education

Dispatch from an advertising future #257

Google is teaching robots to think for themselves https://www.fastcompany.com/90779334/google-robot-research-everyday-robots-palm-saycan They arrive here full of, I suppose you’d call it knowledge. They’re skilful, very intelligent. They can hit the ground running when it comes to the tasks they’re here for but there’s something missing – soft skills some call it. I… Read the rest

Dispatch from an advertising future #240

Report finds remote learning apps collected and sold kids’ data https://www.engadget.com/human-rights-watch-kids-data-183055475.html It’s competitive out there. There are lots of providers in the marketplace. Parents know that. They have choices. It’s not a level playing field of course. Richer or better connected parents get more choices but as more providers have… Read the rest

Dispatch from an advertising future #223

The latest update for Quest headsets lets you chill in a study with mountainside views https://www.theverge.com/2022/4/11/23020783/oculus-meta-quest-2-vr-headset-update-v39-studio-mountainside No. I mean it. It’s not acceptable. You can’t do that. You know that. You know better. Do you remember when we sat down together and wrote out the agreement? “Contract” we called it.… Read the rest

Dispatch from an advertising future #203

The titans of the metaverse have a bandwidth issue https://www.ft.com/content/09d244a2-34a2-4f62-9747-5064d76cb286 When she stuttered, they laughed. That made the stutter worse. The more they piled on, surrounded her, sharing jokes, making memes the more she stuttered. It wasn’t her fault. She’d stuttered since she was a kid, in primary school, when… Read the rest

Dispatch from an advertising future #200

Jeff Bezos’ Montessori-inspired free preschools will expand to Texas https://www.geekwire.com/2022/jeff-bezos-montessori-inspired-free-preschools-will-expand-to-texas/ The school bag was packed and waiting on the step as they left the house. She looked inside as the self-drive drew up. The nutritionally-balanced lunch was perfectly personalised to that morning’s readouts She couldn’t help feeling disappointed the hack… Read the rest

Dispatch from an advertising future #188

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/sep/08/study-finds-growing-government-use-of-sensitive-data-to-nudge-behaviour Study finds growing government use of sensitive data to ‘nudge’ behaviour They keep saying we’ve “missed out”. There must be some master timetable somewhere that says “this has to be learned on the third Tuesday in February.” When we didn’t have a class on that third Tuesday, all hell… Read the rest

Dispatch from an advertising future #125

https://www.warc.com/newsandopinion/news/share-of-search-can-predict-market-share/44232 They’d decided early on to get her one. The more she’d be able to say she knew or at least demonstrate she could find, the better. At the start of New Schooling, they’d been expensive but then the Company offered them for free. Her ‘learning facilitator’ was impressed with… Read the rest

Dispatch from an advertisng future #81

https://interestingengineering.com/google-lens-announces-new-homework-filter-solves-math-problems-with-photo “Learning moments” had changed recently. As the “new normal” was imposed on the schools, and the new National Curriculum and assessment framework had been rolled out, teachers had been programmed to stress STEM skills but, as the remaining industries demanded a creative workforce, there’d been a new emphasis on… Read the rest