By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. ‘Secret sharing’ system keeps your personal data safe
Taylor Kubota-Stanford, Futurity, 2018/11/14
The article feels more like marketing than data but it does indicate a trend toward secure personal information online. And the Prio mechanism it proposes could work, I think. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. 5 Levels
Wired, YouTube, 2018/11/02
I'm enjoying the '5 Levels' series of videos from Wired. The idea is that a specialist explains the same concept at five distinct levels of complexity, beginning with an explanation to a young child, and progressive to discussing it with another specialist. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. On Distributing Distributed Technology, Long Tails, and Scaling
Ton Zijlstra, Interdependent Thoughts, 2018/11/01
In any technology cycle (including learning technology) "Long tail forming as an adoption pattern is a good way then to see if broad distribution is being achieved," writes Ton Zijllstra. This is the proposition he asserts of Mastodon, which has a big head (or a big spike) of a few very large instances, but only a stubby tail of very few small-scale adopters. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. IRUS-UK collaboration: consistent, comparable usage statistics to demonstrate the growth of OA
Hilary Jones, JISC, 2018/10/26
This article offers a brief overview and, more importantly, three case studies (quoted from the article):
By . Digital innovations are everywhere, in our pockets, cars and homes. However, while digital technologies seem to offer great potential to enhance firm productivity, productivity growth has slowed sharply in most OECD countries over the past two decades. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. 2018 Students and Technology Research Study
Dana C. Gierdowski, D. Christopher Brooks, Joseph Galanek, EDUCAUSE, 2018/10/25
From this report (47 page PDF) some of the the key findings (quoted):
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Here's What I Covered In My 4 DevLearn Presentations
Mel Milloway, Blog, 2018/10/29
Mel Milloway had a pretty busy conference. In his first session he has "the audience go through my Is It Edible? activity and guess what JavaScript was used." Thast's a nice way to do a "how do do it with Javacript" session. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. This robot co-taught a course at West Point
Khorri Atkinson, Axios, 2018/10/24
"Bina48 co-taught two sessions of an introduction to ethics philosophy course — which covers ethical reasoning, just-war theory and the use of artificial intelligence in society. In the classroom were almost 100 students, along with Barry and Maj. Scott Parsons, an assistant professor at West Point." I think "taught" is a very generous statement of what probably actually happened. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. 4 human-caused biases we need to fix for machine learning
Glen Ford, TheNextWeb, 2018/10/28
The response to three of the four biases reported in this post is diversity. And I would add that just as machines need diversity in order to avoid bias, so do humans. That's why diversity is valuable. Anyhow here's the breakdown of the three (all quoted from the text):
The fourth type of bias is prejudice bias, and "is a result of training data that is influenced by cultural or other stereotypes." More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. The State of Video in Education 2018
Kaltura, 2018/10/16
The website takes you through a spamwall but the direct link to the 31 page PDF should work (I tested it). It's a pretty brisk read pointing to the increased use of video in learning. More...
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