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A dialogue between texts production & Technology
28
Feb
The Job is of the researcher Melina Aparecida Custódio, guided by the professor Roxane Rojo of the IEL, Institute of Linguistic Studies at Unicamp, who realized that individualized and hierarchical knowledge did not motivate the students. 
Observing the way the youth interacted in and with internet and working with the fiction/novel gender, she decided to use collaborative skills and knowledge that are part of their reality for the production of texts and noticed that it was working better for involving the students.
Without forgetting social and cultural issues which are in the many uses of the language, for her (Melina Custódio) “it it is most appropriate concerning the discussion of the role of the teacher, which facing this perspective, cannot have his role reduced to a simple transmission of data”, according to the site of Unicamp
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In the development of the topic “Written production at school, the new technologies and the youth cultures: possible dialogues” master’s thesis, she (Melina Custódio) concluded that the change in the student’s attitude happens when students themselves take on the role of the teacher and can manifest themselves on the mistakes of their colleagues such as those related to formal rules of the language.
Printed wikipedia!
24
Feb
The PediaPress publisher wants to print a thousand books from the English Wikipedia, the online edition has over 4 million articles only in this language, and its goal is to raise $ 50K with crowdfunding, and each copy should have 1.2 million pages.
The books will be displayed in London Wikimania, an annual conference of the Wikipedia community, and since it wants to make a thousand copies in print duplex, it should reach 600 thousand sheets of paper, but the company guarantees that it will use trees from sustainable forests for the paper and the hardcover.
The participation in the project is made by the site: Indiegogo, of collective funding, the publisher’s headquartered is in Germany and it has 47 days for the event to reach the value, we entered the site and at the moment of this post, there were just over $ 10,000 collected.
Graph of Knowledge
05
Feb
A store type of information dubbed the “Knowledge Graph” now adds useful context and detail to the
list of links that Google uses.
Searching for certain people, places, or things produces a box of facts together with the regular results, the Knowledge Graph is already starting to appear in a few other Google products, and can be used to add intelligence to all of the company’s software.
Knowledge Graph is a symbolic structure of ideas and common sense that analyzes the relationships among entities, such as food, sports, or famous people.
A Google’s Web search is a step from understanding the context of documents, for example, knowing that a document about famous tennis players is also about tennis and sports, states the report in the MIT site.
The news is in an interview format, with the John Giannandrea, Google’s vice president of engineering, which explained that Google’s Knowledge Graph is one of the company’s efforts to teach the computers to understand better the meaning of the data.
Environment of total immersion
03
Feb
As researchers of Advanced Micro Devices claim, a version of a holodeck that is shaped like a dome, covered with wall-to-wall projectors, and uses surround sound, increased reality, and other Technologies are ready to recreate the real world.
The US Army Research Laboratory has created a floor, called an omnidirectional treadmill, which enables users to seemingly wander while it moves and while they stay in place.
Holodecks similar to the simulated-reality rooms seen on the film “Star Trek” but only will be available by 2024, according to these researchers, says a report in the New York Times blog.
Computer companies join with Hollywood and video-game factories want to turn something that is still only entertainment, into something closer to reality, by enabling users to see things and allow people to move around living rooms and become part of the story.
The technology can enable for example, those gamers in one stage, inside a game computer-simulated in the Yankee Stadium, to pick up a computer-simulated bat and hear the shouting of a computer-simulated crowd.
Microsoft has built the IllumiRoom and Lightspace, while the University of Illinois at Chicago has created CAVE2, this CAVE technologies are available and are well known.
Post 1000 and new themes
02
Jan
Reached in late 2013, precisely on the last day of the year posting number 1000, 
although it is only a number had already thought of a new theme , although it is the same, but will flee more of the technical aspects to address the social and cultural aspects .
Around the blog is what we call philosophy and Noosphere, but could also be Culture and Theology, without confusing them with Ideology and Religiosity, yet each can assume this connotation in certain contexts .
In these four years of blog try to show the technological changes that occurred throughout the planet, from political news as the Arab spring and the moves in the network to gadgets that create new mechanisms of interaction and communication that take place worldwide and involve repositioning cultural and social conditions in the planet’s inhabitants .
Technology when it reaches a level of full penetration in culture, turns herself in culture, in this case the ciberizados devices, is what was called Cyberculture.
We now want these devices to reach what we call ” calm technology “, ie, their impact assimilated into the culture, discusses them and develop them within the objective and subjective being-in-the-world aspects, and the relationship with its existence .
But we could not fail to address the aspects of his essence , ie the being-as-being, which was called in philosophy ontology, already discussed several times here and what refers to a subjective , spiritual sphere layer surrounding the culture and existence , which is the noosphere , the sphere of noon (spirit, mind or cultural mentality).
Welcome to 2014 , walk together in our lifetime on this planet .
New version of Kindle Paperwhite
13
Dec
Since Wednesday ( 11/12 ) the new version of Kindle Paperwhite reader is on sale at Amazo
n online store in Brazil and in several resales various points of malls and stores authorized.
Battery With high durability , range of up to eight weeks of regular reading and weighing only 213 grams and a faster processor , the new version has screen with higher contrast and LED lighting, has Wi – Fi connection and memory that can store up to 1000 books .
Now the device is connected to the Wikipedia dictionary and also the X- Ray , plus a quick reference of vocabulary terms learned while reading .
The Wi – Fi with 3G version comes with free 3G internet plan.
But the launch is a contrast with the overseas release of the new Kindle Fire tablets HDX , with a 7 inch screen and another with 8.9-inch screen, lighter and more powerful than the previous generation of Kindle HD , and come with storage capacities of 16 GB , 32 GB and 64 GB .
In the online store Amazon in Brazil has 400,000 eBook titles.
Myths MOOCS discussed
12
Dec
In last Thursday (06/12) of more than 200 academic institutions from around the
world met at a conference organized by the University of Texas at Arlington to hear the preliminary results on the MOOC Research Initiative, a program funded by the grant Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and administered by Athabasca University in Canada .
Several institutions received $ 10 to $ 25 thousand to examine how MOOCS (Education Massive Online) can modify the higher education and the results will be in the next issue of the International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning as anticipates Inside Highred site .
The research presented on Thursday was perhaps best summarized by research Conducted by the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education, Which Analyzed the study habits of 1 million students across 16 Coursera courses between June of 2012 and 2013.A research presented can be summarized with the work done by the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education , which examined the study habits than 1 million students in 16 courses Coursera , between June 2012 and 2013 .
“Emerging data … show that online courses Massive Open ( MOOCs ) have relatively few active users, and that ‘ engagement ‘ user drops dramatically , especially after the first two weeks of a course , and that few users clearly persist until the end, ” can be read in a study summary .
This drops the myth that these courses would reach a few thousand students .
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But other expectations are maintained , the cost of production MOOC . that can reach hundreds of thousands of dollars to create ” classes” of MOOC that are consumed and produced by institutions MOOC create two groups of problems , the first is not wanting to seem elitist , while the second is to generate content rejected even by own faculty members .
Christopher Brooks , a researcher at the University of Michigan School of Information said ” maybe this seems obvious ,” he said “A lot of things seem obvious in retrospect,” but the main problem is not even funding .
“How do we make this incredible thing and get our ideas from everyone and not go bankrupt ? This is the challenge . ” This is the challenge.” Said Akiba Covitz , senior vice president of strategic relations for Academic Partnerships , referring to MIT and Harvard .
Virtual sightseeing tour in Street View
11
Dec
An application launched last Monday (9/12) allows you to create your own script
in Street View, ie, looking at the scenery and tourist objects on the path.
The feature also allows the same point of the path is shown looking in different ways, for example, one side of a given street tourist spot or commercial establishment on the other, as if making a stop.
The feature is already available on Google Views, allowing the hosting of photos into 360 °, so you can document a path you did with a sequence of images.
So you do your script, and share documents with friends.
To use the new application you should be in the new Google Street View and the options now appear on the screen and smooth ride.
