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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... -
What is it to be Bayesian? The (pretty simple) math modelling behind a Big Data buzzword | Aeon...
By Jon Dron 24 January 2020 @ 11:52am Comments (4)aeon.co - 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... -
Is China really the educational powerhouse that the PISA rankings suggest? (tl;dr: not even close)
By Jon Dron 5 January 2020 @ 8:01pmen.jmdedu.com - 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... -
Excellent news: Twitter Makes A Bet On Protocols Over Platforms.
By Jon Dron 11 December 2019 @ 12:05pmwww.techdirt.com - 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...
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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