Enhancing Phonological Awareness, Print Awareness, and Oral Language Skills in Preschool Children
Laura M. Justice, Paige C. Pullen, 2018/09/17
I admit that I've been sceptical of the hypothes.is annotation service, but this is a very nice example of an annotated PDF using gentle yellow highlighting. More...
The seven tools of causal inference with reflections on machine learning
The seven tools of causal inference with reflections on machine learning
Adrian Colyer, The Morning Paper, 2018/09/17
Adrian Colyer has found a delicious paper (The seven tools of causal inference with reflections on machine learning Pearl, CACM 2018) that works (for me, at least) on multiple levels. Here's the story: " To understand why? and to answer what if? questions, we need some kind of a causal model. More...
Defining high-quality project-based learning
Defining high-quality project-based learning
Emily Liebtag, eSchool News, 2018/09/17
eSchool News articles are frustrating because there's virtually nothing to them (and then that's spread out over two pages). But in this base we have an exception, not because the article is great, but because we get some links to a warren of services and resources. More...
More than marks
More than marks
Doug Peterson, doug - off the record, 2018/09/17
One of those formative experiences that you have when you're young came for me when I attended a Model Commonwealth conference at Ashbury College in Ottawa. Ashbury is a private school in a chi-chi part of the city with a reputation and tuition fee schedule that ensured I would never go there. It was clear students there had every advantage, and if you're an Ashbury student you're probably going to university. A far cry from Osgoode Township High School, out in the country. More...
OwnYourGram
OwnYourGram
Aaron Parecki, 2018/09/28
Pretty simple concept: "Sign in with your domain, connect your Instagram account, when you post to Instagram, the photos will be sent to your site!" Signing in with your domain requires IndieAuth (the modern-day answer to "whatever happened to OpenID?"). More...
IndieAuth.com: Sign in with your domain name
IndieAuth.com: Sign in with your domain name
2018/09/28
It's a bit complex but it's simpler than OpenID was. I'm still looking into it. More...
Open Design Kit
Open Design Kit
2018/09/28
This is "a living collection of guides and best practices to help you to make and design openly. The Kit was originally incubated at Bocoup and became a community-owned project in Summer 2017." There's a dozen or so 'methods' with links to activities and applications. More...
Aperture
Aperture
Aaron Parecki, 2018/09/28
Think of it as like a reader for microcontent. " Aperture is a Microsub server. Microsub is a spec that provides a standardized way for reader apps to interact with feeds. By splitting feed parsing and displaying posts into separate parts, a reader app can focus on presenting posts to the user instead of also having to parse feeds. More...
MastoView
MastoView
2018/09/28
This displays the most recent posts on any instance of Mastodon you care to name, or (even better!) allows you to select a random one (be warned - some random Mastodon instances have content not suited to everyone). It's from unmung.com, which demonstrates a bunch of distributed web stuff, including various other Javascript applications. More...
Can Education Keep Up with Technology?
Can Education Keep Up with Technology?
Wayne Skipper, EDUCAUSE Review, EDUCAUSE Review, 2018/09/28
My first thought on reading the question was, "probably not," but of course in a certain sense everything both does and does not 'keep up' with technology. Anyhow, what we have here is a good article with a lot of links covering some of the more important recent trends in technology: machine-readable learning, common building blocks, machine teaching, self-driving organizations, and change. More...