Networked Learning
-
Some Preliminary Results On Cynicism and Online Information Literacy
We (AASCU’s Digital Polarization Initiative) have a large information literacy pilot going on at a dozen institutions right now using our materials. The point is to gain insight into how to improve our instruction, but also to make sure it is working in the way we think it is. Part of that involves formal assessment Continue reading
-
Stop Reacting and Start Doing the Process
Today’s error comes to you from a Tulsa NBC affiliate: Of course, this was all the rage on Twitter as well, with many smart people tweeting the USA Today story directly: It’s a good demonstration of why representativeness heuristics fail. Here’s the story everyone fell for: So let’s go through this — good presentation, Continue reading
-
Civix Releases New Online Media Literacy Videos
I worked with Civix, a Canadian non-profit, to do a series of videos showing students basic web techniques for source verification and contextualization. I had boiled it down to four scripts running six minutes apiece; Civix and their production partner managed to cut them down to about three minutes each after filming. Here’s the introduction, which Continue reading
-
Geeking out as a conversational paradigm
1993 After I graduated college I couldn’t find a job straight off, and I didn’t know what I wanted to do. I ended up staying home with my parents for a bit, in suburbia, and nearly losing my mind. The one thing that saved me was weekly four-hour coffeeshop sessions with two friends. The conversations Continue reading
-
Twitter’s Gasoline
So Twitter is going to offer opt-in direct messaging from anyone. It looks like you’ll be able to check a box and anybody will be able to DM you, even if you you don’t follow them. Andy Baio gets it about right: Direct Messaging from Randos is not something anyone other than brands asked for, Continue reading
-
Convivial Tools and Connected Courses
Excellent, must-read post from the Terry Elliot in the Connected Courses conversation which pulls in ideas of Christopher Alexanders’ System A (the organic, generative) and System B (the industrial, dead). Key grafs (for me at least): I have a lot of questions about whether any of the web-based tools we are using actually fit the mold Continue reading
-
Blue Hampshire’s Death Spiral
Blue Hampshire, a political community I gave years of my life to, is in a death spiral. The front page is a ghost town. It’s so depressing, I won’t even link to it. It’s so depressing, that I haven’t been able to talk about it until now. It actually hurts that much. This is a Continue reading
-
Reclaim Hackathon
Kin and Audrey have already written up pretty extensive summaries about the Reclaim event in Los Angeles. I won’t add much. Everything was wonderful, and I hope I don’t upset people by choosing one thing over another. But there were a few things for me that stood out. Seeing the Domain of One’s Own development Continue reading
-
Gruber: “It’s all the Web”
Tim Owens pointed me to this excellent piece by John Gruber. Gruber has been portrayed in the past as a bit too in the Apple camp; but I don’t think anyone denies he’s one of the sharper commentators out there on the direction of the Web. He’s also the inventor of Markdown, the world’s best Continue reading
-
Teaching the Distributed Flip [Slides & Small Rant]
Due to a moving-related injury I was sadly unable to attend ET4Online this year. Luckily my two co-presenters for the “Teaching the Distributed Flip” presentation carried the torch forward, showing what recent research and experiementation has found regarding how MOOCs are used in blended scenarios. Here are the slides, which actually capture some interesting stuff Continue reading
Hapgood 