Interesting
Reads – 2018-12-11
Contents
Articles
- Top Tech Trends In 2019
- Global priorities research
- Ministry Of Home Affairs Issues Handbook For Students/Adolescents On Cyber Safety
- 10 Principles Of Organizational Culture
- What Happened after India Eliminated Cash
- YouTube, persuasion and genetically engineered children
- Tech giants need to take more responsibility for the advertising that makes them billions
- Teaching For Intelligence: Recognizing and encouraging skillful thinking and behaviour
- Tim Harford’s guide to statistics in a misleading age
- 17 ways you should invest your time in your 20s for long-term success
Events /
Announcements
- Smart India Hackathon 2019
- ARPIT: Annual Refresher Programme in Teaching: Online professional development of in-service teachers’ of higher education, using MOOCs
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Articles
Top
Tech Trends In 2019
Technology
is now central to every industry — from building construction to healthcare
administration to food production. CB Insights looks at the top tech trends
poised to reshape industries in 2019 in its 57 pages report. .
Global priorities
research
Governments, foundations and
individuals spend large amounts of money on efforts to improve the world.
However, there is currently little research to guide them on what priorities
they should focus on at the highest level.
Global priorities research applies
techniques from economics, maths, and social science to help organisations
choose which global problems they should spend their limited resources on, in
order to improve the world as much as possible.
Ministry
Of Home Affairs Issues Handbook For Students/Adolescents On Cyber Safety
Recently,
the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), Government of India, in consultation with
Cyber Security experts prepared a 38 pages Handbook for Students/Adolescents on
Cyber Safety.
The
Handbook aims at creating awareness among citizens, especially students, about
various cyber threats that can impact them and ways to safeguard themselves
against cybercrimes.
10
Principles Of Organizational Culture
How
often have you heard somebody — a new CEO, a journalist, a management
consultant, a leadership guru, a fellow employee — talk about the urgent need
to change the culture? They want to make it world-class. To dispense with all
the nonsense and negativity that annoys employees and stops good intentions
from growing into progress. To bring about an entirely different approach,
starting immediately.
These
culture critiques are as common as complaints about the weather — and about as
effective. How frequently have you seen high-minded aspirations to “change the
culture” actually manage to modify the way that people behave and the way in
which they work? And how often have you seen noticeable long-term improvements?
What
Happened after India Eliminated Cash
Two
years ago, the Indian government abruptly wiped out most of the nation’s
currency in hopes of ending black money and curbing corruption. Has the
experiment worked?
YouTube, persuasion and genetically engineered
children
On Sunday, Nov. 25, the scientist He Jiankui claimed
the birth of the world’s first genetically engineered children: twins, created
by IVF, their DNA altered at fertilization. Changes like these, because they’re
inheritable – “editing the germline” – are widely prohibited by law and avoided
by scientific consensus. If He really did this, it’s a very big step across a
very bright line.
Also, He announced the feat in a YouTube video.
The strangeness of this choice cannot be overstated.
Groundbreaking achievements normally appear in prestigious journals, with
extensive data, after rigorous peer review. Announcing the accomplishment on
YouTube is the social media equivalent of walking out the front door and
yelling, “Guess what, everybody? I’m the first to engineer a human being! And
the kids are already here – they’re twins!” The timing of the video’s release –
on the eve of a major international conference on genome editing, where He was
scheduled to speak – clearly had more to do with publicity than science.
Related
Story: Opening Pandora’s Box: Gene editing and its consequences
Related
Story: Rogue science strikes again: The case of the first gene-edited
babies
Related
Story: How a scientist says he made a gene-edited baby – and what health
worries may ensue
Tech giants need to take more responsibility for the advertising
that makes them billions
Digital advertising can be really annoying, but it
can also be dangerous. It has recently been accused of perpetuating fake news,
funding child abuse and interfering with democracy.
Facebook, which makes most of its $US40 billion a
year revenue from digital advertising, has been in the firing line, but many
other businesses across the digital advertising supply chain are now feeling
the pinch.
It is not surprising then, that the Advertising
Standards Authority (ASA) has taken steps to toughen up regulation, or that new
government legislation is being considered.
Teaching
For Intelligence: Recognizing and encouraging skillful thinking and behaviour
The
claim is often made (in this issue as well as elsewhere) that schools give a
disproportionate emphasis to logical/mathematical and verbal material and
intelligence. My sense is that this is only superficially true. The content may
have this character, and lip service may be given to these forms of
intelligence, but the actual educational process remains focused on low level
skills. The real development of thinking skills, even within these areas of
intelligence, is usually as neglected as the rest of our mental capacities.
If
this changes soon, Professor Costa will be one of the reasons. His recent book,
Developing Minds; A Resource Book For Teaching Thinking, provides a
comprehensive overview of the growing Thinking Skills Movement, and he has also
recently been elected president of the Association for Supervision and
Curriculum Development. He is currently Professor of Education at California
State University, Sacramento.
This
article aims at clarifying and expanding our sense of what intelligent behavior
is and how we can encourage it.
Tim
Harford’s guide to statistics in a misleading age
Dubious numbers and false claims fill our daily lives. Here’s how to decipher the barrage of statistical propaganda
17 ways you should invest your time in your 20s for long-term
success
Don't waste time, because that's "the stuff life
is made of."
It was good advice when Benjamin Franklin said it,
and it's good advice now, no matter your age.
But your 20s are a particularly crucial time in
life. Many call these the "formative" years, and the habits you form
now can carry you through the rest of your life.
So what's the best way to spend this time?
Events /
Announcements
Smart India
Hackathon 2019
Smart India Hackathon 2019 is a
nationwide initiative to provide students a platform to solve some of pressing
problems we face in our daily lives, and thus inculcate a culture of product
innovation and a mindset of problem solving.
SIH2019 is an initiative by Ministry
of HRD, AICTE, Persistent Systems, i4c and Rambhau Mhalgi Prabodhini and involves 1 Lakh+ technical students, 3000+
technical institutions, 200+ organizations from across India and touted to be
the world’s biggest Software and Hardware hackathon.
ARPIT: Annual Refresher Programme in Teaching: Online
professional development of in-service teachers’ of higher education, using
MOOCs
ARPIT, launched by MHRD is 40 hour
programme with 20 hours of video content offered in a highly flexible format
which can be done at one’s own pace and time.
The programme has built-in assessment exercises and activities as part
of the academic progression in the course.
At the end of the course, there is a provision for terminal assessment
which can be either online or written examination.
It has been decided by the UGC that
successful completion of the courses offered under the ARPIT programme
with 40 hour of
instruction material with a
proctored examination will be treated as
equivalent to one Refresher Course for the purposes of Career Advancement.
To enrol visit: https://swayam.gov.in/search?CategoryList=Annual%20Refresher%20Programme%20in%20Teaching%20(ARPIT)
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