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20 novembre 2015

Imagining Canada's Future

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Imagining Canada's Future
Stephen Downes, Nov 17, 2015, SSHRC Fall Conference: Imagining Canada's Future, Ottawa, Ontario
Talk I gave at SSHRC's Fall Forum called Imaging Canada's Future. No slides for this one; I worked off a set of notes. I introduced some overall thoughts about talking about the future, described some of the 'same old ways' we think about the future and meeting future needs, and then suggests that what we should really be learning from the 21st century is that knowledge is complex, fluid, changing, and not usefully described in terms of rules, facts, principles, and outcome. More...

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20 novembre 2015

A network of artificial neurons learns to use human language

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. A network of artificial neurons learns to use human language
Unattributed, NeuroScientistNews, 2015/11/15

One of the truisms always repeated by cognitivists and proponents of the physical symbol system hypothesis is that a natural system, like a neural network, cannot learn a language without prior encoding. More...

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20 novembre 2015

The Future Belongs to the Curious: How Are We Bringing Curiosity Into School?

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. The Future Belongs to the Curious: How Are We Bringing Curiosity Into School?
Jackie Gerstein, User Generated Education, 2015/11/15

This is a loosely structured post with numerous quotes from thinkers about the nature and value of curiosity, including this one from Paulo Friere, "I believe in the pedagogy of curiosity. That’s why I defend the pedagogy of the question and not of the answer." More...

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20 novembre 2015

Exploring Alternatives to the Traditional Conference Format

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Exploring Alternatives to the Traditional Conference Format
Ben Sweeting, Michael Hohl, Constructivist Foundations, 2015/11/15

The journal Constructivist Foundations has devoted a special issue to alternative conference formats. As authors Sweeting and Hohl explain in the introduction, "The passivity and predominantly one-way structure of the typical paper presentation format of academic conferences has a number of serious limitations from a constructivist perspective." More...

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20 novembre 2015

Downes Theory of Education

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Downes Theory of Education
Bryan M. Mathers, Visual Thinkery, 2015/11/15

I saw in Facebook today this graphic version of my so-called "Downes theory of education". Even more usefully, I browsed through the other images on Bryan Mathers's blog and found a veritable treasure trove of useful graphics which you can use. More...

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20 novembre 2015

Personal Learning in Virtual Environments

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Personal Learning in Virtual Environments
Stephen Downes, Nov 13, 2015, VI Jornadas pedagógicas en tecnología e innovación educativa, Guayaquil, Ecuador

Presentation in English, with translation in Spanish. In this presentation I discuss the foundation of MOOCs in an approach based in experiential learning, as opposed to more traditional content-based learning. More...

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20 novembre 2015

Re-imagining secondary learning through a key competencies frame

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Re-imagining secondary learning through a key competencies frame
Rosemary Hipkins, Wayne Erb, New Zealand Education Gazette, 2015/11/10

On the one hand, I am uneasy with the way this article addresses competencies through the language of behaviourism (for example, with repeated reference to 'dispositions', echoing Gilbert Ryle from the 1950s). More...

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20 novembre 2015

How to Get Work Done on the Road

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. How to Get Work Done on the Road
Joseph Grenny, Harvard Business Review, 2015/11/10

It's funny, but I'm actually more productive on the road. As I type this, I'm sitting in a departure lounge in Toronto waiting for a flight to El Salvador. More...

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20 novembre 2015

The usual arguments for competency-based education and why they are invalid

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. The usual arguments for competency-based education and why they are invalid
Stephen Krashen, SKrashen, 2015/11/10

There's a nice challenge in the headline. Stephen Krashen responds to a post by John Baker in EdSurge describing and defending competency-based education. More...

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20 novembre 2015

IMS Caliper published – we now have a clearer picture how activity streams should be described

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. IMS Caliper published – we now have a clearer picture how activity streams should be described
Tore Hoel, Learning Analytics Community Exchange (LACE), 2015/11/09
Discussion of the recently published IMS Caliper specification. Caliper describes the method to encode and transfer clickstream data - that is, a recording of each action taken by a user (click of a mouse, press of a keyboard). More...

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