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OLDaily - Text Edition by Stephen Downes Dec 15, 2016
Why the Coming Jobs Crisis Is Bigger Than You Think
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This has come up in other discussions as well. "No matter
which political party holds the White House or Congress,
over the next 25 years, 47% of jobs will likely be
eliminated by technology and globalization." Well then,
won't new jobs replace the ones we lose? Maybe not. "What
would our society be like with 25%, 30% or 35%
unemployment?" asks venture capitalist Art Bilger. I think
we can imagine, since it's a reality faced in various
nations around the world today. But it raises the question:
what should we be training our children and youth of today
for? Job training seems so irrelevant in a world without
jobs.
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Designing bots
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What this makes me wonder is what the best way to
think is when creating bots. Consider this: "A
designer who thinks in systems will get to know their
users’ problems better and will be able to see the
point where the bot technology won't be able to solve
problems anymore." OK, fair enough. So thinking in
systems is one way to approach bot design. But is it the
best way? What would the alternatives be? I tend to think
in terms of spaces and affordances, not systems. I think of
open-ended possibilities, not ways of reaching objectives.
But is that appropriate to a bot? I'm not sure, but we need
to ask the question. As Desiree Garcia says, "I think
there's a need to have a point of view, to note the ways we
may be setting precedent for product design throughout the
industry, and to know how to articulate it inside our
multidisciplinary teams and throughout the broader design
community."
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What Matters Now: A New Compact for Teaching and Learning
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The National Commission on Teaching & America’s
Future (NCTAF) has released an update (24 page PDF
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on its original report released 20 years ago. "We have
squeezed all we can out of the hard rind of econo-metric
formulas," they write. "Now it is time to activate the
human factor - the motivation and intelligence of students
and educators - to reorganize schools around what drives
learning." I'm not sure there was any juice in that
particular rind to begin with. But the turn is a welcome
one. So if for the most part their focus on teachers and
teaching - not the traditional people and roles, but a
redefined set of activities and relationships between them
and the students and the community. The report also appears
to recognize that there are many other system-wide factors
to consider - a shift in demographics in the U.S., where a
majority of students are now people of colour, and the
gripping reality of poverty, where 50 percent of students
qualify for free or subsidized lunches. The report came out
in August but SmartBrief revisited it this week
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How to Develop a Mentor Program for Millennial Employees
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A large organization I know launched a mentor program for
new employees by asking for volunteers, matching them with
partners, then leaving them to do whatever. That's a
program that's ineffective by design. People aren't born
being mentors; it's a skill that needs to be honed over
time through learning and development. This article is
hardly the last word on the subject, but it's a start.
Mentors need to know why they're doing it, have some sense
of what they should be doing while they're doing it, and be
able to monitor and track results. People acting as mentors
should have ongoing support and feedback. Related:
Mentoring's promise and limits
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the Atlantic..
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The 12 Apps of Christmas 2016
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It's a fun thing, though shouldn't it be called the 12 apps
of the holiday season? #jk "This short free course is
for anyone who is interested in mobile learning,
specifically the potential mobile apps hold for learning
and teaching. Over 12 consecutive weekdays, starting
Dec 1st, take the time to read 12 short case studies
written by educators from Ireland, the UK and America, and
be inspired by the work that they are doing."
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Tap into These 5 Tips for Mobile Learning
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These five tips are practical and, according to the
article, effective. It was the first tip that drew me in:
find out what devices students are actually using and align
support accordingly. In this case, the trend was toward
Apple. But it won't always be - you have to check. The
second tip was also a winner: teach not just for
consumption but also for curation. And the mechanism
suggested was a good one: have the class go out and take
pictures of injustice, then (as a group) select the one
they want to use. The quality goes down a bit from there
but it's still worth reading all three pages.
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