http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cL9Wu2kWwSY
The internet has an absolutely mind-boggling, eyeball-melting amount of information. In 2009
the Guardian reported that around 497
billion gigabytes of data, a number likely to have grown significantly by today, spread across some 155 million webpages. Even after subtracting the large proportion of that is likely to be porn or facebook, that's still a lot of information. Sometimes we even learn things from it.
Take TED talks for example, one of my favourite places on the internet. Basically these guys host conferences all over the world where a bunch of really interesting people come and give lectures on whatever topic they specialise in, which would be pretty cool within itself, but then they go and broadcast these lectures on the internet so anyone can watch them absolutely for free.
They're even on youtube
I like to have these playing in the background while I'm working in photoshop or whatver. The internet is a really powerful tool for educating people, even though right now a lot of them may not have access to it, the number (I believe) is set to quadruple within the next few years. The amount of information we have access to completely blows anything we've had before out of the water.
It's so completely new that we can't even begin to predict the impacts it might have for the future
So what has the internet taught you lately? Where'd ya get it? How do you feel about the internet as a learning tool? Could the internet one day replace school teachers? These are things that I want to know.
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Pro pick to use in a classroom.
Unless I'm misinterpreting or something.
I haven't been to this site for years.
That is a valid point.
That... Is really damn cool! This is exactly the thing I hoped the internet would produce.
And in the education thread no less.
also I was at the place where they got the data for this last weekend
uhh learning stuff... I mostly just use wikipedia and lecture notes from whatever universities that pop up on google for actual school stuff
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Same music and everything. I worked as a "Social Media Marketer" last summer and I came into work they showed me that video and then said get to work.
It was exciting for like a week and then you realize what a crock of shit it is unless you are like a mega-corporation and then the depression sets in.
I don't think many people would know what the heck I was talking about if I said 473 976.135 petabytes and 462.86732 exabytes doesn't sound that impressive.
Also now I know what a petabyte and an exabyte is. Learning!
But I like to think the bed frame and desk I made are much nicer thanks to the internet. It's kind of nice having a bunch of old books on building stuff readily available when I'm trying to figure out how to make what I want.
Also, learning to program was probably a lot easier with the internet. It probably took longer to come up with solutions when you couldn't just google "what does segmentation fault mean?"
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I had never really thought about this, but he makes some excellent points here. Thank you for posting this.
Not gonna lie, I thought this was about star trek. The reality is very cool though.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeyMPJusXzQ
And check this out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SuC6FcTfnU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SgYhzd5ehY&feature=channel_video_title
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qZycn7o7Po&feature=relmfu
This guy except somewhat better quality now
everybody stop everything and get me this.
that math video was magical.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTyotI3IHFQ
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Water is the best one and everyone should watch it.
http://gigaom.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/2010-digital-universe-iview_5-4-10.pdf
The latest report (26/04/2010) showed an approximate size for the 'digital universe' of 800,000 petabytes. A petabyte is a million gigabytes.
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