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Standard Ebooks: Free and liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover.
By Jon Dron 22 July 2020 @ 6:42pmstandardebooks.org - 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... -
This New ‘Ion Drive’ Airplane Flew Straight out of Science Fiction
By Jon Dron 19 July 2020 @ 11:20ammedium.com - 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... -
Social physics (collection from Scientific Reports at nature.com)
By Jon Dron 7 July 2020 @ 3:11pmwww.nature.com - 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... -
Opinion: Let’s admit it – online education is a pale shadow of the real thing
By Jon Dron 20 May 2020 @ 12:39pmwww.theglobeandmail.com - 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.... -
Opinion: Let’s admit it – online education is a pale shadow of the real thing
By Jon Dron 20 May 2020 @ 12:37pmwww.theglobeandmail.com - 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... -
Distributed Teaching
By Jon Dron 16 May 2020 @ 10:14am Comments (3)link.springer.com - 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... -
The most comprehensive, accurate, and up-to-date source of information on COVID19 research
By Jon Dron 25 April 2020 @ 10:43am Comments (1)https://covid-trials.org/ - 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... -
Why Pioneer Neurosurgeon Wilder Penfield Said the Mind Is More Than the Brain
By Jon Dron 9 March 2020 @ 1:15pmmindmatters.ai - 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... -
The makers of the game complaining about the people playing it
By Jon Dron 5 March 2020 @ 12:20pmwww.cbc.ca - ""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... -
The Significance Behind Bell Lets Talk
By Jordynn Mar 31 January 2020 @ 8:55pm Comments (1)nationalpost.com - I have always been interested in the significance of the Bell Lets Talk movement and whether it is benificial or not. In honour of yesterday being Bell Lets Talk day I decided to do some searching into any negative aspects that this day carries. I...
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Thanks Gerald - if nothing else, it's a quick read!
Jon Dron May 16, 2020 - 12:17pm
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Jon,
This looks great. I look forward to reading it.
Gerald Ardito May 16, 2020 - 11:29am
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Pretty awesome, it reminds me of https://bellard.org/jslinux/ where you can try out what using a Linux terminal would be like.
Kelvin May 14, 2020 - 3:54pm
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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