By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Star launches free e-learning for all
Press Release, Star Pubs, Bars, 2017/01/04
Star is a pub and bar company in Britain. You lease pubs from them then eke out a living. It's in their interest to promote successful pub lessees, and so they've released this e-learning training package of curses. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. The Real Name Fallacy
J.Nathan Matias, The Coral Project, 2017/01/04
Good article that challenges the idea that anonymity is the cause of poor behaviour on social networks (and that things would improve if we required people to use their real names). " the balance of experimental evidence over the past thirty years suggests that this is not the case. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web.What Philosophical Term or Concept Should Be More Widely Known?
Maggie Hos-McGrane, Tech Transformation, 2017/01/04
http://www.maggiehosmcgrane.com/2017/01/using-technology-to-personalize.html
Two part article (part one, part two) on personalization (there may be more parts in the future) based on a review of Personalized Learning: A Guide for Engaging Students with Technology by Peggy Grant and Dale Basye. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Decoupled Drupal with Ember: Introducing Ember and JSON API
Preston So, Acquia, 2017/01/05
Content management systems are making the transformation from being website hosts to being data services. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Medium's pivot catches publishing partners by surprise
Peter Sterne, Kelsey Sutton, PoliticoMedia, 2017/01/05
Medium is one of the better content sources out there; I follow a number of their publications. It has had a variety of business models over the years, most recently being a traditional ad-revenue system. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Pearson Releases Rights to its Learning Design Principles
Leo Doran, EdWeek Market Brief, 2017/01/05
The meat of this short report is found in the link to the release of the research and rubrics (102 page PDF) Pearson uses in its learning design projects, all under a CC-by license. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. How Technology Hijacks People’s Minds — from a Magician and Google’s Design Ethicist
Tristan Harris, Medium, 2017/01/05
This title of this post should be "How to use technology to hijack people's minds." There's nothing inherently technological in these methods; they've flourished for thousands of years (as the reference to magicians should tell us). Here are the tricks (paraphrased with some quotation and links added):
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Baby’s First Virtual Assistant
Felix Gillette, Bloomberg, 2017/01/05
After all the talk of digital natives and the live, what will we make of children who grow up with having had the services of a virtual assistant since birth? That's the scenario we face according to this article. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Person to Person: That’s How My Kind of Internet Works
Alan Levine, CogDogBlog, 2017/01/03
I'm not so much a person-to-person person. I prefer mass media and talking to large groups. But that's my shortcoming, the habits of a person raised in the era of best-selling books, newspapers and television. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Interaction networks for learning about objects, relations and physics
Adrian Colyer, The Morning Paper, 2017/01/03
One of the criticisms of neural networks (and of associative inference generally) is that it cannot generalize. See, for example, Fodor and Pylyshyn 1988. More...
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