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We're getting the social media crisis wrong #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/77679

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Reading, Writing, and Thinking in the Age of AI #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/77678

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I Used to Teach Students. Now I Catch ChatGPT Cheats | The Walrus #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/77677 "I once believed university was a shared intellectual pursuit," writes Troy Jollimore, "That faith has been obliterated." He is quick to blame AI, but I think he should look into a mirror.

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View of Three concepts for the metaverse: Between fading fashion and eternal style | First Monday #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/77676

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Digital Pedagogy Toolbox: Who Are We Leaving Behind? – BCcampus #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/77675 This article captures the conundrum for developers nicely: "While online/hybrid learning offers the promise of greater support for learners from marginalized groups...

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Getting an Answer is Not the Same as Coming to an Understanding #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/77674

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Innovation Includes Everyone #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/77673

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Opera adds an automated AI agent to its browser #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/77672 OK, I don't think anyone needs an agent that will do their online shopping for them. But let's ignore this trivial example and focus on what's interesting: the AI being described here operates in the browser.

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Bring Parliament to Your Classroom #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/77671 A couple of things from this sponsored post from Canada's Library of Parliament.

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Why Techdirt Is Now A Democracy Blog (Whether We Like It Or Not) #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/77670

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Constructivism, Relativism, and Chemical Education #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/77669 I did not know that "the dominant school of chemical education researchers appears to support a variety of (constructivist and relativist) positions" but it does not surprise me that it is true.

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Google Cuts Off uBlock Origin on Chrome as Firefox Stands Firm on Ad Blockers #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/77668 Google finally rolled out the changes that permanently disable Ublock Origin on its Chrome browser, meaning users will no longer be able to block advertising.

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The EU Digital Identity Wallet: A Beginner's Guide #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/77667

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Self-regulation connects through trusted relationships – Education Gazette #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/77666 According to this article, "Research shows that self-regulation skills in the early years are one of the most important factors in predicting how a person’s life unfolds.

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Fair-code #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/77665

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Ruby on Rails on WebAssembly, the full-stack in-browser journey #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/77663 I haven't done much development in Ruby on Rails - I've worked with but that's about it. But it's a powerful framework - it's what Mastodon runs on - and widely supported.

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AI Chatbots Can Cushion the High School Counselor Shortage - But Are They Bad for Students? #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/77662 OK, let's allow that it's true that "AI cannot fully replace the nuanced, empathetic guidance provided by human mentors and career advisors." Maybe so.

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A Comprehensive Checklist for AI Application to University Management #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/77661 There has been so much discussion about things like 'robot tutors' and 'AI-generated courses' that some of the most significant impact of AI on higher education are being ignored.

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My Approach to Scenario Writing and Multimedia: Visual Lounge Podcast - Experiencing Elearning #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/77660 This short post introduces a half hour video conversation between (mostly) Christy Tucker and (interviewer) Matt Pierce on scenario writing and multimedia.

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Building Websites With LLMS #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/77659 This is link of neat, though I had to read it a couple of times to wrap my head around it. By 'LLMS' Jim Nielsen means ' (L)ots of (L)ittle ht(M)l page(S)'. Not the other thing.

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GROW Diverse Learners, Differentiated Learning #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/77658

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Open Education Week Events Calendar #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/77657 Open Education Week starts today and this is a calendar of more than 243 events and activities on the OEWeek Calendar.

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The Cognitive Wilderness #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/77656 I get this argument but I want to reframe it. "Each interaction with generative AI subtly reshapes our expectations of what thinking should feel like...

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Clarivate Unveils Transformative Subscription-Based Access Strategy for Academia #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/77655

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What is Vibe Coding? How Creators Can Build Software Without Writing Code #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/77654

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The Effects of Virtual Tutoring on Young Readers: Results from a Randomized Controlled Trial #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/77653 This paper from some researchers at Stanford is getting some attention so I took a look.

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Sesame is the first voice assistant I’ve ever wanted to talk to more than once #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/77652 I just spent half an hour in conversation with this AI created by a company called Sesame using a 'Conversational Speech Model' based on soma Llama models.

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En-ROADS #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/77651

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5 ways marketers can beat attention recession - Think with Google #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/77650 This article is directed toward marketers and 'brands' rather than to people, but educators will find the content (a bit) relevant.

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View of Bibliometric Insights Into the Open Education Landscape #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/77649 Although I am interested in the topic and enjoyed the diagrams that resulted, this article offers more evidence that the quality of an analysis crucially depends on the data being studies.

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Generative AI is most useful for the things we care about the least #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/77648 The danger of using a phrase like "things we care about" is that we don't all care about the same things. That's important.

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The Making of Community Notes #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/77647 I haven't used Twitter in quite a long time so I haven't really watched the rise of the 'community notes' feature, though of course I'm aware of their use and impact.

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The Cambridge Handbook of the Law, Ethics and Policy of Artificial Intelligence #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/77646

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Creative Commons response to the UK Consultation on Copyright and Artificial Intelligence #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/77645 In their submission to the U.K.

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2023-2024 Student Basic Needs Survey Report #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/77644

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Turkey's translators are training the AI tools that will replace them #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/77642

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Every UK national newspaper prints identical front page #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/77640 All national newspapers in the U.K. ran the same 'Make It Fair' front page this week to protest proposed copyright legislation that could make it legal for AI to read news websites.

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MORF: A Post-Mortem #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/77634 This (10 page PDF) showed up in the Learning Engineering forum today and has the unusual distinction of beinga post-mortem of a project that is being retired. There's a lot to like about the article and the project.

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Data Pipelines in Machine Learning Systems. #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/77639 This is long, detailed, really technical, and shouldn't be read so much as worked through with a computer and a lot of time.

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AI: Too Cheap to Control #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/77638 Miguel Guhlin adds another plank to the argument offered by people like Marc Watkins and Audrey Watters. "When you want to get everyone hooked on a product, you release it for free.

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Government is not business #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/77637 Chris Corrigan makes the case here that government is not, and should not be treated like, a business.

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I Do Not Understand Quantum Computers or the Apparent Breakthroughs From Google and Microsoft #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/77636

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Center for Digital Thriving #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/77635 Allan Levine tagged this for OEG Connect and I have to admit I don't get it.

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New Tools. Old Complaints. Why AI Won't Kill Education or Fix it #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/77633 I like this long post from Vicki Davis. "so much of what we teach in schools isn't the answers on a test.

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Pluralistic: Pluralistic is five (19 Feb 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/77632

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America Needs a Working-Class Media #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/77631 The idea that we need a working class media seems appealing until we consider that people don't really want to be working class.

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The Costs of AI in Education #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/77630 So there's some smart thinking in this post and some thinking that is, well, less so. Here's the smart bit: "Universities aren't paying for AI - they're paying for the illusion of control.

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Suffering is Real. AI Consciousness is Not. #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/77629 "Probabilistic generalizations based on internet content are not steps toward algorithmic moral personhood," write David McNeill and Emily Tucker.

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Automated Contempt #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/77628

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Grappa-Ling With Mark Carney (1) #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/77626 I've been reading Mark Carney's book Value(s). It seems a reasonable read given his new place in Canadian political affairs.

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