximately determine the future. Chaotic behavior can be observed in many natural systems, such as weather and climate.[6][7] This behavior can be studied through analysis of a chaotic mathematical model, or through analytical techniques such as recurrence plots and Poincaré maps. Introduction[edit] Chaos theory concerns deterministic systems whose behavior can in principle be predicted. Chaotic dynamics[edit] The map defined by x → 4 x (1 – x) and y → x + y mod 1 displays sensitivity to initial conditions. In common usage, "chaos" means "a state of disorder".[9] However, in chaos theory, the term is defined more precisely. where , and , is: .
Everything I Know | The Buckminster Fuller Institute During the last two weeks of January 1975 Buckminster Fuller gave an extraordinary series of lectures concerning his entire life's work. These thinking out loud lectures span 42 hours and examine in depth all of Fuller's major inventions and discoveries from the 1927 Dymaxion house, car and bathroom, through the Wichita House, geodesic domes, and tensegrity structures, as well as the contents of Synergetics. Autobiographical in parts, Fuller recounts his own personal history in the context of the history of science and industrialization. The stories behind his Dymaxion car, geodesic domes, World Game and integration of science and humanism are lucidly communicated with continuous reference to his synergetic geometry. Everything I Know was made available online at archive.org/details/buckminsterfuller. The printed work below is a transcript of those lectures. -- The Buckminster Fuller Institute First Edition Published by the Buckminster Fuller Institute Contact us for more Information
Progress and perspectives of infometrics and multidimensional indicators in analysis of information flows and knowledge structures :: Brapci :: ResumoEste estudo analisa os avanços e as perspectivas da infometria e dos indicadores multidimensionais no contexto dos estudos métricos da informação. Trata-se de uma pesquisa bibliográfica, que apresenta as contribuições teóricas consolidadas e emergentes, as relações entre os métodos e suas contribuições para a compreensão das estruturas do conhecimento e dos fluxos da informação na atualidade. Discute a relevância da abordagem multidimensional para representar adequadamente os fenômenos analisados e aponta as tendências do uso da infometria e dos indicadores multidimensionais da informação no cenário global. Finaliza ratificando a importância da infometria para análise da informação enquanto fenômeno social e sinaliza o desafio do uso de indicadores multidimensionais para aprimoramento dos estudos métricos da informação. AbstractThis study examines the progress and perspectives of infometrics and multidimensional indicators in the context of metric information studies.
EXTRA - Experts Telling Relevant Advice | Roger Schank The key component of an effective performance support system is a memory of expert knowledge and experience which enables the system to provide useful guidance to its users as they work to achieve their goals. People share their knowledge in many ways, most often by talking – and often in the form of stories that make a point, contain something worth remembering, or offer advice or knowledge relevant to future decisions. People know how to tell stories, and they naturally comprehend stories. Our Experts Telling Relevant Advice (EXTRA) approach delivers context-specific expert advice and experience, typically in the form of short, well-told stories, when they are of value to a person solving a difficult problem. In addition to providing the right kind of content, EXTRA tackles another challenge problem solvers often face - just-in-time access to the right expert when his or her advice will be useful. Four problems arise in creating such a knowledge repository: 1. 2. 3. 4.
How Deep Can You Dig a Hole? National Science Foundation/B. Gudbjartsson, IceCube Collaboration Elon Musk's got everyone thinking about tunnels these days, with their potential to change transportation and alleviate traffic. But how far down can you go before digging gets impossible, wether you're trying to go down or horizontal? The deepest hole you could actually fall into is the Moab Khotsong mineshaft in South Africa, southwest of Johannesburg. Advertisement - Continue Reading Below While only 9 inches in diameter, the deepest artificial hole in the world belongs to Russia, a project of the former Soviet Union. RealLifeLore looks at different landmarks in the quest to get really, really, deep: The limiting factor is almost always the temperature.
A way to save education and build useful AI | Roger Schank Today there was this quote from Mark Zuckerberg in Fast Company: "Most of the content 10 years ago was text, and then photos, and now it’s quickly becoming videos," Zuckerberg said, justifying Facebook's aggressive push into the area. "I just think that we’re going to be in a world a few years from now where the vast majority of the content that people consume online will be video." I suspect he is right about this, but he has not mentioned what may well be the most important use of those videos. Before I explain what I mean here I would like to mention that a man whom I respect a great deal, Donald Clark, made a speech recently about the history of education, called 2500 years of learning theory. In his presentation he talks about 101 people. "We have waited 20 or 30 years for people to deliver massive online education and all we want to do is kill it." Now let me put Zuckerberg and Clark together and make some points about video and education. Why is that? Back to Zuckerberg.