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Theme : technology
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Lips don't lie?
It's with interest that I read Birmingham County Council has introduced telephone lie detector tests, sorry voice stress tests, for claimants calling their benefit office. Whilst on the face of it, this seems to have purported benefits (apparently Harrow Council has saved £110,000 in three months during a pilot scheme), I wonder at what costs?I would think such measures begin to subtly change the dynamics of the claimant-staff interactions (already quite fraught one would imagine),...
from : faizalfarook
9th September 2007
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Enriching art via cell phone
In Baltimore, museums are using mobile phone technology to deliver information to visitors in a way that both uses a platform with which they are already comfortable, and a means of enabling people to share hteir opinions with each other.
from : samjones
16th August 2007
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Children's experiences of technology outside the classroom way ahead | E-learning | EducationGuardia
Children have been quick to grasp the joys of new technology. Why are schools lagging so far behind, ask David Puttnam
from : tomrichardson
8th May 2007
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English Language training by 3G mobile phone
English in the age of 3G technology...
from : samjones
10th April 2007
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Future imperfect - 31 March 2007 - New Scientist
Future imperfect - 31 March 2007 - New Scientist
from : mollywebb
2nd April 2007
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SCRIPT-ed: Online Journal
Journal on law and technologies
from : petebradwell
22nd March 2007
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Don't Ask too many questions
I finally bothered to look at it today. After staring at the growing number of slightly bizzare posters on the tube recommending that I reconsider my search habits I thought I'd check it out.I don't know what I expected. I suppose, following the Linuxy type aesthetic of the posters, I thought I'd find a site explaining why I should lose my devotion to Google. Giving me one credible reason why I should choose one algorithm over another.I didn't. Instead I found one of the most pathetic excuses...
from : tomrichardson
20th March 2007
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Their Space
Their Space: Education for a digital generation draws on qualitative research with children and polling of parents to counter the myths obscuring the true value of digital media.
from : markfuller
10th January 2007
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Their Space Podcast
It's the seventh Demos podcast, and the first of 2007. It sees Hannah and Celia talking about the report Their Space: Education for a Digital Generation. The project, funded by the National College for School Leadership, explores the skills that young people are learning through their use of new technologies and makes suggestions for how schools and policy makers should respond.You can listen in by downloading the mp3 file here, or by subscribing to the podcast feed here. Or, the audio should...
from : hannahgreen
4th January 2007
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The Received Wisdom
The modern world needs experts. They are everywhere. In government, we are told that they are a resource – ‘on tap, not on top.’ But experience over the last 20 years, from BSE to MMR and beyond, has punctured the old, ‘speaking truth to power,’ model of expertise. The policy response to BSE has been to open up. But are we making the most of openness?
from : markfuller
8th December 2006