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OLDaily @oldaily.bsky.social · 21h
Why I Built a Homelab (and Why You Might Want To #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/78345
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OLDaily @oldaily.bsky.social · 1d
AI tutors coming to California Community Colleges #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/78344
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OLDaily @oldaily.bsky.social · 1d
Agentic Context Engineering: Evolving Contexts for Self-Improving Language Models #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/78343
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OLDaily @oldaily.bsky.social · 1d
What Large Language Models Teach Us About 'Human Knowledge' #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/78342 I like the way this article topples the 'wisdom' pyramid. Consider AI: it "doesn't climb a virtual digital pyramid from data to information to knowledge to wisdom...
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OLDaily @oldaily.bsky.social · 1d
To Understand AI, Watch How It Evolves #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/78341 This is quite an interesting article on how we understand AI, though it feels like it ends too soon. I recommend reading it from the perspective of human learning.
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OLDaily @oldaily.bsky.social · 1d
How accessible is the educational research literature? #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/78340
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OLDaily @oldaily.bsky.social · 1d
Modeling AI for Authentic Writing #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/78339 As I read this article it once again occurs to me that access to AI levels a disparity that until now preserved an entrenched advantage for some people.
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OLDaily @oldaily.bsky.social · 1d
The Future of Higher Education: The Age of Sponsored Knowing, and What This Means to Higher Education #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/78338
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OLDaily @oldaily.bsky.social · 2d
TeachLM: Post-Training LLMs for Education Using Authentic Learning Data #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/78337 Large language models (LLM) may be experts but they have no experience conversing with students.
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OLDaily @oldaily.bsky.social · 2d
HHMI Enacts “Immediate Access To Research” Policy For Its Scientists #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/78336 This is how easy it is for an academic institution to embrace open access. "Going forward, preprints will form the basis of HHMI's assessments of its researchers' work.
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OLDaily @oldaily.bsky.social · 2d
Content Credentials #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/78335 Provided by the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA), Content Credentials are "an open technical standard for publishers, creators and consumers to establish the origin and edits of digital content.
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OLDaily @oldaily.bsky.social · 3d
A cartoonist's review of AI art #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/78330 It will take a few minutes to scroll through this mixture of artwork and essay, but it's an easy read and gives you some insight into how generative AI is seen through the eyes of a cartoonist.
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OLDaily @oldaily.bsky.social · 3d
Google’s latest AI model uses a web browser like you do #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/78334
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OLDaily @oldaily.bsky.social · 3d
What Can We Learn From Anthology's Demise? #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/78333
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OLDaily @oldaily.bsky.social · 3d
Open Heritage Statement #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/78331 In 2008 I stood outside the Prado Museum in Madrid - probably one of the most famous in the world - and decided not to go in, because they would not allow me to photograph anything inside.
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OLDaily @oldaily.bsky.social · 3d
Virtual Microscope #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/78332 This is a cool resource.
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OLDaily @oldaily.bsky.social · 3d
Do AI Reasoning Models Abstract and Reason Like Humans? #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/78327
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OLDaily @oldaily.bsky.social · 3d
From MOOCs to Mindsets: Stephen Downes on Connection, Openness, and the Future of Scalable Learning - LEARN Podcasts #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/78329
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OLDaily @oldaily.bsky.social · 4d
ScienceDirect #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/78328 This paper (14 page PDF) argues convincingly that there is no consensus on the evaluation of educational technology and proposes "the Multiple EdTech Impact Index (MEII) and an impact benchmarking formula for EdTech tools" in response.
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OLDaily @oldaily.bsky.social · 4d
Dapr - Distributed Application Runtime #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/78326 Distributed Application Runtime (dapr) is an open source set of APIs for cloud-native applications. It was created by Microsoft and is now run by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).
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OLDaily @oldaily.bsky.social · 4d
View of Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technologies #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/78325 From the introductory chapter: "At first sight, it seems that important concepts - agency, freedom, life, vulnerability, well-being, to name just a few - are rather stable...
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OLDaily @oldaily.bsky.social · 4d
The Future is NOT Self-Hosted #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/78324 I've considered this, setting up my own personal cloud and moving all my content off the platforms and onto a space I control. But as Drew Lyton discovered, this is not easy to do.
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OLDaily @oldaily.bsky.social · 4d
A principled way to think about AI in education #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/78323
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OLDaily @oldaily.bsky.social · 4d
Why AI-assisted Literature Reviews Currently Fall Short #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/78322
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OLDaily @oldaily.bsky.social · 4d
The poverty of Explicit Instruction #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/78321
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