La deuxième édition du Forum mondial Normandie pour la Paix se tiendra les 4 et 5 juin 2019 à Caen, à l’Abbaye aux Dames. Le Forum 2019 proposera, autour du thème « Les faiseurs de Paix », des conférences, des débats thématiques, un Village pour la Paix et des temps forts consacrés à la jeunesse. L’événement est gratuit et ouvert à tous, sur inscription préalable. Plus...
La Région Île-de-France réaffirme sa politique d’aménagement et d’urbanisme à travers un événement festif associant les architectes et les paysagistes, mais aussi le grand public.
Du 4 mai au 13 juillet dans plusieurs endroits de Versailles (78). Tout à la fois espace de réflexion, d’exposition et de mutualisation des savoirs, la 1re Biennale d’architecture et de paysage (BAP) de la Région Île-de-France aura lieu du 4 mai au 13 juillet dans plusieurs endroits de Versailles (78). Plus...
Les associations de collectivités dont Régions de France, dans un communiqué publié le 11 avril 2019, regrettent d’envisager de devoir quitter le Comité de concertation France Très Haut Débit (CCFTHD) pour répondre à l’absence totale et répétée de prise en compte de leurs positions. Plus...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Listening and Epistemic Injustice
Maha Bali, Reflecting Allowed, 2019/01/04
Maha Bali discusses the related concepts of Legitimation Code Theory (LCT) and epistemic injustice. The former is created and promoted by sociology professor Karl Maton and is the idea of " exploring practices in terms of their organizing principles or ‘legitimation codes’." The latter originates in a book by philosophy professor Miranda Fricker. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Defining Digital Literacy
John Robertson, Cindy Strong, Seattle Pacific University, 2019/01/04
This website was developed by John Robertson & Cindy Strong in the context of a course being offered at Seattle Pacific University. But like anything like this, it depends on the strength of the contributions. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. The death of consensus, not the death of truth
Xiao Mina, Nieman Lab, 2019/01/04
Michael Caulfield asks "Why Reputation" in reaction to this piece by Xiao Mina. Mina writes, " Rather than trust in sources of authority (institutions in power as such), people today are more likely to put their trust in networks of affiliation (those in your circle, however you define that)," which seems right to me. But this is different from reputation. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Say goodbye to the information age: it’s all about reputation now
Gloria Origgi, Aeon, 2019/01/04
I don't agree with the main point of this post, but rthe reasons are complex. Here's the main point: "rom the ‘information age’, we are moving towards the ‘reputation age’, in which information will have value only if it is already filtered, evaluated and commented upon by others. Seen in this light, reputation has become a central pillar of collective intelligence today. It is the gatekeeper to knowledge, and the keys to the gate are held by others." Now this isn't wrong, exactly, but the use of the word 'reputation' suggests that it's the others' reputation (standing in the community? track record? number of followers?) that will make them a 'gatekeeper'. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Old Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez dance video goes viral as supporters mock shaming attempt
Joel Shannon, USA Today, 2019/01/04
I've said this before but it bears repeating: the problem is not what there is about you on the internet, the problem is in what people do with it. Case in point: there is utterly nothing wrong with making a video of you and some friends dancing on a rooftop. That's what Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez did. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. More Than Ten Free Hosted Jupyter Notebook Environments You Can Try Right Now
Tony Hirst, OUseful Info, 2019/01/04
This is a quick item from Tony Hirst that does exactly as the title promises. Jupyter Notebooks is an example of an online resource that integrates a real programming environment with text, producing an example of the sort of next generation learning resource we can look forward to. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Futures thinking with Bruce Sterling
Bryan Alexander, 2019/01/03
Summary and link to a talk by Bruce Sterling. There are two propositions: first, to be a futurist is to pick an audience "that agrees to value a certain aspect of futuring." Second, these audiences can be defined along the lines of Stewart Brand’s Pace layers. Clearly Sterling's talk was tailored to this audience, the Long Now Foundation. More...
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