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OLDaily - Text Edition by Stephen Downes Nov 03, 2016
Teaching and Learning in a “Post-truth†World
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The idea that we are living in a "post-truth world" has
become fashionable, but I like Andrew Campbell's take:
"There are many historical examples of commonly held
beliefs that have little basis in fact. Since the 1700's
people have believed in the existence of a plot to control
the world by the Bavarian Illuminati
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illuminati" target="_blank.
McCarthy's communist witch hunt
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism" target="_blank,
the belief in a flat earth
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_of_the_flat_Earth"
target="_blank, assertions that the Apollo Moon landings
were faked
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_landing_conspiracy_theories"
target="_blank and the conspiracy theory that the attacks
of September 11th 2001 were an 'inside job'
http://www.911truth.org/the-top-40-reasons-to-doubt-the-offical-story/"
target="_blank are more modern examples of popular ideas
which have no basis in fact, yet still endure." The
internet did little to correct this, and if anything, has
accelerated it. This creates an onus on us to ensure that
the students we teach are aware of filtering algorithms,
gather news from multiple sources, and have the ability to
understand different perspectives on issues.
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Happy Beta Release Day, Omeka S!!
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Via Digital Humanities Now
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"Omeka S Linkis the next-generation, open
source web-publishing platform that is fully integrated
into the scholarly communications ecosystem and designed to
serve the needs of medium to large institutional users who
wish to launch, monitor, and upgrade many sites from a
single installation." The source (PHP and Javascript) is
available on GitHub
Link"Omeka S is a
free & open source platform for institutions that want
to publish linked open data; integrate their collections
with the scholarly communications ecosystem; and manage
many users & sites from one installation."
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3 Types of College Friendships That Matter For Student
Success
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Interesting summary of a new book
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from by Janice McCabe, a researcher at Dartmouth College,
on the different types of networks students form in college
or university. What's interesting is not the typology but
the idea that your network of friends can, as the article
says, drag you up or drag you down. "Among the students who
said their close group of friends provided academic
motivation and support, every one of them graduated. Among
the ones who said they lacked this support and their
friends distracted them from schoolwork, only half managed
to graduate within six years." The usual caveat about
sample sizes applies.
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Deep Learning is Revolutionary
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Yes, this article is pretty superficial (and a "ten
reasons" listicle) but if you haven't been looking at some
of the things neural networks are doing you may want to
take a look. Also, it makes me feel good, because I always
knew they'd perform like this.
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