By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. The Top Ed-Tech Trends (Aren't 'Tech')
Audrey Watters, Hack Education, 2017/04/04
Audrey Watters gives us a reprise of some of her annual 'tech trends' reports and talks about some of the thinking behind them. I'm inclined to agree with the observation that the trends resemble themes or categories or narratives more than they do trends. She also admits "they’re narratives that are quite US-centric. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Creating Usability with Motion: The UX in Motion Manifesto
Issara Willenskomer, Medium, 2017/04/04
When people talk about 21st century literacies, or digital literacies, they usually talk about using social networks and spotting fake news. But this is the sot of thing they should be thinking about. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. My open source Instagram bot got me 2,500 real followers for $5 in server costs
Tim Grossman, Free Code Camp, Instagram, 2017/04/04
The author's Instagram bot is described in detail in this post, with links to Github and to a lot of documentation on the various tests he ran. Stuff like this is why Facebook is in trouble and why Instagram isn't worth the effort. I don't use Instagram at all and left Facebook last August. More...