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From KurzweilAI.net:

Abstracts and PowerPoints are now available online for the Artificial General Intelligence Research Institute’s (AGIRI) first workshop, May 20-21.

The workshop looked at breaking AI technologies out of specific, task-oriented functions into a more general form. Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) development takes a transdisciplinary, systems-oriented design perspective with the ultimate goal of creating an intelligence that resembles, or supasses, human intelligence.

Cathy Zemke forwarded this along from Brock Dubbels on a CEHD mailing list:

In a recent story on WCCO, Jason DeRusha reported on curriculum that Brock Dubbels, a graduate student in Curriculum and Instruction, created for his classroom at Northeast Middle School in Minneapolis using video games to meet state standards in reading and literature.

Brock also offers a course called Video Games as Learning Tools this summer in Curriculum and Instruction in Special Topics in Literacy.

http://wcco.com/jasonblog/local_blogentry_164170818.html

If you click on the link you can see the video. Or else you can just click here:

http://www.wcco.com/video/?id=17627@wcco.dayport.com

Inside Higher Ed has an article on the decrease of political and financial support for American education relative to global competitors. Citing research by John A. Douglass at UC Berkeley, the article states:

Douglass says that other nations are using government policy to match or exceed U.S. participation rates and to more fully integrate higher education into national economic and social policy. “They have many problems of their own,” according to Douglass, “but it is the political will and trajectory of their efforts that offers a sharp contrast to the U.S.” He notes that for the first time since the late 1800s, America no longer has the world’s highest rate of young students going on to a postsecondary institution.

Furthermore, China and other nations are building hundreds of new schools, each aiming to become the next Harvard…

The Minnesota Daily published an article on the “Leapfrog University” memo distributed by Arthur Harkins and myself.  Marni Ginther writes:

Harkins and Moravec argue research and innovation must begin soon and must begin at the undergraduate level. This would involve a huge shift in the way the University - and universities across the country - handle undergraduate education, they said.

But it also would begin to immediately produce more innovative graduates who are better suited for today’s job market, they said.

Read the full article.