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23 février 2017

“Xenophobia”

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. “Xenophobia”
Alex Usher, Higher Education Strategy Associates, 2017/02/07

You can split a lot of hairs by saying that 'xenophobia' means 'fear of foreigners' and then saying you don't fear them, you just want them treated differently. More...

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23 février 2017

Next Generation Repositories

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Next Generation Repositories
Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR), 2017/02/07

The Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) has released a report as a part of its efforts to define a vision for resource repositories. More...

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23 février 2017

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Gavagai and TZQQA
Mark Liberman, Language Log, 2017/02/07
I thought this was a fun post. Quine's thesis on the indeterminacy of translation is that in the case of a radical translation - that is, a translation of a completely unfamiliar language - we don't have sufficient evidence to be certain of the meaning of any specific word - 'gavagai', say - in the other language. More...

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23 février 2017

Algorithms and insults: Scaling up our understanding of harassment on Wikipedia

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Algorithms and insults: Scaling up our understanding of harassment on Wikipedia
Ellery Wulczyn, Dario Taraborelli, Nithum Thain, Lucas Dixon, WikiMedia Foundation, 2017/02/07

I've seen this type of result before, but it's worth reiterating. More...

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23 février 2017

An Ethics Primer

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. An Ethics Primer
Stephen Downes, Feb 04, 2017.

Many readers will find this section unnecessary, but for many others the range and variety of ethical theories extant may be new to them. More...

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23 février 2017

Graham Brown-Martin

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Graham Brown-Martin
Graham Brown-Martin, Learning {Re}imagined, 2017/02/03

I'm generally sympathetic with the aims of this post but I can't get past his use of corporate logos and branding (specifically, the whole Star Wars motif) to animate his call. More...

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23 février 2017

Is It OK to Punch Nazis? Here’s What Philosophers (Including Slavoj Žižek) and Ethicists Have to Say

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Is It OK to Punch Nazis? Here’s What Philosophers (Including Slavoj Žižek) and Ethicists Have to Say
Dan Colman, Open Culture, 2017/02/03
I'm happy to say that the philosophers are lining up on the correct side of this discussion. "No, you do not get to punch people even though they’re ideologically despicable." More...

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23 février 2017

HEBOCON World Championship 2016

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. HEBOCON World Championship 2016
YouTube, 2017/02/03

As usual, the essence of understanding technology can be found in understanding what makes for bad technology. "Hebocon is a robot contest for the technically ungifted. More...

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23 février 2017

Call for Diversity in Ed Tech Design

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Call for Diversity in Ed Tech Design
Jade E. Davis, DML Central, 2017/02/03
Part of the problem with e-learning technology is that it is designed with the wrong consumer in mind. Designers picture the typical online student as a stereotypical college student with deep pockets attending a traditional midwestern university studying the liberal arts More...

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23 février 2017

Is ‘fake news’ a fake problem?

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Is ‘fake news’ a fake problem?
Jacob L. Nelson, Columbia Journalism Review, 2017/02/01
Not to keep harping on this, but I wonder whether the failure of traditional news to come to terms with fake news is a failure to understand what fake news is. More...

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