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14 février 2020

Keeping Life Simple

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Keeping Life Simple
The Zombu is a very interesting device - a computer preloaded with a Linux operating system that is 'locked in' - it will update, but you can't mess around with it or break it. It has 4 gigabytes of flash memory - no hard drive. You can store more online. The computer has 20 applications pre-installed. More...

14 février 2020

An Argument for Knols Over Wikipedia and Citizendium

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. An Argument for Knols Over Wikipedia and Citizendium
When I posted by refutation of the Kirschner Sweller and Clark paper a few days ago it was not long before I received the anonymous hate mail. One thing is certain in all this: the opposition to constructivism and similar pedagogies seems to be more political than it is educational or scientific. A case in point: why would someone go out of his way to ensure that every article in Wikipedia that deals with constructivism and related themes included, as a highlight, a 'refutation' of constructivism and copious cites of the Kirschner Sweller and Clark paper? I don't agree that this is an argument in favour of 'Knols' or some other authority-driven system, though. The anti-egalitarian position advocated by the anti-constructivists tends to hold sway in authority-driven systems (which explains the persistence of 'colonial' educational systems despite decades of successful experience with their alternatives. More...

14 février 2020

Democratizing Innovation

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Democratizing Innovation
It was only five or six years ago I saw a prototype 3D printer in the National Research Council's offices in Ottawa. I wanted to create a bust of myself, but it wasn't in the cards. Now this type of technology seems ready to reach out to the home market. More...

14 février 2020

Laptop Project Enlivens Peruvian Hamlet

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Laptop Project Enlivens Peruvian Hamlet
The reviews from the field are coming in and it looks like the XO computer is a hit. "It's the best answer yet to 'a global crisis of education' in which curricula have no relevance, he said. 'If we make education pertinent, something the student enjoys, then it won't matter if the classroom's walls are straw or the students are sitting on fruit boxes.'" The most popular feature seems to be the video cameras; we should expect to see a flood of videos taken by children around the world. More...

14 février 2020

Requiescat in Pace: Oscar Peterson, 1925-2007

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Requiescat in Pace: Oscar Peterson, 1925-2007
"There's an extreme joy I get in playing that I've never been able to explain." I'll let the music speak for itself. More...

14 février 2020

Economics in a DRM-Free World

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Economics in a DRM-Free World
After my previous post, Doug Johnson asked me to explain the economic model of a DRM-free world. This has been done by others on numerous occasions, so this link should only be thought of as a summary. Stephen Downes, Half an Hour December 25, 2007 [Link] [Tags: ]. More...

14 février 2020

EduCamp Colombia Bogota Video

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. EduCamp Colombia Bogota Video
Newly uploaded video of my talk in Bogota at Educamp Colombia. Stephen Downes, Google Video December 25, 2007 [Link] [Tags: ]. More...

14 février 2020

Me.Edu.Au

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Me.Edu.Au
EdNA is launching a new social software service on December 15. "Everyone who is a current edna registered user will automatically have a myedna profile and space which will provide significant benefits for edna members." If you are an EdNA member you can go to the preview and try it out. It works well, though I miss the Facebook apps (especially Scrabble) and I don't really like the conflation of personal interests with communities. More...

14 février 2020

OTF/FEO Professional Development VOD (Video-On-Demand)

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. OTF/FEO Professional Development VOD (Video-On-Demand)
The Ontario Teachers Federation is offering these professional development videos free of charge on its website. There is not currently a registration, though the post by Quentin D'Souza suggests there will be. I hope the Federation resists the urge to place a barrier, even if it is an 'easy' barrier, in front of the content (my fear is that it may not be so 'easy' for people who are not OFS members). The videos are in WMV format, which is also unfortunate, as they are therefore inaccessible to many viewers. More...

14 février 2020

Self-Organized Groups and the Methods and Ethics of Accessing Learning Resources

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Self-Organized Groups and the Methods and Ethics of Accessing Learning Resources
"Respecting the self-organizing group and its decision-making capacity is the sine qua non of success. It also happens to be the absolute opposite of the organizational principles of traditional education and training." Quite so, and I appreciate the grounding of this assertion, as Jay Cross does, in the findings of the 'hole in the wall' project. This assertion, of course, is precisely the point of dispute between the 'free learning' that I and many others advocate, as opposed to the 'control learning' defended by traditional instructivists. Long-time readers of OLDaily, of course, will recall our coverage of the 'hole in the wall' project dating from 2002, thanks to Frederick Noronha. More...

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