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17 mai 2017

Shared Agency

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Shared Agency
Abraham Sesshu Roth, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2017/05/03
This excellent revision of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy's (SEP) article on shared agency is a must-read for anyone working on theories of applications of collaboration in learning. More...

17 mai 2017

This Week In Webo-plasmosis

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. This Week In Webo-plasmosis
Michael Caulfield, Traces, 2017/05/02
In what might be the worst-but-most-compelling analogy ever, Mike Caulfield draws a parallel between a parasite that spreads from cat to cat by infecting mice and making them less fearful of cats, and social media that spreads from site to site by infecting people and making them less fearful of advertising. More...

17 mai 2017

Exploring the Deep Web: A Knowledge Vs Comfort Dilemma

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Exploring the Deep Web: A Knowledge Vs Comfort Dilemma
Ludovico Ristori, Digicult, 2017/04/28
The thesis of this article is that the deep web isn't all bad, and that though it contains quite a bit that actually is bad, it is nonetheless worth exploring. More...

17 mai 2017

Presentation Advice from 14 of My Favorite Presenters

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Presentation Advice from 14 of My Favorite Presenters
Dan Meyer, DyDan, 2017/04/28
Some of the advice in this post is pretty good, but not all of it (though to be fair it's a matter of perspective). Some speakers have a single presentation they rehearse and hone over time. More...

17 mai 2017

Stop killing your social stories with bad headlines and images

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Stop killing your social stories with bad headlines and images
Ryan Craggs, Columbia Journalism Review, 2017/04/27
Writing on the internet today requires a clarity and precision beyond anything required in the print world, because you do not have an exclusive hold over your reader while they're reading. More...

17 mai 2017

Should We Stop with the Commenting Already?

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Should We Stop with the Commenting Already?
Angela Cochran, The Scholarly Kitchen, 2017/04/27
I get the feeling that publishers really dislike crowd-sourced and post-publication peer review. Angela Cochran writes that "one thing became clear:  crowdsourced peer review = post publication peer review = online commenting." She then tags these forms of peer review with all the baggage of internet commenting: anonymity, trolls, irrelevance, and more. More...

17 mai 2017

The rise and rise of Mastodon

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. The rise and rise of Mastodon
Eugen Rochko, Medoum, 2017/04/26
The developer of Mastodon, Eugen Rochko, offers this update following an exciting month that found the distributed social network software suddenly discovered and (it seems) accepted by people around the world. More...

17 mai 2017

Un-Annotated

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Un-Annotated
Audrey Watters, Hack Education, 2017/04/26
Audrey Watters has posted that she will now be blocking web annotations from Genius and those from Hypothes.is. These are web browser plugins that allow people to share comments on web pages as they browse. More...

17 mai 2017

Digital Identities & Digital Citizenship: Houston, We Have a Problem

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Digital Identities & Digital Citizenship: Houston, We Have a Problem
Bonnie Stewart, the theoryblog, 2017/04/26

thought I had already posted this last week, but apparently not. I tweeted at the time, "I read this as Bonnie Stewart running smack-dab into 'groups versus networks' and opting for groups." More...

17 mai 2017

The Essential Underpinnings Of Shifting to ‘Modern Learning’

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. The Essential Underpinnings Of Shifting to ‘Modern Learning’
Katrina Schwartz, KQED, 2017/04/26

It's nice to get an update of what Will Richardson and Bruce Dixon are up to these days. More...

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