Dirty money -greasy oil -clean souls

12 top polluters



https://www.nationalobserver.com/2019/10/10/news/these-20-fossil-fuel-firms-are-responsible-third-all-carbon-pollution

 appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.

• The Guardian today reveals the 20 fossil fuel companies whose relentless exploitation of the world’s oil, gas and coal reserves can be directly linked to more than one-third of all greenhouse gas emissions in the modern era. 

• New data from world-renowned researchers reveals how this cohort of state-owned and multinational firms are driving the climate emergency that threatens the future of humanity, and details how they have continued to expand their operations despite being aware of the industry’s devastating impact on the planet. 

• The analysis, by Richard Heede at the Climate Accountability Institute in the US, the world’s leading authority on big oil’s role in the escalating climate emergency, evaluates what the global corporations have extracted from the ground, and the subsequent emissions these fossil fuels are responsible for since 1965 – the point at which experts say the environmental impact of fossil fuels was known by both industry leaders and politicians.

 Saudi Aramco  Corporation  , owned by Government of Saudi Arabia declared estimated revenue of US$ 355 billion, with an operationg income US$ 200,405,000,000 , higher than a year earlier. Net income US$  350,000,000,000   with Total  asset US$  350,000,000,000   , earnings were $21 billion, compared with $15.3 billion in 2017  (Feb 2019).

Workers:   66.000

Gazprom has become a privatized company with the Russian Federation. The company generated 118.5 billion U.S. dollars in net sales in 2018. The Russian gas and oil company generated some 118.5 billion U.S. dollars in net revenue, while the profit from sales stood at more than 27.8 billion U.S. dollars.

Gazprom had a total of 466,100 employees

Exxon Mobil Corporation today announced estimated 2018 earnings of $20.8 billion, or $4.88 per share assuming dilution, compared with $19.7 billion a year earlier. Excluding U.S. tax reform and asset impairments, earnings were $21 billion, compared with $15.3 billion in 2017  (Feb 2019)

Workers:   71.000

english teaching robots 2012-2018

Schools anbd Robots

part 1

Make Room For Robots In South Korean Middle Schools

https://www.worldcrunch.com/tech-science/make-room-for-robots-in-south-korean-middle-schools



part 2

Korea Aims To Have Robot Teachers 

In Every Kindergarten By 2013

By Brian Merchant

Robots have already replaced many of the world’s craftsmen, mechanics, factory workers, welders, and so on — so why not teachers? 

For an appraisal of this news:

Matt Salusbury: January 2013

mattsalusbury.blogspot.com/2013_01_01_archive.html‎

part 3

Jan 31, 2013 -
Rise of the Korean English-teaching robots?

Matt Salusbury reports on Korea's next generation of EFL educators 

Rough sketch of a Roti teaching robot, by the author

South Korea has set itself up as a global centre of excellence in robotics, with the government funding robot research. EFL teaching robots are now infiltrating the country's classrooms. 

As with most new education technology, finding appropriate ways to use the technology is more important than the hardware itself.

NEWS 1_ From Brian Merchant

 A science institute in South Korea has developed a robot teacher that works with young children to develop their foreign language skills.

Here’s the Singularity Hub:

Elementary school children in Korea in the cities of Masan and Daegu are among the first to be exposed to robotic teachers. Among them is a robotic English instructor named EngKey developed by the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST).

EngKey can hold scripted conversations with students to help them improve their language skills, or a modified version can act as a telepresence tool to allow distant teachers to interact with children.

And this is just the beginning: Korea’s Ministry of Education is seeking to put an EngKey robot in every kindergarten by 2013.

To clarify, the robots don’t take over teaching duties from a real flesh and blood teacher — they’re merely there as a mechanized supplement. The robots follow an automated script, and aren’t nearly advanced enough to complete entire lesson plans. 

But researchers have found that students loosen up around the robot teachers, and allow themselves to flex their mental muscles a little more audaciously — they feel more comfortable making mistakes in front of the robots than teachers.

Like the free, crowd-sourced online courses of the Khan Academy, these robots are another intriguing supplemental education tool that technology has allowed us to experiment with. Though the idea of robot teachers replacing real ones probably — and rightfully — sends a shiver down your spine, thus far these robots can only be a boon to the education process. Until they malfunction and enslave our children, of course.

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ONLINE LEARNING: Khan Academy and MOOC

Khan Academy

A free world-class education for anyone anywhere.

Khan Academy is an organization on a mission. We're a not-for-profit with the goal of changing education for the better by providing a free world-class education for anyone anywhere.

All of the site's resources are available to anyone. It doesn't matter if you are a student, teacher, home-schooler, principal, adult returning to the classroom after 20 years, or a friendly alien just trying to get a leg up in earthly biology. Khan Academy's materials and resources are available to you completely free of charge.

2011 _  the beginnings

        KA on John Stossel Documentary

Khan Academy on Jon Stossel Documentary in September 2011

OTHER resources

     1. MOOC learning

What in the world is a MOOC?  By Jenna Johnson

In the last few weeks, the word “MOOC” has become part of the higher education lexicon. The cute little acronym has been thrown around by administrators in suits-only meetings, casually dropped by blogging or vlogging faculty, and explained by student newspapers. Earlier this month, a PhD student and blogger in Canada declared: “I've watched agog as the word MOOC has proliferated and spiralled into the higher education buzzword of the year.” 

So, what in the world is a MOOC? It’s a “Massive Open Online Course” that anyone with an Internet connection can attend for free. These classes are aimed at expanding a university’s reach from thousands of tuition-paying students who live in town, to millions of students around the world.

• * Georgetown University Provost Robert Groves blogged: “The ability of massive open online courses to deliver exactly the same experience simultaneously to thousands and thousands of students breaks the mold of traditional university education.  We can all see their potential to increase access to education and reduce the costs of education.” 

(Full blog post: “Our Moment in Time.”)

• * Several TIME magazine staffers have enrolled in MOOCs this semester, including technology writer Harry McCracken who is taking a class through University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. One of his observations: “There are 76,000 people registered for the class, which is more than twice the entire current enrollment for my alma mater, Boston University. Only 13,000 turned in the first written assignment on time. I wonder how many of us will still be at it when the final exam rolls around?”

 (Full column: “MOOC Brigade: Back to School, 26 Years Later.”)

     2.  Tech Company Helps South Korean Students Ace Entrance Tests

http://www.megastudy.net/

Mr. Son’s idea for cheap mass education has made him one of the richest men in the country. Sales at his company, which went public in 2004, jumped to 202 billion won last year, from 579 million won in 2000, when the company was formed. From high school-level courses, Megastudy has expanded into elementary school and opened courses for college students studying to get into medical and law school.Besides South Koreans’ affinity for all things online, whether shopping or watching TV, Mr. Son’s success also rests on distrust of the public school system. "Koreans who “study like crazy” is what keeps the country’s economy going."With the country pouring billions of dollars into making its Internet 10 times faster by 2014, Mr. Son suggested that the world turn to South Korea for a glimpse of what education might look like in the future.“Offline schools will become supplemental to online education,” he predicted. “Students will go to school, perhaps once a week, for group activities like sports.”

The power of ignorance_DATA, Rosling and us

 Listen to one of HANS ROSLING TED TALKS. the bestest display of data!

In HIS hands, data sings. Global trends in health and economics come to vivid life.

2.1. WRITE a 275-word summary of the talk you selected.

2.2  Answer his 4-min test and visit his project at www.Gapminder.org

  Bring your printed answer next day. We will compare results.

Global population growth, box by box

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by Carles Dueñas  

Hans Rosling presents in this Ted Talk the evolution of world population growth from 1960 and into the future. He uses Ikea boxes to support his speech, based on statistics, where each box represents one billion of people.The researcher mentions that in 1960 there were only 3 billion people in the world, where one billion belonged to the industrialized world, and two billions to the developing world. There was a big gap between the two groups, or in other words, in the industrial world, people were educated, rich, and they had small families, while in the developing countries, people were very poor and had big families. At this time, the aspiration of the people of western society was to buy a car, while in the developing world the aspiration was to have enough food for the day, and if they saved, they would buy a pair of shoes.Nevertheless, currently, this gap between these two groups has disappeared. In the last 50 years, four billions people have been added to the world population filling the gap between the poorest and the richest. Three billions of them are emerging economies which aspiration could be to buy a bike, and the remaining billion of people have even improved that situation, and their aspiration could be buy a car. There has also been an economic growth in the wealthy western population, and now their aspiration is not only to have a car, but to have a holiday and fly to a remote destination.
The speaker makes a forecast for 2050. In his opinion, one billion of the Chinese population will join the richest group. In addition, three billions of people of emerging economies will improve their situation, and now their aspiration will be to buy a car. However, the bad side is that the poorest group will increase to four billions of people, and it only will be possible to stop their growth, if they manage to get out of poverty, and as a consequence of that, they improve child survival, and they get education and family planning.The lecturer shows the evolution of global population in a graph, where every bubble represents a country. The axes of the graph are children per woman and child survival. We can see, as the years pass by, that child survival increase and families decrease as the developing countries improve their economic situation.So, to sum up, the only way of really getting world population to stop is to continue to improve child survival.

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the best is yet to come - Plusquamperfect future

The only thing constant in this world is change.  

 ‘Change Quotes’ Archive 

1957 Vision of the Year 2000

• What are your initial reactions to what you saw in the presentation?
• How are these changes manifesting themselves in your personal lives? professional lives?
• What skills do we need to survive and thrive in this new era?
• What implications does this have for our current way of doing things?
• Do we need to change? If so, how?
• How do we get from here to there?
• What challenges must we overcome as we move forward?
• What supports will we need as we move forward?
• What kind of training will we need to move forward?
• What kind of commitments will we need to make (with each other,  and our community) to move forward?
• Who's scared? Why?

PLUS  ADVANTAGE of  hindsight

this is an advertisement for Intel at Vimeo, but I like the message. 

• Things are a changin’ and they are changin’ quick. If we don’t jump on the bus it is going to leave us and our students behind!

"I Remember" from Jake Zortman on Vimeo.

How the Media World Is Changing—Fast!