Items to Share: 19 May

Education Focus

• The God of Data by Rob Barratt (video--with thanks to Neil Burton for the link)

• Don't Go Back to School: How to Fuel the Internal Engine of Lifelong Learning | Brain Pickings On learning beyond formal institutions, which is of course where we learn practically everything that matters.

• Donald Clark Plan B: MOOC on Human-Computer Interaction: 7 fails in screen design How can a course about something be so poor at the same thing? Although strangely it is not that unusual, as in most courses on how to teach...

Other Business

• ISS Music Video Putting Chris Hadfield's cover of Space Oddity into context.

• Freelancing Rules of Thumb | The Freelancery Seriously tongue-in-cheek--clearly rings bells with commenters.  

• Growing Concern that News Photos Are Being Excessively Manipulated - Spiegel Online ...and what are the boundaries?  

• Crime and Punishment: Juvenile offenders study Russian literature - The Washington Post