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Study links student cheating to whether a course is popular or disliked
By Jon Dron 8 October 2017 @ 1:16pm Comments (3)www.insidehighered.com - We already know that extrinsically motivated students (mainly those driven by grades and testing) are far more likely to cheat than those who are more intrinsically motivated. I bookmarked yet another example of this effect just the other day but... -
This was actually accepted for an IEEE conference and then published
By Jon Dron 6 October 2017 @ 11:06pm Comments (1)ieeexplore.ieee.org - I invite you to draw your own conclusions about this paywalled paper and the amount of quality control and editorial input that goes into IEEE publications nowadays. Here's the abstract, which is one of the more coherent passages in the... -
The NGDLE: We Are the Architects | EDUCAUSE
By Jon Dron 3 October 2017 @ 11:43pmer.educause.edu - A nice overview of where the NGDLE concept was earlier this year. We really need to be thinking about this at AU because the LMS alone will not take us where we need to be. One of the nice things about this article is that it talks quite clearly... -
The return of the weblog – Ethical Tech
By Jon Dron 28 September 2017 @ 11:58amwords.werd.io - Blogs have evolved a bit over the past 20 years or so, and diversified. The always terrific Ben Werdmuller here makes the distinction between thinkpieces (what I tend to think of as vaguely equivalent to keynote presentations at a conference, less... -
Instagram uses 'I will rape you' post as Facebook ad in latest algorithm mishap
By Jon Dron 26 September 2017 @ 4:44pmwww.theguardian.com - Another in a long line of algorithm fails from the Facebook stable, this time from Instagram... This is a postcard from our future when AI and robots rule the planet. Intelligence without wisdom is a very dangerous thing. See my recent post on... -
Infants make more attempts to achieve a goal when they see adults persist
By Jon Dron 24 September 2017 @ 8:02pmscience.sciencemag.org - A straightforward and briefly reported study that supports the rather obvious hypothesis that quite young (15-month-old) children can and do learn from observing adults, at least in the short term. The twist here is that adults in the study were... -
No, you aren't a 'visual' learner
By Jon Dron 21 September 2017 @ 7:16pmtheweek.com - It's a damning indictment of our collective resistance to truth that the point of this article still has to be restated, yet again. Amazingly, 93% of the general public and 76% of educators still erroneously believe that we should be taught in ways... -
Amazon helps and teaches bomb makers
By Jon Dron 19 September 2017 @ 5:30pm Comments (3)www.alphr.com - Amazon's recommender algorithm works pretty well: if people start to gather together ingredients needed for making a thermite bomb, Amazon helpfully suggests other items that may be needed to make it, including hardware like ball bearings, switches,... -
Analytic thinking undermines religious belief while intelligence undermines social conservatism,...
By Jon Dron 18 September 2017 @ 1:37pmwww.psypost.org - 'Suggests' is the operative word in the title here. The title is a sensationalist interpretation of an inconclusive and careful study, and I don't think this is what the authors of the study mean to say at all. Indeed, they express caution in... -
Highly praised children are more inclined to cheat
By Jon Dron 15 September 2017 @ 3:26pm Comments (2)www.alphr.com - The title of this Alphr article is a little misleading because the point the article rightly makes is that it all depends on the type of praise given. It reports on research from the University of Toronto that confirms (yet again) what should be...
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