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OLDaily - Text Edition by Stephen Downes Apr 05, 2016
Navigating the Emotional Side of a Career Transition
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My time as the leader of the Learning and Performance
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program has come to an end, and while I am still employed
by NRC, I find myself a bit adrift at the moment. Which is
natural. "People want to be respected and honored for who
they are, and one’s chosen career is a big part of
that. They also want to feel that their work has meaning
and positive impact." For me, the main thing will be to
navigate the emotional waters - the regret over
opportunities passed over while I pursued this work, the
disappointment that somehow my best wasn't good enough, the
fear that maybe I was never qualified in the first place,
the hurt of anger and betrayal. I'll be OK; I'm had much
worse things happen to me. For now, though, a time to
pause, and reflect.
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Going further
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Doug peterson says there should be pushback on the post
What does the fox say
https://dougpete.wordpress.com/2016/04/04/what-does-the-fox-say/?
"The challenge," he writes, "was that I showed how to use
the two of them at the simplest possible level. If
you’re a regular reader here, you know that I
haven’t bought into the theories that some are so
happy to demonstrate as 'research' when, in fact, no
research has been done." Yeah, I can think of a lot of that
sort of 'research'. But I don't really hold blog posts to
that standard - it's OK to say "hey, here's something
neat." Having said that, it is worth looking more deeply at
applications that teach animal sounds. Our representation
of animals sounds is highly culturally-specific
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So is the tool cross-cultural, or is it promoting a
hegemony of one animal-sound culture (and, yeah, guess
which one)?
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Crowd Source: Inside the company that fakes it all... for a
price
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I wonder how much data is fake. This is what makes me
wonder: "Crowds on Demand Linkbrands
themselves as "the experts at celebrating your top
salesperson, your best clients or a family member with a
memorable and fun event!" But it's not that simple. Not
surprisingly, staged protests are the company's "growth
sector." The concept seems to place them on the edge of a
pretty slippery slope." More here
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Mining the Quantified Self: Personal Knowledge Discovery as
a Challenge for Data Science
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Researchers know how to do analytics on large data sets,
but doing useful analytics on individual people still
eludes them. "despite small dataset size, the QS domain
should be appealing to re- searchers (because it opens up
interesting issues) and significant in its impact on the
real world (because it can have a direct effect on
people’s lives)." But it's not, because it's hard.
But people want useful information (and not simply which
Netflix-produced video they'd like to watch). "How can I
eliminate headaches? How can I make evidence-based
decisions to in-crease my energy levels?" And so on. Good
article, worth a careful read.
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Report: Education Leaders, Staff Want more
Individualization
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Of course, I would make my usual distinction between
personal and personalized, but beyond that, I can't say the
story is a surprise (though you'd be hard-pressed to find
technology supporting this objective). "Only seven percent
would give an A to their organization's ability to
individualize customer experiences; 57 percent said they'd
rate their ability at a C or worse. Only 10 percent would
score their ability to individualize the employee
experience as an A; 37 percent would rank it as a C or
lower." Plug and play people; that's the current reality.
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Labster
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I watched a presentation this morning from Labster -
"Students can freely perform experiments in a
self-directed virtual lab. Labster works directly in
the web browser and on iPads, and can be accessed
anywhere, anytime." Good concept, good idea, and an example
of how learning will be more distributed in the future.
Also - no more explosions in chem class. According to
Samuel Butcher, who presented for Labster, hey got $4.7
million to work with MIT (of course) and theree's
a TEDx talk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYpovgka-9Q&ref=labster
(of course). More
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