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24 octobre 2019

How has Information Changed?

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. How has Information Changed?
Tom Hoffman's observations - that this post is not about the nature of information at all - are on point. But the post is illustrative of common misconceptions about the changing nature of media. Of these, forst is probably the confusion between 'information' and 'content'. By 'content' we can mean the messages sent over various media, including television, tabloid newspapers, email, radio, and the rest. But not all of this content is information - if the message is one you've already heard, or if the message is of no use to you, then it is not 'information'. To be information, the content needs to change your understanding of the world (cf. Fred Dretske). A second misconception is in the confusion between the medium and the information. If the information is 'Paris is the capital of France', the medium - be it networked, physical, overwhelming - does not change this information. Paris remains the capital of France. More...

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24 octobre 2019

Another Tough Gig - I Enter the Lion'S Den

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Another Tough Gig - I Enter the Lion'S Den
I don't post conference announcements but I can't resist passing along this session description )because it captures so many of my own predispositions): "Our keynote speaker has been working closely with UBC's IT professionals for years, and has consistently vexed them with his unorthodox demands and unwillingness to specify use cases. Brian will attempt to defend his shockingly lax approach to planning as a grounded philosophy intended to foster user autonomy and innovation. He will also review some approaches to web strategy that are emerging outside of campus environments, such as open access to content and open APIs, and attempt to make a case why we need to learn from these efforts and apply them within our educational institutions." He remarks, 'I see that the organizers deleted my concluding sentence, which was: "Attendees are responsible for bringing their own projectiles.' I guess that means suitable throwables will be provided in the conference loot bag." Read the rest of this post - Brian Lamb is tapping into some important trends. More...

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24 octobre 2019

Setting Learning Free

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Setting Learning Free
The open source movement is beginning to recognize the open courseware and open educational resources movements. This article is pretty much party line (ie., "In the Beginning was MIT, and They Invented Open Content") but the more important thing is that it captures the appeal of open content and shows the beginnings of awareness that there is an entire community behind it. More...

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24 octobre 2019

Democracy 2.0

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Democracy 2.0
I haven't said much about democracy and governance in these pages, not directly at least, because my attention has been directed elsewhere. But it has always struck me that attempts to implement e-democracy have been stuck in a 19th century model of governance, one that enshrines the representative function as the almost definitive of democracy. What is democracy, after all, without votes for your representatives? And yet - embodied in this epitome is the very idea of disempowerment, the idea (straight from Hobbes) that we surrender our own liberty in exchange for security and safety (and the other elements of 'good government'). The idea that we could govern ourselves is not merely rejected as wrongheaded, but as dangerous. As though we - who, after all, elect our (mostly untrustworthy) representatives, cannot be entrusted with our own governance. And so we have evolved into a system of government that is mostly about wresting power and control from each other, and not about the collective safety and security - a model that leads us chaotically lurching from Iraq to global warming to Darfur to Enron. I believe that we, as a people, could do a better job governing ourselves than could our elected representatives (especially those more interested in looting us than leading us) and that internet communication technologies make self-governance possible. More...

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24 octobre 2019

Taipei

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Taipei

Greetings from Taiwan, where I am just packing for the long return flight home. My visit has been interesting and engaging - greatly aided by the super-competent volunteers who have been working here with Lucifer Chu. My email is now working, just in time for the flight. Anyhow, today I have only one photo, but I will post the rest next week. Stephen Downes, Flickr June 14, 2007 [Link] [Tags: Flickr]. More...

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24 octobre 2019

OpenCourseWare Consortium Forum

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. OpenCourseWare Consortium Forum
Mentioned today at the conference in Taiwan. John Dehlin gave me credit and thanked me for spurring this on, which was a nice gesture. Still in its early stages, but it's goot to see a place for people to discuss open courseware and the consortium. More...

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24 octobre 2019

Most Popular Blogs!

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Most Popular Blogs!
TonNet questions the 'top 15' lists provided by Technorati and eBizMBA, lists which are, of course, completly different. What was interesting about eBizMBA was that it combines rakings from various tracking services. So of course I was curious to see how my site was viewed by these various services. Here's the result (ranking in brackets) at SiteExplorer, Snapshot (151,759th), Quantcast (312,342th), and Alexa (119,548th). I don't use Feedburner. Technorati ranks me 4,112 (interestingly, that's a drop of 1100 since yesterday!). The result is that the traffic statistics are essentially fictions - there's a wide variety among the services and none of them comes close to estimating the actual number of readers. All of these services offer ways to make your data 'more accurate' by letting them track your readers - and I suspect your 'more accurate' traffic is significantly higher. More...

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24 octobre 2019

Université de Cergy-Pontoise : tollé suite à un formulaire sur les « signaux faibles de radicalisation »

Un formulaire envoyé à tous les personnels de l'établissement recense des "signaux faibles de radicalisation". Il a suscité une polémique sur les réseaux sociaux. Plus...

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24 octobre 2019

Accompagnement des sorties scolaires : la proposition de la Fédération des DDEN

La Fédération des Délégués Départementaux de l’Éducation Nationale (FDDEN) vient d'adopter une motion concernant l'accompagnement des sorties scolaires.
En acceptant la fonction de bénévole intervenant dans les écoles publiques, les DDEN volontaires pourront accompagner les sorties scolaires. Ainsi ils se feront un devoir de respecter, comme tous les intervenants permanents ou occasionnels, la laïcité de l’École. Plus...

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24 octobre 2019

Laïcité à l’école : le ministère de l’Education nationale dévoile les chiffres de 2019

Le ministère de l’Education nationale dévoile mardi 24 septembre lors d’un séminaire des coordinateurs des équipes académiques Valeurs de la République, le nombre d’atteintes à la laïcité dans le premier et le second degré. La laïcité représente un enjeu majeur dans l’Education nationale. Ainsi, depuis 2017, le ministère a mis en place « un dispositif renforcé qui accompagne la politique éducative« . Cette politique éducative vise « à faire respecter » et « transmettre le principe de laïcité » dans les établissements scolaires. Plus...

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