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Jon Dron
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Jon Dron

I'd forgotten that I'd already read that.

(March 10, 2021 - 10:00am)

General info

Brief description: still learning, never learning enough

Location:

Vancouver

Goals:

to be better than I am

Contact info

Email address: jond@athabascau.ca

Website: https://jondron.ca/

Personal Website: https://jondron.org/

Country: Canada

Twitter ID: jondron

Occupation

Occupation: teacher and researcher

Industry: Education

Company / Institution: Athabasca University

Job Title: Professor & Chair, School of Computing & Information Systems

Job Description:

I teach in the area of computing (mostly the softer side of things) and research in the field of learning technologies. I manage the School of Computing & Information Systems

About me

I am a full professor and Associate Dean, Learning & Assessment in the School of Computing & Information Systems, and a member of The Technology-Enhanced Knowledge Research Institute at Athabasca University. I am one of the creators of the Landing. I am a UK National Teaching Fellow and member of the International Federation of National Teaching Fellows. My latest book, How Education Works: Teaching, Technology, and Technique, was published in June, 2023. My previous books, Teaching Crowds: Learning and Social Media (2014), and Control & Constraint in E-Learning: Choosing When to Choose, (2007 - it's better than the title and cover suggests!) are still available from the publishers. You can find out more about me and read my blog at https://jondron.ca

- Jon Dron@jond
Jon Dron commented on a bookmark Why Every Developer Should Learn Javascript in the group COMP 266 March 15, 2024 - 9:39am

JavaScript is indeed single-threaded. When it talks about concurrency it is (I think - haven't checked the article again but this is normally the case) most likely referring to aynchronous execution, where a function can be busy doing something...
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Jon Dron bookmarked AI Tutor Pro | Contact North | Contact Nord in the group COMP 266 January 14, 2024 - 12:43pm

This is an excellent (and free) online tutor for just about anything, provided by Contact North, an online learning organization based in Ontario. I don't recommend using it if you know absolutely nothing about a topic but, as long as you have even...

https://www.aitutorpro.ca/check
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Jon Dron uploaded the file robot reading to a child in the style of a lino cut January 4, 2024 - 1:11pm

a collaboration between me and DALL-E
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Jon Dron bookmarked Stories that matter and stories that don't: some thoughts on appropriate teaching roles for... January 4, 2024 - 1:01pm

Well, this was definitely going to happen. The system discussed in this Wired article is a bot (not available to the general public) that takes characters from the absurdly popular Bluey cartoon series and creates personalized bedtime stories...

https://www.wired.com/story/bluey-gpts-bedtime-stories-artificial-intelligence-copyright/
- Jon Dron@jond
Jon Dron bookmarked Published in Digital - The Human Nature of Generative AIs and the Technological Nature of Humanity:... November 26, 2023 - 3:26pm

A month or two ago I shared a "warts-and-all" preprint of this paper on the risks of educational uses of generative AIs. The revised, open-access published version, The Human Nature of Generative AIs and the Technological Nature of Humanity:...

https://www.mdpi.com/2673-6470/3/4/20
- Jon Dron@jond
Jon Dron bookmarked ▶ How Education Works, the audio book: now with beats November 8, 2023 - 3:48pm

My book has been set to music! Many thanks to Terry Greene for converting How Education Works into the second in his inspired series of podcasts, EZ Learning - Audio Books with Beats. There's a total of 15 episodes that can be listened to online,...

https://www.spreaker.com/show/ez-learning
- Jon Dron@jond
Jon Dron uploaded the file Slides from my ICSET 2023 keynote: Artificial humanity and human artificiality October 13, 2023 - 9:23pm

Here are my slides from my keynote today at ICSET 2023 in Taiwan (I was online, alas, not in Taipei!). I will try to remember to update this post with a link to the recording, when it is available. The themes of my talk will be familiar to anyone...
- Jon Dron@jond
Jon Dron bookmarked Preprint - The human nature of generative AIs and the technological nature of humanity:... October 9, 2023 - 12:16pm

Here is a preprint of a paper I just submitted to MDPI's Digital journal that applies the co-participation model that underpins How Education Works (and a number of my papers over the last few years) to generative AIs (GAIs). I don't know whether it...

https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202310.0433/v1
- Jon Dron@jond
Jon Dron uploaded the file Amish cyborg September 11, 2023 - 6:31pm

by me and Midjourney
- Jon Dron@jond
Jon Dron uploaded the file intertwingled technologies and humans September 11, 2023 - 6:28pm

by me and midjourney

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