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OLDaily - Text Edition by Stephen Downes Nov 21, 2016
Post-Truth And Fake News
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Nov 21, 2016
Yes, by all means, do something about the fake news that is
propagating through Facebook and Twitter. But let's not
forget that we have been in the post-truth era for some
time (indeed, one wonders whether we ever entered the truth
era in the first place).
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With its new app, RadioPublic wants to tackle
podcastingâs lingering challenges
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It's like Ed Radio Linkbut
written by real programmers and available to whole
communities. RadioPublic has three objectives: "improving
show discovery, improving how (and how deeply) listeners
engage with their favorite shows, and improving channels
through which show creators can make money." It
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Friday. It's avaiulable for iOS and Android. "We are
featuring curated episode playlists across myriad topics,
activities, moods, genres, artists, publishers, and
networks." That's great - but I don't want to do my
curating on a phone. Still. Installing. Listening. Via Ben
Werdmuller
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Analytics Literacy is a Major Limiter of Ed Tech Growth
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Substantial and weighty article from Michael Feldstein
dealing with the topic of the day south of the border: the
failure of analytics. Or, I guess, we should call it the
failure of people to understand analytics, raising "the
question of whether we put too much faith in numerical
analysis in general and complex learning analytics in
particular." This is an oft-made critique, of course (we
see it also, for example, in criticisms of grades and test
scores). But Feldstein also suggests that it represents "a
fundamental limiter on the future growth of the ed tech
industry." I think this is true only if you think that ed
tech is fundamentally an analytics industry. Many of my
colleagues think it is. But I disagree. But do take the
time to read this article - it's literate, informed, and as
a well-formed opinion should, goes well beyond the data.
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Students Pop in for Pop-Ups
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I thought this was an interesting idea, so though the story
is a few days old I thought it worth a mention. The idea of
the pop-up - as in pop-up restaurant and pop-up store - is
that it is occasion-specific and temporary. It's a bit like
those calendar shops that, um, pop up ever fall in the
mall. "Pop-ups allow students to dip into rigorous
introductions that may be outside their disciplines. And
pop-ups aren’t limited to social sciences --
Bennington professors also have taught courses about
measles and gravitational waves, for instance." When we
need a bunch of well-informed people to talk about a given
event, pop-up courses are just the ticket.
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Flicking the switch: taking digital technology education
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This article describes some projects that support the new
local digital technologies curriculum in New Zealand. The
program depends on community involvement and "to boost our
students’ skills and confidence to identify local and
global problems and opportunities, and design and develop
digital solutions in response." As is always the case with
projects like this, each of them has a local champion (or
two) driving them forward. We don't say enough about them
(probably because there are some in most every community)
but most of the work in ed tech would be impossible without
them.
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HoloLens: Making the impossible possible
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When Avatar came out the 3D effect was pretty incredible.
Now the same 3D effect in movies is ordinary, and you need
to have some special reason (ie: CGI effects) to use it. I
think things like the hololens are similar. Nurse
interactions with patients, or archaeologists interacting
with artifacts might qualify. Maybe even visualizations of
mathematical formulae. But the normal classroom experience
will not benefit from the 3D treatment. Via Inside Higher
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where Joshua Kim warns that the product Pearson is touting
is more like augmented reality than virtual reality.
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