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21 octobre 2019

New Brain Plasticity Theory to Create a Population of Life-Long Learners

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. New Brain Plasticity Theory to Create a Population of Life-Long Learners
Overview (with some nice common sense examples) of neuroplasticity, the theory now becoming widely accepted that the brain, even adult brains, change structure in order to adapt to new realities. The link to an Amazon.com page in reference to Dr. Norman Doidge, author of "The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science," could more usefully have been to the online audio of the author's interview with CBC radio. More...

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21 octobre 2019

IBM Executive Calls for Virtual Planet

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. IBM Executive Calls for Virtual Planet
According to this article, "Nick Donofrio, executive vice president, innovation and technology at IBM, hopes to encourage the creation of what he termed 'a virtual planet' where rival virtual worlds are more interlinked." This reminds me of the old days of Intermud. But this really only managed to accomplish cross-MUD communications. Packing your +50 Excalibur class sword from Frag-world DIKU to MediaMOO just wasn't on, really. More...

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21 octobre 2019

Digital Gifts: Participation and Gift Exchange in LiveJournal Communities

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Digital Gifts: Participation and Gift Exchange in LiveJournal Communities
This article looks at the giving of gifts in a social blogging network, LiveJournal. Ask a LiveJournal member why they give a gift and the answer, according to the author, is some variation on "I wanted to." But gift giving is arguably never so simple - and while the author avoids depicting th activity as ultimately self-serving, she does give it the function of "maintaining social bonds, constructing virtual identities, and ensuring continued presence of participants." This may be the result of gift giving, but not necessarily the cause. More...

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21 octobre 2019

Russian Court Finds Village School Principal Guilty of Using Pirated Microsoft Software

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Russian Court Finds Village School Principal Guilty of Using Pirated Microsoft Software
A Russian principal is found guilty of using unofficial Microsoft software and is fined $195. He makes $360 a month. Microsoft says it had nothing to do with prosecuting impoverished Russian educators, but the Russian government would not be enforcing compliance were it not for the lobbying of companies like Microsoft. We know that if the company didn't want people like Alexander Ponosov to be prosecuted, they wouldn'y be. More...

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21 octobre 2019

The Learning Compact Redefined: A Call to Action

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. The Learning Compact Redefined: A Call to Action
According to this ASCD report, the "one‐size‐fits‐all education has marginalized the uniqueness of our children and eroded their capacity to learn..." and that if educators focused on the whole child, not just the part that passes tests, "we would create learning conditions that enable all children to develop all of their gifts and realize their fullest potential". More...

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21 octobre 2019

Ex.Plode.Us

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Ex.Plode.Us
The new version of Explode is live. I don't know what that means yet; I just got a short note. But the features page mentions search, collections, and nudges. Also, 'find a similar user'. More...

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21 octobre 2019

About the Open Publication License

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. About the Open Publication License
I am in London and jetlagged, so we'll keep this brief. This first item from David Wiley brings us up to date on the Open Publication Licnse - which is exactly where we were last time, when support for it was dropped and Creative Commons recommended instead. Why this link then? Well I think the post has historical value. We need to be reminded, I think, that the world of open content (or free content, depending on your politics) didn't begin with Creative Commons. Not that I'm criticizing Creative Commons; far from it. More...

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21 octobre 2019

What'S Good About the May 4 NY Times Article About Laptops in Schools

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. What'S Good About the May 4 NY Times Article About Laptops in Schools
So the New York Times make a flap last week with its article on why computers don't improve learning outcomes. What we learn is that if you don't change the way you teach - if you just leave the computers sitting there - you won't gain any benefit. And, as Dave Warlick points out here, while the students' test scores in traditional subjects do not change much, when they are given the opportunity to use the computer things that are not tested - like critical reasoning, information retrieval, collaboration and research - are greatly enhanced. More...

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21 octobre 2019

Predicting Large Scale Adoption of Technology

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Predicting Large Scale Adoption of Technology
I do a lot of predicting in this newsletter and while I don't use this rubric (my definition of 'usefulness', for example, if very different) these are the sorts of things I do take into account. And I use something I saw somewhere once called the 'two advances' rule. Which is: any old technology can be an advance in one type of thing. But a new technology will take off only if it represents a major advance in two separate dimensions. More...

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21 octobre 2019

Australia Hands Over Man to US Courts

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Australia Hands Over Man to US Courts
Got this in my email: an Australian citizen who has never been anywhere near the United States has been extradited to face trial there for copyright violations. "he served as the leader of a group named Drink Or Die, which 'cracked' copy-protected software and media products and distributed them free of cost." He is facing up to ten years in prison. It's hard to imagine a Canadian court coughing up a Canadian citizen to face U.S. justice. Then again, we gave them Maher Arar. One wonders how Hew Griffiths will be treated in an American slammer. More...

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