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30 avril 2018

The Ethics of Manipulation

The Ethics of Manipulation
Robert Noggle, Robert Noggle, 2018/04/10
This is a new article in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy and it is as timely as it is provocative. I have always thought of advertising as deeply unethical. In a 1996 article I criticized McDonalds because "advertise heavily and focus their advertisements at innocent children." I also qwuestion the use of manipulative tactics in education; this, it seems to me, changes it from teaching to propaganda. More...

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30 avril 2018

How to Collaborate When You Don’t Have Consensus

How to Collaborate When You Don’t Have Consensus
Adam Kahane, Strategy+Business, 2018/04/10
I really like this article because it addresses the question of how to work together in real life. In real like, you don't construct shared meaning or agree on values and goals. You might not agree on much at all. This is when traditional calls for 'collaboration' are at their most facile. As the author writes, "teams collaborate: A boss leads everyone to see the problem the same way (probably the way the boss does), and then to agree on a way forward." In any sort of non-hierarchal arrangement, that doesn't work. More...

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30 avril 2018

“You might want to tell your instructors about this:” students as sales reps?

“You might want to tell your instructors about this:” students as sales reps?
Kaitlyn Vitez, United States Public Interest Research Group, 2018/04/10
According to this article, Cengage is trying to convince student customers to send email messages to their professors urging them to adopt Cengage's 'flat fee for access' to course materials (previously covered here). The author quotes students arguing they don't like being used in this way. More...

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30 avril 2018

RSS is undead

RSS is undead
Danny Crichton, TechCrunch, 2018/04/10
The gist of this article is that RSS is beyond saving. Even if it appears to have life, the fact that big companies are turning their backs on it means that it has no real future. One failing, writes Danny Crichton, is that it doesn't prioritize content for the user, as illustrated by the futility of subscribing to the Washington Post RSS feed, which has 1200 articles per day. More...

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30 avril 2018

12 Things Everyone Should Understand About Tech

12 Things Everyone Should Understand About Tech
Anil Dash, 2018/04/12
I think this is a good article but I think that readers in the education sector should read it critically. Parts I agree with. For example, 'tech is not neutral'. The tech we choose changes not only what we do but also what we can do. Others need clarification. For example, the statement 'tech is not inevitable' may be true for some specific piece of tech, but about tech generally. More...

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30 avril 2018

The Use of E-Textiles in Ontario Education

The Use of E-Textiles in Ontario Education
Janette Hughes, Laura Jane Morrison, Canadian Journal of Education, 2018/04/12
"E-textiles, or electronic textiles, refer to 'fabric artifacts that include embedded computers and other electronics'." E-textile programs are now be implemented in some Ontario schools. It's a pretty new part of e-learning, though research dates back to 2012 or so. The authors report (29 page PDF) that e-textiles have been associated with the rise of STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Mathematics) learning in schools. Anyhow, the focus of the current article is on the "production pedagogies" employed in the field, "a focus on the cultivation of participatory and equitable spaces, where students can engage with ideas and issues as joint seekers and co-creators of knowledge and producers." The study is a design-based research project working alongside students in e-textile projects. More...

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30 avril 2018

How to Soft Launch Virtual Reality in Schools

How to Soft Launch Virtual Reality in Schools
Kipp Bentley, ConVerge, 2018/04/12
Short article with some advice that seems, on the face of it, obvious. Start with the cheap cardboard VR headsets and maybe have some students do demos for their classes. After experience with this, purchase one or two higher-end headsets and do some exploration projects. Have some students support those teachers who may be interested. More...

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30 avril 2018

A Taxonomy of Asynchronous Instructional Video Styles

A Taxonomy of Asynchronous Instructional Video Styles
Konstantinos Chorianopoulos, The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2018/04/09
I suppose somebody had to write this article, and the taxonomy represents the prototypical apex of educational research, and it's in IRRODL so I'm sure the formatting was perfect. But really? Well, OK, it is interesting to see the list of different instructional video 'styles'. It would have made a good blog post, though I do have my criticisms. More...

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30 avril 2018

Elsevier launches Mendeley Data to manage entire lifecycle of research data

Elsevier launches Mendeley Data to manage entire lifecycle of research data
2018/04/09

While this appears to be a good announcement, my fear of course is that Elsevier will somehow clamp down on access as it tries to monetize this offering. More...

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30 avril 2018

Design of a Personalized Massive Open Online Course Platform

Design of a Personalized Massive Open Online Course Platform
Junfu Xi, Yehua Chen, Gang Wang, International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning, 2018/04/09
You might think (as I did) that this has to do with personalized access to MOOCs, but the article is in fact about building an analytics engine into a MOOC platform. It's still an interesting article. More...

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