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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...E-Learn 2017, Vancouver, 17-20 October - last day of cheaper registration rates
By Jon Dron 13 September 2017 @ 11:11am Comments (3)www.aace.org - Today is the final day to get the discount rate if you are planning on coming to E-Learn in Vancouver this year (US$455 today vs US$495 from tomorrow onwards). It promises to be quite a big event this year, with an estimated 900+ concurrent...Reddit no longer (quite) open source
By Jon Dron 5 September 2017 @ 4:31pm Comments (2)Posted to group: Open Source Softwarewww.reddit.com - Reddit has released its underlying software as open source since it began but is now stepping away from it - a bit. The reasons are interesting: "Open-source makes it hard for us to develop some features "in the clear" (like our recent video...
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Let's just skip the middle man and fail to submit it.
Jon Dron December 1, 2021 - 12:14pm
I would be honored to be selected to co-author a paper with you. However I understand your selection criteria may be high, and you may choose not to select me, in either case, it is an honor to be selected, or not.
Trevor K December 1, 2021 - 11:36am
Nice find! As a philosophy graduate with an ongoing interest in ethics I have much enjoyed the series myself. I believe that the writing team included professional philosophers to help generate and critique the plot, so there's a lot of academic depth hiding just beneath the entertaining and absurd surface. It's quite fun trying to spot the philosophers/schools of philosophy being called upon in each episode, as well as in the broader trajectory of the plot.
Jon Dron October 22, 2021 - 9:54am
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This works for me! More efficient too.
Trevor K December 1, 2021 - 12:18pm