A First Pass At An ISTE Reflection
Tim Stahmer, Assorted Stuff, 2018/07/02
There's a little more from this year's ISTE. In this post, Tim Stahmer  argues that (at 15,000 participants) it's too big, and that it dominated by vendors. And he's still concerned about those smart badges. More...

Timid About Fair Use?
Colleen Flaherty, Inside Higher Ed, January 30, 2014

I wish people would be more assertive in the exercise of their rights to fair use. More...

When Learning Isn’t Vulnerability
Darren Draper, Drape's Takes, January 29, 2014
Darren Draper critiques the recent "learning is vulnerability" argument offered by George Siemens and Audrey Watters, among others, but I think he mistakes what "vulnerability" means. Draper asks, "have we consigned ourselves to a world where learning must be networked, must require community, and must embrace the vulnerability of students? I hope not." He adds, "there are many times when learning (i.e., studying, practicing, being taught, and experiencing) takes place without an audience and with minimal communication strain on the part of the learner." Well, true. More...

Your Assumptions About Reading Are Wrong
Tim Kastelle, The Discipline of Innovation, January 27, 2014
Way back in the 1990s there was a prevailing opinion that the internet would result in the end of reasing. This was (I guess) because most people thought of it as another sort of TV. More...

School ditches rules and loses bullies
Fairfax, TVNZ, January 28, 2014
I found this pretty interesting. A school in New Zealand had a number of rules intended to keep children safe. But as part of a study, they abandoned the rules completely. More...

Why Student Debt Burden is Falling Like a Stone
Alex Usher, Higher Education Strategy Associates, January 28, 2014
I don't know what Higher Ed Strategy's Alex Usher is up to with this article purporting to show that the student loan debt burder issue is "people trying to manufacture a good crisis" but this article doesn't show it. It purports to "care about the data" but is almost completely unsourced. More...

Ed Tech Thought Leader Interview: Innovative CIO Phil Komarny
Kelly Walsh, Emerging Education Technology, January 28, 2014
Two part interview (part one, part two) with Phil Komarny, VP and CIO for Seton Hall University (noted for its iPad and Macbook programs for students). As expected, it's grounded in the IT needs of the traditional campus-based university, but nonetheless contains good insights and advice. More...

Deep Learning
Hugo Larochelle, YouTube, January 23, 2014
I spent the better part of the day Thursday watching Hugo Larochelle's presentation on deep learning. This is basically the use of neural networks to support unsupervised machine learning. More...

It's “Nerve-racking”! Getting our Storytellers Offline (and Back On Again)
Laura Morris, Rising Voices, January 10, 2014
This is an interesting course run in association with Global Voices. "Transom is an online resource for storytellers, mostly audio-based but delving into the world of visual digital media as well. They recent put on a six-week online workshop – based entirely on Facebook – with several Rising Voices writers participating." Not everybody was happy participating via Facebook. More...

Serendipity Without Stacks
Chloe Horning, ACRLog, January 7, 2014
I too remember the phrase "serendipity of the stacks", and on those occasions I browsed through a library I would experience it (that's how I discovered Nicholas Rescher)(but generally I kept my library visits goal-oriented and brief, because the dust on all the untouched books gave me headaches). More...