Number of Posts: 142
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Could Steiner schools have a point on children, tablets and tech?
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 14.6.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | digitized education, school, technology-free
Summary | The Iona school in Nottingham is a more "traditional" school; pupils don’t work on tablets or computers, and in the classroom you can see the old-fashioned blackboard. The school curriculum is based on the 19th century philosopher Rudolf Steiner. Some critics say that the fact that those children don't use screens at school will be disadvantage for them later. When they leave school, they'll be part of a digital world which includes technology. They need to be prepared for that.
Image Description | Photograph of a woman and children kneading dough, man drawing on a blackboard, two boys on a tree, and two children making arts and crafts.
Image Tags | female(s), male(s)
No power or running water - but digital books galore
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 2.8.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | childhood, digitized education, smartphone
Summary | Inside a library in Rwanda, you can see children with e-readers, smartphones, and digital books. John Kanyambo is 12 and likes digital books; children can learn a lot of new words with them. This is what Africa looks like today; parts of it welcome digital innovations, but other parts haven't had an agricultural revolution yet.
Image Description | Photographs of two African boys using a tablet, two people walking somewhere in Africa, and portrait of an African man.
Image Tags | male(s), tablet
Read it and bleep: is virtual reality the future of storytelling?
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 12.10.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | virtual reality
Summary | The world of storytelling is changing thanks to virtual reality. Indeed, new media is giving writers the possibility to tell their stories in different ways. What's also changing is the status of author and owner of stories. A festival in New York presented different work resulting from this new trend, where real and imaginary worlds meet. The author of the article explains her experience as she was brought into an imaginary world where she was allowed to influence the story.
Image Description | Photograph of a man wearing VR glasses and looking at a robot, and photograph of a room full of people wearing masks,
Image Tags | male(s)
Invasion of the troll armies: from Russian Trump supporters to Turkish state stooges
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 6.11.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | fake news, politics, threat
Summary | Thousands of trolls out there are pretending to be someone else. They spread fake news and write fake texts in exchange of some money. For instance, Russian people were paid by their government in order to pretend to be Trump's supporters. In China, the practice is common; the government pays people to manipulate social media. The article lists other examples such as Russia, Ukraine, Israel, the UK, North and South Korea, and Turkey.
Image Description | Image of military men (their faces has been replaced by thumbs up), image of someone using a laptop, two social media illustrations
Image Tags | computer/laptop, male(s), social media
How a Canadian app is helping refugees find food, clean water and medical care
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 16.11.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | smartphone, threat
Summary | A new app called Services Advisor was created by Canadian nonprofit PeaceGeeks. The goal of the app is to give refugees basic information about food, shelter, or medical care. The app is available in English and Arabic. A lot of refugees are tech-saavy people and already owned a smartphone before they had to leave their country.
Image Description | Photograph of a group of refugees, and screenshot of the app displaying different categories
Image Tags | female(s), male(s)
Tech may rule, but the human backlash is coming
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 24.11.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | smartphone, technology-free, threat
Summary | Movies have a special relationship with new media: they hate it. Romcoms prefer showing people who fall in love while meeting face-to-face rather than on dating apps, sci-fi movies show apocalyptic scenes representing the future, and movies such as "Her" or "Ex Machina" show how artificial intelligence can lead to downfall. Why is the movie industry tech-sceptic? Maybe because the internet is ruining the movie business.
Image Description | Screenshot of a movie scene with Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard.
Image Tags | female(s), male(s)
2016: the year AI came of age
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 28.12.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence
Summary | Artificial intelligence is everywhere now; from period-tracking apps to food delivery apps. Companies want to integrate AI into their apps in order to provide the best services. 2011 was an important year for AI with the introduction of Siri, Apple's digital personal assistant. Since then, AI has gone a long way. The next step that DeepMind (research lab) wants to reach is instant voice-to-voice translation.
Image Description | Photograph of three South Korean people, photograph of a man standing in a room full of computers, photograph of Amazon's personal assistant Echo in the foreground and a person in the background
Image Tags | computer/laptop, male(s)
'Bring your own device': weighing up the business benefits
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 23.1.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | smartphone
Summary | Some businesses let their employees bring their own devices (e.g. laptop) at work. This is called BYOD (Bring your own device). This way, companies can save money, and it's also more convenient for employees to carry one device instead of two. In order to avoid any problems, companies that work with BYOD need to come up with good employee agreements, and use cloud-based services. The article also lists several examples of BYOD companies and explains the (dis)advantages of the method.
Image Description | Portraits of four men, and photograph of people's hands using a tablet, a smartphone, and a laptop.
Image Tags | computer/laptop, hand(s), male(s), smartphone, tablet
'Siri, I was raped': Study finds smartphone assistants unable to respond to help in a crisis
Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 15.3.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, research/study
Summary | Smartphone personal assistants have been tested and they seem to be unable to respond well to help in a crisis (e.g. suicide, rape, abuse). Developers need to do more in order to improve those personal assistants.
Image Description | Photograph of a smartphone screen displaying the message "what can I help you with?", woman hiding her face with her hands, man speaking to his phone, man hiding his face with his hands, a woman's hands using a smartphone
Image Tags | female(s), hand(s), male(s), smartphone
Sick perverts ask schoolgirls to indecently expose themselves during lessons on live video app
Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 25.3.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | childhood, pornography, privacy, school, smartphone, threat, video communication
Summary | Perverts have asked schoolgirls to expose themselves via live Periscope videos during lessons. While they were using the app, the girls received a lot of sexual comments. Periscope is an app that is also used by businesses and media organisations to stream events and conferences live. Viewers can then comment and ask questions live; those comments are displayed on screen and everyone can see them.
Image Description | Photograph of a student's hands holding a phone under a desk, photograph of an empty classroom,
Image Tags | cell phone, male(s), school
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