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- 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
  
  Gerald Ardito April 26, 2020 - 8:53am
  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.
- 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
  
  Gerald Ardito April 23, 2020 - 12:02pm
  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.
- 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:...
- Jon Dron@jond
Jon Dron bookmarked Why Pioneer Neurosurgeon Wilder Penfield Said the Mind Is More Than the Brain March 9, 2020 - 1:16pm

I had not come across exactly this argument for mind-brain dualism before, though it resembles some going back to antiquity in its basic assumptions. It's an interesting idea, proposed by Wilder Penfield, a neurosurgeon working in the first half of...

https://mindmatters.ai/2020/02/why-pioneer-neurosurgeon-wilder-penfield-said-the-mind-is-more-than-the-brain/
- Jon Dron@jond
Jon Dron bookmarked The makers of the game complaining about the people playing it March 5, 2020 - 12:21pm

""I think as long as we have education, we're going to have people who are going to try and game the system and we just have to keep up with them," said Deb Eerkes, the university's director of student conduct and accountability. " (40 University...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/u-of-a-computing-cheating-1.5483278
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Jon Dron published a blog post Obsolescence and decay February 1, 2020 - 8:07pm

The natural tendency of all technologies is:to decay andto become more complex.These are related phenomena. All technologies require an input of energy, to be actively maintained, or they will eventually drift towards entropy. Pyramids...
- Jon Dron@jond
Jon Dron uploaded the file Koristka camera February 1, 2020 - 8:06pm

Old camera used with microscopes
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Jon Dron published a blog post A simple phishing scam January 25, 2020 - 10:20am

Being on sabbatical, my inbox is delightfully laid back most days so I don't check my wro
- Jon Dron@jond
Jon Dron commented on a bookmark What is it to be Bayesian? The (pretty simple) math modelling behind a Big Data buzzword | Aeon... January 24, 2020 - 7:24pm

Thanks, Samson and Sondra. Excellent educational song! It's what rap was invented for.
- Jon Dron@jond
Jon Dron bookmarked What is it to be Bayesian? The (pretty simple) math modelling behind a Big Data buzzword | Aeon... January 24, 2020 - 11:54am

This is a great little (16 minute) video that intuitively explains Bayesian probability from a variety of perspectives, but especially in visual (geometric) terms. Very useful for pretty much anyone - this is a critical thinking skill that applies...

https://aeon.co/videos/what-is-it-to-be-bayesian-the-pretty-simple-math-modelling-behind-a-big-data-buzzword
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- Sondra Petrus@sondrapi
  
  Sondra Petrus January 24, 2020 - 2:15pm
  For fun, I recommend looking up the song "Good Bayesian" by Baba Brinkman, it's very catchy!
- Jon Dron@jond
  
  Jon Dron January 24, 2020 - 7:24pm
  Thanks, Samson and Sondra. Excellent educational song! It's what rap was invented for.
- Samson Mihirette@samsonmi
  
  Samson Mihirette January 24, 2020 - 11:45pm
  I love the rap. I can sing it all day now. Having fun and Learn. Thanks, Sondra for sharing!
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- Jon Dron@jond
Jon Dron bookmarked Is China really the educational powerhouse that the PISA rankings suggest? (tl;dr: not even close) January 5, 2020 - 8:03pm

Administered by the OECD, PISA is basically a set of tests, adapted to each country, that attempt to measure educational performance across a range of skills in order to rank educational systems around the world. The rankings really matter to many...

https://en.jmdedu.com/Article/177
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Jon Dron bookmarked Excellent news: Twitter Makes A Bet On Protocols Over Platforms. December 11, 2019 - 12:06pm

Well this is good news! Of course, the road to Hell is paved with good intentions and there is much that could go wrong in between plan and execution, but it seems that Twitter is recommitting itself to openness, standards, and the use of protocols...

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20191210/21054943552/twitter-makes-bet-protocols-over-platforms.shtml
- Jon Dron@jond
Jon Dron uploaded the file AU's Bob Heller and Mike Procter win top poster prize at E-Learn 2019 November 6, 2019 - 9:05am

Well deserved! You can find more info on the poster at https://www.academicexperts.org/conf/elearn/2019/papers/55474/ Here's the abstract: Abstract: The present study is a partial replication of Heller and Procter (2009) who found that a...
- Jon Dron@jond
Jon Dron published a blog post E-Learn 2019 presentation - X-literacies: beyond digital literacy November 6, 2019 - 8:35am

Here are my slides from E-Learn 2019, in New Orleans. The presentation was about the nature of technologies and their roles in communities (groups, networks, sets, whatever), their highly situated nature, and their deep intertwingling with...
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- Gerald Ardito@extgeralda
  
  Gerald Ardito November 6, 2019 - 9:25am
  Jon,
  Thanks for sharing your slides.
  I am really intrigued by your notion of assemblages of hard and soft technologies.
- Jon Dron@jond
Jon Dron uploaded the file X-literacies November 6, 2019 - 8:32am

My slides from E-Learn 2019 Abstract: Dozens, if not hundreds, of literacies have been identified by academic researchers, from digital- to musical- to health- to network- literacy, as well as combinatorial terms like new-, multi-, 21st Century-,...
- Jon Dron@jond
Jon Dron bookmarked Social Media Has Not Destroyed a Generation - Scientific American October 25, 2019 - 6:34pm

Well this is not a surprise. It turns out that social media and cellphone use have little to no effect on the mental well-being of teenagers. And, having just hung out with more than 10,000 young people in Vancouver, I'd say that they seem to be...

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/social-media-has-not-destroyed-a-generation/
- Jon Dron@jond
Jon Dron uploaded the file Technology, technique, and teaching October 24, 2019 - 2:45pm

These are the slides from my recent talk with students studying the philosophy of education at Pace University. This is a mashup of various talks I have given in recent years, with a little new stuff drawn from my in-progress book. It starts with a...
- Jon Dron@jond
Jon Dron bookmarked Causal understanding is not necessary for the improvement of culturally evolving technology... October 3, 2019 - 10:17am

I've been struggling a bit with writing a chapter on how we should research technologies, especially soft technologies, in the light of their innate complexity, the difficulties of identifying relevant boundaries, their situated nature, the...

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-019-0567-9
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- Gerald Ardito@extgeralda
  
  Gerald Ardito October 6, 2019 - 11:05am
  Jon,
  Thanks for sharing this article (and your thinking).
  I have found a non-paywalled version of the piece for you. You can find it here.
  Enjoy!
  Gerald

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