Links for a session about technology and learning

Vielha Tunnel - South entrance - Picture by Adrian A. Lorente Grima,a geologist who worked on the tunnel's subsequent reconstruction

On Friday - my last day with ALT - I ran a two-hour session at the University of Sheffield with a group of nine students on a postgraduate module about technology in learning. The "slides" I used in the session - which on their own make little sense - are here [2MB PDF]. Below are some supporting links.

2030: Robot Competence Comparable to Larger Mammals http://www.frc.ri.cmu.edu/~hpm/talks/revo.slides/2030.html

Maes-Garreau Law http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maes-Garreau_Law

Boston Dynamics BigDog web site http://www.bostondynamics.com/robot_bigdog.html

Oppenheimer/Einstein picture by Alfred Eisenstaedt http://www.photographersgallery.com/photo.asp?id=3545

Sitting in a bar with a really smart friend
Course web site - https://www.ai-class.com/home/
Small chunk #1: Unit 16, Computer Vision I,Sections 1 to 4, starting at https://www.ai-class.com/course/video/videolecture/179 - work through the first four sections (~7 minutes)
Small chunk #2: Unit 5, Machine Learning, Sections 1 to 3, starting at https://www.ai-class.com/course/video/videolecture/47 - work through the first three sections (~8 minutes)
Piece by Rob Rambusch of the same title http://fm.schmoller.net/2011/12/sitting-in-a-bar-with-a-really-smart-friend.html

Udacity - what the AI course has become - http://www.udacity.com/

The Wired interview/discussion with Sebastian Thrun http://fora.tv/2012/05/01/WIRED_Business_Conference_The_Intelligence_Revolution

The Internet in Britain - the Oxford Internet Institute's survey - http://microsites.oii.ox.ac.uk/oxis/

Eric Schmidt's 2007 interview in Wired - http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/news/2007/04/mag_schmidt_trans?currentPage=all

ALT-C 2007 keynotes - especially by Dylan Wiliam and Peter Norvig - in several different formats including text transcript and MP3 http://www.alt.ac.uk/altc2007/

More stemming from the Lifelong and Lifewide Learning diagram - http://fm.schmoller.net/2008/11/roy-pea-at-bect.html

Walter Lewin's introductory physics lectures at MIT - http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/physics/8-01-physics-i-classical-mechanics-fall-1999/video-lectures/

Sheila Webber's "Information science in 2003: a critique" http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.86.7450&rep=rep1&type=pdf

Hal Abelson's 2012 ACM SIGCSE Outstanding Contribution acceptance talk http://www.sigcse.org/sigcse2012/downloads/ha_sigcseTalk.pdf (the transcript is here http://www.sigcse.org/sigcse2012/downloads/ha_transcript.txt - needs some reformatting by the user)

Lanier piece with links http://fm.schmoller.net/2010/10/jaron_lanier_asks_how_can_you_be_ambidextrous_in_the_matter_of_technology_and_education.html

The appeal of the brain in the popular press http://pps.sagepub.com/content/5/6/762.full

Comments

[Laura]

This is great, Seb and the presentation does make sense. Thanks for the links too, witty! I had to do a similar sort of thing round here recently, interesting to see what we each chose to focus on....
http://www.slideshare.net/laura_Cz/icts-higher-education-trends-opportunities-concerns-2012