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Just a Game? Study Shows No Evidence That Violent Video Games Lead To Real-Life Violence -...
By Jon Dron 6 November 2021 @ 11:32amneurosciencenews.com - This is a report on a plausible US-based study on the effects of violent video games, with a fairly large number of subjects (all boys for the detailed study, though also investigating broader patterns across genders). It finds no causal...The Facebook Papers
By Matthew Charette 25 October 2021 @ 12:57pmPosted to group: COMP 650: Social Computingapnews.com - The bad times continue to role for Facebook. Intresting article outlining the systemmic organizational and cultural issues facing Facebook amid it's already declining user base. Facebook's inertia on the fundamental issues of...Course: Applied Social Network Analysis in Education
By Jon Dron 23 October 2021 @ 1:46pmPosted to group: COMP 650: Social Computingbookdown.org - This is an interesting and largely open course that teaches social network analysis, applied in the context of education (though it is much more about social network analysis in general). It has quite comprehensive coverage, including ethical...The Good Place
By Matthew Charette 22 October 2021 @ 7:29am Comments (1)Posted to group: COMP 650: Social Computinghttp://www.netflix.com - This week we are discussing ethical design and we began with an overview of ethics in general. If anyone hasn't seen it, I recommend watching The Good Place which is available on Netflix. Aside from being pretty funny and very unique, the...Inisde - Bo Burnham
By Matthew Charette 18 October 2021 @ 2:42pm Comments (2)Posted to group: COMP 650: Social Computinghttp://www.netflix.com - Week 5 from of COMP650 saw us looking into cyberbullying and general abuse online. This led me down some interesting rabbit holes, a lot of which were centered around self-worth/self identification and how the internet has implicated those in...Some thoughts for Ada Lovelace Day
By Jon Dron 12 October 2021 @ 10:56pmwww.scientificamerican.com - This Scientific American article tells the tale of one of the genesis stories of complexity science, this one from 1952, describing what, until relatively recently, was known as the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam (FPU) problem (or 'paradox', though it is not in...At last, a serious use for AI: Brickit
By Jon Dron 2 July 2021 @ 10:10amhttps://brickit.app/ - Brickit is what AI was made for. You take a picture of your pile of LEGO with your phone or tablet, then the app figures out what pieces you have, and suggests models you could build with it, including assembly plans. The coolest detail, perhaps, is...Words will never be a substitute for grunts
By Jon Dron 14 April 2021 @ 12:55pmwww.aare.edu.au - Andrew Norton claims that online learning will never be a substitute for face-to-face learning. Indeed. Here are some other equally useful and true claims: electric vehicles will never be a substitute for gasoline-fueled vehicles; cellphones...What really impacts the use of active learning in undergraduate STEM education? Results from a...
By Jon Dron 8 April 2021 @ 9:38pmjournals.plos.org - This is a report on an interesting study by Naneh Apkarian et al, that asked a large-ish number (3796) of in-person American STEM profs (college and university levels) about the effects of various known factors on their use of active learning...My latest paper - Educational technology: what it is and how it works
By Jon Dron 4 April 2021 @ 11:42amhttps://rdcu.be/ch1tl - This is a link to my latest paper in the journal AI & Society. You can read it in a web browser from there, but it is not directly downloadable. A preprint of the submitted version (some small differences and uncorrected errors here and there,...
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Let's just skip the middle man and fail to submit it.
Jon Dron December 1, 2021 - 12:14pm
I would be honored to be selected to co-author a paper with you. However I understand your selection criteria may be high, and you may choose not to select me, in either case, it is an honor to be selected, or not.
Trevor K December 1, 2021 - 11:36am
Nice find! As a philosophy graduate with an ongoing interest in ethics I have much enjoyed the series myself. I believe that the writing team included professional philosophers to help generate and critique the plot, so there's a lot of academic depth hiding just beneath the entertaining and absurd surface. It's quite fun trying to spot the philosophers/schools of philosophy being called upon in each episode, as well as in the broader trajectory of the plot.
Jon Dron October 22, 2021 - 9:54am
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This works for me! More efficient too.
Trevor K December 1, 2021 - 12:18pm