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14 février 2020

Predictions for Journalism 2020

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Predictions for Journalism 2020
NiemanLab, 2020/01/03
This is a long list of short contributions to a Nieman Labs special study on the future of journalism. Amid the dire predictions are suggestions about the business model, focus on content, focus on specific issues, format changes, and maybe even the rise of blogcasting. From my own perspective, I think I've found a good formula for doing journalism in this newsletter, but I don't know how I would make it pay if I had to leave my day job. More...

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14 février 2020

Free Textbooks for Law Students

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Free Textbooks for Law Students
Lindsay McKenzie, Inside Higher Ed, 2020/01/03
This article questions whether some open access law textbooks count as open educational resources (OER) because they do not allow derivatives to be made from them. The article doesn't actually link to the texts, but they are freely available: here's the Trademark Law text (862 page PDF), and here's the Copyright Law text (702 page PDF). Both are CC non-commercial licensed, and only the Copyright Law text includes the no-derivatives clause. So is it OER? The story quotes Cable Green from Creative Commons as stating that they are not OER. My official and well-considered view on the matter? I don't care. More...

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14 février 2020

How to Change Your Conversations About Cultural Appropriation

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. How to Change Your Conversations About Cultural Appropriation
James Mendez Hodes, 2020/01/03
I gave this item a slow and careful read, because it's a bit outside my comfort zone. I was rewarded with a nuanced, informed and engaging discussion of cultural appropriation. I like that it resisted drawing hard lines (someone wears deadlocks in Sweden; who cares, really?) and was sensitive to intention and context (someone goes overboard defending a person who wears dreadlocks in Sweden; what is their intent here?). "Next time the issue comes up, slow down and break the topic into its component parts. Don’t draw preconceived lines. Don’t pass sentences. Focus on the expression on the table and its own distinct character. Who has the power? Who’s vulnerable to harm? Where are the patterns? What’s the context?". More...

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14 février 2020

The future of high-speed computing may be larger CPUs with optics

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. The future of high-speed computing may be larger CPUs with optics
Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 2020/01/02
This is pretty far down the ed tech stack, but I want to take note because I've been seeing an increase in the number of events in this area lately. The area in question could be described under the general heading of 'optical computing'. The idea is to use light-based components, rather than electricity-based components. There are numerous issues that have been solved, and many more to go, but the potential is for faster and more energy-efficient computers. This article is from last April - what prompted me to cover optical computing today was an ed tech review of an 'optica' computer (which as it turned out has nothing to do with optical computing). More...

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14 février 2020

The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade
Audrey Watters, Hack Education, 2020/01/02
I've been seeing a lot of praise for Audrey Watters's post The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade (these Tweets captured by Aaron Davis are typical). If you haven't seen it, take this as a reminder to put it on your weekend reading list. More...

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14 février 2020

LEAP Innovations 2020 Framework

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. LEAP Innovations 2020 Framework
Emily Liebtag, Getting Smart, 2020/01/02
It's only January 2nd but I'm already sick of 'this-and-that 2020' themes. This one is a bit of marketing (I would guess) for LEAP Innovations. It reminds me that there's a whole world out there that I don't understand - for example, they write that they "they honored and used several key design principles." What is it to 'honor' a design principle? Or "they are able to witness more practitioners implementing their ideas." Again, it's odd word usage - which tells me that they are appealing to a specific demographic that talks like that. Anyhow, I wanted to link to this, so people can see what's happening in this space. More...

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14 février 2020

What Is Curriculum Development

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. What Is Curriculum Development
Dinant Roode, trenducation, 2020/01/02
This post is from October but I only found this feed today and I felt it would be useful to add a wider perspective to the instructional slash experience design discussion. The post itself is fairly introductory, explaining what curriculum development is, describing why it's important for teachers, and identifying three types of curriculum design: subject-centered, learner-centered, and problem-centered. I would imagine there are more (for example, performance-support-centered or task-centered). More...

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14 février 2020

Ten weird tricks for resisting surveillance capitalism in and through the classroom . . . next term!

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Ten weird tricks for resisting surveillance capitalism in and through the classroom . . . next term!
Erin Glass, HASTAC, 2020/01/02
These are tricks for resisting surveillance in general, and not merely surveillance capitalism (though probably most surveillance is ethically questionable). The article is written in that snappy sort of meme-aware jargon the well-informed like to use (with the weird tricks meme in the headline leading the way). But some of the information is good (and some of it is loopy). Maybe skip suggestions number 1 and (which involves using "that wry teacherly snark you have" to "inform students on" various conspiracy theories). But exploring community-driven tools (like Commons in a Box) is a good idea. So is having students read terms of service. Definitely explore downloading your personal data (but maybe don't delete it until you have a back-up). More...

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14 février 2020

The Old Internet Died And We Watched And Did Nothing

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. The Old Internet Died And We Watched And Did Nothing
Katie Notopoulos, BuzzFeed.News, 2020/01/02
In 1998 I was posting on discussion boards (like the old HotWired Threads) and on mailing lists (like WWW-Dev) and seen some of these early forums come and go. So I decided that I should copy and preserve these posts on my own website, just in case the boards and lists disappeared. Which, in fact, they did. And that's how today I ended up with a huge archive of more than 1600 articles on my web site. But most people, as the author of this article suggests, "did nothing", and so we are now in the situation where a lot of the web's original content has been lost. Indeed, this article is a relatively recent listing of sites that wen't down - MySpace, Froendster, Xanga and Webshots. There's so much more - the venerated (and verifiably ugly) GeoCities, for example, Blip.tv and Google Videos (which between them lost about half my videos), and of course almost all of the aforementioned discussion board and mailing list contents. More...

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14 février 2020

Apps that protect your digital rights

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Apps that protect your digital rights
Blockstack, 2020/01/01
I'm still exploring Blockstack, which appears to have developed a fairly large ecosystem of applications and services (which it won't let you see until you create an identity). But the idea is that it provides access to applications that allow you to create data and store it wherever you want, all connected and protected by a blockchain. As the website says, "Blockstack ID provides user-controlled login and storage that enable you to take back control of your identity and data." There's a blogging app, Sigle, that takes you step by step through the process. More...

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