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21 février 2020

Treating Persons as Means

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Treating Persons as Means
Samuel Kerstein, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2019/04/15
I found this the day after writing my own short post on 'value' but it serves nicely as a clarification of the concept described by Kant on treating people as ends-in-themselves and not means. First posted on Saturday! this article in the Stanford Encyclopedia explores that idea. "The entry begins by focusing on the roots in Kant of discussion of treating persons merely as means. It then considers (morally neutral) notions of using another or treating him as a means, notions that are less straightforward than it might seem." By 'less straightforward' what we mean is a bunch of cases where people argue that it is ethical to treat people as means. More...

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21 février 2020

Industry Consortium on Learning Engineering (ICICLE)

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Industry Consortium on Learning Engineering (ICICLE)
IEEE-LTSC, 2019/04/15
As I type this I'm listening to Dave Cormier's video presentation to OER19 on pro-social - this came right after Bon Stewart passed on George Siemens's denouncement of the concept of 'learning engineering'. I first encountered the term last year when it was proposed as an IEEE-LTSC project. I tried to warn them about just how bad the term sounded, but to no avail. This page - the Industry Consortium on Learning Engineering (ICICLE) - is the outcome of some of that work. More...

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21 février 2020

How Do We Get Middle School Students Excited About Science? Make It Hands-On

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. How Do We Get Middle School Students Excited About Science? Make It Hands-On
Katrina Schwartz, Mind/Shift, 2019/04/15
I don't understand why parents have to send children to 'alternate schools' for this. I studied science and technology at a public school in Ontario several decades ago and had plenty of hands-on experience (though admittedly, despite my best efforts, I never blew up a chem lab). We did physics experiments, biosphere studies, industrial design - a whole host of things. And it wasn't just Activity Day stuff - we made scientific notebooks and presented our results. It's not hard to make science and technology hands-on, it doesn't require special schools, and I think it's something most students (at least, those around here) are still doing. More...

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21 février 2020

In which I finally stop using Patreon

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. In which I finally stop using Patreon
Fluffy, Plaidophile, 2019/04/15
The title refers to the author (someone called 'Fluffy'), not me - I considered but never did use Patreon. I was about to, but their misstep a year ago scared me off, and I never did set up a creator account. And I can certainly feel Fluffy's angst about "using a platform, Patreon, that had absolutely no integration with outside sources. There was no way to republish RSS on Patreon, there was no way to subscribe to Patreon via RSS, it doesn’t even provide a way for a creator to export their own content off the platform. More...

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21 février 2020

How $5 Billion Could Provide a Great Education for Every Kid on Earth

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. How $5 Billion Could Provide a Great Education for Every Kid on Earth
Tom Vander Ark, Getting Smart, 2019/04/15
The program outlined in this article - community conversations, new school models, dual enrollment, private schools, competency systems, etc. - is just a good way to waste $5 billion (or $30 billion, or whatever). The problem isn't quality. The problem is access.
How would I spend $5 billion? I'd put into the hands of educators and communities, mostly in Africa. Maybe a million $5000 projects. Something like that. Ask them to form linkages with each other. Ask them to source locally where they can. Digital is important; there should be last-mile and community access projects. Owned locally, managed locally. No money for Harvard or Stanford or MIT, no money for consulting companies or think tanks - indeed, just the opposite, I'd be asking all those wealthy education reformers to match that money, without tying strings to it. More...

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21 février 2020

8 reasons why my students lead their own conferences

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. 8 reasons why my students lead their own conferences
Rayna Freedman, eSchool News, 2019/04/15
This is an example of what I would call good online learning - indeed, just good learning in general. The setting is parent-teacher conferences for fifth-graders. The only people not there are the students! So this teacher had the student manage their own conference, presenting their work and interacting with both parent and teacher (and sharing their portfolio with caregivers who cannot attend). I would expand this as much as I could, having students manage their own learning activities as much as possible. More...

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21 février 2020

Tech Company Drops Conference Swag in Favor of 13,000 School Donations

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Tech Company Drops Conference Swag in Favor of 13,000 School Donations
Emily Tate, EdSurge, 2019/04/10
So OK, I'm glad a tech company donated 13,746 pieces of conference swag to local schools instead of to conference attendees. Though that said, I would have been more impressed had the school division been in a place that needs the help - not San Francisco, but Oklahoma, say. Or even better, Malawi. Or even better, not branded conference swag, but supplies they can actually use. Or even better, spending that effort lobbying governments to properly and equitably fund schools instead of trying to privatize them. But yeah, stress-relief balls to San Francisco schoolchildren. More...

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21 février 2020

When Workplace Training Goes Very, Very Wrong

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. When Workplace Training Goes Very, Very Wrong
Jon Hyman, Chief Learning Officer, 2019/04/10
There are all kinds of wrong with this story. "An Indiana school district, however, had a different idea of how to train its employees to prepare for an active shooter. This employer had its employees shot in the back, execution style, with plastic pellets." I'm tempted to say I'm "so glad we don't have active shooter drills here" but then I realize that it would not surprise me at all were our management to require one. The folly of a fully weaponized population should be obvious, I think - if not from statistics, then from the culture of fear that such an environment creates, and how education for such environments crosses the line from learning into propaganda. More...

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21 février 2020

Why Kevin Carey is (mostly but not entirely) wrong (again)

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Why Kevin Carey is (mostly but not entirely) wrong (again)
Steven D. Krause, 2019/04/10
This post responds to a recent article by Kevin Carey, summarized here. The points where Carey was right: tuition costs too much, and online program management (OPM) is not helping things. So where is he wrong? In three places, says Steven Krause: first, in the idea that MOOCs can cut costs. Second, in the idea that students are not 'repeat customers'. And third, the very idea that corporations are "devouring" education (which may be more Carey-wish-fulfillment than fact). Maybe Krause is right. More...

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21 février 2020

Why ethical debate is crucial in the classroom

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Why ethical debate is crucial in the classroom
Miranda Mowbray, JISC, 2019/04/10
I'm going to use this post as an excuse for discussing the part where I disagreed most with Kate Bowles (see below). She very clearly ties the need for open education with an ethics of care. In a similar manner, I listened to a radio show today connecting our response to climate change with a certain ethical perspective. And I see the reasoning - if only people adopted a certain ethical perspective, then systems would be humane and people would do the right thing. However, my fear here is that if we are putting our trust in ethics (in both education and environment) then we are putting our trust in exactly the wrong thing. We can discuss ethics, we can refer to them - but you can't make people ethical - at least, not in the sense that everybody is ethical in exactly the same way everyone else is ethical. More...

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