Tweet it, Blog It, Repeat It, 60,000 Times: Truthiness Achieved
Alan Levine, CogDogBlog, April 7, 2014
If you are one of the many people who were exposed to this week's factoid - the assertion that "we process visual information 60,000 faster than text" - then you will want to read Alan Levine's investigations into the truthiness of this assertion. More...
Humor That Dare Not Speak Its Name
Scott Jaschik, Inside Higher Ed, April 8, 2014
Last week I argued that Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich should be able to have and express views opposing gay marriage. Since then, he has resigned. Now here's the other side. It's not simply that Forbes is using the case to argue against financial disclosure laws, though that's bad enough. More...
Web Literacy Learning Pathways
Doug Belshaw, literaci.es, April 8, 2014
What's interesting here are not the web literacy learning pathways themselves, though no doubt many people will find them worth reading. Rather, it's the way this one paragraph article opens up into the pathways map itself, which in turn opens up into the web literacy mapper. More...
Digital Canada 150
Press Release, Government of Canada, April 8, 2014
The Canadian government announces its digital economy strategy: "our vision is for a thriving digital Canada, underscored by five key pillars: connecting Canadians, protecting Canadians, economic opportunities, digital government and Canadian content." View the interactive version here, or read the PDF. More...
What Books Should Every Intelligent Person Read?: Tell Us Your Picks; We’ll Tell You Ours
Dan Colman, Open Culture, April 8, 2014
I find the lists offered by Dan Colman and Neil DeGrasse Tyson to be a bit parochial, steeped in (their) local culture and issues of the day. Why else include Darwin and de Tocqueville? Why else include the Bible but not the Qu'ran or the Upanisads, or Sun Tzu but not Lao Tze? So, what would my list of (say, top ten) must-reads be? How about this?
Why these? Balance. More...
What We Really Need To Know About Ed Tech
helly Blake-Plock, Mind/Shift, April 8, 2014
I'm not sure I agree with every element on the list, but it raises questions that need raising. Here are the five things:
There is such a thing as 'free' - air is free, language is free, and the ideas that form inside your own head are free. More...
Authentic Learning in Primary Science
Simon Crook, Simon Crook's eLearning Blog, April 8, 2014
It's the little things that count. Note just this: "students recorded myself performing the procedure using their school's iPads, photographed the equipment and also diagrams on the board to assist them in carrying out the experiment themselves." But if you look at the photo, they're all wearing their lab coats. More...
Free report durable Technology Enhanced Learning #Telearning
Inge de Waard, Ignatia Webs, April 8, 2014
Inge de Waard summarizes "the Beyond Prototypes report provides a UK-based in-depth examination of the processes of innovation in technology-enhanced learning (TEL) with a special emphasis on building online learning solutions that are durable. The focus is also on design-based research." Here's the full PDF. More...
More Data Can Lead to Poor Student Choices
Adam Cooper, LACE, April 4, 2014
Adam Cooper points to an article in Times Higher education entitled More data can lead to poor student choices (I love the use of modalities in headlines; they could easily have written 'less data can lead to poor student choices'). More...
re\wire: ni
Monika Hardy, Cooperative Catalyst, April 4, 2014
Nice post that isn't really a neat package (but it probably wouldn't be effective if it were) discussing the new 'networked individualism'. More...
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