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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... -
Social Media Has Not Destroyed a Generation - Scientific American
By Jon Dron 25 October 2019 @ 6:32pmwww.scientificamerican.com - 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... -
Causal understanding is not necessary for the improvement of culturally evolving technology...
By Jon Dron 3 October 2019 @ 10:16am Comments (1)www.nature.com - 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... -
Engaging undergraduate students in a co-curricular digital badging platform
By Michael McNorgan 2 August 2019 @ 7:58pmPosted to group: MSc IS Integration Essay - McNorganlink.springer.com - The authors suggest digital badges as a means to "enable and reward self-motivated learning." Using action research to guide the process, an experimental co-curricular badging system was developed as a means to encourage students and help them track... -
The Self
By Patrick Callaghan 22 July 2019 @ 5:32pmwww.delmarlearning.com - I have been reading on the self, more specifically the portion about our own self concepts. The self includes consciousness of physical charasteristics as well as one's inner character and emotional life. Daniels (2004) believes that the... -
The Myth of 'Learning Styles'
By Jon Dron 18 May 2019 @ 12:47pmgetpocket.com - A straightforward journalistic article from the Atlantic that does a decent job of explaining how and why learning styles theories simply don't work, with a particular focus on VARK. The takeaways are that, yes, people do often prefer to learn in... -
E-Learn 2019, Call for Proposals: Due July 8
By Jon Dron 24 April 2019 @ 1:13pmwww.aace.org - Call for Proposals: Due July 8 E-learn has been running since 1996 (originally under the name of WebNet) and is a great conference for researchers into online learning working in higher education and related fields. At its peak, it used to attract... -
Do you agree with the notion that Alfred Adler's "social interest" is related to...
By Janelle Stables 22 April 2019 @ 5:12pmwww.tandfonline.com - Hello students! Being a Christian woman, I was seeking out therapeutic techniques that would not overtly encrouch on client's beliefs, as most professional settings I assume require the therapist to not impose their personal spiritual beliefs...
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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