Stephen M. Downes
Stephen Downes is a Canadian philosopher and commentator in the fields of online learning and new media. He has explored… more
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ShiftED Podcast number 69 From MOOCs to Mindsets: Stephen Downes on Connection, Openness, and the Future of Scalable Learning www.buzzsprout.com/2404304/epis...
ShiftED Podcast #69 From MOOCs to Mindsets: Stephen Downes on Connection, Openness, and the Future of Scalable Learning - LEARN Podcasts
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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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
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Higher ed should be free
so that democracy doesn't crumble again.
TGIF
so that democracy doesn't crumble again.
TGIF
35 Days in Iceland - 10 - Vestrahorn to Stafafel - Day 15 www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJ9g...
35 Days in Iceland - 10 - Vestrahorn to Stafafel - Day 15
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35 Days in Iceland - 9 - Hofn to Vestrahorn - Day 14 video - www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wzju...
35 Days in Iceland - 9 - Hofn to Vestrahorn - Day 14
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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
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35 Days in Iceland - 7 - Skogar - Reykjavik - Skogar - Days 10-12 www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOtu... #bikepacking #iceland
35 Days in Iceland - 7 - Skogar - Reykjavik - Skogar - Days 10-12
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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.
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.
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.
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...
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
How We Could Build a Better Future for Creators in the Age of AI
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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I don't do autoethnography and more, not really a fan of research models (properly so-called).
"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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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.
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...
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
The Next Era of Assessment: A Global Review of AI in Assessment Design
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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Autonomy and freedom depend on the constitution of the people, not the constitution of the nation.
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...
OLDaily ~ by Stephen Downes
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Take it or them off the grid. Don't tell anyone where they are.
If it were not for the government providing mail delivery, mail delivery would not exist anywhere except in well-populated regions.
Creative Commons launches Signals. www.downes.ca/post/78065
Introducing CC Signals: A New Social Contract for the Age of AI
Commentary on Stephen's Web ~ Introducing CC Signals: A New Social Contract for the Age of AI by Stephen Downes. Online learning, e-learning, new media, connectivism, MOOCs, personal learning environm...
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People make fun of the simplification of text, but if you compare the prose of today with the prose of the 1800s it becomes clear we're already well down that road.
We were at Petrie Island today and I discovered a Redwing Blackbird nest in the reeds by accident. I didn't want to get too close but I had the big lens with me. You have to look closely but in the sequence of three photos you can see the chicks beg for food, the mother feed them, and them sleeping.
Slides, audio, video and (automated) transcript from my presentation "Convergent Discussions in the Fediverse" are now available at www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page...
Convergent Discussions in the Fediverse
Commentary on Stephen's Web ~ Convergent Discussions in the Fediverse by Stephen Downes. Online learning, e-learning, new media, connectivism, MOOCs, personal learning environments, new literacy, and ...
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Slides, audio, transcript (auto-generated) from my talk yesterday "Reframing Togetherness: Advances in artificial intelligence and the intersection of open learning" are all here: www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page...
Reframing Togetherness: Advances in artificial intelligence and the intersection of open learning
Commentary on Stephen's Web ~ Reframing Togetherness: Advances in artificial intelligence and the intersection of open learning by Stephen Downes. Online learning, e-learning, new media, connectivism,...
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