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19 février 2018

The Year We Found Out Everything We Thought We Knew About the World Was Wrong

The Year We Found Out Everything We Thought We Knew About the World Was Wrong
Umair Haque, Eudaimonia, Medium, 2017/12/22
To my mind, this is the same argument I've been having with David Wiley. "The necessity to buy back the basics of life that citizenship should entail from the highest bidder, while selling one’s self to the lowest bidder, is not really much freedom at all, compared to the simple, humble, gentle right, ability, capacity, to live a sane, healthy, happy, and full life, that hurts no one, and lifts up everyone." More...

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19 février 2018

The Propaganda behind Personalised Learning

The Propaganda behind Personalised Learning
Benjamin Doxtdator, A Long View on Education, 2017/12/22

This is a more recent article from Benjamin Doxtdator on personalized learning (the previous one cited was from July). More...

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19 février 2018

Critical Thinking Skills to Help Students Better Evaluate Scientific Claims

Critical Thinking Skills to Help Students Better Evaluate Scientific Claims
Leah Shaffer, Mind/Shift, 2017/12/22
So much of what people are calling "critical thinking" and even "digital literacy" revolves around the idea of evaluating claims. This article in Big Think is a case in point, describing efforts to engage students in assessing articles and thinking like a scientist. More...

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19 février 2018

The World's Best Film School is Free on YouTube

The World's Best Film School is Free on YouTube
David Pierce, Wired, 2017/12/22
Wired is prone to grand overstatements, and that's probably the case here as well. Having said that, the phenomenon they point to is real. The article points to YouTube advice channels such as Every Frame a Painting, VSauce, CGP Gray and Lessons from the Screenplay. The article talks about the "YouTube Film School", but it's just a concept, not an actually existing thing. More...

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19 février 2018

Open Access and its Discontents: A British View from Outside the Sciences

Open Access and its Discontents: A British View from Outside the Sciences
Richard Fisher, Open and Shut?, 2017/12/21
In this post Richard Fisher argues that "polemical articles by Open Access enthusiasts claiming to know ‘what researchers want’ (when in reality what they mean is ‘what I and my immediate peer groups would find most helpful’) can be profoundly off-putting to those outside the circle of advocacy." There's a presumption of "universal acceptance of the principles behind Open Access" which leads him to "wonder which planet these agencies are inhabiting." Some examples: in STEM, research is used to create other products and services, which ultimately pay for the research, but in non-STEM fields the research output is the product. More...

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19 février 2018

The New Media Consortium: its sudden death and what comes next

The New Media Consortium: its sudden death and what comes next
Bryan Alexander, 2017/12/21
"The New Media Consortium (NMC) regrets to announce that because of apparent errors and omissions by its former Controller and Chief Financial Officer, the organization finds itself insolvent. Consequently, NMC must cease operations immediately.” Bryan Alexander writes. More...

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19 février 2018

Patterns in Contemporary Canadian Picture Books: Radical Change in Action

Patterns in Contemporary Canadian Picture Books: Radical Change in Action
Beverley Brenna, Shuwen Sun, Yina Liu, in education, 2017/12/21
I was disappointed to find that there were no pictures in this article about picture books, just a few tables. This article doesn't ask whether picture books are still “the staple of children’s literature” - that's just a given - but instead enquires into 'how exactly they are changing in contemporary iterations," and in particular, whether there is "evidence of Radical Change" (capitalized because there's a Reference). More...

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19 février 2018

A Robot Goes to College

A Robot Goes to College
Lindsay McKenzie, Inside Higher Ed, 2017/12/21
Not only did the robot pass the course, it identified 31 forms of love. That's pretty interesting, but I thinlk it's weird that a course in the Philosophy of Love included " a class debate about the use of nonlethal versus lethal weapons (an extension of a discussion about love and conflict) with students from an ethics course at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point." Maybe it's just me, but it feels like everything is being militarized. More...

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19 février 2018

Our Staggering Class Divide Starts With Childrearing

Our Staggering Class Divide Starts With Childrearing (Joan Williams)
Larry Cuban, Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice, 2017/12/21
There is a truth in this article and an even deeper lie. The truth is that upper class children are educated differently than lower class children. "The ideology of natural growth prevalent among the poor and the working class contrasts with the 'concerted cultivation' of the professional elite.... Concerted cultivation is the rehearsal for a life of work devotion: the time pressure, the intense competition, the exhaustion with it all, the ethic of putting work before family." The suggestion nhere is that if we taught poor people to increase their drive, they would be successful to. More...

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19 février 2018

Introduction to Psychology with Professor Paul Bloom

Introduction to Psychology with Professor Paul Bloom
Paul Bloom, Yale University, 2017/12/20
Interesting project. According to the email, "Knowledge 4 All Foundation together with the UNESCO Chair in OER in Slovenia is testing a new machine translation service specifically tailored for educational texts from EN to 11 languages." This is one of two videos they're using as a test case (Physics I: Classical Mechanics is the other). More...

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