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OLDaily - Text Edition by Stephen Downes Jun 27, 2016
Robots won’t replace teachers because they can’t
inspire us
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I know a lot of people will want this to be true but it's
not. I've been inspired by various people over time: John
Lennon. Doug Gilmour. Neil Young. Arsinio Hall. Jose
Bautista. These are my role models. These are (among
others) the people who inspire me. Not one of them is a
teacher. Ergo, one does not need teachers in order to be
inspired. I don't think that the field of education
understands, in general, how much of what it does is also
done by parents, role models, friends, professional
associates, and more. If the core function - to teach - can
be performed by a machine, then the ancillary functions -
motivation, inspiration, socialization, etc. - can be
performed by everyone else in society. And, indeed, should
be performed by everyone else in society.
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Import Blackboard Common Cartridge into WordPress
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It's hacks like this that make the world great. What we
have here is basically a PHP script that read a
Blackboard-produced common cartridge (the URL
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inaccessible to me; you will need to substitute your own),
creates an array of resources from the manifest, gets the
resources as necessary, and then saves them as WordPress
posts. There's no guarantee that this script would work on
any cartridge other than the one which was tested. The
point is, if you create resources using open standards,
people will find a way to use them creatively. Even if they
come from Blackboard. Related: Importing Moodle
http://bionicteaching.com/importing-moodle-into-wordpress/ into
WordPress.
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Talking numbers about open publishing and online learning
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I think I've always known this, but Tony Bates, who has a
foot placed firmly in each camp, has the data to support
it: "open, online publishing will almost certainly reach
more readers than a commercial publication or an academic
journal." FWIW this is probably the one and only time
I'll ever be lumped in with Justin Bieber
and Donald Trump. Good plug for the BC Campus Open
Textbook Project
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Six centuries of secularism
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Interesting thesis: "by elaborating mechanical processes
and spelling out how things worked – in striking
contrast to the well-documented secrecy of the guilds
– writers began to transform the mechanical arts from
personal know-how into scientific knowledge... The world of
the crafts – like that of politics – lost its
magic; it broke free of its yoke to the divine.... Because
secularisation subverted the notion of cosmic and
metaphysical order, the rise of how-to books sowed the
seeds of a more open and tolerant view of humanity."
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Staying Human in the Machine Age: An Interview With Douglas
Rushkoff
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This is one of the better lines I've read today (applies
equally to the internet and to Brexit): "What those of us
unversed in Marxist theory at the time didn’t realize
was if you get rid of government you create a very fertile
soil for the unbridled growth of corporations." Rushkoff,
of course, is talking about what happened to the world of
the internet he talked about in Cyberia
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philosophical foundation for the internet as an opportunity
for a new kind of liberation. Rushkoff argued that the web
could generate a new renaissance by birthing a
technological civilization grounded in ancient spiritual
truths. But a different story emerged."
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Remix culture and education
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This post defines 'remix culture' and what it means to
education. It is a follow-up to an earlier piece
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on digital literacies in remix culture. "Remixing is the
act of taking previously created works or artefacts and
adapting them in some way," writes Steve Wheeler. I woukld
have used the word 'other' rather than 'previously created'
because items found in nature can also be part of a remix.
And as Wheeler says, even though some schools may see it as
undesirable, "Remixing is a creative process. It takes
imagination to adapt an existing piece of art or music into
something new or apply it in a completely different
context."
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