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By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Teaching Students to Read Metacognitively
Brooke MacKenzie, Edutopia, 2019/03/08
In a way, each one of these little posts in OLDaily is me reading metacognitively. I could imagine myself asking "Does it look right and sound right? Can I picture the story? Can I retell the story? Does my mind feel good?" What I like about this is that none of these address my memory of the story - they're all focused on what I feel and what I can do after having read the story. Brooke MacKenzie writes, "After we read the poem, I ask, 'What do you think this is about? What words in the poem make you think that". More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Round Up: Ethics and Skepticism
Amanda Hickman, GitHub, 2019/03/08
I've been thinking about the epistemology of literature-based research recently. This results from a day when I presented results from my reading on connectivism and also reported on a 'scientific' literature search that resulted in a questionable sample of 12 papers. Now obviously there should be some selectivity in research - the list of questionable methods in this post proves that. At the same time, research isn't an election or even a poll. This is true especially is the way you collect your research sample is presented as unbiased when we know that it can't be. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. How to create a broader, fairer and smarter education system
Joysy John, JISC, 2019/03/08
The message is this: "If our world is going to be driven by artificial intelligence algorithms, yet huge sections of society are underrepresented when deciding how these are programmed, then we have a problem. This has to change. Our education system must be multi-disciplinary and based on real-life problem-solving. Students need technical and creative skills." Quite so. But the main message of this post is that all this is especially true for girls and women. "There are issues around equity here... while role models are powerful, I think it's more than that." More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Towards an intuitive high-performance consensus algorithm
Heidi Howard, Read, Write & Execute, 2019/03/08
This article looks at 'distributed consensus', that is, "is the problem of how to reach decisions in asynchronous and unreliable distributed systems." As Heidi Howard outlines, the two most widely known algorithms are Paxos (which I've covered here before) and Raft (which I thought I'd covered, but I can't find it). The difficulty with consensus algorithms is that they must not only work, they must be intuitive. We won't trust a consensus we don't understand. That's what this article is about. Howard writes, "We aim to improve performance and understandability by utilising two key weapons: generality and immutability." More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Learning to Learn
Sarah Drasner, CSS-Tricks, 2019/03/08
I've been in the midst of what I've been calling 'retooling' - spending some time to reacquaint myself with the basics of our field, bring myself up to date, and yes - relearn. Not that I think everything I learned in the past is falso. Far from it. But as Sarah Drasner says in this article, "By choosing to be a developer, you are choosing to learn." Or an educator. Or a researcher. That's the job. My approach is a lot less formal than Drasner's, but it's still the same job. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. DSpace Docker for Repository Managers
Kristi Searle, Duraspace, 2019/03/07
DSpace has been released as a set of Docker containers, which makes it possible to run it from your desktop (for development purposes). That's the good news, though as always with DSpace, nothing is simple. Here's the resource page and here's the webinar page. To make it work, you have to install Git, Docker, and Docker-Compose (here is the set-up page). You'll also need a command line tool (I just use Visual Studio Code). In the command line tool, clone the docker-compose file, as shown here. Then execute the docker-compose command, as shown here. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. A beginner's guide to Professor Rose Luckin
edCentral, 2019/03/06
"Luckin is in the process of developing a robot called 'Colin' to take on a teaching assistant role and demonstrate how robots could help teachers in the classroom. Focusing on pupil wellbeing, Colin will collect data which will help identify the areas where individual learners need the most support." She is also one of those educators who blogs only once in a blue moom - her most recent post is from 2017 (it's a pretty good post on implications of AI for education, though). For something more recent, have a look at this JISC coverage of 'the AI revolution is here' and this interview in Sifted that explores her interest in ethical AI and mentions her EDUCATE project. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Keeping CALM: when distributed consistency is easy
Adrian Colyer, The Morning Paper, 2019/03/06
This is a key question: "What is the family of problems that can be consistently computed in a distributed fashion without coordination, and what problems lie outside that family?" Here's the proposed answer: "Consistency as Logical Monotonicity (CALM). A program has a consistent, coordination-free distributed implementation if and only if it is monotonic." By monotonic, we mean this: "once we learn something to be true, no further information can come down the line later on to refute that fact." How do we get monotonicity? Confluent operations, that is, "If it produces the same sets of outputs for any non-deterministic ordering and batching of a set of inputs." Give it the same data, however ordered, and it produces the same results. It gives you something to think about. Accounting is confluent; the order of transactions doesn't matter, the balance is the same in the end. Voting is confluent; you vote in morning or evening, but the final tally is the same. But causation and agency are not confluent. More...
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