'Laurel' or 'Yanny'? People can't decide
Chris Bell, BBC News, 2018/05/17
You've probably seen the 'Yanny vs Laurel' audio clip that has been all over social media (and the evening news). Simply, people listen to the same audio recording, but some hear 'Yanny' and others hear 'Laurel'. More...

Myths of Early Math
Douglas H. Clements, Julie Sarama, Education Sciences, 2018/05/17

This is a good article (8 page PDF), and I would say that many of its points can be made about logic and critical thinking as well. What points. More...

Skills Strategy Implementation Guidance for Portugal
OECD, 2018/05/17
Portugal is a compelling case study for educational development. It's inside Europe and benefits from EU membership. But it faces employment challenges and comparatively low levels of education. This report builds on previous 'diagnostic' studies (pictured) and focuses on what the OECD believes Portugal should do. More...

OER Methods – Generative Designs for Reuse-With-Modification
Tony Hirst, OUseful Info, 2018/05/17
There's some good thinking in this post from Tony Hirst as he follows up Martin Weller on why a focus on producing open educational resources is not enough. Weller argues that "if UNESCO really want to realise their aim of equitable education, they should foreground the need for support to accompany OER." But what is this support supposed to look like. More...

HoweyCoin
SEC, 2018/05/17
"HoweyCoin is the newest and only coin offering that captures the magic of coin trading profits AND the excitement and guaranteed returns of the travel industry." It's also completely fake, even though there's a very convincing-looking white paper and everything. More...

Colombia's ex-fighters taught skills for peace
Lucy Sherriff, BBC News, 2018/05/17
Readers will know I was in Colombia a couple of weeks ago so this story is fresh on my mind. This article underscores the umportance of, and the diffioculty of, the work to be done. More...

Textbook Authors Sue over Cengage Unlimited Royalties
Michael Feldstein, e-Literate, 2018/05/16
Michael Feldstein writes, "the handwriting is on the wall. If textbook prices come down, then textbook royalties also have to come down." But by how much. More...

What if JavaScript wins?
Anil Dash, 2018/05/16
I'm not really a fan of Javascript though I've been working with it for many years (long enough to see it become ECMAScript and JavaScript). Still, I can see why it would become so popular: it works in web broswers, integrates seamlessly with the document object model, and therefore is widely used. Add server-side Javascripe and Node.js and NPM and you have a winner. More...

The Good Life and Open Online Learning
Joshua Kim, Inside Higher Ed, 2018/05/16
As I commented to the author of this article: First, don't say "Those of us who are actually involved..." It's fine to speak for yourself, but you should not position yourself as representative of the people who build, developed or taught MOOCs. More...

Six questions about openness in science
Richard Poynder, Open and Shut?, 2018/05/16

The questions cover a wide range of topics and insights. For example, why should science be open to the public, because after all, they neither understand nor are interested in the details. More...