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Could A Well-Trained Monkey Do Your Job?

André Klein — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 14:38:21 +0000

“There’s a statistical theory that if you gave a million monkeys typewriters and set them to work, they’d eventually come up with the complete works of Shakespeare. Thanks to the Internet, we now know this isn’t true.” – Ian Hart

In Education Is A Cow That Anyone Can Milk I wrote a lot about the fact that today machines are doing jobs once humans used to do. But, let’s look at it from a different angle: How challenging are most of human jobs really? Could a monkey do what you do day in and day out? The following infographic sheds some light on these and other mind-boggling questions such as: What happens if you give a chimp 1 million rubles and let it loose on the stock market?

P.S.: This article was not written by my monkey self, no matter what you read on Twitter.

Via: Online Schools

About the author: André Klein was born in Germany, has grown up and lived in many different places including Thailand, Sweden and Israel. He has produced two music albums, performed and organized literary readings, curated an experimental television program and is the author of various short stories and non-fiction works.

How To Get More Out Of Google

André Klein — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 15:23:27 +0000

Infographics are infamous for often being more on the promotional than the informational side, but this one is actually useful. Think you know all the tricks for finding that perfect result on Google? Do you still use questions instead of operators? This is a great summary/cheatsheet to keep for reference and it even includes a few extra keyboard shorcuts: Created by: HackCollege

Envisioning Technology For 2012 And Beyond

André Klein — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 14:43:00 +0000

Every baby born today (Monday, 30th of October) is part of the 500,000 that will push the human population over the 7 billion mark, according to U.N. data.

And within only 28 years it’s getting even more crowded: predictions speak of 9 billion human beings on the planet by 2040.

But it’s not just our population that’s changing.

The whole world is changing faster and faster.

Already now, we live in a flurry of technology, new gadgetry – but much of our fascination is very short-sighted (the next iPhone, the iPad “killer”, etc.)

Today I stumbled over an interesting infographic, or – actually, it’s more of a datasheet – by Michael Zappa @envisioningtech that dares to look a bit further ahead and neatly lists predicted technologies and their relative importance from now up to the year 2040.

Whatever we might say about this looking back, 28 years from now, one thing is for sure: The tech of today is outdated, tomorrow.

And the kids will laugh: “E-readers and smartphones aren’t cool.”

“You know what’s cool?”

“An exocortex!”

Click on the graphic below for higher resolution…

License: Attribution-ShareAlike via envisioningtech.com

How The Internet Is Revolutionizing Education [INFOGRAPHIC]

André Klein — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 12:25:53 +0000

According to the below infographic by OnlineEducation.net you can see that e-learning has been around for quite a while and is growing at an enormous rate!

But is it true? Is online learning on the way to be no longer an exception but the norm?

I had a maths-teacher once who was very fond of saying that “Statistics is a cow that everybody can milk” and I guess the same holds true for infographics. But they are certainly good at giving a broad overview over otherwise confusingly detailed amounts of data.

Among other things the infographic states that…

“By 2019 it is estimated that 50% of all classes taught will be delivered online”

But how will it look like? Will we finally see a company turn into “The Facebook For E-Learning” or will it continue to be a highly stratified landscape, a great Smörgasbord of different kinds of online learning?

Via: OnlineEducation.net

How Social Media Is Changing Education [INFOGRAPHIC]

André Klein — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 08:54:07 +0000

In this infographic (source: Course Hero via edudemic) you can see some updates on the slow but inevitable integration of Social Media into traditional education.
It is interesting to note that while many people are shown to have Twitter or Facebook accounts, the percentage who uses them for educational purposes is relatively low.
What do you think? Is it a desirable goal to integrate Social Media with education? Can it help? Or would you prefer using Social Media for entertainment, only?

(source: Course Hero via edudemic)