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14 février 2020

IBM: LAMP Users Need to Grow Up

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. IBM: LAMP Users Need to Grow Up
According to an IBM researcher, businesses that use LAMP (Linix - Apache - MySQL - Perl, Python or PHP) will have to "grow up". "They're really primative tools," says Daniel Sabbah, general manager of IBM's Rational division. "Eventually, they are going to have to come up against scalability." In a spirited response (language warning), Ryan Tomayko calls him on it. "The LAMP model works because it was built to work for and by people building real stuff. The big vendor / big tools model failed because it was built to work for Gartner, Forrester, and Upper Management whose idea of 'work' turned out to be completely wrong." I agree with Tomayko. "The need for complex systems in the enterprise was and still is greatly overestimated. The trick isn't to make PHP more complex, it's to make the enterprise less complex. More...

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14 février 2020

Don't Let DRM Get Between You and a Good Book

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Don't Let DRM Get Between You and a Good Book
Joshua Gay writes, "We want to send a message about DRM on ebooks and ebook readers that everyone will understand with just four simple points":
- They want to put locks on your books.
- It is locked to a single device... when it breaks, you can no longer read your ebook.
- The owners of DRM technology decide what can be put into their DRM formats; DRM allows for digital censorship
- Every few years you will have to buy a new copy of your favorite books. More...

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14 février 2020

What We All Want

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. What We All Want
I found this post interesting, not so much because of its advocacy of play - though I certainly support that - but because of the examples offered by young schoolchildren of safety, inclusion, and contribution. None of the distractions they will learn in later life from a media that deliberately misleads. For young children, 'safety' consists of shelter from storms, a place to rest, and a safe feeling. 'Inclusion', for the children, has a lot to do with comfort, love, caring, and taking turns. Think about how these definitions become twisted in our adult lives. More...

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14 février 2020

Percent of Teens Producing Digital Content Is Up

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Percent of Teens Producing Digital Content Is Up
The Pew survey is of Americans only, of course, and so there's no way to know whether the U.S. is leading a trend or catching up with the rest of the internet world. Still, the trend is a good one. Teens are producing more content, and "the survey found that content creation is not just about sharing creative output; it is also about participating in conversations fueled by that content." And, again, I think if people actually looked, they'd see that the internet is creating what is likely the most creative and literate generation in history. More...

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14 février 2020

Networked Learning in a Networked World

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Networked Learning in a Networked World
I will be in Kuala Lampur during the Future of Learning in a Networked World taking place in January in Thailand, but as Teemu Leinonen (who will be in Bogota) says, most of the event will take place online. And I will be watching with interest. Anyhow, as his contribution to the event, Leinonen tackles the groups and networks debate again, introducing non-formal learning: "Networked learning can also be non-formal. Non-formal means that it is informal but with objectives." And then he turns it around: "I would like to see that 'networked learning' is considered as non-formal or formal learning taking place in a non-hierarchical groups that are constructed from the participants' social networks." Leigh Blackall (another FLNW participant) responds, "Networked learning and non formal learning can appear to be connected if we look at networking, grouping and learning as a sequence, but they are not necessarily." Quite so. More...

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14 février 2020

At 71, Physics Professor Is a Web Star

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. At 71, Physics Professor Is a Web Star
Nice story about an MIT professor who is able to awe people with physics and has gained a global following as a result. My own take is that the world is filled with fascinating and compelling people, all of whom are far more interesting and engaging than the 14-year-old child singers the media seems to favour. Walter Lewin is quite rightly a rock star - and it is interesting to see that it is the people's media that makes that possible. More...

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14 février 2020

Makeover: Turn Objectives Into Motivators

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Makeover: Turn Objectives Into Motivators
Good observation on the design of course objectives. If you are describing objectivs to learners, they should be direct and personal. I would also sharpen the objective into a single, salient point ('you will be able to satisfy dissatisfied customers'). The key here (to anticipate another discussion) is that effective learning objectives (properly so-called) satisfy personal, not group, objectives. More...

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14 février 2020

Eduspaces Crosses the Pond to Mystery New Home

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Eduspaces Crosses the Pond to Mystery New Home
The EduSpaces debacle is being resolved with the same attention to communications and good public relations as was the original closure: it was announced that the community will be hosed by TakingITGlobal. Graham Attwell comments, "Members of the network are grateful for the support but non-plussed as to who TakingITGlobal are and why they have been chosen as inheritors of eduspaces." After all, numerous others had offered to host the community, but their offers were (apparently) rebuffed. "Longer term this should be a wake up call to the community. A new eduspaces community may arise. But this time the community has to develop forms of organisation. TakingITGlobal can be members of such a community. But they cannot be allowed to 'own' Eduspaces in the way Curverider did. More...

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14 février 2020

Free Learning and Control Learning: On the So-Called Failure of Constructivist, Discovery, Problem-Based, Experiential, and...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Free Learning and Control Learning: On the So-Called Failure of Constructivist, Discovery, Problem-Based, Experiential, and Inquiry-Based Teaching
Text of my presentation to SURF Education Days, 13 November 2007, Utrecht, the Netherlands. Stephen Downes, Half an Hour December 20, 2007 [Link] [Tags: none] [Comment]. More...

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14 février 2020

EduSpaces Shutting Down

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. EduSpaces Shutting Down
Elgg (aka EduSpaces) is shutting down as of January 10. An email was just sent to all members. Users will be able to export their blogs in RSS or HTML. No explanation for the shutdown was given. There is no notice posted on the site yet (though I did check to see and the options to save all posts were there). Update (thanks to Tim): The notice is here. And we learn that "Elgg development is still continuing however, under a new community driven model. v0.9 is due to be released within a couple of weeks. You can see the latest at http://elgg.org." More...

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