Category Archives: Research

Solve For X: Google Presents Moonshot Thinking in Short, TED-Style Talks – Open Culture

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Solve For X: Google Presents Moonshot Thinking in Short, TED-Style Talks | Open Culture.

Last week, Google hosted a gathering called “Solve for X,” which brought together entrepreneurs, innovators and scientists interested in finding technological solutions to the world’s greatest problems. These solutions weren’t small in scope. No, they were all “moonshots,” ideas that live in the “gray area between audacious projects and pure science fiction; they are 10x improvement, not 10%.” And these moonshot ideas were all presented in TED-style talks that now live on the WeSolveForX website and the WeSolveforX YouTube Channel.

Your Storytelling Brain – Think Tank – Big Think

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Your Storytelling Brain | Think Tank | Big Think.

Cognitive Neuroscientist Michael Gazzaniga, a pioneer in the study of hemispheric (left vs. right brain) specialization describes ”the Interpreter” – a left hemisphere function that organizes our memories into plausible stories. Less romantic, perhaps, than Gone With the Wind, the Interpreter may help to explain our species’ profound relationship with storytelling.

Learning Technology Trends To Watch In 2012

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http://theelearningcoach.com/elearning2-0/learning-technology-trends-for-2012/

As the technologies of the 21st century evolve and mature, we become the beneficiaries of exciting approaches for designing learning experiences. The convergence of informal and social media learning, combined with the explosion of smartphone and tablet use, is having a huge impact on how we think about training and education.

The Digital Divide: Arguments for and Against social networking – Mark Bauerlein – Google Books

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The Digital Divide: Arguments for … – Mark Bauerlein – Google Books.

Twitter, Facebook, e-publishing, blogs, distance-learning and other social media raise some of the most divisive cultural questions of our time. Some see the technological breakthroughs we live with as hopeful and democratic new steps in education, information gathering, and human progress. But others are deeply concerned by the eroding of civility online, declining reading habits, withering attention spans, and the treacherous effects of 24/7 peer pressure on our young.

The Public Catalogue Foundation

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The Public Catalogue Foundation.

The UK’s Oil Painting Collection

The United Kingdom holds in its galleries and civic buildings arguably the greatest publicly owned collection of oil paintings in the world. 200,000 publicly owned oil paintings are held in institutions ranging from museums large and small to town halls, universities, hospitals and even fire stations.

However, four in five of these paintings are not on view. Whilst many galleries make strenuous efforts to display their collections, many paintings across the country are held in storage, usually because there are insufficient funds and space to show them. Furthermore, very few galleries have created a complete photographic record of their paintings, let alone a comprehensive illustrated catalogue of their collections. In short, what is publicly owned is not publicly accessible.

via The Public Catalogue Foundation.

Digital arts and the imagination by Rachel Coldicutt – GetAmbITion

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Digital arts and the imagination by Rachel Coldicutt – GetAmbITion.

This article by Rachel Coldicutt, @rachelcoldicutt – originally appeared as an inspiration essay for Arts Council England & BBC’s launch of The Space – an experimental digital arts media service and commissioning programme that could help to transform the way people connect with, and experience, arts and culture.

via Digital arts and the imagination by Rachel Coldicutt – GetAmbITion.