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OLDaily - Text Edition by Stephen Downes Sept 27, 2016
C.R.E.A.M. (Class Rules Everything Around Me)
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As I prepared my slides for today's short talk (we're doing
a round of autobiographies in our group - a good idea) I
thought a lot about where I stand vis-à-vis the rest
of society. Not as 'respectable
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Not as "entitled to... education, social standing, pay and
political power." I had to take each one of these, to wrest
them from people of more deserving background. I had a lot
of setbacks, a lot of battles. And you can
never actually escape your origins, because to escape
you must accept the values and assumptions of the ruling
class, the core of which is that people from your class
don't belong in the boardroom or with polite company. I
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the only thing that makes sense.
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Still Playing "No Manâs Sky"
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I spend more time over the weekend playing No Man's Sky,
doing so apparently in defiance of the hate being
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many critics and gamers. But look at the panels
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(like the one pictured; can you believe this?) - they come
from one demographic, one point of view, and expect one set
of things from a game. They want a storyline, an opponent,
an outcome. Maybe there will be one one day but that's not
what No Man's Sky is promising. What I like is that you can
do things like walk completely around
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the planet. It takes weeks. As Tim Bray says, "this game is
a huge platform with lots of room to drop in new
content and game-play and surprises." Yes,
in many ways it's not a finished product. I'm actually OK
with that. Because I hate the games that are defined by an
storyline, an opponent, and an outcome. My world (of
gaming, and of learning) is much bigger than that.
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Why we are weaning our students from electronic noise
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I wonder whether this is true: "thinking thrives on silence
or on dialogue with other human voices, when electronic
noise has faded." This is being used as justification for
banning electronic devices from the classroom. But I have
questions. When I'm doing mental work, I always have some
background noise - music, CBC, Ed Radio, a baseball game,
whatever. My head is full of distracting noises; silence
makes my mind wander. I remember the classroom lecture
before computers - every agonizing scrape of a chair,
squeak of a door, cough, whisper. It was all I could do to
keep from daydreaming and falling asleep. By contrast, some
of my best thinking places are noisy environments - pubs,
markets, busy streets. So I think it's a fallacy that
thinking thrives on silence, and certainly don't support
banning electronic devices based on an unproven, and
probably false, hypothesis.
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Lights out for shomi symptomatic of streaming videoâs
larger profitability problem
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Shomi foundered
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on the same shoal that afflicted Netflix - the demands for
unsustainable revenues from content producers. There's no
incentive for providers to offer Shomi a good rate when
they'll ultimately roll out their own service and try to
grab all the profits. Meanwhile, Netflix has responded by
gutting its offering and producing many of its own shows.
The market for streaming video accounts is limited, though,
and people won't pay for all of them. Meanwhile, it's a bit
ironic for me to be reading "the last jigsaw piece for
streaming video to gain widespread acceptance will be live
sports" while watching my Blue Jays game on MLB.tv (as I
have for several years now). The content providers will
never see their pot of gold. The same thing that happened
to print media and music is happening to video and is
happening to education. 'Live' is just a format now; you
don't have to be there, and it doesn't have to be
expensive.
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Doctoral dissertation successfully defended
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Worth a look (212 page PDF
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"The underlying concept of the study is the open education
ecosystem....Firstly, to clarify the design challenges
related to the open education ecosystem, this study
summarizes a set of design challenges presented in design
case studies. Secondly, it identifies and recommends a set
of design patterns that address these design challenges.
Finally, the study proposes the structure and components
that are needed for the open education ecosystem." The
dissertation is based on five publications and - what he
doesn't tell us here - was the result of 13 years worth of
work. Via Teemu Leinonen, who recommended it to me.
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