How web bloat impacts users with slow devices
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
Dan Luu , Apr 24, 2024 Web bloat is something I take seriously because it impacts both cost and performance. If the reader is using a slower or less powerful device, accessing online services can be difficult or at times impossible (think about how unresponsive some shopping or airline sites are,... .. read more..
Value and dignity
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
Alexander R Pruss , Alexander Pruss's Blog , Apr 24, 2024 I probably wouldn't use the cute philosophical trick as in this post, but I nonetheless agree with the outcome: that respect for human life is not a form of value. The way you can show this (with cute tricks) is to tie yourself in knots ar... .. read more..
Immanuel Kant as a 23-year old influencer – adobo Magazine
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
adobo magazine , adobo Magazine Online , Apr 24, 2024 Would Immanuel Kant - a world-famous philosopher who lived in 18th century Prussia - be as popular as an influencer today? The early evidence suggests he would. Created using an AI is "Manu, a 23-year-old influencer who, as @manumanukant , liv... .. read more..
CC at WIPO: Slow progress on copyright exceptions for cultural heritage insti...
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
Brigitte Vézina , Creative Commons , Apr 24, 2024 Creative Commons makes the following statement : "access to cultural heritage is a fundamental right. And preservation, access, sharing, use, and reuse of cultural heritage are all some of the essential functions that libraries, archives an... .. read more..
AI “deathbots” are helping people in China grieve
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
Viola Zhou , Rest of World , Apr 24, 2024 "AI-generated avatars that look and sound like deceased relatives are increasingly popular to console those in mourning, or to hide the deaths of loved ones from the elderly and young children," Viola Zhou reports. What's interesting is the variety of rea... .. read more..
Are Colleges Ready For an Online-Education World Without OPMs? - EdSurge News
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
Robert Ubell , EdSurge , Apr 24, 2024 This post references some good conference coverage by Phil Hill and considers the question of whether institutions are ready for the collapse of online program management (OPM) services. "Leaders in the sector, including 2U, Coursera and Keypath, never made a... .. read more..
Twitter alternative Post News is shutting down
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
Emma Roth , The Verge , Apr 24, 2024 According to this article, "Post News, a Twitter alternative run by the former Waze CEO Noam Bardin, is shutting down. Bardin says the platform 'is not growing fast enough.'" It was backed by venture capitalists Andreesen-Horowitz. It was "a social platform th... .. read more..
The Fallacy of Best Practices
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
Eric Sheninger , A Principal's Reflections , Apr 24, 2024 "The time has come to break free from the shackles of 'best practices' and embrace the power of effectiveness driven by the true experts in education—the schools and educators who implemented these strategies consistently and with a ... .. read more..
Support for Canadian Graduate Students on Strike
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
Justin Weinberg , Daily Nous , Apr 24, 2024 This is just a note to remind readers in Canada that graduate students - who teach a significant proportion of university classes - are expected to live on roughly $15-$25 thousand dollars a year. The explanation is that 'work' is 'capped' at 10 hours a... .. read more..
A Partnership Industry for Impactful Ed-Tech (SSIR)
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
Natalia Kucirkova , SSIR , Apr 24, 2024 This post is directed toward ed tech companies and makes the point that "in a fragmented impact ecosystem, ed-tech needs collaboration to prioritize education over technology." In other words, "for a technology to count as educational, the market needs to b... .. read more..
Resources for evaluating learning technologies
Tuesday, November 26, 2019
Our Learning Technologies Advisory Committee met last week to start to brainstorm what the current issues on campus are, with respect to learning technologies. One of the key themes was a need to systematically evaluate learning technologies to make sure we understand what people need to do, and ... .. read more..
On moving my blog to Hugo
Friday, November 22, 2019
After finally deciding to throw caution to the wind and move my webstuff back into a static format, this website finally landed on Hugo. I did an initial migration from WordPress to Jekyll, which looked really promising but took waaaaay too long to generate the 2,800+ posts for this site (taking ... .. read more..
Moving my blog to Hugo
Friday, November 22, 2019
After many, many, many years running my blog on WordPress, I finally got tired of fussing around with convincing it to do what I want it to do, and trying to get it to perform well enough to not have to wait 20 seconds for page loads. I'm also wanting to shift away from hoarding all of my content... .. read more..
modularizing and disaggregating
Thursday, November 14, 2019
At the COHERE 2019 conference, the informal theme this morning was on modularizing and disaggregating1 - breaking out of the traditional 4-year degree program, breaking away from the semester-long course, enabling access to content and resources and people outside of the traditional contexts. Dr.... .. read more..
Gamelog: Hexaflip
Saturday, October 5, 2019
I've been playing some casual games as part of the Apple Arcade trial subscription, and have really been enjoying Hexaflip by Rogue Games. One part Q-Bert, one part Marble Madness, one part platform runner. It's a deceptively simple game - there are only two "controls" - tap left and tap right. N... .. read more..