Interesting Links for 27-5-2011

[andrewducker]

• What Really Keeps Poor People Poor - lack of access to elite social networks
  (tags: economics education sociology poverty)
• HTC to stop locking smartphone bootloader code
  (tags: mobile_phones security htc)
• Skype's encryption destroyed by phoneme reconstruction
  (tags: language encryption skype)
• Brain's response to sadness can predict relapses into depression
  (tags: depression sadness mri psychology)
• Publishing a commercial book with Creative Commons
  (tags: creativecommons publishing)
• Moments captured by Google Streetview (most of awesome photography is being in the right place)
  (tags: photography google streetview)
• Google Wallet Aims to Take Mobile Payments Mainstream
  (tags: google money payments technology)
• First direct evidence that ADHD is a genetic disorder
  (tags: adhd genetics autism psychology)
• Dreamwidth Q&A Session
  (tags: dreamwidth)
• Depixelizing Pixel Art - amazing work here. I'm very impressed.
  (tags: art graphics microsoft software)
• The difficulty of bringing racial diversity to feminist organisations
  (tags: racism feminism usa)
• A short comic about burnout. I love the art style. Lots more on their site too.
  (tags: comic depression art)
• Humanity wipes out a species it doesn't like. Huzzah!
  (tags: disease)
• High quality feedback from teachers is more effective in raising grades than homework, uniforms and smaller classes
  (tags: education teaching)
• Human brain's 'bat sight' found
  (tags: brain sight)
• What Paddington tells us about German v British manners
  (tags: uk culture language germany)

Comments

[skington.livejournal.com]

Now watch someone apply that algorithm to Diesel Sweeties and spectacularly miss the point.

[channelpenguin.livejournal.com]

Good article that first one - a point I've often pondered/ made (or made parts of).

[nickys.livejournal.com]

> High quality feedback from teachers is more effective in raising grades than homework, uniforms and smaller classes

Well, there's a surprise.
Actually teaching kids causes them to learn stuff...

[erindubitably.livejournal.com]

Previous research by the Sutton Trust indicated almost three-quarters (73%) of teachers saw reduced class sizes as a top priority in the use of the pupil premium, and nearly half (44%) wanted more teaching assistants.

Surely both these things, while not rated to be as effective on their own, contribute to teachers being able to provide more in-depth, high quality feedback on pupils' work.

[andrewducker]

It would probably help, yes.

[erindubitably.livejournal.com]

I mean, I get that they're going 'oh look, this costs us nothing and gives us the best results, score!' but seriously, teachers are already criminally overworked as it is... expecting them to produce even *more* output without proper support is insane.

[bart-calendar.livejournal.com]

One of my friends loses her phone every single time she goes out drinking.

God, if she had google wallet, whowever found her phone could bankrupt her.

[andrewducker]

True. I'd hope that it would have a pin on it.

[snarlish.livejournal.com]

re: 9-eyes... the street view grab of the kid hiding behind the dumpster is going to haunt my dreams. even though i know they aren't, some of the grabs seem too surreal to not have been photoshopped.

[apostle-of-eris.livejournal.com]

re: social networks
Lack of a personal social network is the primary characteristic of the homeless.

[andrewducker]

Doesn't surprise me at all. I'm only in as good a situation as I am now because my family have looked after me on several occasions.