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23 octobre 2019

DOG (Distrust/Disdain of Google) Moves In

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. DOG (Distrust/Disdain of Google) Moves In
I commented last night that I thought Google's "Don't be evil" directive ended the day Google launched its IPO. I also noted that the people who used to work for DoubleClick now work for google, which doesn't auger well for Google. I have advised people against using Feedburner in the past, and not this user-tracking and banner advertising company is part of Google. I'd like to like Google, but I see Google's primary customers - advertisers - are beginning to run the show. More...

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23 octobre 2019

1.000.000+ Smart Card Based OpenID-S

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. 1.000.000+ Smart Card Based OpenID-S
Estonia has become the first country to adopt OpenID nationally, and they're doing with Smart Cards. Note: "Your online identity can never be stolen because your OpenID is attached to your real identity. You can always replace your stolen eID card and reclaim your online identity". More...

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23 octobre 2019

Ray'S Personal Learning Environment Workflow

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Ray'S Personal Learning Environment Workflow
Ray Sims attempts to create a PLE workflow. I think this is a noble effort but misguided - the nice thing about a buffet is that we don't all have to approach it the same way, and that's the benefit of a PLE. Look at the list on page 2 - should people do all these things? In this order? And a lot of learning isn't workflow driven or even goal driven (this whole 'goal-driven behaviour' thing is a mark of the self-improvement set, but as the old saying goes, it is often the journey, and not the destination, that matters). Learning is a process, not a goal, and a learning environment is a space, not a process. If the description of a PLE cannot include my aimless and pointless readings of histories of the Roman Empire, then it misses the boat. More...

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23 octobre 2019

Seth Godin: Why Liveblogging has Little to Do with the Reader

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Seth Godin: Why Liveblogging has Little to Do with the Reader
The proposition is that live-blogging (that is, blogging about an event during an event) is not particularly useful, because the results aren;t very good. "most people don't take notes to be read. They take notes to write them. The act of writing things down triggers different areas of our brain, it focuses attention, it makes it easier to remember things." Well, maybe. But there's no reason a person cannot liveblog well - which is to say, satisfy both purposes. It is possible to compose readable prose on the fly - if you learn how to write well enough. More...

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23 octobre 2019

Zoho Notebooks Goes Public - Imagine the Educational Potential

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Zoho Notebooks Goes Public - Imagine the Educational Potential
I spent some time playing with Zoho Notebook this afternoon. In theory, this is an outstanding piece of software, doing many of the things I would expect a PLE to do, and more (I really like the shared creation tools). It would be great for creating unworkshop legacy pages, for example. I was unable to record video on either a Mac or a Windows machine - it asks for permission to access the camera but never seems to find it. Same for record - this appears to be an issue with flixn.com, which powers that part of Zoho. Still, once these Day One bugs are ironed out (Zoho officially launched yesterday) the possibilities for use in schools is almost endless. More...

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23 octobre 2019

OER and Open Source Models

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. OER and Open Source Models
Stephen Carson, replying to David Wiley: "Educational systems don't run on the same operating system, and often don't share the same protocols, so it's difficult and unwise to try to converge on a single solution." Intuitively, he writes, our sense of "success" points to large audiences (there's that 'measuring success' meme again) but this may not be appropriate for Open Educational Resources. I think it raises an interesting question: has teaching remained a cottage industry, despite the industrialization of everything else around it, because it had to. More...

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23 octobre 2019

Ecto Online Learning Environment

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Ecto Online Learning Environment
Is Ecto a Personal Learning Environment? It claims to be, on its home page: "Ecto is a hosted, open networked Personal Learning Environment. Use Ecto to transform learning into an interactive, collaborative, and student centered activity." Ecto, of course, began life three years ago as a learning management system (LMS). I have it a quick workout, but I don't see anything really PLEish about it. It's a way to retrieve remote content, sure, but item by item - and I had to cut and paste the Flickr URL. It allows for the creation of groups, but is no different that dozens of services in that. More...

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23 octobre 2019

Live Webcasting Via Ustream

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Live Webcasting Via Ustream
Looks like an interesting application, and I'd like to offer the 'Downes Live' show, but it's beginning to look like the MacBook Pro video camera and Flash 9 don't get along. There's no reason why it shouldn't work; Skype video works just fine. Well, that's today's mystery. Anyhow, I'm not so interested in 'lifecasting' - I don't have enough time to live my own life, I'm pretty sure other people don't have the time to watch it! Or the patience. More...

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23 octobre 2019

What Is Weighing Down Learning?

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. What Is Weighing Down Learning?
This post is worth visiting for the diagram alone of the factors that are "weighing down" educational change. I would want to add the word 'outcomes' to 'Bureaucratic Weight'. But as for the question of systemic change, there remains this question: change to what? I have my own views as to where education should go, but my views are by no means consensus - nor either is there any view that even approaches consensus. It's not just the things weighing education down, but also, the different people pulling in different directions: industry pulling one way, religious and spiritual organizations pulling another way, activists pulling yet another way - everybody, it seems, has a stake in the education system, with the result that no philosophy can ever gain the upper hand. More...

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23 octobre 2019

How to Make Your Personal Opinion Seem Popular

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. How to Make Your Personal Opinion Seem Popular
Now you know why I return to the same subjects over and over - so you'll believe me! More seriously, this item shows why diversity is important in networks: because humans are not good at distinguishing between many opinions, and one opinion repeated frequently. "Even though they realize that they're just listening to one voice, the incessant repetition of key talking points makes it seem like it's more representative of the population at large". More...

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