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OLDaily - Text Edition by Stephen Downes Mar 06, 2017
Berkeley Will Delete Online Content
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The University of California, Berkeley, is responding to a
U.S. Justice Department order to make it educational
content accessible to people with disabilities by removing
the content from the internet. According to a letter
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university, the removal also serves to "better protect
instructor intellectual property from 'pirates' who have
reused content for personal profit without consent." This
is an example of what I once called
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on open content, whereby commercial interests
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expensive by imposing stringent legal requirements against
it.
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How to make your kid good at anything, according to a world
expert on peak performance
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I once wrote a paper called 'Could Hume Play Billiards?' to
which the answer was "Yes, but he would have to practice."
So I am predisposed to endorse the approach championed by
K. Anders Ericsson as described in this article whereby he
argues that the difference between exceptional achievement
and the rest of us is focused and deliberate practice. It
makes sense to me because I was the same height and weight
as Wayne Gretzky, I am the same age, I am as smart as Wayne
Gretzky, but one of us was the world's best hockey player
and one of us wasn't. The difference was practice. Anyhow,
this article is an extended defense of the thesis, and as I
said, I am sympathetic.
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Connected Learning: a personal epiphany
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I'll begin by referencing Samuel Delaney's classic Stars in
My Pocket Like Grains of Sand
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the connectedness metaphor that predates this particular
discussion and whose themes echo through Jon Udell's
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and (no doubt) many of my own. I've had the same experience
when I hear my own work quoted back to me as an interesting
idea I might want to consider. You cast your ideas out in
the the great and increasingly unresponsive deep galaxy of
the internet and hope they bear fruit. And these ideas are
rediscovered over and over again, often by astute
meme-riders like Jon (hey now
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Udell. I wouldn't call this the core of digital literacy,
but its a strand, a thread, a string in time
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(p.s. the first line of Campbell's post is unadulterated
formulaic clickbait, and he should be ashamed. Reeling?
Really?)
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Failing to See, Fueling Hatred.
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I am partially in agreement with danah boyd and partially
in disagreement. Let me begin with the latter: the piece
reads to me that we should sympathize with the plight of
the rich or privileged because perception is more important
than statistical reality. The important thing is that
people feel hard done by, she says, not whether they are
actually hard done by. On the other hand, my disagreeable
experience at the panel on the ethics of care on Saturday
reminds me that simply shutting out dissenting voices from
the conversation does more harm than good, especially when
it is done by a moderator and panel stressing the virtue of
attentiveness. In sum, my view is: being rich or privileged
doesn't automatically make you right, and being poor or
oppressed doesn't automatically make you right. This
applies especially to social, political and ethical
discourse.
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The Story of Firefox OS
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This is a terrific article and well worth the time it will
take to read it. It tells the story of the Mozilla
Operating System (Mozilla OS) for smart phones. Mozilla OS
was designed to promote an 'open web' environment for
mobile apps, rather than proprietary App Stores.
Eventually, though, it had an app store, too few apps, an
unsuccessful bare-bones version, and internal disagreements
about direction. It's an excellent case study in project
management, and I see a lot of parallels with my own LPSS
program. In the case of Mozilla, I place the seeds of
failure at Qualcomm's refusal to license chipset APIs
directly to Mozilla, which meant they had to work through
hardware manufacturers (OEMs) and telecomm companies. My
making the distributors their clients, instead of end
users, they lost sight of the benefit Mozilla OS was
intended to produce, and ultimately became just another
mobile OS. Via Doug Belshaw.
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Meet Afghanistan's female coders who are defying gender
stereotypes
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“Investing in educating girls in subjects like
coding, where we expect there to be abundant, good-paying
jobs is key to the future of Afghanistan. With a full range
of talent to tap into, Afghanistan’s economy can grow
and become less reliant on foreign aid and retain ambitious
young women."
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