Retour sur la troisième édition des CFALIM !
La 3ème rencontre nationale avec les CFA partenaires a eu lieu le 06 février 2018. Elle permet de fédérer le réseau des CFA du secteur alimentaire en réseau en lien avec OPCALIM sur des projets d'avenir pour développer la politique d'apprentissage ambitieuse impulsée par les partenaires sociaux. Plus...
Is ‘Reproducibility Crisis’ Overblown?
Is ‘Reproducibility Crisis’ Overblown?
Rachael Pells, Inside Higher Ed, 2018/04/05
A new study has failed to reproduce the reproducibility crisis. "A review of more than 40 recent studies on reproducibility has led Daniele Fanelli, a fellow in methodology at the London School of Economics and Political Science, to conclude that, although misconduct and questionable research methods do occur in 'relatively small' frequencies, there is “no evidence” that the issue is growing." This summary illustrates the problem perfectly. More...
Padlet’s Price Update Riles Teachers, Raises Questions About Sustainability of Freemium Models
Padlet’s Price Update Riles Teachers, Raises Questions About Sustainability of Freemium Models
Tony Wan, EdSurge, 2018/04/05
I have long argued inside government circles that we should be setting up and offering services like this as part of our overall support to education. This is the approach that has been undertaken with success elsewhere and the approach that underlies support for things like BC Campus and Campus Ontario. In this article, we see clearly why. More...
Facebook Scans Your Messenger Conversations and Sometimes Humans Read Them
Facebook Scans Your Messenger Conversations and Sometimes Humans Read Them
Justin Pot, How-To Geek, 2018/04/05
My view is: just stay away from anything related to Facebook. More...
Announcement: Spectrum goes Open Source!
Announcement: Spectrum goes Open Source!
Max Stoiber, Spectrum, 2018/04/05
I love rabbit-holes. Here's one. This post announces that Spectrum has gone open source. "Spectrum makes it easy to grow safe, successful online communities that are built to last." There's definitely a need for this, so I logged in, created my account, and started exploring. I created a community for MOOCs and joined a one-member community for e-learning. More...
5×5 R’s of Ours (An OER17 Flashback)
5×5 R’s of Ours (An OER17 Flashback)
Brian Lamb, Abject, 2018/04/05
The premise is simple: "We knew that the 5 Rs were a useful and powerful shorthand to capture the permissions inherent with open educational resources… But were there other Rs that captured the messy, energizing, frustrating and life-affirming elements of being a live human being that is learning?" ooo, I want to play; here's a set for idealists: recognize, reclaim, restore, raise, reify. More...
8 French Startups Revolutionizing Career Counseling
8 French Startups Revolutionizing Career Counseling
Camille Pons, Nina Fink, Actualités EducPros, 2018/04/06
This is a short English version of a slightly longer article in French. What I like is that each of the eight companies takes a different approach to career counseling. Pixis uses a constellation of 731 careers. Impala has an interactive career map that adapts to user responses. Studizz Bot uses high school students’ academic profiles. More...
Meet the 'Study Tubers': The YouTubers making studying cool
Meet the 'Study Tubers': The YouTubers making studying cool
Sophie van Brugen, BBC News, 2018/04/06
This is a short BBC video profiling 'study tubers' - people who are in school and record study tips and share advice with their friends. The videos are called 'revision videos', as in "revision for school exams". The speaker is named Jade and here is her YouTube channel (BBC doesn't link to it for some reason; I had to search for it). Here's one called Revision With Eve. Also Ibz Mo from Cambridge. More...
Magic AI: these are the optical illusions that trick, fool, and flummox computers
Magic AI: these are the optical illusions that trick, fool, and flummox computers
James Vincent, The Verge, 2018/04/06
A Reddit item on designing chess pieces cites this article from last year about something called 'adversarial images' - these are patterns that can fool an artificial intelligence into thinking one thing is something else. See also. It might make a face recognition system think you're the pope. Or it might cause a system to identify something as a weapon, or worse, an accordion. More...
