I ran into this on Bionic Teaching and thought it was worth making note of. There are lots of resources out there for web accessibility, and it’s something I talk to people about from time to time. I’m grateful for the course W3C put together and the course I took at UAlberta. I make use…

From Doug Belshaw’s Thought Shrapnel, this post reminded me a bit of the Note to Self Bored and Brilliant challenge from maybe decade ago. It also echoes of one of the lessons I’ve learned from karate, to be weary of the three Zs (“zees”): too busy, too lazy, too easy. Anyway, it lead to to…

I came across this one via Tom Woodward’s Bionic Teaching. If you land on the page in French there is an English version. Badge AI was created by Philippe Bourque, CEO of Cérebrum and an Artist Engineer from Quebec City. Taking inspiration from Creative Commons, Badge AI offers a framework for creators to show how…

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…

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…

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…

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)…

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…

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…

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…

Sometimes you have a thought of feeling you can’t quite articulate and then you run into a piece that really nails it. That’s the case this time, from Cory Doctorow’s pluralistic. Over the past couple of months in particular I have heard more and more critiques of GenAI, across the board from the tools, to…