By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Doug Noon: Decolonizing Education, Borderland May 9, 2006
Interesting post challenging the status quo in education. I like the "resistance model to colonial thought," cited in part here: "Refuse to accept as common sense, discourses that present strong symbolic content that may contribute to stereotypes and erroneous beliefs... Re-question the aims of education... Redefine knowledge: To better understand how I come to know and value". More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Daithí Ó hAnluain: NewsML Aims For the Mainstream, Online Journalism Review Online Journalism review May 8, 2006
NewsML is an XML format designed for news articles. It is similar to RSS, but also includes a detailed vocabulary for categorizing news stories. This article describes the progress (or lack of same) of NewsML as a new version, 2.0, is about to be released. Readers should note the parallels between NewsML and Learning Object Metadata (LOM). Most of the discussion concerns the complexity of the standard. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Clare Brett: Why Reading Matters Even More in the Digital Age, May 8, 2006
The latter half of this paper, dealing with the educational uses of weblogs and wikis, will be familiar to most readers of this newsletter. Leading into that material, though, is a nice description of the new literacies required by online readers. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Christopher D. Sessums[Edit][Delete]: This Machine Kills Fascists, Christopher D. Sessums : Weblog [Edit][Delete] May 8, 2006
We are the music-makers,
And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers,
And sitting by desolate streams.
World-losers and world-forsakers,
Upon whom the pale moon gleams;
Yet we are the movers and shakers,
Of the world forever, it seems.
Yes, I am officially back from my hiatus; thanks to those of you who have posted welcomes. Rob Wall kindly says "Given the hysteria around web based e-mail accounts, MySpace and other threats to the educational orthodoxy, the timing couldn't be better." And I do want to make a difference regarding these and other issues. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Michael Feldstein[Edit][Delete]: If They Build It, Will We Come?, E-Literate [Edit][Delete] May 2, 2006By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Kathy Sierra[Edit][Delete]: The Myth of Keeping Up, Creating Passionate Users [Edit][Delete] May 1, 2006
La vie de cet être humain virtuel et ses caractéristiques ne tiennent que sur une feuille, mais il focalise des groupes de travail pendant des heures. C'est le persona. Dans la conception d'un projet, d'une application ou d'un service, il est devenu indispensable. Ce personnage approximatif va aider à penser et concevoir les projets en prenant le point de vue du client ou de l'usager, en évitant ainsi de n'en rester qu'à la vision de l'organisation. Plus...
Dans certaines professions, la présence physique n'est plus requise grâce à la puissance et au faible coût des connexions Internet. Des entreprises ont senti les bons créneaux et ont créé des outils collaboratifs massivement utilisés par les nouveaux emplois ou nouvelles entreprises. Pensez aux plus connus tels que : Slack, Trello, Evernote et même Skype. Plus...
Depuis Socrate, les vieilles générations ont toujours jugé les plus récentes d'un oeil critique. Les jeunes prennent parfois des décisions téméraires ou adoptent des comportements impensables en leur temps. En matière professionnelle, les adultes expérimentés taxent les plus jeunes de n’avoir aucune ambition. Ils semblent virevolter d’un emploi à l’autre sans réellement avoir de plan défini. Plus...
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