10 Influencers Weigh In on the Future of Learning
CGS Blog, 2017/09/11
I was most interested in who C GS Magazine thought the "10 influencers" were (and on a more meta level, what counts as an 'influencer'). More...
The Future of Education Is Already Happening (If You’re Paying Attention)
John Spencer, The Synapse, 2017/09/11
I agree with the title but question the post as a whole. Itès probably because the post is addressed to teachers and stresses the importance of teachers. "The future of education can’t be found in a gadget or an app or a program or a product," writes John Spencer. "It doesn’t require a think tank full of pundits. No, the future of education can be found in your classroom. More...
Member States to Commission: We don’t trust your claims that censorship filters are in line with EU law
Communia, 2017/09/18
Communia is a IP policy organization based in Europe. It advocates for limits to copyright and fairer terms for users. For example, Communia recommends that "any false or misleading attempt to misappropriate Public Domain material must be declared unlawful." In the current instance it is expressing concern about what it calls "censorship filters", aka "upload filters". More...
Science, open access… and Sci-Hub
Enrique Dans, Medium, 2017/09/18
As I write, Sci-Hub remains active and accessible, despite an American court awarding damages against it. I'm still of the opinion that there is no particular reason why American law should prevail in international disputes. Sci-Hub is based in Russia, and if the action should be filed and heard there. More...
Timebomb: How The University Cartel is Failing Britain’s Students
Richard Tice, Tariq Al-Humaidhi, UK2020, 2017/09/18
The premise of this report (157 page PDF) is that British students are getting a poor return for their tuition fees, this largely because the entrenched interests of a university cartel limiting the potential benefits of a competitive system. The authors have no issues with the higher fees, but feel students should get more stuff for their money. More...
Open Recognition and Its Enemies
Serge Ravet, Learning Futures, 2017/09/18
This five-part series has one of the worst opening paragraphs ever, and is quite loosely written throughout. Ultimately it addresses the issue of formal recognition of open badges. It's a frustrating read (stick to the point Serge!) but the author makes some good arguments worthy of consideration. Here are the parts: Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part Four, Part Five. More...
The Media Has A Probability Problem
Nate Silver, FiveThirtyEight, 2017/09/25
This is an excellent article, and while Nate Silver talks about presidential elections, the article really has nothing to do with them. And, interestingly, it begins with hurricane forecasting. The article is an extended discussion of probability that should be required reading for any educator or journalist. More...
Bell Calls for CRTC-Backed Website Blocking System and Complete Criminalization of Copyright in NAFTA
Michael Geist, 2017/09/25
To understand why Bell is calling for ISPs to block infringing sites without any sort of judicial review (and to criminalize commercial copyright infringement) we need to understand that the telecom company is also a content publisher, Bell Media, owning dozens of television stations, radio stations and websites. More...
4 Ways We Can Fund Personalized Learning to Create More Equitable Schools
Ace Parsi, Bryant Best, Getting Smart, 2017/09/25
The four methods are listed about half way through the post, and seem reasonable to me:
The idea here, as I see it, is to fund personalization in such a way as to target those most in need, and to have that funding follow that need through direct investment in learning support, as well as investment in those providing that support. More...
Anatomy of a Moral Panic
Maciej Cegłowski, Idle Words, 2017/09/25
Those of us in education have experience no end to the moral panics about this and that over the years. This article is an extended take on moral panics in the media over sales of charcol, suphur and saltpeter on the internet. These, of course, are the ingredients to make black powder, a favourite of hobbyists worldwide. More...
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