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- Jon Dron@jond
Jon Dron uploaded the file Image of disgust August 19, 2020 - 12:12am

From "The expression of the emotions in man and animals" (Charles Darwin, 1872)
- Jon Dron@jond
Jon Dron bookmarked WT.Social in the group COMP 650: Social Computing August 18, 2020 - 10:31pm

A social network that you can pay for, created by Jimmy Wales (of Wikipedia fame). You can get in right away with no payment but I chose to pay because I believe in this kind of thing. It looks pretty cool, more set-like than network-like. From the...

https://wt.social/
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- Baljeet Bilkhu@baljeetbi
  
  I too have signed up for WT.social and found it to be a really great resource for news - I especially like the aspect of being able to determine what is important to me and can filter on what exactly I want to see. I also like the reporting and analysis provided by WT.Social - something that I find lacking on some other news platforms.
  
  Baljeet Bilkhu September 5, 2020 - 9:08am
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Jon Dron uploaded the file Letting go and staying close August 10, 2020 - 7:49pm

Here are my slides from a presentation I gave to GMR Institute of Technology, Rajam of Srikakulum District, Andhra Pradesh State, India, last week. I gave the presentation from a car, parked in a camp site in the midst of British Columbia,...
- Jon Dron@jond
Jon Dron published a blog post Letting go and staying close: presentation to GMR Institute of Technology, India, August 2020 August 10, 2020 - 7:49pm

Here are my slides from a presentation I gave to GMR Institute of Technology, Rajam of Srikakulum District, Andhra Pradesh State, India, last week. I gave the presentation from a car, parked in a camp site in the midst of British Columbia,...
- Jon Dron@jond
Jon Dron bookmarked Standard Ebooks: Free and liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover. July 22, 2020 - 6:44pm

This is a great site. It doesn't have anything like the number of books to be found on sites like Project Gutenberg or Archive.org, but each one has been lovingly edited and restored to how it should be, and made available in most popular e-book...

https://standardebooks.org/
- Jon Dron@jond
Jon Dron bookmarked This New ‘Ion Drive’ Airplane Flew Straight out of Science Fiction July 19, 2020 - 11:21am

Well, this is cool and, indeed, right out of the pages of science fiction. It uses an array of highly charged electrodes on the wings, positively and negatively charged. The first in line ionizes nitrogen, which is therefore attracted to the second...

https://medium.com/popular-science/this-new-ion-drive-airplane-flew-straight-out-of-science-fiction-4ce0c494a95d
- Jon Dron@jond
Jon Dron bookmarked Social physics (collection from Scientific Reports at nature.com) July 7, 2020 - 3:13pm

This is an incredibly large (more than 50) and broad collection of recent articles from nature.com - all or almost all of which appear to be open access - that in some way apply methods from physics to social contexts. There's a predictably large...

https://www.nature.com/collections/hfafjbjbgd
- Jon Dron@jond
Jon Dron published a blog post A novel approach to protecting academic freedom of speech: allow it, but do not allow it to be heard June 14, 2020 - 1:38pm

AUFA (the Athabasca University Faculty Association) has taken a novel approach to protecting academic freedom of expression by allowing it but preventing it from being heard.
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- Richard Huntrods@huntrods
  
  Hear Hear!
  
  Richard Huntrods June 14, 2020 - 4:50pm
- Jon Dron@jond
Jon Dron uploaded the file Educational machines and how they work June 4, 2020 - 7:25pm

These are my presentation slides from a talk I gave today for the AU Research Centre, on the nature of technologies and why that is really interesting from a learning perspective. A clear understanding of the nature of technologies, especially the...
- Jon Dron@jond
Jon Dron replied on the discussion topic Looking for advice: OER software for creating tests in the group Open Source Software May 26, 2020 - 11:00am

You could certainly do this within Moodle and I am almost sure that you will able to do the same with Brightspace - there's really not a lot of difference between the two, especially in such basic functionality. Once you have set up a test bank...
- Jon Dron@jond
Jon Dron replied on the discussion topic Looking for advice: OER software for creating tests in the group Open Source Software May 25, 2020 - 4:04pm

Hi Roland The example you provide is almost identical to what we have here at AU - they are using Sakai, but the Moodle approach is very similar indeed. All you need is edit access to your Moodle course. This is easy to arrange though, of course,...
- Jon Dron@jond
Jon Dron bookmarked Opinion: Let’s admit it – online education is a pale shadow of the real thing May 20, 2020 - 12:40pm

Sigh. This is an opinion piece from a UoT philosophy professor, Mark Kingwell, published in the Globe and Mail. Its arguments (such as they are) are an extremely poor advertisement for his discipline or for the effectiveness of learning philosophy....

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-lets-admit-it-online-education-is-a-pale-shadow-of-the-real-thing/
- Jon Dron@jond
Jon Dron bookmarked Opinion: Let’s admit it – online education is a pale shadow of the real thing May 20, 2020 - 12:39pm

Sigh. This is an opinion from a UoT philosophy professor, Mark Kingwell, published in the Globe and Mail.Its arguments (such as they are) are an extremely poor advertisement for his discipline or for the effectiveness of learning philosophy. This...

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-lets-admit-it-online-education-is-a-pale-shadow-of-the-real-thing/
- Jon Dron@jond
Jon Dron commented on a bookmark Distributed Teaching May 16, 2020 - 12:17pm

Thanks Gerald - if nothing else, it's a quick read!
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Jon Dron bookmarked Distributed Teaching May 16, 2020 - 10:16am

I forgot to share this when it first came out at the end of last year. This is my contribution to Springer's Encyclopedia of Teacher Education, a brief (3000 word) article that gives a broad overview of the main ways in which the role of a teacher...

https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007%2F978-981-13-1179-6_109-1
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- Gerald Ardito@extgeralda
  
  Jon,
  This looks great. I look forward to reading it.
  
  Gerald Ardito May 16, 2020 - 11:29am
- Jon Dron@jond
  
  Thanks Gerald - if nothing else, it's a quick read!
  
  Jon Dron May 16, 2020 - 12:17pm
- Gerald Ardito@extgeralda
  
  Jon,
  Thanks for sharing the pre-print. I enjoyed the chapter. I plan on sharing it with my teacher candidates come the Fall.
  
  Gerald Ardito May 17, 2020 - 10:32am
- Jon Dron@jond
Jon Dron bookmarked The most comprehensive, accurate, and up-to-date source of information on COVID19 research April 25, 2020 - 10:44am

This site tracks and sorts registered COVID-19 trials, harvested from multiple reliable global databases as well as other promising research not included in such sources, mined and pre-filtered using AI techniques. The studies are all manually...

https://covid-trials.org/
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- Gerald Ardito@extgeralda
  
  Jon,
  This is really impressive work. Thanks for sharing it. I am eager to play around with these data.
  And please pass on my kudos to your son and his team.
  
  Gerald Ardito April 26, 2020 - 8:53am
- Jon Dron@jond
Jon Dron uploaded the file screenshot of covid-trials.org April 25, 2020 - 10:18am

see https://covid-trials.org
- Jon Dron@jond
Jon Dron published a blog post Does technology lead to improved learning? (tl;dr: it's a meaningless question) April 23, 2020 - 11:42am

There have been (at least) tens of thousands of comparative studies on the effects of 'technology' on learning performed over the past hundred years or so. Though some have been slightly more specific (the effects of computers, online learning,...
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- Gerald Ardito@extgeralda
  
  Jon,
  I really enjoyed this post (and the ideas behind it).
  This, in particular, really stuck out to me:
  It is irreducibly complex, not just complicated. There are butterfly's wing effects to consider - a single injudicious expletive, say, or a even a smile can transform the effectiveness or otherwise of teaching. There's emergence, too.
  
  Gerald Ardito April 23, 2020 - 12:02pm
- Jon Dron@jond
Jon Dron published a blog post Bananas as educational technologies March 29, 2020 - 11:27am

One of my most memorable learning experiences that has served me well for decades, and that I actually recall most days of my life, occurred during a teacher training session early in my teaching career. We had been set the task of giving a...
- Jon Dron@jond
Jon Dron uploaded the file Banana Water Slide banana statue, Virginia Beach, Virginia March 29, 2020 - 11:11am

From the US Library of Congress: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017704476/ Title: Banana Water Slide banana statue, vertical, Virginia Beach, Virginia Creator(s): Margolies, John, photographer Date Created/Published: 1985. Medium:...

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