By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Your Media Business Will Not Be Saved
Joshua Topolsky, Medium, 2016/05/02
Good article making a point with which I am in full agreement: new technology won't save traditional media because traditional media isn't offering content people want. Note: language warning, especially at the point where they describe the quality of existing media content. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. How to Load a Website in Firefox’s Sidebar
Lori Kaufman, How-to-Geek, 2016/05/02
For various reasons I've been looking at how to create and open sidebars, modals, and other embedded content windows. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. If everything is a network, nothing is a network
Mushon Zer-Aviv, Visualising Information for Advocacy, 2016/05/02
Good article that will push your think on networks a bit. The bulk of the discussion is devoted toward convincing people that they ought to look at more than just nodes and edges "to also include flows and (as per Galloway and Thacker) protocols." This makes sense to me, and there are other network properties that should be discussed more as well (connection weights, activation functions, and more). More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Tinker With a Neural Network Right Here in Your Browser.
Daniel Smilkov, Shan Carter, TensorFlow, 2016/05/02
This is a lovely visualization that allows you to play with a neural network by playing with some network parameters and watching the output. Even better, the authors write "We’ve open sourced it on GitHub with the hope that it can make neural networks a little more accessible and easier to learn. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Web Conferencing - Key Market Trends for Higher Education
TeachOnline.ca, 2016/04/29
Good comprehensive article on web conferencing in education. Unlike other software sectors, there's never been a runaway leader in web conferencing. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. The need for technopedagogues and will it ever go away?
David T. Jones, The Weblog of (a) David Jones, 2016/04/29
According to Tim Klapdor a technopedagogue "can oversee the design, implementation and even the implementation of interfaces, environments and the digital tools that support learning or various processes." But there's a sense in which the technopedagogue has a foot in two incommensurate camps. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. You Don't Need a Makerspace To Have a Space for Makers
John Spencer, The Creative Classroom, 2016/04/29
Reading this article reminded me of the day my father and I built a baseball diamond on the front lawn of our ballpark-sized front lawn. Sure, he did the heavy work, but I was involved in the design and made sure there was a pole for the flag. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Why World of Warcraft won't let fans play their own game
Lucy Schouten, Christian Science Monitor, 2016/04/29
This item shows the dangers of platform dependence. World of Warcraft (WoW) is a popular computer game. People buy the software, but it requires a web server to act as a platform for in-game interactions with other people. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Get Rid of Grade Levels: A Personalized Learning Recipe for Public School Districts
Travis Lape, EdSurge, 2016/04/29
This is an interesting effort that is well worth following over the course of the next year. A school district in South Dakota is eliminating grades in favour of personal learning. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Amazon, Google and Apple
TeachOnline.ca, 2016/04/28
Each of the three companies is taking a slightly different approach - Google with its applications, Apple with iTunes, and Amazon with digital books - but all are making inroads into the education market. More...
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