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By Jon Dron May 9, 2024 - 1:08pmJennie Young nails it in this delightful little bit of satire about the misuse of learning outcomes in education, Forget the Magic of Discovery, It’s Learning Outcomes That Help Children Identify, Comprehend, and Synthesize Their...Slides from my webinar, How to Be an Educational Technology: An Entangled Perspective on Teaching
By Jon Dron September 24, 2024 - 1:00pmFor those with an interest, here are the slides from my webinar for Contact North | Contact Nord that I gave today: How to be an educational technology (warning: large download, about 32MB).I will update this post with a link to the recording if...Sets, nets and groups revisited
By Jon Dron July 3, 2024 - 10:41pmHere are the slides from a talk I gave earlier today, hosted by George Siemens and his fine team of people at Human Systems. Terry Anderson helped me to put the slides together, and offered some great insights and commentary after the presentation...Preprint - The human nature of generative AIs and the technological nature of humanity:...
By Jon Dron 9 October 2023 @ 12:09pmwww.preprints.org - 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...On the importance of place
By Jon Dron July 4, 2024 - 1:20pmI had the great pleasure of being invited to the Open University of the Netherlands and, later in the day, to EdLab, Maastricht University a few weeks ago, giving a slightly different talk in each place based on some of the main themes in my most...A decade of unwriting: the life history of "How Education Works"
By Jon Dron June 24, 2023 - 2:16pmAbout 10 years ago I submitted the first draft of a book called "How Learning Technologies Work" to AU Press. The title was a nod to David Byrne's book, "How Music Works".Stories that matter and stories that don't: some thoughts on appropriate teaching roles for...
By Jon Dron 4 January 2024 @ 12:55pmwww.wired.com - 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...The artificial curriculum
By Jon Dron 15 July 2023 @ 1:23pmwww.researchgate.net - “Shaping the Future of Education: Exploring the Potential and Consequences of AI and ChatGPT in Educational Settings” by Simone Grassini is a well-researched, concise but comprehensive overview of the state of play for generative...
