Here are 9 email newsletters about data… I think you’ll like at least 4 of them
Paul Bradshaw, Online Journalism Blog, 2017/09/19
This list is focused mostly on data journalism, but it also overlaps into open data, and this is of significant interest here because one of the applications of open data is (or will be eventually) to feed directly into personal learning resources such as simulations, discussion rooms, and personal learning. More...

Brain as Prediction Machine
Julie Dirksen, Usable Learning, 2017/09/15
I ran across this concept last summer and let it slip by, but I don't want to overlook it. The idea is that the brain functions not as an intelligence or thinking instrument, but as a prediction machine. This article collects a number of resources that revolve around that idea.  This is important because the function of predicing can be very different, and the requirements much lower, than for intelligence or cognition. More...

3 Short Videos On Creating Custom xAPI Statements For Storyline
Melissa Milloway, eLearning Industry, 2017/09/14
This is an interesting and useful guide describing in detail how to use xAPI. It thereby serves as a good way to understand xAPI as a concept. This is the second article in a series (see the first, from last March, on getting started with xAPI and Storyline). More...

K-20 Series: Why Mastery Makes Sense
D. Scott Looney, EDUCAUSE Review, 2017/09/13
This article introduces us to the Mastery Transcript Consortium, which was launched with 54 independent (aka, private) schools. "Six months later," we read, "the MTC's roster has more than doubled and includes some of the world's best known prep schools." Why start with private schools. More...

Rewilding EdTech
Martin Weller, The Ed Techie, 2017/09/12
Yes, this is what I want. "Rewilding might be an idea we could take to ed tech. Much of the early enthusiasm around ed tech was that it was, as Brian Lamb used to characterise it, fast, cheap and out of control." Tony Hirst has a great idea in the comments: "Hmmm… so why not just install and then something like Binderhub?" Great idea. More...

New pThe Cyberlearning Report goes to schoolost
Judi Fusco, The Educators Corner, 2017/11/29
The point of this post is to encourage people to onload the Cyberlearning Report (covered here last October) and to describe its use in a class at Pepperdine University. More...

Trademark Announcement Sparks Conversation About Microlearning
Ave Rio, Chief Learning Officer, 2017/11/29
So here's something else being ruined. According to this article, "The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has given Grovo a registered trademark on 'microlearning.'" Actually, according to a comment, Grovo is merely trying to register the trademark, and hasn't yet been successful. More...

Virtual infant BabyX prompts question: how do we feel about AI that looks so much like us?
Ramona Pringle, CBC News, 2017/11/28
While educators persist in the belief that AI can't create relationships with us, AI's begin to forge relationships with us. This we see the example of 'BabyX'. Right now we sense a feeling of unease, known as an 'uncanny valley', because the AI's responses aren't quite right. More...