By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Connectivism and Learning
Stephen Downes, Federica.EU, 2017/01/13

This is my next MOOC; it starts January 30 and runs for 10 weeks. It provides an overview of my version of connectivism as it applies to teaching and learning. It covers a lot of the ground I've covered in my talks and papers, but as a single structured unit. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. The Teach to One Math Experiment in Mountain View, CA Is a Trainwreck: A Cautionary Tale of Digital Math Education
Dan Colman, Open Culture, 2017/01/10
Programmed math instruction is fraught with potential pitfalls, as any designer knows, and some of them appear to have caught the Teach to One math program being piloted in California. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Artist Walead Beshty Shipped Glass Boxes Inside FedEx Boxes to Produce Shattered Sculptures
Christopher Jobson, Colossal, 2017/01/10
This is a funny story with a surprise inside. The funny part is the artwork: an artist created glass blocks exactly the dimensions of a FedEx box and then shipped them in those boxes, producing unique art out of the cracks and breakage that resulted. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Philosophy can teach children what Google can’t
Charlotte Blease, The Guardian, 2017/01/10

The headline would make more sense if you couldn't use Google to learn philosophy, but in fact, you can. Of course, learning philosophy (or anything else) means doing much ore than merely reading about it and remembering stuff. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Can Edtech Support—and Even Save—Educational Research?
Jay Lynch, Nathan Martin, EdSurge, 2017/01/10

Traditional educational research is (to my mind) often misleading or irrelevant. I am not alone in this assessment, as this article suggests. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Siri, Who Is Terry Winograd?
Lawrence M. Fisher, Strategy+Business, 2017/01/10

This article contains all kinds of goodness as it profiles Terry Winograd, one of the pioneers of human-computer interaction (though I wonder how many people in HCI have even heard of him). More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Practical artificial intelligence in the cloud
O'Reilly, 2017/01/10

We are rapidly approaching a world in which software and service designers simply plug their application into an AI service to perform increasingly useful tasks. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Articulate 360 – Initial Product Review
Godwin Vinny Carole, Swift eLeanring, 2017/01/09
This is a generally favorable review of Articulate 360. The software is now subscription based such that one account provides access to a wide set of services designed to help in the creation, review, storage and playback of e-learning resources. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Digital Literacy Challenge: Create an Information Filter Bot
Wesley Fryer, Moving at the Speed of Creativity, 2017/01/09

This would be pretty advanced digital literacy, I would say, but it focuses on some pretty basic skills: using tools to scan content and extract informatun related to your particular interest or need. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. The Men Who Started a Thinking Revolution
Stephen J. Dubner, Freakonomics, 2017/01/09
I listened to this podcast in the middle of Thursday night, while sleeping, so my first recollection of it is all mixed up with dreams (example: as a social experiment, Danny Kahneman and Amos Tversky swimming together out into the mid-Atlantic to reset standard time as it approaches from Europe). More...