By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Memory Machines: Learning, Knowing, and Technological Change
Audrey Watters, Hack Education, 2016/07/14
Good post from Audrey Watters representing a step forward in her thinking (as we write more, these steps become smaller and less frequent, and harder to take). More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Empirical proof that Terms of Service are "the biggest lie on the Internet"
Cory Doctorow, BoingBoing, 2016/07/14
This article makes the oft-made point that few people read terms-of-service. And that's why they are called "the biggest lie on the Internet" - "they are based on the idea that the people who trade their privacy and rights in exchange for a service are making a bargain that they understand and agree to." But suppose people took the hour or so required to read the terms-of-service for these web services. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. The map of future models
turchin, Less Wrong, 2016/07/08
This post reminds me of my own article on change from a few years ago, but it has many more models than I include. I would have preferred to see more discussion of each model, with examples actually included in the text, but the grid format makes for a handy reference. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. A bug in fMRI software could invalidate 15 years of brain research
Bec Crew, Science Alert, 2016/07/08
I haven't reported on fMRI research here over the years nog because I magically knew that it was flawed - obviously I didn't - but because I don't trust it. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. 10 Steps to a Blended Learning Classroom
Miguel Guhlin, Around the Corner, 2016/07/08
I don't really cover blended learning but I found this article quite useful from the perspective of understanding what's happening in the world of education according to Microsoft (Google and Apple also have similar programs). More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Sequential requirements
Matthias Melcher, x28’s new Blog, 2016/07/08
Discussion of some of my recent comments on whether a neural network needs domain knowledge in order to learn. As Matthias Melcher suggests, many artificial neural networks will have the benefit of training by human experts. But what of human neural networks? And how does this play into the idea that learning is sequential. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Don’t Teach Grit. Embed It.
Michael B. Horn, Education Next, 2016/07/20
Ah, this post takes me back to the days of correcting student writing. Commentary requires clarity of thought, which is revealed only in clarity of expression. This piece displays neither, and serves as a good example of the standard to which pundits and academics alike ought to be held. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Khanty-Mansiysk Declaration
UNESCO, 2016/07/20
The The Khanty-Mansiysk Declaration Media and Information Literacy for Building Culture of Open Government (3 page PDF) has been released in English and Russian. It is the outcome of a recent conference on the topic, held in June, and asserts the importance of related competencies such as "reliable information access and retrieval; information assessment and utilization; information and knowledge creation and preservation; and information sharing and exchange using various channels, formats and platforms." More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Digital Device Choices Could Impact Common-Core Test Results, Studies Finding
Benjamin Herold, Education Week, 2016/07/20
I'm not sure what to make of this except to agree that "much remains uncertain". The suggestion is that "some test questions are likely harder to answer on tablets than on laptop and desktop computers." I expect that if they included pen and pencil answers in the survey they'd find more of the same sort of result. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Hunting for Good WIL: Put quality before quantity
Harvey P. Weingarten, Fiona Deller, Martin Hicks, Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario, 2016/07/20
Meetings on work integrated learning (WIL) are "are beginning to resemble discussions of how many angels can dance on the head of a pin," according to this article from HEQCO. "we need to refocus the WIL and EE conversation from counting to the far more fundamental question of why we are promoting these experiences in the first place," write the authors. More...
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