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OLDaily - Text Edition by Stephen Downes Apr 04, 2017
The New Skills Agenda for Europe
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This is one of four papers
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article that set the stage for a virtual seminar currently
taking place in Europe (register here
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfgcQm2dedwnDQqj2XV0bkS_C3-DQ9msOOOAfed6XBmnEF_Ew/viewform?c=0&w=1).
"The proposal is that Member States should introduce a
Skills Guarantee, which would involve offering to low
qualified adults... skills will to a great extent determine
competitiveness and the capacity to drive innovation. They
are a pull factor for investment and a catalyst in the
virtuous circle of job creation and growth. They are key to
social cohesion." There are numerous priority areas listed
which should be the subject of discussion and debate.
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The Promise of Administrative Data in Education Research
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"Although these data are collected for purely
administrative purposes," write the authors, "they
represent remarkable new opportunities for expanding our
knowledge." This short essay (8 page PDF
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examines some of the purposes to which administrative data
in education could be put, and raises some of the issues
associated with using data in this way. "Administrative
datasets are collected for different reasons than research,
and the types of variables that are captured in
administrative data often do not comport with the types of
variables that testing many educational and social science
theories demands." There are also, of course, issues with
privacy and security. Good essay, cogently written. Image:
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My open source Instagram bot got me 2,500 real followers
for $5 in server costs
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The author's Instagram bot is described in detail in this
post, with links to Github and to a lot of documentation on
the various tests he ran. Stuff like this is
why Facebook is in trouble
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and why Instagram isn't worth the effort. I don't use
Instagram at all and left Facebook last August. But even
closer to the core of the problem is this statement: "Likes
and engagement are digital currency..." No they're not.
They are dross. The number of followers you have is
meaningless, just as meaningless as the number of people
you follow. Amassing quantity is industrial-age
thinking. Creating quality is millennial thinking.
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Creating Usability with Motion: The UX in Motion Manifesto
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When people talk about 21st century literacies, or digital
literacies, they usually talk about using social networks
and spotting fake news. But this is the sot of thing they
should be thinking about. We've never really had motion in
user interfaces before; the closest we've come is
television, which has its own set of tropes. But with
modern web design, motion in user experience (UX) design
has become standard. This article leads with 12 principles
of motion in UX. I look at these and ask, what do they
mean? What do they signify? And of course there is no
meaning inherent in the motion; it is entirely socially
constructed. And that process is still underway, which
makes it really fascinating.
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The Top Ed-Tech Trends (Aren't 'Tech')
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Audrey Watters gives us a reprise of some of her annual
'tech trends' reports and talks about some of the thinking
behind them. I'm inclined to agree with the observation
that the trends resemble themes or categories or narratives
more than they do trends. She also admits "they’re
narratives that are quite US-centric. I’d say even
more specifically, they’re California- and Silicon
Valley-centric." And she says "my reference to 'Silicon
Valley narratives' are meant to invoke these:
libertarianism, neoliberalism, and 'the ideology of the
‘new economy.’" She takes this through a nice
turn into a discussion of personalization and platforms.
Still, from my perspective, the more her narrative focuses
on a specifically U.S. social and political view of the
topic, the less relevant that narrative becomes.
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