Power of Interactive Classrooms

Simply awesome! A must see! How interactive sessions at school can result beneficial for students? How powerful "content" such as video can aid effective learning and create social value. Essentially MEDIA is  becoming increasingly SOCIAL!

ENJOY!!!

'The Dangers Of Externalizing Knowledge'

Came across this article The Dangers Of Externalizing Knowledge, while learning (or memorizing) for our Leadership exam. It has an interesting take on one of our seminar topics – whether it’s no longer important to remember stuff (unable to recollect the exact wording :P)

The author’s worry is not the ‘short attention span’ or our ‘reliance on non-text media’, but the ‘stopping to value the accumulation of information within ourselves’. Quoting a couple of his thoughts:

“…GPS in cars is an advance party of this trend: every couple months we hear of some driver who has followed the GPS to the bottom of a lake, or used a highway as a walking path because it was labeled as such on their phone’s map…”

“We’ve gone from being intellectual predators to intellectual filter feeders, and soon I wonder whether we’ll even deserve that title”

Me/ think technology’s probably the reason for 9/11 too else we’d have had only a bunch of stone-pelters. On a more serious note, while his article is written to convince, I feel it has a touch of paranoia (probably expecting Black Swan events)
What do you think?

Social media art provocation

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"Tired of ineffective democratic processes? - Discover the new click-democracy!"

Then you should check out the wonderful service/social media art project Repetitionr.com that I referred to in one of the seminar groups yesterday.

And while you're at it, do check out the Painstation too ("No pain no game").

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Science at the dinner table

Here is a humoristic video about benefits of science and the internet. Thought it was pretty funny.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0W7Jbc_Vhw

/Sebastian

Annual Question 2010: How is the Internet changing the way you think?

Hej,

in January the Edge, an organization "aimed to bring together people working at the edge of a broad range of scientific and technical fields", posed the annual question 2010, which is according to the founder John Brockman:

"HOW IS THE INTERNET CHANGING THE WAY YOU THINK?"

121 scientists, authors and professionals outline the answer - among others Nicholas Carr, Yochai Benkler, Robert Shapiro and Evgevny Morozov. A really good collection of qualified opinions. Enjoy!

Best,
Anna.

New device for social media

We may not only looking for or try to invent something new for the social media based on laptop or PC. We could think by jump out of the box. Why can't we design something new for social network or media that could replace or improve the PC?

Like a forum, or blog or facebook, there must be some brand new way that can totally change our life like years ago facebook changed us.

Check this.

http://www.articlesnatch.com/Article/-minglestick---The-Revolutionary-New-Social-Media-Device-/822853

Also, there is a new device called "ippi" that just invented by Swedes, this so called "enlarged cell phone as large as you want" device really be loved by senior people. It is divided into two parts. One is called the basement, which is connected to TV screen, and with a sim card and SD card, like a cell phone without screen. The other part is a remoter. When SMS comes in, it bling blings, you can just read it on your TV screen by simply press the button on the remoter!

This is a brand new device not only for senior people obviously. it is really convenience and may someday replace the fixed phone.

Check this out:

http://ippi.se/

It's in Swedish, because it is only sold in Sweden right now. Even you can not find in other Nordic countries.

But really brilliant!

/Xiaoyi Liu

Nov 30 (13-15) open KTH Seminar on "Network Visualization - Overview, State-of-the-Art and Challenges"

Seminar - Network Visualization - Overview, State-of-the-Art and Challenges

Tuesday, 30 November 2010, 13:15 at Torget, Lindstedtsvägen 5, floor 6

by Prof. Andreas Kerren, Computer Science, Linnaeus University, Växjö

Abstract:

The visual analysis of large and complex network data is one of the most challenging disciplines of information visualization with various application fields. A prominent example is the generation of huge data sets in the life sciences by high-throughput experimental techniques, e.g., DNA microarray experiments. Since the manual analysis of this data is costly and time-consuming, biologists are now turning towards computational methods that support data analysis. The information in many experimental data sets can be either represented as networks or interpreted in the context of networks that are used, for example, to guide further experiments. Similar observations can be made in other scientific fields, such as social network analysis.

Aim of this presentation is to provide an overview on how the interactive visualization of networks can support a better understanding of the network topologies themselves as well as of so-called primary and secondary data which is mapped onto network elements. Here, I will focus on selected interaction techniques and visual representations and exemplify them by means of state-of-the-art visualization tools. Finally, I will conclude this talk by illuminating the most important challenges in the field of network visualization.