December Book Display
Clerc-Gallaudet Month
In recognition of the two American education pioneers – visionary leaders in the deaf community, who were both born in December. Laurent Clerc and Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet. Come check out some of our information on history and issues concerning the deaf community.
Cover image Credit:Â Mr.TinDC
YouTube announced a new program to help users fight back against outrageous copyright threats. The company has created a ‘Fair Use Protection’ program that will cover legal costs of users who, in the company’s view, have been unfairly targeted for takedown.
Source: YouTube Backs Its Users With New Fair Use Protection Program | Electronic Frontier Foundation
Bolshevik (Russian) Revolution – November 1917
It began on Nov. 6, 1917 at Petrograd, Russia with Lenin taking office the following day under the name of “Council of People’s Commissar. Come to the Todd Library and find out what led up to and what happened after the revolution began.
The students in Whelan’s class are all using the same program, called ALEKS. But peek over their shoulders and you’ll see that each student is working on a different sort of problem. A young woman near the corner of the room is plugging her way through a basic linear equation. The young man to her left is trying to wrap his mind around a story problem involving fractions. Nearby, a more advanced student is simplifying equations that involve both variables and fractions.
At first glance, each student appears to be at a different point in the course. And that’s true, in one sense. But it’s more accurate to say that the course is literally different for each student.
Source: The Textbook Is Dying. Meet the Artificially Intelligent Software That’s Replacing It.Â
Let’s not portray casual sharing as more heroic than it is, though. A network of friends with institutional connections is not a luxury that everyone has. Emailing papers doesn’t fix a system in which the most cutting-edge knowledge is only available to a few people. If anything, casual sharing of limited-access papers only underscores the problem: limiting access to research keeps knowledge away from people without the same connections and privileges.
Source: Open Access Is a Human Rights Issue | Electronic Frontier Foundation
