Higher education institutions aren't easily disentangled from politics, and to claim otherwise is not only false but dangerous, argue Inger Bergom and Spencer Piston. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Kids Shouldn’t Have to Sacrifice Privacy for Education
Dipayan Ghosh, Jim Steyer, New York Times, 2018/12/17
Part of the issue with violating privacy in learning is that it's just creepy to have to give your personal information just to learn things. But the other part is less obviously a privacy concern, in my view, and more of a human rights concern. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Personality Prostheses
Alan Dix, Medium, 2018/12/10
The learning style sceptics say there are no learning styles. This is squarely contrary to the idea of 'personality prostheses' advanced by Alan Dix. The idea is, just as we use a lever if we're too weak to move a rock, we use other tools to help out other aspects of our character. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Highlighting passages doesn’t aid my memory, but speaking them does
Jon Udell, 2018/12/10
Neither highlighting nor speaking aloud has ever helped me (though if it works for Jon Udell more power to him). For me the secret has always been to reinterpret and reconstruct. When studying somehting really closely I would break it down and create an outline. More...
Terri Givens writes that watching her son go through the application process gives her new worries about those who don't have access to information and guidance on the process. More...Jeffrey J. Nolan and Marisa Randazzo describe how colleges and universities can use threat assessment teams to promote safety in such cases. More...Caralena Peterson initially wrote it off as a superficial cliché, but now as a recent college graduate, she believes it should be considered a major mental health concern. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Mistletoe Offline
Jeremy Keith, 24 ways to impress your friends, 2018/12/11
The title makes no sense but the article is definitely worth a read. It is about service workers. These are "technology that you can inject into a visitor’s device from your website. Once it’s installed, it can intercept any requests made to your domain." The case described in the article is one where the service worker handles the request when the website is offline (or when the website user is offline). More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. My advice for aspiring explainer journalists
David Roberts, Vox, 2018/12/13
There is a cross-over, I think, between what David Roberts calls 'explainer journalism' and the field of online learning. And though this article focuses in depth on the former, it has a great deal to teach educators as well. "It’s not that there are no unique skills involved. There are. But experience teaches them a hell of a lot faster and better than journalism school. Your goal is to get good at gathering facts, perceiving patterns, and telling stories. And the way you get good at that the same way you get good at anything else — by doing it a lot."
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By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Warrant Canary Frequently Asked Questions
Kurt Opsahl, EFF, 2018/12/13
The 'warrant canary' is a pretty good idea. When an online service provider receives a demand from the government, this demand is often accompanied with a requirement that it tell no one about the demand. So, for example, Yahoo can never inform you if the FBI demanded your personal information. More...
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