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Dr Peter Lovatt heads of the Dance Psychology Lab at the University of Hertfordshire, since its inception in 2008. Previously, he was trained in ballet, tap and jazz, and worked as a professional dancer. Last summer, he wrote, produced and starred in Dance, Doctor, Dance! The Psychology of Dance Showas part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. In March he gave a lecture on TEDx Observer .
How can dance to change how people think?
We 've had people dancing in the lab and doing problem solving - and different types of dance to help them with various kinds of problem-solving. We know that when people in improvised forms of dance they engage to help them with divergent thinking - where it 's more than one answer to a problem. While if they engage them in a very structured dance helps her convergent thinking - trying to find the only answer to a problem.
You 've been studying the impact of dance on People with Parkinson' s disease ...
Yes, we know as Parkinson 's disease develops it can lead to disruption of divergent thought processes. So we thought if we used improvised dance with a PD group, we could see an improvement in their divergent thinking skills, and that was exactly what we saw.
Next we want to examine what it has to dance as an intervention, the effects on neural processing. One possibility is that when they dance, they develop new neural pathways in dopamine-depleted around blockages to get.
How else can dance to change how we think?
There have been several papers look at the self-esteem of the ballet dancers in training - and what they 've found that girls in their mid-teens have significantly lower self-esteem than non-ballet dancers. There are two explanations for this. One would be that girls with low self-esteem choose classical ballet, because the struggle for perfection reinforced her bad self-image. Another theory is that ballet training subculture can be very harmful to a young girl 's self-esteem because they are constantly told they are not doing everything right and that the body shape is very important topic in classical ballet.
What explanation do you think is right?
We try to test these two hypotheses in the laboratory by comparing data from 600 dancers in various dance groups. So we 're looking at things like the comparison of classical ballet dancer with classical Indian dancers - the last don' t have to wear tight fitting clothing to the training. We 're also the comparison with burlesque dancers, the show very much like a fuller body. If it's the case that girls with low self-esteem choose ballet is '\ s not much we can do about it. But if the classical ballet subculture could lead to eating disorders and self injury then the 's something very important, we should highlight on.
Is there a dance style that is good for the self-esteem?
Anything where it do 'sa great deal of tolerance for everything right. Things like ceilidh dancing people smile, giggle and laugh, and they are adults, and it 's absolutely right. It 's wonderful. There are also studies that have found that dancing in baggy "jazz" \ clothes better than tight fitting clothes for the dancer's self-esteem.
Is it true that women are men whose ears are equal think better dancer?
It sounds like nonsense, but a study by Brown et al, the physically symmetrical men rated women better dancers. A second study by Fink et al on men 's finger is concentrated. They measured the 2D-4D ratio - the relative length of the second and fourth position, an indicator of exposure to prenatal testosterone. He found that those men with high levels of prenatal testosterone exposure again rated as more attractive and male dancers.
You've built on this research?
I went to a night club, where we offered free admission to people when they took part in the study. Wemeasured fingers, her ears, her fertility, where the women were in their menstrual cycle, their relationship status, whether they are looking for a partner. And our results were very similar. The men with high 2D-4D ratio were rated as more attractive dancers. We also found something quite unique: the women the level of fertility indicated by their body movement by isolating and moving her hips, the men they find attractive.
This shall be a causal relationship between factors such as symmetry or hip movement and an attractive dancer?
Some people, like Brown and Fink argued, is that your hormonal and genetic make-up by the way you dance signaled. They postulate a direct connection. But it might not like that at all: Imagine a really beautiful people, so if you go to a club and everyone looks at you fills with you with confidence - this could be what makes you dance in an attractive way way that people find more attractive. It could be a link, but it could be an association of behavior that makes you more confident.
So female performers in pop videos, dance as if they were the most fertile point of their cycle?
Yes they do. Often there are many pictures of women 's hips move in isolation. Often it 's not the most attractive form of dancing - it' s an artificial improvement. What 's interesting that people say, look at these women and tell us why they never find attractive: "I just saw the last three minutes \ hip" to what point our data suggest that they do is. Instead, they find all sorts of other reasons to justify what they think.
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+ Google sees the launch of online giants in the battle for hearts and minds of the lucrative Internet users
It's 1 month since the launch of Google +, a belated attempt at a social networking tool that invites friends 'activities in their news feed, favorite games and content followed by a marked "+1". If this sounds familiar, it shows the extent to which Google catchup playing with Facebook, the brewing of a public offer in the next year this could be the company at 100 billion dollars and critical, has positioned itself as the gateway to the Web for many of its 750 million users.
Much of this pressure is down to the abrasive ambition of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. Even Google's executive chairman, Eric Schmidt, has conceded that Google has been late to the social networking space, with identity and personalisation now critical to the social experience for consumers, and the lucrative commercial opportunities that advertisers expect. But with Google's proven commercial success nudging its market value towards $200bn, and data vaults that hold the browsing histories of most of the online population, is Google really on a downward trajectory, and is the era of search really ending?
Ben Gomes has worked on every aspect of Google 's core search product and are looking for is leading research into the social navigation. Despite Google 's excursions into everything from video communities, mobile operating systems, he insists that in her heart, Google is still a search company. It was to be sought, he said, that fueled see the explosion of Web content and, not surprisingly, Gomes doesn 't social data as a substitute for the search, but as a layer that accesses the information in any other way.
"We did find a symbiotic development of the Internet and, because people could find what they want easier," said Gomes, joined Google in 1999. "We see as a social layer on the search, providing you with more relevant information in certain situations, so if you were at the product reviews that your friends in the search results would not be marked. But the most important thing is to find still the search term, and how your computer sees that ".
Although Google + is an intelligent attempt at a social networking tool, it seems a typical Google product, it's brilliant, heavily engineered, but it lacks the human focus of a social network is necessary - the fuel that has driven the Facebook in order 750 million users.
To inform the data of as many consumers as many Google products, why isn 't it more personalized? "In most cases, 'personalization" just means what you what you wanted in the first place, "said Gomes." If there are two friends search' malt are ", but you like beer and whiskey, to see different results. And if this kind of personalization didn 't work, you' d think you look just was broken. "
The issue of personalized search results based on our history has become controversial. With news, for example, how can users be presented with an objective look at a story from several sources, if Google served sites, or perspectives, the user is known as? "The diversity of results is something deep in the algorithm we use baking tools, so hopefully we give a broad perspective," said Gomes. "But if you are interested in a topic, you 'd tend to have a very specific query anyway, and our first goal is to give you the information you want."
Facebook maintains rigid social context that is historically and socially relevant. "Anthropological we have been informed and influenced over time by the people around us, and that 's just as true on Facebook, as it is offline," said Facebook' s advertising chief, David Fischer. "Now we look at the networks in human communication ...
"There are great opportunities for marketers in their messages always by family and friends connections. The social graph contains not only humans, but brands, universities, [and] facilities, wanted to connect people."
This network of social, professional and business relationships, it can always existed, but it is their accessibility as an expression online, which is unprecedented. A Facebook 's greatest successes - and a strategy strictly to Google Google + has prevailed - was encouraging real names on the site so that its network and data much more valuable. This is to create a living record, Fischer said, and will build it in a meaningful way. "It 's not a decision that a person does in their life, is not that a better decision when it is informed by the people around them that they trust."
Several hundred scientists at Google are investigating how Web users interact with and share information. How will Google refines its mission of organizing the world 's information? "We often see the future already in some form, so that things will just interesting, now be very important," said Gomes.
It describes a relationship in which users expect Google to find answers to synthesize from multiple sources to give an expert answer and expect the most noticeable changes to the mobile home, take advantage of multiple sensors such as the location to offer can be made "richer interaction models ". This could include speech recognition - already significantly improved from two years ago - and improved artificial intelligence localized, the proposals as it learns about the user.
Gomes said that instant access to information by Google on intelligent conversations, citing the time he went to see Kafka 's Metamorphosis and learn about production. "My experience with the game was richer, and I took longer because the combination of me and the Internet seem to me to have looked like someone who would have been in the past, as an expert. I was the kind of person I would have used to look up to. "
However, although Google and Facebook are both interested in their scientific credentials polish ultimately the real battle is over money. Google made 97% of revenue, or $ 32.3bn in the last 12 months from advertising. eMarketer now assume that Facebook 's will be largely ad-revenue of $ 0.74bn $ 5.74bn in 2009 to grow in 2012 - but the place has barely begun to roll out truly personalized, targeted advertising. If it be eaten at one of Google 's lunch, it's here.
We 've gotten tired of that lazy speech technology conference setting some radical vision with inflammatory statements about the end of this era or the beginning of a new revolution in something else. We are informed about, perhaps, on the state of the tech universe.
But sometimes the best out of these tech prophet to express an emerging trend with a imaginative perspective than the tech news treadmill, and that 's little risk investor and musician Roger McNamee has quite good again in May Narm on the U.S. Conference .. . the non-enticing name of the National Association of Recording Merchandisers.
Although the discussion was a while ago, a video and McNamee 's own transcript of a stir this week. It 's not a point of view, we have' to hear re, but McNamee explains why Apple 'is a far better monopolist to treat, when Google "because there have been better to build a business model for digital content.
Google 's brands undermine uniformity
He 's extremely hard on Google, which says that the era of the search is over because of the increase in search of specialist apps that Google' a taste of what the music industry has engaged in a decade to get "as the tech world is changing around him. He makes the astute observation that it was the lack of differentiation appeared, was online for the equality of information, credible brands that are undermined.
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"What we all missed at the time is that by treating every piece of information the same, Google enforced a standard that permitted no differentiation," he told the audience at Narm.
"Is every word on every Google page with the same font. No brand images appear out of Google 's. This action essentially neutered the production values ??of any high-end content creators. The long tail pulled and the music industry has its ass kicked. "
The biggest beneficiaries, he says, those who short-changed by the Google era of the Internet, all the contents of the "Remove differentiation" were mass-produced goods.
The end of Microsoft / Google monopoly-era
It 'sa great exciting, well-informed and too rare perspective on the role of technology in facilitating content creation and distribution.
He 's evangelical about the iPad and iPhone devices because of their large dispersal rates, but goes on to say that HTML5 is the most creative and economic opportunity for content creators, as Google and Microsoft began to monopolize and monetize the content of other twelve over the past few years.
Where Microsoft once had 96% control over Internet-connected devices, it has now only 50% as the growth of the mobile will replace the PC era. Google now has 80% of the index of the business it has won dominated the booming Web advertising market.
"Google 's success finally filled the Web with crap, so that consumers began to look for other products: Wikipedia for Facts, Facebook for matters of taste, time or money, Twitter for News, Yelp for restaurants, Realtor.com places to live, LinkedIn for jobs. In the last three years, these alternatives were dropped from 10% of search volume for \ about half, "said McNamee.
The end of search
"As if all this competition wasn 't bad enough for Google, then Apple came out with the iPhone and App Store ... Apple has branded, trusted applications for everything. If they want news to be informed that use of the Apple apps customers New York Times or Wall Street Journal want. If they know who buy cameras, they ask friends on Facebook. If they want to go to dinner use them Yelp app. These searches have economic value and it 's not about Google, too on Android.
"When Apple and the app model win, Google's search business loses."
But if that sounds like a triumphant result for Apple, it is again about McNamee. HTML5 provides a better experience than an Apple app, but is cheaper and offers better value for users. His band was Alice Moon with HTML5-based technology to their shows in mobile and iPads Live Stream.
"In the short term, you focus your platform strategy by Apple," he advises musicians. "In the long term focus on HTML5. The sooner you commit, HTML5, the more likely you are to produce something of economic value. Note that HTML5 will be the company as important as Amazon, Netflix and iTunes to produce. It costs musician virtually nothing to create great digital video and audio fantastic, but they need to optimize distribution systems for their content. "
\ It 's an excerpt on Apple' s domination of Google down, and even full-length, segmented 57-minute presentation on Fora.tv. The transcript was from McNamee to musical analysis Lefsetz Letters published blog.
Hollywood 's classic murders, stalking and deceptions would never have been possible today' s technology to. Joe Queenan writes the script for the digital age
In the harrowing film 127 Hours, finds a kind of casual wear James Franco played in a mountain gorge with his arm trapped trapped under a boulder. A few years from now, with Google Earth track everywhere and for everyone, the character of Franco wouldn 't have much of a problem after he' s missing for a day or so his friends and family would not hesitate to contact with his cell phone provider, and they would immediately be free track phone into the canyon and sending a search party for him from his predicament. All you have to do what he would sit firmly to ration its water supply, and we hope that the rats and rattlesnakes don 't get him first.
But because 127 Hours in a time when a person is without phone service is still pretty much left to fend for themselves is set, the hiker is played by Franco himself in a pickle whole. Ultimately he has to chop his own arm to avoid starvation. Film lovers who enjoy this sort of thing - myself included - should gather rosebuds while you can, because a day will come when the technology is so pervasive, so intrusive, so ubiquitous, so inevitable, that it will not be possible make a film like 127 hours, no longer possible to make a movie where James Franco, has aired as much as anyone who watched him, co-host the Academy Awards this spring suffered suffer. Unless, of course, the climbers decided to go into the desert without deleting communication device. Or when the film was put under water. Or on the earth 's core. Or on another planet. Or in a parallel universe. Or run into a mountain gorge completely covered by a coating. What is just as ... OMG ... impossible. Although such a plotline would be a fantastic ... Total ... awesome.
In recent years directors have been constantly forced to confront story breaking penetration of new technologies, resignation, given the fact that now storylines that are completely plausible are not as recent as 10 years ago plausible. Sometimes need, directors simply choose to ignore this, the cops would only prove one e-mail or by fax photo in the recent thriller Unknown, that is not the scientist Liam Neeson, he says he is, but a professional killer. Unfortunately, that would mean that the whole premise of the film disintegrates before our eyes. So the director simply choose to act as if his audience consisted of morons.
But most directors are not going to take that route, and won't pretend their characters lack the most basic, obvious information-gathering and communications skills, because it leaves such a gaping hole in the middle of the story. This is particularly true when younger, tech-savvy audiences are the target market. Resentment of the long shadow cast by technology may explain why a number of recent high-profile movies – Inglourious Basterds, Robin Hood, Secretariat – have been set in the past, where modern technology cannot ruin things for everybody. Frankly, I think this could lead to a lot more films like Gladiator. Or a revival of the western genre. No, not Cowboys & Aliens.
To illustrate this, in the following sections we will examine from cases in which they have mobile phones and Twitter and Facebook and Google and LinkedIn and Droids and iPads and the Internet would change in general and destroyed in many cases, the plots of classic films by the centuries, often making it impossible to film in the first place.
Psycho
Before checking into the Bates Motel in an abandoned backwater California, advises Janet Leigh Tripadvisor on their iPhone and reads: "Smelly, dirty, really creepy owner, constantly talking to a parent no one sees Filthy shower Manager 's. office smells of stuffed birds, no Wi-Fi. Often traveling alone on business as an innovative website designer, I stupidly checked into the Bates for one night with a gift voucher my ex to me, and I tell you I spent 10 sleepless hours the dresser against the door, leaning my toenail clipper sharpening appalled that the owners wanted to come and hack me into pieces with a butcher knife Oh, one more thing: No cable .. "To Leigh doesn 't in the hotel, there are no terrible Psycho shower scene and not become a classic.
Dial M for Murder
You can 't get someone to strangle your wife to death with a telephone cord anymore, because nobody under the age of 70 years to a land line. Since it would take a long time, someone suggested reasonably fit, like Grace Kelly, to death with a cell phone, the murderer tried to do it with a portable shredder, but she did with her legs iPad. Or completely with an out-of-date netbook done it in order to have lied. Or with the server it uses to store all the music from old vinyl records. Or something.
Play Misty for Me
Sultry Psychopath Jessica Walter doesn 't get the chance, Clint Eastwood harass every night, taking him on the phone, and purrs, "Play Misty for Me," because Eastwood puts it on the no-call list, a tactic was not possible in the year 1971, when the film was shot. So she calls another DJ, maybe someone like Jon Voigt, who doesn 'know t about no-call lists, and Play Misty for Me does not start Help Eastwood' s career as a director and none of us get these Sondra Locke watch movies.
North by Northwest
The whole storyline of the film revolves around a bunch of mysterious strangers who mistake advertisers Cary Grant for a fictional federal agent want to do it in. Now upgraded with modern technology, says Grant, that he is working on Madison Avenue, and not for the State Department in Washington, what to report, James Mason and the guys at his company 's web site acknowledge their mistake, apologize abundant, and send him on his way. The scene with the Crop Duster never happened. Eva Marie Saint doesn 't climb down Mount Rushmore in high heels. North by Northwest goes south.
The ring
In both the Japanese original and the remake of very fine American, dies anyone who sees a creepy video within seven days, as a creepy little girl comes slithering out of the television and frightened her to death. VHS is now obsolete, so this would never happen today. DVDs are on their way out too. Maybe if the people who illegally download the movie from some server in Holland, the creepy little girl would just kill the guy, the file-sharing system will initially allow law enforcement authorities happy everywhere. But even in this scenario could there be problems because many people are illegally downloaded videos on their phones and even the scariest little girl would have trouble, slipped a screen that small. Once she had her performance, threatened party could just remove the SIM card or the phone in the feed flow. You 're not expensive. Realistically, if the ring were made today, the creepy little girl would probably upload their films on Netflix and a million people would get an unexpected visit from her. In the meantime, thousands of movie fans would blog that Ringu was a much better horror film, because Japanese streaming services are scarier than Netflix. Everyone knows, dass
The Spiral Staircase
In this classic 1945 thriller, is a mute housekeeper (Dorothy McGuire) is not to call the police and tell them that they are in a spooky, isolated mansion is captured, where she is a murderer, who can not speak it, is white and will not be terrorized so handy with their fists. E-mail, smart phones, text messaging twitter, what have you the whole story line obsolete. Fortunately, no one makes these kind of movies are no longer in any case. You 're offensive to silence.
One Missed Call
In Takashi Miike 's excellent 2003 film - the 2008 American remake is not quite up to snuff - innocent Japanese kids get phone messages from the afterlife, they warned that they turn to die a terrible death. Phone messages make great cinema, because of the suggestive power of the human voice. But One Missed Text? One Missed Tweet? Just not the same. Another thing: In more than an Asian horror film, providing photographers with the development of films in their dark rooms of people who are brought to life unexpectedly murdered during the development process. Those days are over. Thank you, Digital Camera.
Chinatown
This classic Roman Polanski turns to Jack Nicholson 's trying doggedly unearth the identity of the nefarious person, the valuable water rights in the San Fernando Valley has. It takes the entire film Nicholson, to find out that John Huston is the puppet master here. Today, all this stuff about crooked developer and water rights would be, so no feisty gumshoe already required to be thesmokinggun.com. The film would simply never leave the ground. "Forget it, Jack," would be the last line in the film. "It 's WikiLeaks \."
On the run
Harrison Ford, on the run, Google's "One-Armed Thugs in the greater Chicago area" and solves all his problems. He could get even Google "One-Armed security experts from Illinois Pharmaceutical Company" and the same result. He might even one ad on Craigslist and said, "straight, white-armed psychopath looking for casual sex the same water a plus \ .." Who needs Tommy Lee Jones, if you '\ ve got the net?
The Bonfire of the Vanities
A few years ago there was a whole series of films, such as Grand Canyon and Doc Hollywood, that innocent people whose lives forever when a wrong turn from the highway, all wanted by the Bonfire of the Vanities, took part last, in where Tom Hanks found himself far from his Manhattan penthouse. GPS makes everything, no one gets lost more. Nobody goes through a bad neighborhood without Global Positioning System in those days. If you 't have GPS, you' don \ re an idiot. And if you 're an idiot, you deserve to die.
The Talented Mr Ripley
Matt Damon doesn 't no such thing as Jew Law. He just doesn 't. Facebook, YouTube, Google, the whole shooting match would just blow Damon 's little pathetic masquerade right out of the water. You \ re not 'that talented Mr. Ripley.
Goldfinger
James Bond would know in advance in order to search for Odd Job 's deadly chapeau, since Q sell one of these hats, would have seen dirt cheap on eBay.
Throat
Sharks, even Great White Sharks humongous, aren 't that hard to kill. That 's, because sharks are stupid. Still, if 't you otherwise congenial to free summer freshness of a ravenous great white to be successful, simply convening a spontaneous gathering of resourceful, experienced shark hunter on Twitter, and your problem' at first you don \ s solved. It 's not a case of, "We' re going to need a bigger boat." It 's "We' re going to need a bigger flash mob here in Amityville."
The list of films to get their land torpedoed by modern technology goes on and on. The Silence of the Lambs. Die Hard. Memento. Scream. And every movie, hide in the small children or young women in need in a closet or basement or under the bed won 't work anymore, because eventually make their smartphones that annoying "shutdown" beep and Chuckie or Beastmaster or small girl from The Ring or Al Pacino will know exactly where they are. If you 're smart enough to turn off your phone before you hide under the bed, you' d be smart enough to not be in the house in the first place. Or smart enough text of the FBI before you dive into the linen closet.
Here is the central paradox in all this: directors have no problem with an audience of ghosts, vampires, succubi, extraterrestrials, poltergeists, goblins, wizards, giant worms, which do Latter-day dinosaurs, or rustic seem werewolves, the unrestricted access to have steroids , everything is as perfectly logical and believable. But it is impossible to get anyone to believe that a character would not be in a horror movie or thriller with the technology needed to be prepared for the depredations of his rampaging, bloodthirsty stepfather film.
This is the impasse has brought us to the technology.
One bright spot: Deliverance. I was recently in the rural South, and I could 't my e-mail or a phone call for two whole days. The poor guys who were in the wilds of Georgia still in a world of trouble.
Company expands patent lawsuit in Texas court of Electronic Arts, Atari, Square Enix cover and Take-Two Interactive
The maker of PlayStation app are from a small American company that it owns patents, sued to buy new planes within the game demands on the method used - a step that has already laid out a number of UK developers on the sale of mobile applications in the United States.
Lodsys, apparently a one-man company in Marshall, Texas, on Finland 's Rovio in a patent dispute has in a Texas court appointed, and has also begun suing some of the biggest names in mobile gaming, including Electronic Arts, Atari , Square Enix and Take-Two Interactive.
The growth of litigation in the U.S. by so-called "patent trolls" - the do nothing, but simply demand payment pursuant to assert intellectual property rights - threatens to snuff out the booming mobile app market, which is expected in the value of ? 4 , 5 billion this year and twice as high as in 2012. A series of patent lawsuits have begun shipping in the U.S. against more than a dozen software companies. However, many small independent developers to find too onerous costs of a lawsuit, even as they were in the thousands of dollars.
The U.S. patent system allows software implementations of ideas are patented, which is significantly different from the European Union - although the European Parliament has been considering, with the U.S. patent rights.
Lodsys holds patents 1999-2009 were granted, and the first filed claims against seven accused last May. It was now one of those Wulven away games, but added Rovio 's version of Angry Birds for iPhone and Android as well as EA' s The Sims 3 for iPhone, Atari 's Greatest Hits compilation for the iPhone and iPad , Square Enix 's Big Hit Baseball for iPhone and iPad and Take-Two Interactive' s 2K Sports NHL 2K11 for the iPhone.
Florian Mueller, a specialist in intellectual property lawsuits, says that the move demonstrates the company 'not afraid to sue sunk deep app developer': It's already sued the computer giant HP, as well as clothing company Adidas, Best Buy retailers and the New York Times. Muller also points out that brings Angry Birds makes it clear in case Lodsys to developers creating applications for mobile phones with Google 's Android software, which is now up to the best-selling smartphones, as well as writing for the iPhone and iPad .
Lodsys is asking for injunctions and damages in its complaint, even though the company has not released an update on his blog about his decision to add five new games company in the lawsuit to explain.
The news is likely to increase to Apple 's involvement in the case on behalf of its developers. In June the company filed a motion to intervene in the case, claiming that the existing license is valid for the patents in question for developers IOS - the dispute Lodsys.
"While the developer will most likely be interested in solving this case as quickly and as inexpensively as possible, Apple 's interest in protecting its broader license rights to thousands of app developers for Apple products that are the subject of future can be Lodsys complaints or threats, "said Apple 's movement, making it clear that the company does not expect to be able to sue the small, independent developers originally from Lodsys to fight the company in court.
Last week, said several independent European developer, they are dragging their apps from the App Store for U.S. fear of being sued by Lodsys. This is clearly not an option for the likes of EA and Rovio, and for Apple. Games are the most profitable category in the App Store, with the rest of IOS management mobile platform for the vast majority of mobile game companies.
Sent at the time Lodsys his original letters to developers demanding they settle or be sued, wrote to Mueller, that "It's really questionable whether Lodsys '\ s patents were a well-funded attempt to have them survive declared invalid \. "
Paul O 'Donovan is on netbook or slate computer with integrated GPS in search of off-shore navigation
Can you recommend a slate or netbook computer, GPS navigation, built for offshore? The boat has a Garmin GPS to give position and velocity only: no charts. I need a PC with a selection of nautical charts OpenCPN run, but also have a good battery life and a reasonably fast loading time.
Paul O 'Donovan
There are quite a few Windows PCs and slate with GPS (Global Positioning Satellite) devices built in, but these are mostly focused on commercial and industrial markets, and they are often ruggedised. Examples include the Panasonic Toughbook CF-U1 or as CF-H2.
Typical users are sales representatives and service technicians, health, police and military. You can, however, a better price by buying a standard PC or Notebook, and put a GPS on either a mini PCI-Express card, such as the Sierra Wireless MC8781, or via a dongle to a USB slot, as z get. Navisys as fits the models. In fact, if your Garmin GPS receiver can output NMEA 0183 data, you should be able to connect to a PC. (NMEA is the National Marine Electronics Association.)
Either way, the BU-353 WaterProof USB GPS Receiver (SiRF Star III) looks like the kind of things you need. It 's small, waterproof, has a magnetic storage and comes with a 5ft cable so you can position where it might get a good signal, while the PC in a sheltered position. Performance should be much better than the kind of GPS in mobile phones in general and multi-table built, often America 's laws on E911 requirements.
When it comes to choosing a PC, you need to find the right balance between screen size, speed, battery life and price. The cheapest option is a netbook like Asus Eee PC 1015PX, a 10.1in screen and a 1.5 GHz Intel Atom N570 has. I 'd recommend limiting your Netbook on the N550 and N570 hunt, as these two dual-core atom with low power requirements. If you are willing to improve the performance for battery life are trade, look for at netbooks with single-core N270, N280, or Z530/Z540/Z550 chips instead.
The disadvantages with netbooks, a limited 1GB memory, the use of Windows 7, and limited screen resolutions. You can easily upgrade the memory to 2GB for around ? 14. You can easily do an in-place upgrade to Windows 7 Home Premium, if necessary, or you can install a free version of Linux alongside him. However, you can 't fix the 1024 x 600 screen resolution, which could be a bit tight for graphs and maps. It costs more to buy something with a standard 1366 x 768 pixel screen.
When buying a laptop instead of a netbook is the best compromise for price / performance / battery life of the 1.33 GHz Intel Core i3 380UM, where the UM called an ultra-low-power-consumption version of the mobile processor. Typical models include the Acer Aspire 1830T, Lenovo ThinkPad 11 (NVY5FUK), and the Touch-Screen Fujitsu Lifebook T580. If you want something cheaper, a laptop on the older Intel Core 2 Duo S9300 or similar chip would want. If you are a little faster, then there are several options like the i5 Core 1.3GHz i5 560UM and 470UM. There are also some new Ivy Bridge iX Core processors on the way into books like the Asus Ultra-UX21 and UX31. These use smaller, faster versions of the current Sandy Bridge chips.
Many PCs now claim a battery life of 6 hours over 11 hours (with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth off), and you can only double that by purchasing a spare battery. Place the PC into sleep mode and you can replace the batteries in 15 seconds or less. However, note that battery power decays with use, and after a few years ago, your eight-hour battery could flat in less than half the time.
You can OpenCPN run on a Windows or Linux PC or a Mac, so you could also consider a MacBook Air, though it also runs other software that you need. However, you can also charting alternative systems such as Maptech 's Chart Navigator Pro or memory card that is not available for Mac OS X use
Another alternative would be an Apple iPad 2, since the GPS version comes with a tiny GPS chip Broadcom BCM4750 "designed to interface with host processors in mobile phones, PDAs, personal navigation devices and MP3-player '. (That is, he uses the device 's processor and memory to do the bulk of the work.)
I suspect that the open source OpenCPN won 't run on the iPad, because it would be entirely in Objective C. However, re-written, one could use iNavX on an iPad, assuming you can diagrams, you will receive. The website says that you 't use the charts you have on your PC: "iNavX downloads charts directly from a chart server, but many of the graphics card and see x-bar can be used on a PC Mac or "X-Travel offers Navionics 28XG UK -. Ireland - Holland - iPad - 2011 edition for $ 68.99.
Also, if you have Memory-Map on a PC, you can map to an Apple iPhone or send iPad, if you buy the appropriate app. Memory-Map is in the UK, offering UK & Ireland based charts. It is now developing an Android App.
There are also some Navionics charts for Android that working without an Internet connection active. Of course, you need to prevent GPS-based systems that download maps on the fly, because you generally won 't have an internet connection.
GPS is still present. However, it seems to me that the upgrade of the E911 location requirements, and the arrival of cheapish chips like the BCM4750 Broadcom GPS appear to lead into many other gadgets, and probably in most devices that have a cell phone. Finally, the majority of 3G dongles, GPS and expanded.
The World Wide Web has made critics of us. But with commentators able to hide under the cloak of anonymity, have the blog and chat forums for hate and bile
Was aired for a while after his first TV series in 2009, comedian Stewart Lee in the habit of collecting and filing was some of the comments that people made about him on web sites and social media sites. He has a 10-minute trawl Google on most days for about six months and the resulting observations collected soon ran dozens of pages. If you read these comments now as a cumulative narrative, you begin to fear for Stewart Lee. A good third of the contributions is fantasizing about violence done to the comic, most of the rest barely contain the extent of their disgust.
This is a small, representative selection:
"I hate with a passion Stewart Lee. It 's like Ian Huntley for me." Wharto15, Twitter
"I saw him at a gig once, and even behind the stage, he was an aura of creepy molesty complacency. \ Exudes" Yukio Mishima, dontstartmeoff.com
"A man would hit me like a shit-covered cricket bats." Joycey, readytogo.net
"He 's got one of those faces, I want to burn it." Coxy, dontstartmeoff.com
"I hope that Stewart Lee dies." Idries, Youtube
"What the hell! If I ever, lee, I promise I will, I will kick the shit out of you." Carcrazychica, YouTube
"Stewart Lee is a cynical man who has the ability to build a whole carrer [sic] from his own complacency. I hope the damn synchronous disease kills [sic] him." Maninabananasuit, Guardian.co.uk
"I spent the whole time thinking about how much I want to punch in the face of Stewart Lee instead of laughing. He has an incredibly punchable face doesn 't it? (I could just close my eyes, but fantasizing about , punching Stewart Lee is even more fun than sitting in complete, deafening silence.) "Pudabaya, beexcellenttoeachother.com
Lee, a comedian who is not afraid, the more grotesque aspects of human behavior, or always resist dishing out some of his own bile, do not think of herself as naive. But the sheer volume of vitriol, his apparent absence of irony, set him back. Knowing for a few months, probably the worst thing was that people thought of him a sort of strange compulsion, although he distanced himself slightly with the belief that he did, his obsessive collecting "character". "Collecting all these up isn 't something I would do," he said to me. "It is something that would do out-up comedian Stewart Lee, but I have to do it for him because he me ..."
Distanced or not, Lee couldn't help but be somewhat unsettled by the rage he seemed to provoke by telling stories and jokes: "When I first realised the extent of this stuff I was shocked," he says. "Then it appeared to me that a lot of the things I was hated for were things I was actually trying to do; a lot of what people considered failings were to me successes. I sort of wrote a lot of series two of Stewart Lee 's Comedy Vehicle with these comments in mind, try more of what people liked hadn 't. "
The "40,000 words of hatred" have been "\ anthropologically amusing" to him, he insists. "You can see, many of them seem to be the same people posting the same material under different names in different places, and it's strange people you have known personally, where you thought you had to see was fine with the time , you are abusing under pseudonyms hardly effective. "
He 's stopped looking in these days, and never really tried to identify or to confront his critics. "I am a little concerned that some of them might be mad and a bit of hope that I made haven 't me or my family a target."
Lee is obviously not the only ones who directed this anonymous violent hatred against him. To become parts of the Internet is quite common parlance. Do a quick trawl on the blog sites and comment sections on most celebrities and entertainers - not mention the politicians - and you'll quickly find similar virtual rage and fantasized violence. Comedians seem to come more than most when it was taboo if taken as read, or the mood of the toughest club audience was barking into a kind of universal rhetoric. It 's not quite the heckling, though, right? A heckle requires a little courage and risk seeing the audience can know who is doing the shouting. Lee 's opponents were all anonymous. How should we understand it then: harmless banter? Robust criticism? Vicious bullying?
Psychologists call this "deindividuation". It 's what happens when social norms are withdrawn because identities are hidden from happening. The Halloween classic deindividuation experiment affected American children. Trick-or-treaters are invited to candy in the hall of a house on a table on which it links and an amount of money. When children come alone, and not wearing masks, stole only 8% of them a part of the money. If they were in larger groups with their identities hidden from fancy dress, that number rose to 80%. The combination of a faceless mass and personal anonymity provokes individuals to break into rules that would have to "normal" you may not be kept.
Deindividuation is what happens when we moved behind the wheel of a car and feel to abuse at the woman who scream slowly turning right. It is our motivation is a responsible father in a football crowd, screaming for crude sexual hatred in the opposition or the referee. And it 's why, under the guise of an alias or avatar on a website or blog - surrounded by virtual strangers - conventional conservative people move could be interpreted to be a comedian suffered all kinds of violent torture, because they don 't like his jokes, or his face. Digital media allow almost unlimited possibilities for deliberate de-individualization. They require almost. The effects of these freedoms, the ubiquity of anonymity, and the language of the crowd, are just beginning to feel.
You can immediately return this impact on the emergence of social media to track to California's pioneering utopias, and her case. The earliest network groups had cast a kind of paradise. A representative group was CommuniTree that were like an open-access forum on a number of modem-linked computers in the 1970s, when computers were just sums put into life. For a while the group of like-minded enthusiasts ran perfectly harmonious lines, to respect others, with positive and informed discussion on issues of mutual relevance. At some point, but armed retrieve some high-school teenagers with modems, the open-access space and uses it in the trash and the abuse of free speech under CommuniTree uninhibited extremes that never wanted to be the pioneers. The pioneers were horrified accordingly. And finally, after deciding that they can not control the students by the censorship, nor tolerate them in the room with them, they shut down CommuniTree.
This story is almost folkloric in new media prophet, a sort of foundation myth. It was one of the first moments in which corrupt the possibilities of the new collective potential by anonymous lowest common denominator of humanity, a pattern that was pretty much all followed in such virtual communication has been repeated. Barbarians, or "trolls" as she was known, had entered the church without the rules, screaming, violence to spoil it for everyone. After that, who have a website or a forum with high or medium to high ideals were founded, had to decide how such destructive anonymous posters, those who saw in the way of constructive debate.
Tom Postmes, professor of social and organizational psychology at the Universities of Exeter and Groningen in his native Holland, and author of Individuality and the group , has been researching these issues for 20 years. "In the early years," he says, "this online behaviour was called flaming. And then that became institutionalised. Among friends, the people who engaged in this activity were actually quite jocular in intent but they were accountable to standards and norms that are radically different to those of most of their audience. Trolls aspire to violence, to the level of trouble they can cause in an environment. They want it to kick off. They want to promote antipathetic emotions of disgust and outrage, which morbidly gives them a sense of pleasure."
Postmes compares online aliases to the tags of graffiti artists: "trolls want people to recognize their style, to recognize them, or at least their online identity, but they will only be successful in this, if doesn an authority 't put a stop advancing. they. This anonymity helps. It' s basically no risk. "
There is no particular type of person drawn to this kind of covert bullying, suggests he: "As the football hooligans, they have a family and live at home, but when they go to a game, the joy comes from finding a context in which you let go, or to use the familiar expression 'a moral holiday ". Doing this online has a similar characteristic. One would expect, it is quite normal people, you know the bloke at the corner shop or a woman from the office. They are the people usually do this ... "
Some trolls have become almost as famous as the blogs to which they attach themselves, in a strange, parasitic type of relationship. Jeffrey Wells, author of Hollywood Elsewhere , Is a former columnist for the LA Times Anyone who has been blogging about movies in stories for 15 years. "The rudeness, the self-pity: moved in the last few years, its gossip and comment by the insult of a character named LEXG, whose 200-odd self-hatred and wildly negative posts recently Wells to speak to him directly was grim and occasionally catches the eye and cruel dismissiveness must be rejected. Way down. arguments and genuine contempt for certain debaters can be fun, will try not mind. I 'm, Ms Manners. But it has finally become a main focus on the perception and the love and passion and the glory of good writing. It has an emphasis on charter in the light, rather than damning the darkness of the trolls and vomiting on the floor and joined this or that Hollywood Elsewhere Contributors in the balls ... "
When I talked to Wells about LEXG he was philosophical. "Everyone writes on the website anonymously, but me," he says. "If they didn 't I think it would dry them. This place is like a soap bubble in which you can explode the inner lava. And, boy, there's a lot of lava."
He has resisted the fact that people write under their own names, because that would kill the comments immediately. "Why would you take that one in 100 chance that your mother or a prospective employer will read if you have \ didn 't? \ What did you think late at night in front of a dozen years," thinks for haters, Wells , anonymity makes for livelier writing. "It 'sa trick, really -.. The less you feel are identified, the more unrestrained in his best LEXG you can really know how to write well and hold a thought and keep it going, he is relatively healthy, but not sure. a happy guy he 's do it a few years ago and he really become a presence;. he does it on all sites Hollywood "
Have they ever met?
"Just once," says Wells. Want to "I have asked him to write a column on its own, give him a corner of the page, bring it into the open." LEXG didn 't, he seemed appalled at the prospect. "He just wanted to comment on my stuff," says Wells. "He is a counter-puncher, I guess. The rules simply stay on my side, however. No rancid nasty personal comments directed at me. And no tea party bullshit."
The big problem is he runs the blog is that its anonymous commentators get a kind of herd mentality. And what has become a quick note from abuse. As a writer, Wells feels he needs a range of emotions: .. "I also make a personal commitment, or I can really enthusiastic about something, but the comments tend to color one, and that is monotonous It 's harder, I think, to be inspired, to be honest really explained why something means something to you. It may take twice as long. I can run with contempt and malice for a while, but you don 't always want the guy a shoe on his beat to the table. How LEXG. I mean, it' s not healthy for the start ... "
Wells has his own yard in the debate, something like the bartender a Western saloon. Other sites - including our own Comment is free - employ moderators try to keep trolls on line, and move on the debate. A young journalist named Sarah Bee was the moderator for three years on seminal techie news and chat forum to register. She began as an editor, but increasingly devoted her time to the "very stormy" on the chat site. She has no doubt that "Anonymity makes people brave and Arsey, of course. Tut and it was a politically libertarian crowd, so you get the people to express things very loudly, people would not agree and it would often be a lot of real meanness. "She was very liberal, went as far as moderation, she thinks, with no real hard and fast rules, except perhaps for" a ban on prison rape jokes, which were very often '.
Every once in a while, but the mood would \ get "very ugly" and they would try to calm things and remonstrated with people. "I would occasionally e-mail them - their e-mail addresses had to register for the site - to say, 'Even if you can not writing under your real name, people hear it, \.' "In those cases, oddly, she suggests that most people were incredibly contrite when contacted. It was like they had forgotten who they were. "They would send back messages to say," Oh, I 'm sorry', not even under the pretext of having a bad day or something. There is so much to do with the anonymity ... "
Bee was known as the Moderatrix - "All moderators have an implicit sub-dom relationship to their location" - even though they just about the only person in the comments that her own name was used. "There was a lot of misogyny and casual sexism, some pretty off-color stuff. Do I want to call to get some terrible e-mails me a cunt or whatever," she says, "but this does 't bother me as much as the day to day stuff, really. "
The day to day stuff, but it was "as in another world. It was really tiring. I would go home sometimes and just sigh and wonder about everything."
She is very keen to say that the register itself, they thought a great thing, and loved the idea of ??working there, but since Moderatrix finally got her to the ground. "A hive mind in sentences," she suggests. "Just would occasionally enforce good sense, but then there's the fact that the arguments over the internet literally never ends. You moderate a few hundred comments per day, and then come back the next morning and there are a few hundred longer you wait. It 's Sisyphus. "
In the end they needed a change. It 's in another "Community Management" job to do now by Facebook, which is a relief, because "it from anonymity, so people are \ much more polite." When she retired she Moderatrix goodbye and got 250 comments wish her all the best. It doesn 't miss it, though. "But sometimes I would leave a power of the offensive things through, just so people know how they saw things in the world ... People would be realized for a bit. But then the old ways were once in. what each presenter will tell you is that every day a new day and everything repeats itself every day. It's not about continuity and progress ... "
There are many places, of course, the Internet, where a utopian ideal of "Here Comes Everybody 'prevails, where the hive mind is anonymous fantastic curious and productive. Some time ago I spoke with Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, some of these and asked him who was his perfect contributors. "The ideal Wikipedian in my head, someone who is really smart and really nice," he said without irony. "These are the people who are drawn in the middle of the group. If the people power to get into these communities, it is not by shouting the loudest it through diplomacy and conflict resolution."
Within this "wikitopia" There was also, although much Lord of the Flies Moments. Vandals who set out to insert into the pages of nonsense and slander - The benevolent Wiki community is plagued with "Wikitrolls". A police system has up to root grown from troll elements, there are well over 1,000 official volunteers "admin", is working around the clock, they are in this work from the eyes and ears of the moral majority of the "virtuous support "Wikipedians.
"If we think about difficult users, there are two types" Wales said, with the same kind of fatigue Moderatrix. "The easy way is someone who comes in, calls all the Nazis, began wrecking the product is easy to master. Do not block them, and everyone moves on the hard are people doing their job in some respects but are. really tough characters, and they annoy other people, so we end up with this long intractable cases where a municipality 't come to a decision. But I think that's probably true of any human community. "
Wales, who conducted perhaps the most promising experiment in human collective knowledge of all times, it seems no doubt that the libertarian goals of the Internet would benefit from a similar voluntary interim authority. It was the case of the blogger Kathy Sierra, and others suggest that Wales in 2007, an unofficial code of conduct for blog sites are causing a portion of which would outlaw anonymity. Kathy Sierra is a programming instructor based in California, according to an online spat on a tech site they aimed apparently at random by an anonymous mass, which posted pictures of her as sexually mutilated body at various sites and gave death threats. She wrote on her blog: "... I 'm at home, locked the doors, scared I'm scared to leave my garden, I'll never feel the same I'll never be the same"
Under Wales 's proposals in response to these and other similar horror stories of virtual bullying was that bloggers ban anonymous comments to be considered as a whole, and that they will be able to post comments whatsoever to be abusive, without looking at accusations of censorship. Wales 's proposals were quickly killed by the libertarians, and the traffic-hungry, as impractical and against the prevailing spirit of free speech.
Other innovative idealists of virtual reality have come lately, some of these norms in question, though. Jaron Lanier is credited with the inventor of virtual worlds. He was the first company to virtual reality gloves and goggles for sale. He was a key adviser to the creation of Avatar universe Second Life. His most recent book, You are not a gadget Is, in this sense a bit of a mea culpa, an argument for the sanctity of human respiratory individual against the increasingly anonymous virtual ground. "Trolling is not a series of isolated incidents," Lanier argues, "but the status quo in the online world." He suggested "drive-by anonymity", in which posters you create a pseudonym to promote a particularly strong view of human communication in general threatens to undermine it. "To a significant share, you need to be fully present. Therefore, before one 's accuser is a fundamental right of the accused."
We listen to right too much of the potential of social media and Web sites on individual freedom, while the Arab spring and proven elsewhere. Less to pack their capacity identities and the government is to strengthen the mob, though clearly that even a written part of this potential.
Social psychologist Tom Postmes has been by the coarsening of the debate on issues such as racial integration in his native Netherlands, a polarization, which he suggests directly from the modern political incorrectness of certain websites, where anonymity is guaranteed to have been disturbed grown. "There is some evidence that the mainstream conservative media even cuts politically correct or moderate contributions of websites for the Extreme," he says. "The tone of public debate over immigration has decreased in these forums."
One effect of the "deindividuation" is a polarization within the groups where like-minded people usually end up in extreme positions, because they gain credibility by exaggerating loosely held prejudices. You can try the Blogger surpass each other with pejorative about Stewart Lee see. This has the effect of shifting standards: extremism is unacceptable. As Lanier says: "? I'm growing worries about the next generation of young people around the world with Internet-based technologies, the amount of aggregation points ... they tend to succumb to grab momentum when they grown up" The utopian tendency to believe that social media and pluralism diversified opinion, most evidence suggests that it is probably just as if it combined with the anonymity in order to enhance group thinking and extremism.
A lot of them it depends on the policy of anonymity, an issue likely to greatly exercise the minds of the legislators is as our media increasingly digitized, and we rely more and more often inexplicable and easily manipulated sources - TripAdvisor Twitter feed gossip blog - for our information.
A simple remedy for this seems to rest in the very old-fashioned idea of ??standing by your good name. Adopt a pseudonym and you're not a large proportion of himself on the line. Put your name on something, and your words are laden with responsibility. Arthur Schoepenhauer also wrote about the subject 160 years ago: "Anonymity is the refuge for all the literary and journalistic rascality," he suggested. "It is a practice that completely stopping Any article in a newspaper, should be accompanied by the name of the author;. And the editor should be strictly liable for the accuracy of the signature of the freedom of the press should be restricted as much. , so that when a man publicly announced by the far-sounding trumpet of the newspaper, he is responsible for any event in his honor if he has any, and if he has not had neutralize its name, the effect of his words. And because even the most unassuming man in his own district is known, is the result of such a measure would put an end to two-thirds of the newspaper is made and the boldness of many retain a poisonous tongue. "
The Internet is increasingly Schopenhauer 's trumpet many times. Although it repressive regimes, where anonymity is a condition of freedom and opportunity in democracies, where anonymity must be safeguarded, it is clear, if these reserves could be used. But should generally afraid to stand up and put their names, their words? And why should you listen when they don 't?
The newspaper notorious for its sting operations has been the victim of a sting.
The News of the World was to believe that a footballer was sexually explicit text messages to "a mystery woman 'sent fake.
Under the heading "Ex-Celtic goalkeeper glove is a real rat," the newspaper claimed he had cheated on his pregnant fiancee by "explicit X-rated messages" \ and "dirty pictures."
She published the story about the Polish national team, Artur Boruc In his Scottish issue in July last year.
The story was completely untrue. Boruc is suing the newspaper for libel and the case was expected to go to court.
But the Court of Session in Edinburgh was told on Friday that the newspaper now accepted that it was in the wrong.
It was therefore agreed in an out-of-court settlement to apologize to him and Boruc pay ? 70,000, which is probably a record sum in a Scots libel case. The paper will also pay all his legal expenses.
According to the News of the World 's attorney, Roddy Dunlop QC , Had the paper "the victim of a highly sophisticated deception by a man".
The court was told the man, identified as Kevin O 'Donnell , Were as Boruc 's financial advisor and then wove a web of elaborate lies, with many interconnected strands that appeared to corroborate the story.
He formed a fake Facebook page, and added, false comments that allegedly came from Boruc 's girlfriend.
In a text-image, he used a photoshopped picture of a man 's upper body is a monkey tattoo, similar to a known Boruc has been added.
The scam unraveled only when the cell phone records showed that the calls was from a Glasgow hotel made at a time when Boruc - who now plays for Italian team Fiorentina - was on holiday in Sardinia.
Dunlop told the court that the defendants ( Newsgroup , "Accept that they made entirely in this scam" The paper 's Verlag) \, but he added: "They were not reckless or irresponsible in the belief that they held.
Boruc 's lawyer told the court that the allegations against his client was "very annoying." He said, footballers "outed faced for misconduct, the set of rival fans in the pillory."
PS: If one report of the court and turning to the published story, I put these two paragraphs:
"Last night a friend of the Hoops hero said ...:" This is not a good time for this to come out Artur \. 'S been stupid'.
The friend, who declined to be named, added: "'t remember what he sent her, but he should have never done it' You can \ '\.
Against the background of the paper 's admission that the story was untrue to itself, these citations are exposed have been concocted as with.
It shows once again how difficult it is everything that you read to believe the News of the World.
Sources: BBC/STV/The Scotsman
The first virtual tour of the Science Teacher Journal Club got off to a good start on Twitter to discuss children 's attitudes toward the natural sciences. The second is on Tuesday evening at 19.30 clock
Good teachers are. In a recent survey conducted under the Interest and Recruitment in Science Project, quoted in the first year science students "Effective Teachers 'as ??the biggest influence in their decision to prove scientifically based courses.
Just like you better as a science teacher? Practice helps, as well as feedback from colleagues and students informed. Sadly, opportunities to study part-time commitment are few and far between, and time to meet teachers from other schools is becoming increasingly difficult.
Social media tools could create a way for the thousands of teachers who want to discuss new ideas and old problems, by giving them access to a wider audience than the typical teacher's room available.
To this end, a few weeks ago I attended the first Science Teacher Journal Club, organized by Alom Shaha and Alby Reid, two London-based teachers who have built a virtual network of science teachers and teacher education in the UK and beyond.
Traditional reading clubs include small groups of people come together to read and discuss books and papers, either for pleasure or for other academic reasons. The Science Teacher Journal Club involved nearly 70 people known to each other only through their Twitter name like @ @ AmandaChemist darkskyman and the exchange of tweets for one hour.
A challenge for teachers is how to access the latest research results. The medical profession has a similar problem with the head through the development of "translational research" tackled - to read condensing hard scientific work in digestible articles GPs. Involved I 'm designs with a similar project for teachers in non-formal sector.
Science Teacher for the Journal Club, I opted for a paper I thought would be interesting to science teachers: a study with colleagues, I am King 's College London and Stanford University co-author. Age 10 to 14-run project (Aspire), a five-year longitudinal study by Professor Louise Archer at King 's College: He talks about the scientific aspirations and career choice. The paper focuses on six discussion groups, groups with students, ages 10-11, were undertaken to explore their attitudes towards science and interest in science.
The paper was published last year in a leading scientific journal Science Education lessons, and has been widely quoted. The issue of the Journal Club Twitter was, however, whether it be useful to teachers who were not, in all truth, the primary target group.
How many people would tune into the discussion? If the meeting end-of-term hand wringing and researchers bashing degenerate?
After a first wave of discharges, took off the conversation. @ Teachingofsci the tone, "If i 'd deciphered language, I found it a useful way to look at my students, past and present. Certainly fits what I see." This was a good start and it was better if @ morphosaurus answered with "Hard to say how I teach KS5, but have noted, gender and cultural differences in attitudes" He added: "At the guilty in relation to" brilliant '\ boys and 'hard-working' Girl -. been ashamed to have that pointed out to me "
Another strand of discussion about a key aspect of the paper focuses, with @ DavidWaldock asked "are boys define their identity by not-girls, so if the girls work hard, they don 't?" The prompted @ morphosaurus to think "Could be - try one of my hardest working boys, it look so effortless" adding "probably doesn 't help that Bio-teacher all female, physics teacher of all male and chemistry of each \!" @ A_Weatherall offered a possible explanation. "In terms of identity: the teachers also identify themselves with their specialization (and cause a bias) in science classes"
@ DrRacheal shifted the discussion to the student 'views on teaching, says that they "could be heard complaining Yr8 that they" wasn' \ t talk. "@ DavidWaldock asked", as recently ' entertainment 'a school was expected? "
On the evidence of this discussion, the teachers have a lot of anecdotal evidence that supports our research. Their willingness to discuss difficult issues and challenges shares is encouraging. Their findings are in our future work, the effectiveness of strategies to combat the stereotypes held by many students studied aim to feed.
The 67 participants generated over 400 tweets in an hour. I couldn't keep up and ended up answering questions and clarifying my own previous tweets long after our hour was up.
So it was worth it? Absolutely. The response to the paper was enormously encouraging. Students 'aspirations and their attitudes to science are critical issues in science education. Give teachers half a chance, and they will happily teach their own school experiences and their personal experiences of being itself. There is a danger that the sheer weight of ideas generated will result in a fragmented discussion - a bit like trying to speak for all in a party at the same time - but the opportunity to work with interested teachers and encouraged to run by our research is a rare treat.
It's encouraging to know that our findings, from a limited number of focus groups, mirror the experiences of teachers across the country and overseas, and that we are working in an area that teachers see as important.
It also saw how good professional development. The people responded with ideas, shared thoughts and questions and hear what others had to say. And although it takes an hour of our evening, it was all free - no assistant teacher, short, no travel costs, and how an employee pointed out, "a refreshing, challenging change specifications decryption test".
Justin Dillon is Professor of Science and Environmental Education, King 's College London
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