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17 février 2020

Insights From Instructure Preliminary Proxy Statement

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Insights From Instructure Preliminary Proxy Statement
Phil Hill, Phil on Ed Tech, 2020/01/06
I don't want to linger too much on the Instructure sale, but on the other hand, the revelations can't be ignored. As Phil Hill writes, the Board has already decided to make it "a “Rule of 40” software company with a combined growth rate and profit margin of at least 40%." Additionally, "there is no view to show whether Bridge is dead or alive." And of course, "he size of payouts for the executive team seems remarkable, especially as most of that team was hired in the past year or two to improve the Bridge corporate learning market more than the Canvas academic market". More...

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17 février 2020

Instructure’s Proposed Acquisition is a Bad Risk for Everyone

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Instructure’s Proposed Acquisition is a Bad Risk for Everyone
Michael Feldstein, e-Literate, 2020/01/06
"I have become increasingly worried," writes Michael Feldstein, "that, by going through with this particular sale at this particular time, there is a very high risk of destroying the company's value to customers and shareholders alike." Instructure doesn't have any viable products apart from its core LMS, and it seems to be stalled, writes Feldstein. More...

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17 février 2020

Who Is Competing to Own Researcher Identity?

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Who Is Competing to Own Researcher Identity?
Roger C. Schonfeld, The Scholarly Kitchen, 2020/01/06
This overview of researcher identity systems not surprisingly focuses on commercial publishing solutions, including ResearchGate, Clarivate and Elsevier. A couple of paragraphs are allocated to ORCID, which arguably has more long-term potential than any of the commercial systems. More...

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17 février 2020

Further Defining Digital Literacies: The Ethics of Information Creation

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Further Defining Digital Literacies: The Ethics of Information Creation
Kevin Hodgson, Kevin's Meandering Mind, 2019/12/31
This post reflects on a revision of definition of Literacy in a Digital Age by the National Council of Teachers of English. In particular, it considers the act of "hitting 'send' or 'post' without thinking twice about what they are sending forward, and to whom, doing it on a whim." In short, writes Kevin, "this strand could be an entire semester course on ethical writing in an online world." The move from the one subject to the other is as seamless as any I have seen - but I have to ask, is ethics the same as literacy? Is being ethical part of being literate. More...

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17 février 2020

I Don’t Think I’m an EdTech Guy Anymore

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. I Don’t Think I’m an EdTech Guy Anymore
Dean Shareski, Ideas and Thoughts, 2019/12/31
Dean Shareski question the nature of the discipline to which he has devoted most of a career. I confess to having said in recent years that I don't think ed tech is a discipline any more, so I can identify with where Shareski is coming from. It has splintered, with the 'pure' ed tech focusing on, as Shareski notes, things like augmented and virtual reality, 3D printing, coding, esports and blockchain. But there's also professional learning, global learning and digital citizenships, and I would add things like digital identity and open pedagogy. My focus has always been a bit different - my interest has always been 'online learning and new media'. But in the end, it doesnt matter how the communities form and reform. More...

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17 février 2020

The End Of Education Reform, Or A New Beginning?

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. The End Of Education Reform, Or A New Beginning?
Natalie Wexler, Forbes, 2019/12/31
I have to confess that my main question on reading this Forbes article was to wonder who is funding all those articles that say the cure to all the nation's educational problems is direct instruction. This is Yet Another Article where direct instruction is offered as the solution to sagging test scores (this time placed in the context of explaining why a decade of 'reform' has failed). And it's deceptive - it begins by arguing that things like rock star teachers, charter schools, 'back to basics' and endless testing have all failed, but then shifts gears, blaming the failure on critical thinking and constructivism, offering direct instruction as the cure. The only consistent explanation for test schools that I've seen is that they measure for social equity. Countries with wide divisions between rich and poor have lower scores, and poorer countries fare less well overall. More...

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17 février 2020

My Best Photos of 2019

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. My Best Photos of 2019
Stephen Downes, Flickr, 2019/12/31

These photos are my best of 2019. Please enjoy. Meanwhile, I'm pleased to be included in this list by George Siemens, and not to be included in this list by Audrey Watters.

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17 février 2020

The Invention of “Ethical AI”: How Big Tech Manipulates Academia to Avoid Regulation

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. The Invention of “Ethical AI”: How Big Tech Manipulates Academia to Avoid Regulation
Rodrigo Ochigame, The Intercept, 2019/12/30
According to this article, "Silicon Valley’s vigorous promotion of 'ethical AI' has constituted a strategic lobbying effort, one that has enrolled academia to legitimize itself." Playing a key role in this was Joi Ito and the MIT Media Lab. "The corporate, academic, and military proponents of 'ethical AI' have collaborated closely for mutual benefit," writes Rodrigo Ochigame. "For example, Ito told me that he informally advised Schmidt on which academic AI ethicists Schmidt’s private foundation should fund." I'm sure a lot of that happens all the time, and not just in the field of ethics. More...

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17 février 2020

I Killed My Teenager’s Fancy College Dreams. You Should, Too.

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. I Killed My Teenager’s Fancy College Dreams. You Should, Too.
Melody Warnick, Slate, 2019/12/30
A middle-income family prevents their daughter from taking on massive student loans for art school. I read this as a "poor people shouldn't aspire to rich people things" story. But for an artist especially, a network of rich friends is a much-needed asset, and one her local college won't provide. More...

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17 février 2020

Algorithmic Puzzles: History, Taxonomies, and Applications in Human Problem Solving

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Algorithmic Puzzles: History, Taxonomies, and Applications in Human Problem Solving
Anany Levitin, Journal of Problem Solving, 2019/12/30
This is a fun read from a couple of years ago that turned up in an O'Reilly mailing list this week. While it will be of interest to psychologists and computer scientists, it will also give teachers ideas for class discussion or computation projects. The paper (15 page PDF) considers the nature or algorithmic puzzles, identifies two typologies based on the question posed and the generality of the input, and offers a list of 12 such puzzle that might be good subjects for future research. Or class projects. More...

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