Predictions for 2010
Bubblegum edupunk, consulting cartels, and the arrival of the big touch - great predictions for 2010. More...
26 octobre 2018
26 octobre 2018
A radical definition of Open Education
A radical definition of Open Education
"If Open Education is to mean anything, it has to address the question of social divisions including class, gender and race," writes Graham Attwell. More...
26 octobre 2018
Year End Notes
Year End Notes
Terry Anderson catches up on some items, including a new journal and an online conference. I didn't cover the journal here because (unlike in education) because it requires people to register before they can view the contents. Why would they need this? We know why - it's because advertisers demand it. More...
26 octobre 2018
Three's A Trend: The Decline of Google Search Quality
Three's A Trend: The Decline of Google Search Quality
Anil Dash, Weblog, January 3, 2011.
Anil Dash links to three separate articles making the same point: that Google's utility as a search engine is declining (and from where I sit, the instant search and preview don't help; they just make messy searches messier). More...
26 octobre 2018
The Case for the Virtual Classroom
The Case for the Virtual Classroom
Sarah Kessler, Mashable, January 3, 2011.
Mashable makes the case for the virtual classroom. It's nothing we haven't seen in these pages, and it's still stuck in old-world thinking about online learning ('classroom'?) but it's still remarkable to see such a plug in a mainstream online publication. More...
26 octobre 2018
What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland's School Success
What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland's School Success
Anu Partanen, The Atlantic, January 1, 2012.
Excellent article about the success of the Finnish educational system, from a Finnish author who makes many of the same points others cited in these pages have made in the past. The Finnish model is exactly the opposite of what is touted as 'reform' in the United States: teachers are unionized, they are highly paid and take responsibility (as opposed to 'accountability), there are no private schools, the overall aim of the system is equity, and success is not based on competition. More...
26 octobre 2018
The Un-Internet
The Un-Internet
Dave Winer, Scripting News, January 2, 2012.
Dave Winer writes, "I’ve written about it so many times, but that’s how it goes with loops.... At issue is this: Control. For whatever reason, the people who run the tech companies want it. But eventually the users take it." And so, he says, we are entering the look again, this time with microblogging services like Tumblr and tablets like iPad. It's funny - doing a follow-up to find other views, all I find are copies of the Winer post, with nothing else added. More...
26 octobre 2018
Lessons learned from using Khan Academy content in a blended learning pilot
Lessons learned from using Khan Academy content in a blended learning pilot
Alfred Essa, Innovation | Analytics, January 2, 2012.
I'm highlighting this item just to scratch my head in public. What we have here is a study (reported via Seb Schmoller) where "students using Khan Academy content in a blended learning model showed, on average, a 6.4% gain compared to a 5.2% gain in the control group. The two groups scored roughly the same overall, each showing better results in some areas compared to the other group." Well, OK, typical if uninformative. More...
26 octobre 2018
Philosophy Only A Philosopher Could Love?
Philosophy Only A Philosopher Could Love?
Jonathan Livengood, Metafilter, January 2, 2012.
Jonathan Livengood calls this "philosophy only a philosopher could love," and while I don't actually stand as a counterexample, I think there might be wider love for Clark Glymour's manifesto than the author suggests. His point of view, in a nutshell, is that for all the criticisms logical positivists receive, they contributed much of value to society, including not only computational logic and artificial intelligence, but a better and more moral view of the world than, say, Heidegger, Sartre and Merleau-Ponty. I have said many times that "my morality is based on my science; my science isn't based on my morality." Though Hume famously said you cannot derive an "ought" from an "is" I take it as foundational to ethics that you can't simply argue your way out of what is a transparently flawed morality. More...
26 octobre 2018
Sky’s the limit: the world’s cheapest touch-screen tablet
Sky’s the limit: the world’s cheapest touch-screen tablet
Tony Bates, online learning and distance education resources, January 2, 2012.
In a year that was very good for educational technology, Tony Bates says this was one of the best educational technology stories. It's hard to disagree. More...
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