Web developer and Studio Lead at Deloitte Digital in Düsseldorf, Germany.
Reading "The Shape Of Things to Come" and realizing just how lucky I am to have known no war in my younger life. That's all I wish for, that my son gets a chance to live his life full and content at least for as long as I have.
My five year old already wants to play MineCraft - I hadn't looked at the game for a long time - but since he is really into it, I have been reading parental guidance articles. Going to set up a "creative game" world for him to explore in - even considering joining in on the fun myself. Curious where this is going to take us.
Instead of reading interesting articles on my phone, I am now providing testing services to the developers of that app. I did not plan for this. The A in agile, stands for annoying. Not a fan of "Break things fast, then fix and deploy again". The end users pay for that with frustration and lost time.
Computers for Learning: Charisma that Fails to Disrupt? | blog@CACM | Communications of the ACM
"Reading these books led me to reflect on a key differences between learning technologies that capture the public imagination and learning technologies which accumulate research evidence to support their effectiveness. Charismatic technologists often spin stories how individual learners will accelerate without much support from teachers, parents or fellow students; effective technologies understand that learning is social and most regularly happens in communities. Charismatic technologies dramatically simplify adoption and implementation (in Ames’ book, OLPC sometimes envisions air-dropping laptops into remote villages); effective technologies understand that leveraging technology for learning at scale is an organizational change problem with essential infrastructural needs. Charismatic technologies often portray their approach as teacher-proof or teacher-aloof. As such, teachers are acknowledged as important but teachers' own learning needs are minimized. The research literature, on the other hand, consistently finds that technology must solve problems as experienced by the teacher, that teachers need communities to support their own learning, and that a "shift of ownership" from developers to teachers is essential to achieving learning impacts at scale. "
Three week vacation is coming up. Thinking of going offline for that long and reading books for a change. Got a whole stack "to read".
The extraordinary heat wave in India and Pakistan, explained
Reading this put the World's problems in a different perspective...
Reading the 134 pages of the #chatcontrol bill, I understand the proposal to be a state-run "antivirus" program that must be installed on every digital device and server connected to the Internet, analyzing every text, image and video. If it finds something, you will be reported automatically to Interpol and the program will read the file and remove it from your device and any other server. Before you can use any device, you must identify yourself, no matter if it is a cell phone or a computer.
Replaced Rainloop with Roundcube on my Yunohost server after reading about the severe security issue and the lack of patching from the maintainers.
I'm doing this thing again where I am collecting more articles and books to read than actual doing any reading.