By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Instagram changes cause growing backlash among posters
BBC News, 2016/03/30
There's an interesting lesson to be found in the backlash to changes being implemented by Instagram. The photo sharing site has traditionally employed a reverse-chronological listing of recent photos. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Here are Google, Amazon and Facebook’s Secrets to Hiring the Best People
Sarah Cooper, The Cooper Review, 2016/03/29
If this article is accurate (and there's no real reason to think it isn't) then it speaks against the idea of career preparation based simply on competencies. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. What is 'Digital Wellbeing'?
Helen Beetham, HelenB's e-learning blog, 2016/03/28
"My work on the experiences of digital students had already led me to question what it means to thrive in a learning environment that is saturated with digital technologies," writes Helen Beetham. And I think the exploration of digital well-being is a good idea. But as is so often the case with educational researchers (maybe social science in general) the primary output is a hierarchy and a taxonomy. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Classic 1939 book on graphs in its entirety
Nathan Yau, Flowing Data, 2016/03/28
Flowing Data writes, "Willard Cope Brinton is credited as one of the pioneers of information visualization, and I just found out his 1939 book Graphic Presentation is available in its entirety at the Internet Archive. You can download it in various formats. The book was an update to his previous book from 25 years prior, Graphic Methods for Presenting Facts. It’s also at the Archive." More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. How Pearson plans to force student participation and hurt creativity
Stephen Krashen, SKrashen, 2016/03/28
I do the New York Times crossword on a regular basis. Just as in the Poincare example described by Stephen Krashen in this article, I've found that if I'm stuck on a clue, or on a section, if I turn away from it for a bit - sometimes just a few moments - and come back later, the answer is right there. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Types And Tokens
Stephen Downes, Mar 27, 2016.
Naming things, counting things, generalizing over things - these are really useful tools we have created for ourselves in language and in thought to make the world easier to navigate. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. “My grief lies all within” — PhD students, depression & attrition
Melonie Fullick, University Affairs, 2016/03/25
University Affairs has run a series of articles on student mental health over the last year or two, a worthwhile endeavor and one I'll note here by offering links to the entire series:
It made me wonder whether there was any work relating learning technology and mental health. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. What the heck is interesting research?
Daniel Lemire, Daniel Lemire's Blog, 2016/03/24
We read a lot about innovation these days, and the focus of the literature is on the need to create value through invention. In other words, a discovery isn't 'innovation' until it has been applied to something (some people would say: it isn't 'innovation' until it has been commercialized, but I'm not an ideologue in that way). More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. 'I Love My Label': Resisting the Pre-Packaged Sound in Ed-Tech
Audrey Watters, Hack Education, 2016/03/23
Audrey Watters on #indieweb in education: "“Indie ed-tech” offers a model whereby students, faculty, staff, and independent scholars alike can use the “real-world” tools of the Web – not simply those built for and sanctioned by and then siloed off by schools or departments." More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Sci-Hub, LibGen, and Total Information Awareness
Eric Hellman, Go To Hellman, 2016/03/22
A couple of good articles on SciHub, the service that allows you tom download any academic paper for free (and which is not on the publishers' best-wishes-list). More...
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