I’d thought about ignoring this one until AK posted Course Design Should Cost Zero…or Not. AK always ends with “your thoughts?” so I guess here I am. I ran into the “kerfuffle” via Downes, although I also follow Crosslin, Wiley, AK, and used to follow Siemens although he’s moved around a bit since I read…
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How to Use Digital Learning – Part Deux
As I mentioned in How to Use Digital Learning – Part I (gee was that already months ago?) last June I had the priviledge of having work shared with the world alongside so many amazing contributors in the edited book How to use digital learning with confidence and creativity. I’ve been reading it from start to…
Work is part of our lives, a big part to be sure, but what if it wasn’t our whole life?
Along the lines of the last post I commented on from Doug Belshaw, this also reflects on identify and how what you do for work my swallow that. I’m more familiar with Mike Monteiro’s talks, F*ck You Pay Me, and What Your Client’s Don’t Know and Why It’s Your Fault. Both are excellent watches/listens. That’s…
What do you *like* to do?
Doug Belshaw’s Thought Shrapnel always has interesting stuff to read. Here he shared an excerpt from Kai Brach’s “Dense Discovery” newsletter that resonated with me, what to do with that terrible social interaction that begins with “What do you do?” There was some interaction I was in over a decade ago where this question came…
Stop Trying to Make AGi Happen, It’s Not Going to Happen!
This is another response from Matt Crosslin to George Siemens on AI. I came across it in OLDaily. Downes notes first the comparison of companies, governments, etc. as a sort of intelligent system. But that if you remove all the people, the company, government, or social system ceases to function (much like a Mechanical Turk)…
Get That Bird Off Your Book (a how-to)
I had a question come in recently about how to deal with social media icons, and share buttons, on a Pressbook. There is one social media platform in particular that was at the root of the question. So I’m cataloging here for authors, editors, network admins, etc. a few different approaches you could take. Option…
HTML Tip – Links to Text Fragments
I’ve slowly gotten more comfortable over the years with popping open developer tools to inspect webpages to see how things work or to figure out what the heck is going on. Today a colleague and I were discussing options for linking to external sources for training. There are challenges with resources in elearning. You could…
Kawartha Teaching & Tech Conference 2025
Overview I had the pleasure of presenting at this conference (with two astounding collaborators, Jen Loewen and Julie Maier), and hearing about the work going on across the world in teaching and technology. My brain is throbbing a bit, but I tried to capture some of what I learned today here. Student Keynote The conference…
2024 – Podcasts I’m listening to
Aside from the Blog or Die crew, others have been blogging their podcast listens including Doug Belshaw, Bryan Alexander, Laura Hilliger, Alan Levine, James Ravenscroft, and John Johnston. I first started listening to podcasts, and audiobooks, when I began my (short lived) teaching career. I taught in rural schools in the prairies and found myself…
How to Use Digital Learning – Part I
This past June I had the priviledge of having work shared with the world alongside so many amazing contributors in the edited book How to use digital learning with confidence and creativity. I’ve been slowly making my way through it, reading it start to finish, even though the design and intent of the book is that you…
Essentials of Digital Literacies Over AI Literacies
Found this piece about Dimensions of AI Literacies via the Bionic Teaching Weekly Web Harvest. I agree with Tom’s sentiment here. The plurality of unnecessary “literacies” has only gotten worse in the previous two years as people and organizations attempt to lay claim to the field. No new literacy, especially if it’s an “AI Literacy” framework is…
About being wrong…
I was, not secretly, hoping for another book from Martin Weller, but it looks like his latest series might have concluded. I for sure shared being wrong about Things I was wrong about pt2: The Death of the VLE, while the others I either didn’t have expertise in or was in a different phase of my…