By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Net Neutrality Alive and Well in Canada: CRTC Crafts Full Code With Zero Rating Decision
Michael Geist, 2017/04/24
Last week we saw an important ruling in Canada on net neutrality, and as the headline suggests, it was a good ruling. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Spying on Students: School-Issued Devices and Student Privacy
Frida Alim, Nate Cardozo, Gennie Gebhart, Karen Gullo, Amul Kalia, Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), 2017/04/24
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has released a longish (49 page PDF) on student privacy. The report (like the EFF) is mostly focused in the United States. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Heresy?
zudensachen, 2017/04/24
This post raises the question of whether "what works" really reduces to "what can be measured", and whether the maximization of "cleverness" is replacing other (and possibly more significant) aspects of education. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. The Omidyar Network and the (Neoliberal) Future of Education
Audrey Watters, Hack Education, 2017/04/24
I want to say at the outset that this is excellent work and that I encourage Audrey Watters to keep digging into this subject. Having said that, I want to suggest a realignment of focus. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Education as Self-formation
Stephen Ball, The BERA Blog, 2017/04/24
What do you get when you combine education and Foucault? For Stephen Ball, it's a type of learning as self-care. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Is Your Edtech Product a Refrigerator or Washing Machine?
Julia Fisher, Larry Cuban on School Reform, Classroom Practice, 2017/04/24
I like the analogy presented in this post because it makes it clear (in a way the Gartner hype cycle does not) that different technologies are adopted very differently. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Platforms: A commons-based approach to global collaboration
Alek Tarkowski, Claudio Ruiz, Creative Commons, 2017/04/24
Creative Commons is meeting in Toronto later this week and while I won't be there (I'm not funded for this sort of work any more) I'll be following with interest. More...
Using a unique firm-level database comprising the top European R&D investors over the period 2002-2013 and running LSDVC estimates, this study finds a significant labour-friendly impact of R&D expenditures. However, this positive employment effect appears limited in magnitude and entirely due to the medium-and high-tech sectors, while no effect can be detected in the low-tech industries. From a policy point of view, this outcome is supporting the EU2020 strategy, but - taking into account that most European economies are specialised in low-tech activities - is also worrying in terms of future perspectives of the European labour market. More...
The U.S. Census Bureau has reported that 56.7 million Americans had some type of disability in 2010, which represents 18.7 percent of the civilian noninstitutionalized population included in the 2010 Survey of Income and Program Participation. The U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA) provides disability benefits through the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) program and the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program. As of December 2015, approximately 11 million individuals were SSDI beneficiaries, and about 8 million were SSI beneficiaries.
Atomic clocks are a quantum technology, used in national metrology laboratories to define UTC and in various networked infrastructure. Developments in the clocks themselves, and in the distribution of precise time, can be expected to affect several application areas of importance to European policy. More.../https%3A%2F%2Fprofilepics.canalblog.com%2Fprofilepics%2F1%2F0%2F1076071.jpg)
