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ShiftED Podcast #69 From MOOCs to Mindsets: Stephen Downes on Connection, Openness, and the Future of Scalable Learning - LEARN Podcasts

Stephen Downes @downes.bsky.social · 1d

ShiftED Podcast number 69 From MOOCs to Mindsets: Stephen Downes on Connection, Openness, and the Future of Scalable Learning www.buzzsprout.com/2404304/epis...

Rethinking Education: Is Connection the New Content?The traditional classroom model, built on the transmission of content from expert to learner, is facing a profound challenge. What if the heart of l...

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Stephen Downes @downes.bsky.social · 2d

On Social Media as a Public Servant halfanhour.blogspot.com/2025/10/on-s...

On Social Media as a Public Servant

On LinkedIn today the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat published a short slide deck entitled 'Navigating Social Media as a Public Servan...

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Reposted by Stephen Downes

Tanya Joosten @tanyajoosten.bsky.social · 5d

Higher ed should be free

so that democracy doesn't crumble again.

TGIF

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Stephen Downes @downes.bsky.social · 5d

35 Days in Iceland - 11 - Stafafel to Djúpivogur - Day 16 - www.youtube.com/watch?v=8h_X... #Iceland #Bikepacking

35 Days in Iceland - 11 - Stafafel to Djúpivogur - Day 16

35 Days in Iceland - 10 - Vestrahorn to Stafafel - Day 15

Stephen Downes @downes.bsky.social · 11d

35 Days in Iceland - 10 - Vestrahorn to Stafafel - Day 15 www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJ9g...

35 Days in Iceland - 9 - Hofn to Vestrahorn - Day 14

Stephen Downes @downes.bsky.social · 13d

35 Days in Iceland - 9 - Hofn to Vestrahorn - Day 14 video - www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wzju...

Beyond Democratic Socialism

Stephen Downes @downes.bsky.social · 14d

Beyond Democratic Socialism - halfanhour.blogspot.com/2025/09/beyo...

What is there's no democratic road to socialism? Now I want to be clear here about what I mean by this: - by 'socialism' I mean a society de...

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Stephen Downes @downes.bsky.social · 17d

35 Days in Iceland - 8 - Skogar to Vik to Hofn - Day 13 - www.youtube.com/watch?v=wq0h...

35 Days in Iceland - 8 - Skogar to Vik to Hofn - Day 13

35 Days in Iceland - 7 - Skogar - Reykjavik - Skogar - Days 10-12

Stephen Downes @downes.bsky.social · 22d

35 Days in Iceland - 7 - Skogar - Reykjavik - Skogar - Days 10-12 www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOtu... #bikepacking #iceland

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Stephen Downes @downes.bsky.social · 24d

I'm sure you're not out of the loop.

There are still people promoting it, and it's still a thing, but it's just not getting any traction, and so it is gradually fading away, with no discernible end point.

Stephen Downes @downes.bsky.social · 24d

35 Days in Iceland - 6 - To Skogar - Day 9

Stephen Downes @downes.bsky.social · 28d

Walk. Never travel outside the town you were born in your entire life. Carry heavy loads on your back. Starve if there's a local famine.

How We Could Build a Better Future for Creators in the Age of AI

Stephen Downes @downes.bsky.social · 29d

It turns out you need some sort of automation to sift among employment applications with a thousand or so badges each, so people lost interest...

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Stephen Downes @downes.bsky.social · 29d

A society that replaces 90 percent of its workforce with automation still has a responsibility to that 90 percent; otherwise, it ceases to be a society. www.downes.ca/post/78207

Commentary on How We Could Build a Better Future for Creators in the Age of AI by Stephen Downes. Online learning, e-learning, new media, connectivism, MOOCs, personal learning environments, new liter...

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Stephen Downes @downes.bsky.social · Aug 12

I don't do autoethnography and more, not really a fan of research models (properly so-called).

Intelligence is knowing when to quit I used to participate in debate competitions in high school. They were the traditional parliamentary ...

Stephen Downes @downes.bsky.social · Aug 12

On Intelligence halfanhour.blogspot.com/2025/08/on-i...

On Intelligence

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Stephen Downes @downes.bsky.social · Aug 9

"Every single problem we attribute to AI is a human problem with silicon makeup." hybridhorizons.substack.com/p/the-lies-w...

The Lies We Tell Ourselves About AI

There's a particular species of dishonesty that emerges when humans confront something that threatens their self-conception.

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The Next Era of Assessment: A Global Review of AI in Assessment Design

Stephen Downes @downes.bsky.social · Jul 10

A gap in your resume? Just say you were self-employed as an entrepreneur. Pick something legal and random and ideally related to whatever you were doing at the time. Were you looking for work as a waiter? Voila! A "self-employed food services professional." Completely accurate in every way.

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Stephen Downes @downes.bsky.social · Jul 10

The word 'we' in ‪Sonja Drimmer's post is doing a lot of work Those who argue that failing to engage with long-form complex texts causes cognitive decline are rarely talking about themselves, despite using of the word 'we'. They are referring to others and don't explicitly call them stupid, but...

Stephen Downes @downes.bsky.social · Jul 9

The grist of assessment in the AI era is not 'AI-Resilience', it is (to coin a phrase) 'AI-Agnosticism', which is evaluation design that sets a genuine tasks and doesn't care how it accomplished, only that it is accomplished as well as possible. www.downes.ca/post/78110

Commentary on Stephen's Web ~ The Next Era of Assessment: A Global Review of AI in Assessment Design by Stephen Downes. Online learning, e-learning, new media, connectivism, MOOCs, personal learning e...

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Stephen Downes @downes.bsky.social · Jul 2

Autonomy and freedom depend on the constitution of the people, not the constitution of the nation.

OLDaily ~ by Stephen Downes

Stephen Downes @downes.bsky.social · Jul 2

My July 1 newsletter tells a story, from start to finish. It's not a simple story, it's a long and complex story, and many parts are missing, but I'm hoping readers will see the thread here. www.downes.ca/archive/25/0...

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Stephen Downes @downes.bsky.social · Jun 30

Take it or them off the grid. Don't tell anyone where they are.

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Stephen Downes @downes.bsky.social · Jun 25

If it were not for the government providing mail delivery, mail delivery would not exist anywhere except in well-populated regions.