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Moral panic: Japanese girls risk fingerprint theft by making peace-signs in photographs / Boing...
By Jon Dron 15 January 2017 @ 1:10pm Comments (3)boingboing.net - As Cory Doctorow notes, why this headline should single out Japanese girls as being particularly at risk - and that this is the appeal of it - is much more disturbing than the fact that someone figured out how to lift fingerprints that can... -
Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation
By Jon Dron 14 January 2017 @ 11:58am Comments (1)www.researchgate.net - A short article from Lisa Legault that summarizes self-determination theory (SDT) and its findings very succinctly and clearly. It's especially effective at highlighting the way the spectrum of extrinsic-to-intrinsic motivation works (including the... -
Call & Submission - EDEN Annual Conference 2017
By Jon Dron 13 January 2017 @ 12:38pmPosted to group: Teaching and Learning at Athabascawww.eden-online.org - An increasingly significant distance and online learning conference that is typically attended by many of the great and good in learning technology and distance ed research. Theme: Diversity Matters Location: Jönköping,... -
Bridge champion who played her cards right (From The Argus)
By Jon Dron 11 January 2017 @ 3:27pm Comments (1)www.theargus.co.uk - Sad news for the world of bridge, about which I know almost nothing apart from what Sandra Landy, several-times world and European bridge champion, occasionally shared with me, and sad news for me. I learned today that she died last week, at the age... -
Coase's Penguin, or, Linux and the Nature of the Firm.
By Jon Dron 9 January 2017 @ 2:26pmPosted to group: COMP 650: Social Computingwww.benkler.org - Yochai Benkler's seminal paper from 2002, introducing themes later explored in greater depth in the Wealth of Networks (very highly recommended, albeit very long indeed). In this shorter and earlier paper, he outlines his central notion of a third... -
TEL MOOC from Athabasca University
By Jon Dron 9 January 2017 @ 12:03pmhttps://www.telmooc.org/ - Starts today... Course Description Teachers who want to learn more about teaching with technology will find this Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), Introduction to Technology-Enabled Learning (TEL), informative and engaging. Using... -
DeepDyve - Your Personal Research Library
By Jon Dron 6 January 2017 @ 7:28pmwww.deepdyve.com - 'Like Spotify for academic articles', the slogan says. It gives access to a claimed 10,000 paywalled academic journals for $40USD/month ($30/month for a year). The site correctly claims that you can therefore get a whole year's access to all... -
Alfie Kohn: "It's bad news if students are motivated to get A's" - YouTube
By Jon Dron 6 January 2017 @ 12:53pm Comments (1)- A nice one-minute summary of Alfie Kohn's case against grades at www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQt-ZI58wpw There's a great deal more Kohn has to say on the subject that is worth reading, such as at http://www.alfiekohn.org/article/case-grades/... -
Wisdom of the Confident: Using Social Interactions to Eliminate the Bias in Wisdom of the Crowds
By Jon Dron 5 January 2017 @ 7:41pm Comments (1)arxiv.org - A really interesting paper on making crowds smarter. I find the word 'confident' in the title a bit odd because it seems (and I may have misunderstood) that the researchers are actually trying to measure independent thinking rather than... -
When IRC may not be enough. Maybe?
By Viorel Tabara 27 December 2016 @ 7:09pm Comments (1)Posted to group: Open Source Softwareomnirom.org - A good summary on what Mattermost (the open source alternative to Slack) can offer to distributed groups. Worth mentioning though, there are bigger open source projects that work well on IRC, one example would be Fedora Linux.
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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