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.
Just wanted to say it here today for everyone reading this: THANK YOU to everyone who is contributing or using anything related to the #IndieWeb. You are all heroes and wonderful human beings in my eyes!
Director’s Cut: Ted Nelson on Hypertext, Douglas Englebart, Xanadu and More - YouTube
Reading "Weaving The Web" by Tim Berners Lee on his history of creating the WWW and he mentions his encounter with Ted Nelson in 1992. Looked up the state of Xanadu and found this video of Ted. Wondering that his vision of how we can access and handle digital documents away from the "paper-plain" will some day become reality. Was wondering if Chris Aldrich would have written something about these ideas and just recently he did.
I've set up Delta.Chat on Windows 10 and my Android phone (F-Droid) and got one person to test this with. Why did I not hear of this before? It's really cool how it extends the e-mail accounts we - probably- all already have. Reading more about the features it has here: https://
The children's books "Elephant & Piggie" by Mo Willems are highly recommended. My three year old loves them. We got the full 25 issue box set for Christmas and have been reading one or two of them to him every night now.
Tired Of The Social Media Rat Race, Journalists Move To Writing Substack Newsletters
As a tech journalist for the website The Verge, Casey Newton established himself as something of a Silicon Valley institution. Known for a mix of original reporting and gimlet-eyed analysis, his writing has become essential reading for those who want to better understand the industry. internet, journalism, social media, syndicated