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28 janvier 2020

EduservCETIS 20Sep2007

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. EduservCETIS 20Sep2007
If you are interested in the use of Second Life in online learning, you'll want to access the slides and podcasts from this meeting help a few days ago summarizing the results of four research projects sponsored by Britain's Eduserv Foundation. The projects were: Theatre, Performance, History and Creative Pedagogy: Theatron's Second Life; Learning in Second Life; Modelling4All: Intersecting computer modelling, Web 2.0, and Second Life; and Learning Support in Second Life with Sloodle. More...

28 janvier 2020

My OpenEd Demonstrator - Augmenting OER with Client-Side Tools

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. My OpenEd Demonstrator - Augmenting OER with Client-Side Tools
Scott Leslie demonstrates various tools for accessing and using open educational resources (OERs) through the use of client-side tools, partially to show how this is done and partially "to counter what seems to me like the chauvinism that people are going to consume your OER courses on your site, in the way you dictate. More...

28 janvier 2020

Santa Cruz

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Santa Cruz

I'm in LAX now on my way home from San Jose. The conference retreated to the pier at Santa Cruz last night. Some nice photos, of which I have uploaded only this one thus far. More soon. Stephen Downes, Flickr September 27, 2007 [Link] [Tags: , ]. More...

28 janvier 2020

U.S. Sets the Standard for Filtering

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. U.S. Sets the Standard for Filtering
This post seems appropriate to mention as I sit here in the ballroom listening to a speaker from Walmart admit that not only does the company filter web access, they also capture and view (she gets a list every morning) all the emails sent and sites viewed by staff. While people criticize China, as this article points out, it turns out that more sites are filtered in American schools than Chinese. More...

28 janvier 2020

How They Do Surprise Us, These People We Call Students

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. How They Do Surprise Us, These People We Call Students
Interesting story about an exercise where students read a poem into MP3 as part of a class assignment - and discover more in the poem than they thought, and more than their teacher expected. No deep lessons here, but it's part of an overall pattern of perception and meaning as being composed of more than just words. More...

28 janvier 2020

Putting More Social Into Our Social Software

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Putting More Social Into Our Social Software
Post outlining the addition of new social software features to Blackboard. Interesting because of the discussion of the terminology. The term 'social software' is apparently new to Blackboard users, but 'resource sharing' is something they can identify with. More...

28 janvier 2020

Why We Need National Testing

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Why We Need National Testing
The title for this post is quite misleading. A good part of the discussion concerns the nature of testing, and in particular comparing test results against "the norm". As Ravitch points out, these results are routinely misinterpreted, as newspaper headlines scream that half of all students are testing below "the norm". Testing against the norm - doing pretty much anything against the norm (and here I address all those people who want to follow the 'middle path') - is in error, as the 'norm' can shift. "If everyone is grossly overweight, then the 'norm' is to be overweight." But it doesn't follow, and I don't agree, that there is some absolute standard against which people can be tested. The selection of such standard becomes a political process. And while Ravitch may talk about those standards as "shared culture" the fact is testing becomes in such an environment not an evaluation of achievement but rather a measurement of conformity. More...

28 janvier 2020

We Can't Teach the New Literacies Soon Enough

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. We Can't Teach the New Literacies Soon Enough
We really need to take a different perspective on the typical 'posed on Facebook' story. Let me explain. Suppose I robbed a bank. Then suppose I took pictures and video, and posted them on Facebook. Time passes. Then, one day, I am denied a job because an employer saw my Facebook page. Now, the question. Where did I go wrong? Should I have been advised, "If you rob a bank, don't put it on Facebook?" Of course not. The advice should be, "Don't rob a bank." Well and good. But you may argue, the kids that went out drinking did nothing wrong. Quite so. Then why are they being punished for it? Should we be telling them, "What you did is perfectly legal and appropriate, but you could be fired for it?" What kind of message is that? I think we need to take Facebook out of the equation and to stop recommending Facebook hypocrisy. More...

28 janvier 2020

IEEE Trial-Use Recommended Practice for Digital Rights Expression Languages (DRELs) Suitable for eLearning Technologies

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. IEEE Trial-Use Recommended Practice for Digital Rights Expression Languages (DRELs) Suitable for eLearning Technologies
IEEE Std 1484.4-2007 published on 14 September 2007. This standard is the result of work by the Digital Rights Expression Language subcommittee. Neither ODRL nor XrML became 'the standard'; rather, what you'll see is a mapping of 'best practices' to three digital rights expression languages. My own view is that it is too early in the game to propose any standard at all. But as I have commented in the past, these standards committees are heavily biased towards passage of proposed standards, so I think that a non-specific mapping might have been the best the committee could do under the scope set out by the rules. As is the practice of IEEE, the standard is unavailable for download; you have to buy it from them. More...

28 janvier 2020

New Media Literacies in Learning Landscapes

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. New Media Literacies in Learning Landscapes
I am still in San Jose for the Brandon Hall conference. I fly out of here first thing tomorrow morning, get home very late at night, recover for a day, then head to Prince Edward Island for the New Media Literacies in Learning Landscapes Institute conference being organized by Dave Cormier of Ed Tech Talk fame. If you're in the Maritimes this is one you don't want to miss, I think. More...

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