Fortnightly Mailing

I stopped being chair of governors of The Sheffield College at the end of March 2021, after a 45 year connection. Here's the short speech I gave to an online staff meeting. == The invitation to s...

https://fm.schmoller.net/2021/07/a-leaving-speech.html

In September 2015 I took part in a symposium about "digital capitalism" organised by CRASSH (the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities). This culminated in an evening ta...

https://fm.schmoller.net/2017/04/data-land-algorithms-ploughs-feudalism.html

Clayton Wright - source The 34th Educational Technology & Education Conferences listing has been published by Clayton Wright. Here is Clayton's covering note to the list. The 34th edition of the...

https://fm.schmoller.net/2015/11/clayton-wrights-educational-technology-and-education-conferences-january-to-june-2016.html

This makes me smile every time I pass it.

https://fm.schmoller.net/2015/11/alphabet.html

"Ask yourself. How can eight men undercut that machine ? And what is it doing to the society we live in that eight men, often with zero legality of migration status, can undercut that machine. Th...

https://fm.schmoller.net/2015/11/paul-masons-postcapitalism-talk-and-discussion.html

Until 2002 I was employed in The Sheffield College. For the last...

https://fm.schmoller.net/2015/10/fe-area-based-reviews-should-start-with-need.html

Since late 2012 I have been closely involved (as "project director") in the creation of Citizen Maths, a free open online maths course at Level 2. I last wrote about it...

https://fm.schmoller.net/2015/09/citizen-maths-powerful-ideas-in-action.html

This article is by Gill Pratt, until recently responsible for the DARPA Robotics Challenge. Pratt starts by explaining why a "cambrian explosion" in the pace of development is on the way, highli...

https://fm.schmoller.net/2015/09/robotics-someone-who-ran-darpas-robotics-challenge-looks-ahead.html

Minor edits made 19/8/2015 Stuart Russell is co-author (with Peter Norvig) of the very highly regarded text book "Artificial Intelligence - A Modern Approach". This 30 minute talk provides a stri...

https://fm.schmoller.net/2015/08/on-the-long-term-future-of-artificial-intelligence.html

Reda Sadki reminded me about an interview I did by email for Epic (now Leo) in July 2005 in which I'd banged on about wanting to ban the term blended learning. The interview was long gone from th...

https://fm.schmoller.net/2015/06/ten-year-old-interview.html

A terrific article by Anna Hansch, Lisa Hillers, Katherine McConachie, Christopher Newman, Thomas Schildhauer, and Philipp Schmidt. Well, I think it is terrific, because if chimes with so much of...

https://fm.schmoller.net/2015/06/video-and-online-learning-critical-reflections-and-findings-from-the-field.html

Here is an eye-catching section from Ricardo Hausmann's "The Education Myth": And there is more bad news for the “education, education, education” crowd: Most of the skills that a labor force...

https://fm.schmoller.net/2015/06/the-productivity-puzzle-bad-news-for-the-the-education-education-education-crowd.html

Edited image of crash site from BBC News In August 2006 my nephew Toby was killed by a truck whose driver, Colin Wrighton, an obstructive sleep apnoea sufferer, had "blacked out" (Wrighton's phra...

https://fm.schmoller.net/2015/03/four-week-wait-campaign-for-the-treatment-of-obstructive-sleep-apnoea.html

Here are some links to a couple of past posts about the Internet Archive, which is playing a crucial role in archiving the Web and digital artefacts such as films, games and software: 13/3/2009 -...

https://fm.schmoller.net/2015/01/brewster-kahles-internet-archive-matters-more-and-more.html

Clayton Wright - source The 32nd Educational Technology & Education Conferences Listing has been published by Clayton Wright. Here are the first two paragraphs of Clayton's covering note to the ...

https://fm.schmoller.net/2014/11/clayton-wrights-educational-technology-32nd-conference-listing-january-to-june-2015.html