Grom Social: Why An 11-Year-Old Built His Own Social Network
Jeff Dunn, Edudemic, January 3, 2013.
OK, let's be clear: an 11-year old did not build his own social network. This design team did. The 11-year old thing is a marketing angle. I really dislike stuff like this - 11-year olds are capable of some pretty great stuff on their own, but their potential to contribute is actually diminished when they are given credit fr stuff they did not create. More...
The Year Ahead in IT, 2013
Lev Gonick , Inside Higher ed, January 3, 2013.
I'm always thinking about the future of learning technology, even if I don't write about it so much these days. This is partially because it has become a bit predictable. Learning will become more open and content cheaper and easier to produce - hence, the move to flips, MOOCs and son-of-flips-and-MOOCs will continue. More...
Millions of Lessons Learned on Electronic Napkins
Jörn Loviscach and Sebastian Wernicke, YouTube, January 2, 2013.
Overview odf lessons learned by two Udacity professors presented in a half-hour video (no transcript) from the 29th Chaos Communication Congress on massive open online courses, free education, and freeing education. More...
Springsteen and an Atlanta Shave
Joe Posnanski, Joe Blogs, January 2, 2013.
Someone wrote to me to recommend this column, a piece he said reminded him of my article Things You Really Need to Learn from 2006. It's a well-written piece by sportswriter Joe Posnanski on the subject of haircuts and Bruce Springsteen. More...
Lecture capture: Privacy, please
Ioanna Opidee, University Business, June 11, 2014
People who attend the tapings of sitcoms and game shows don't expect privacy. I don't see why students attending lectures at universities should expect to be any different. Today, when you attend class, the cameras will be on (unless it's one of those very small and intimate seminars, but even here, no single rule prevails). More...
Report: Students Expect Future Universities To Be Flexible, Accessible, Career-Oriented
Joshua Bolkan, Campus Technology, June 11, 2014
According to this article, "students expect universities to be more accessible, flexible and focused on jobs, according to a new survey." This report will be reported without criticism (as it is in Campus Technology) but consider the source: "The "2014 Global Survey of Students" compiled responses from more than 20,800 students at 37 institutions in the Laureate network." I would imagine that if they surveyed 20K arts and humanities students at small liberal arts universities, the outcome would be rather different. More...
How online 'chatbots' are already tricking you
Chris Baraniuk, BBC, June 11, 2014
OK, so chatbots that lure people to dating sites or convince bitcoin users to give each other tips are not going to impact most of us. But with as much as 65 percent of online chatter being generated by bots, chances are you've read or interacted with one. Of course, it really depends on how you define 'bot'. More...
Do the new anonymous social media apps encourage us to overshare?
Oliver Burkeman, The Guardian, June 11, 2014
I guess the answer to that question is, "who knows?" What we do know is that there has been a negative response to the Facebook dictum that " The days of you having a different image for your work friends [and] for the other people you know are probably coming to an end… " But there are certainly downsides to anonymity. More...
The Revolution Will Not Be Monetized
Will Bourne, Inc., June 11, 2014
This is becoming an increasingly loud trend. "For years, the internet's biggest players have hoarded your personal data and sold it for billions. Now, a band of angry startups is demanding privacy and aiming to overhaul the social-media business forever." This article introduces us to Wickr, with the slogan, " It also mentions a number of other "ephemeral chat" tools - Privatext, TigerText, Whisper, Mark Cuban's Cyber Dust, and so on. More...
ProQuest Case Study: Using the Oscillation Principle for Software Development
Nancy Dixon, Conversation Matters, June 11, 2014
This is an interesting and extended look at the software development methodology employed by ProQuest (you may have seen their online maps). They use what Dixon calls the "oscillation principle" meeting three times a year for three days. More...
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