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OLDaily - Text Edition by Stephen Downes Dec 21, 2016


What is design thinking?
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Design thinking is to a large degree what I do. “It's
not as simple as [just] identifying a problem. ‘Yay!
We found something that customers are frustrated with.'"
You need to do more; you need to engage people and consider
a wider set of possibilities. "Traditional business
thinking methods can overemphasize analysis and
deliberation, making it difficult for organizations to
react quickly. In contrast, design thinking emphasizes
learning by doing and agile, iterative solutions that can
have startlingly effective results."
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Districts Realize the Personalized Learning Vision, See its
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Obviously the messaging coming out of the US Department of
Education will be in a state of flux. But one thing
unlikely to change much is the emphasis on personalized
learning. And as always, teachers have to experience it
before they will teach it. "Kettle Moraine School District
in Wisconsin, Superintendent Patricia Deklotz found that
they 'had to give teachers the opportunity to experience
personalized learning' for themselves. This was an
effective professional development model and cultivated
buy-in from teachers."
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Open Education: International Perspectives in Higher
Education
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Here's some nice year-end reading for you. This collection
of essays covers a range of perspectives on open learning
around the world. The authors range froam a consideration
of open learning as emancipation
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to an analysis of open education users
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to open assessment
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As David Wiley says in his Preface
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of openness in education is only now beginning to be
appreciated, and I hope this volume can increase the pace
of its spread. This volume contains stories of people and
institutions around the world acting in accordance with the
value of openness, and relates the amazing results that
come from those actions."
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Online learning in 2016: a personal review
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The inimitable Tony Bates offers his personal restrspective
on 2016. Normally I don't post end-of-year stuff, but it's
Tony Bates. And I really like that he begins with the
Global Peace Index. He notes, " blended learning is not
only gaining ground in Canadian post-secondary
education at a much faster rate than I had anticipated, but
is raising critical questions about what is best done
online and what face-to-face, and how to prepare
institutions and instructors for what is essentially a
revolution in teaching."
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Making Change
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This is interesting for a number of reasons. Probably my
best practical learning in mathematics came while working
at the concession stands in the local football stadium; I
had to make change a lot. Here's how you do it: leave what
they paid you easily video (so they don't later say "but
didn't I give you a twenty?). Start with the amount owed.
"That'll be $2.21." Count small change to even the number
(in this case 4 cents to reach $2.25), large change to add
up to an even dollar ("50... 75... 3 dollars), dollars to
all to the total (5 dollars, 10 dollars, thank you). It's
the opposite of the 'greedy' algorithm described by Miles
Berry, and is what you actually do in practice.
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