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Some meandering thoughts on 'good' and 'bad' learning
By Jon Dron December 20, 2022 - 7:39pmThere has been an interesting brief discussion on Twitter recently that has hinged around whether and how people are ‘good’ at learning. As Kelly Matthews observes, though, Twitter is not the right place to go into any depth on this, so...Published in Digital - The Human Nature of Generative AIs and the Technological Nature of Humanity:...
By Jon Dron 26 November 2023 @ 2:37pmwww.mdpi.com - 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:...Weary, old, a little broken, but not letting go of the dream: edtech in the 21st Century
By Jon Dron June 30, 2022 - 10:10pmAnne-Marie Scott joins a long line of weary edtech illuminati who have recently expressed sadness and disillusion about life, the universe, and, in particular, the edtech industry (she has plans to do something about that - good plans - but her...My latest paper, "Learning, Technology, and Technique", now online in the Canadian...
By Jon Dron 10 August 2022 @ 7:50pmcjlt.ca - This is my latest paper, Learning, Technology, and Technique, in the current issue of the Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology (Vol. 48 No. 1, 2022). Essentially, because this was what I was invited to do, the paper shrinks down over...Proceedings of The Open/Technology in Education, Society, and Scholarship Association Conference,...
By Jon Dron 13 January 2023 @ 11:06amconference.otessa.org - These are the proceedings of OTESSA '22. There's a good mix of research/theory and practice papers, including one from me, Rory McGreal, Vive Kumar, and Jennifer Davies arising from our work on trying to use digital landmarks to make e-texts more...▶ How Education Works, the audio book: now with beats
By Jon Dron 8 November 2023 @ 3:46pmwww.spreaker.com - 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,...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...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...My latest paper: Technology, Teaching, and the Many Distances of Distance Learning | Journal of...
By Jon Dron 16 February 2023 @ 7:18pmwww.jofdl.nz - I am pleased to announce my latest paper, published openly in the Journal of Open, Flexible and Distance Learning, which has long been one of my favourite distance and ed tech journals. The paper starts with an abbreviated argument about the...
Hongxin Yan
Learning Designer at Athabasca University (AU); Doctoral Student at University of Eastern Finland (UEF)
