Digital technologies like recommendation algorithms can understand personal preferences with previously unimaginable precision, and often lead to unprecedented attention extraction and related harms
This is probably a less "harmful" example, but I tend to use Spotify because it's so good at recommending new music that fits my tastes. That seems good, but what am I giving up?
More than ever, we need technology that builds—rather than undermines—our capacity to face complex threats.
I'm so on board with this, but how? I get that this is what this course is about, so hopefully I'll get it.
I'm also wondering about the idea of "protocols, not platforms" from this article.
There's a few different versions - actually, many different versions - of learning styles.
This is a TEDx Talk by Dr. Tesia Marshik, an associate professor of psychology at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. You may have certain beliefs that you hold about learning styles. Consider those beliefs as you listen. As you make annotations:
shouldn’t the goodness of a school be defined not by students’ academic performance, but by factors such as classroom climate; opportunities for social-emotional development; responsiveness to the needs of parents, families, and communities; the availability of nutritious meals, effective special education programs, health care services, and other school-based supports; the diversity of the teaching force, and how and what those teachers choose to teach?
This is making me think about the Chalkbeat/Vox reporting on the issues with using sites like GreatSchools and Jess Calarco's tweet thread about frustration with public school funding. It seems that the schools that need these supports the most can't afford them.
interest-powered learning. That is, the game allowe me to share my story with others –not only to tell it, but to let them experience it. It also allowed me to share something that was significant to my life and frame the experience from my own perspective.
When I taught high school digital media classes, this idea was important to me. Giving the students an opportunity to connect the content area to their own experiences and share their story. This makes learning the content empowering rather than just something to be learned. I wish I had known about connected learning back then.
that CLMOOC is a collaboration and not a course
Learners are creators and not just consumers.
This kind of professional learning can be transformative not because the design is openly networked, but precisely because learning is inherently rooted in teachers’ connection-making activity among colleagues, materials, practices, disciplines, and so forth.
This also resonates with the late Randi Engle's idea of expansive framing. She argued that learning occurs as we make multiple and varied connections between the "learning context" (including the content to be learned) with other contexts (including people, places, times, and topics) which creates an intercontextuality between the contexts. Article here (although it is behind a paywall).
meaning offline
Offline networks and experiences, I think, are too often overlooked. Connection to home and peer networks and experiences beyond schooling is one of the aspects of connected learning I find particularly meaningful.
make learning more relevant and impactful.1 It meets youth where they are
Context matters. This is one of the reasons I've been drawn to connected learning and similar ideologies/theoretical frameworks.
Preventing cheating is the district’s responsibility, according to the company’s response, but the program does have settings that allow teachers to proctor assessments.
It's not just about proctoring, but the implementing assessments that are hard for students to cheat on.
“He told me that his grade in Edgenuity was perfect because he was cheating the whole time,” Rapisarda said. “I don’t blame him for not caring. Online learning platforms like that where you don’t have a teacher just scream, ‘Nobody cares about you.’”
In an era where "personalized" education is the buzzword, it seems that most online courses are very impersonal.
focus on math and English test prep had crowded out activities that might better serve students
This is one of my biggest concerns with the emphasis on test scores.
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