specialize in a specific kind of interaction service  that involves the sharing of public images (Instagram), the private sharing of images sharing (Snapchat), augmented reality (Foursquare), and location-based matchmaking (Tinder).

So, my disability was therefore a site of pedagogical tension

As per the WHO, at least about 29% (2.2 billion) of the world population (7.7 billion) has some form of visual impairment, which is at least 3 people in the above-mentioned list.

socially damaging

To make matters worse, companies also rely on manipulative design tricks to wheedle people into spending more time on a service, spending more money, or providing more data than they intended. When we blame people for violations of their privacy because they didn’t read a privacy policy or because they generally rely on digital services, we are blaming them for failing to make meaningful privacy choices in an ecosystem that is designed to make these choices functionally impossible.

In an illustration of how ill-matched the idea of privacy policies are with reality, a 2008 study found it would take the average American 40 minutes a day to read every privacy policy they encountered, at a cost of up to $5,038 a year in lost productivity.

Simone

It’s not a problem I can solve, but it’s a reality I can acknowledge, a paradigm through which I can understand my actions.

The thing about American labor, after all, is that we’re trained to erase it.

The reason I am mentioning this is that heading elements are commonly used because of how they look (“Ooh! I like the color and font of the h3, I’ll use that.”), and not what priority of content they describe (Brioche is a kind of Viennoiserie). It’s a widespread problem.

the Tinman to the Dorothy of higher education

unless we recognize the essential, productive, imaginative, pedagogical role they play in digital learning.

all that and a bag of chips

At the root of what they do is a maddening desire to create meaningful learning experiences in digital space.

hovering over our students, their learning, and our teaching

Raspberry Pi, Scratch, and HTML and CSS

Until more faculty help their students learn to do the latter (and until faculty promotion and retention policies encourage faculty themselves to be fluent in writing for a public audience on the web), we’ll continue to raise up future generations of graduates (including the next generation of professors) who aren’t ready for their role in the fight against disinformation.

Jessie Daniels’ Cyber Racism

Tech platforms, in their majestic equality, allow both rich and poor alike to marshal digital tools to drown out dissenting voices, suppress votes, and spread falsehoods.

What will online education look like if students’ access to the internet is more compounded by their structural inequalities than they already are? How can we, in good conscience, use online technologies to increase access to higher education if the cost of using the internet rises while corporate control of the internet increases?

Gaslighting is their business model.

“Maybe the course is too easy and I need to challenge them a bit more,” Mr. Guardia said. “Or maybe the textbooks are not as good as I thought.”

I need to change my study habits

There is also correlation, the students are learning, between perception and success.

students could easily game the highlighting or note-taking functions. Or a student might improve his score by leaving his textbook open and doing something else.

data

“It knows more than my mother.”

they

CourseSmart said it knew of no problems with its software

they know the books are watching them

notes on paper

manager needed better data

reams of data

they decline to say what, if anything, they will do with it

help prepare new editions.

expressions on their faces

even as critics question how well it measures learning

Major publishers in higher education have already been collecting data from millions of students who use their digital materials

With third party service providers and agents. We may engage third party companies or individuals, such as third party payment processors, to process information on our behalf.

Slack takes security seriously

patience and empathy

Cohort 1.5 lesson

The point is not to be defeatist, but to remind ourselves again and again that the process is always iterative, and that we must keep working to maintain, to improve, and thus to sustain our work.

How can I add value to this network – contribute, amplify, connect, share, listen, support?

the need for our service is escalating

These events transpired while algorithms and echo chambers may have ensured that individuals did not read the same information as their next door neighbor

One of the primary responsibilities of academics is to help create an informed, knowledgeable citizenry

“What is left out of this message that might be important to know?”

habits of inquiry

we are all students of digital and media literacy

start asking what Twitter has done to academics

Institutions and legal instruments designed to stop abuse are finding themselves ill-equipped to function in light of networked dynamics.

A person who delights in having an intimate understanding of the internal workings of a system

Participatory art events

I am a digital literacies educator

Drumpf and Tillerson possess similar dealmaking business backgrounds and similar views of the world, sources said, and there was a level of comfort that Drumpf hadn't found with anyone else.

He knows the consequences

I believe that education is a process of offering people tools – conceptual as well as technical – to understand their identities and possibilities and those of others within a structural framework that points to various paths of possible agency.

Imagine if we trained students of digital media and culture not just to criticize but to intervene in the development of emergent technologies

rogue humanities scholars

That this can be another chance for us to direct more of the conversations around teaching and learning and scholarship, rather than simply react to these persistent outside forces

we must be in control of our own destiny, not swept along by the “solutions” being handed to us

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Why would we take the web, lasso it, and put it in a corral? We can learn a lot more, and see more of the world, if we let it take us where it will.

The digital asks us to wreck ourselves upon possibility.

demesne

the most valuable technology in education is people, and their willingness and capacity for invention, discovery, and reinvention.

The emphasis on technology at most universities misses the point of bringing together learning and the digital

An instructional designer is a consultant whose background and knowledge extend beyond the technological and into the pedagogical and theoretical.

Perhaps I’m naive

Even if he loses the election, Trump will have changed the brains of millions of Americans, with future consequences

And it is irrelevant

It doesn’t matter if you are promoting Trump or attacking Trump, you are helping Trump

The visualisation may look like data, but it is a snapshot of how I am connected, it is my rhizomatic digital landscape. For me it reinforces the fact that digital is people.

Everyone should acquire the skills to understand data, and analytics.

“useless” spaces are actually the most evolutive ones

My appeal is to the citizens of an insidiously colonised land, spaces no more completely public, but more and more subjected to market forces and imperatives. My appeal is to get involved wherever there is the possibility of critical education through playful subversion, something that, indeed, even our current, colonised learning institutions still allows and provides space for, if often unknowingly and implicitly.

In this context, the most ethical “purpose” of education can therefore be only and exactly to critique purposiveness itself, a critique which, in its praxis, comes in (at least) two flavors: To create safe spaces for the emergence of practices and systems which purposes are not known yet, and might never find one. To strip existing practices of their current purpose, letting new ones, unbound by current utilitaristic imperatives, emerge.

beyond the tyranny of proximity and provincialism

please do remember this essay is a “playful experiment”

how come employers give credit to supposed “skills” like “adaptability” and “conflict resolution” and not to the likes of “political awareness” or “resistance to authority”?

engaged pedagogist and game scholar.

a conceptualisation relevant to all cultural endeavours

The three day experience of the #DigPed PEI Institute was an experience that I felt stretched all in attendance.

In other words, scholars will gain a form of currency by becoming perceived as “human” (the extent to which ‘humanness’ must be honest self-expression or could be fabricated is an interesting question here) rather than cloaked by the deliberately de-humanised unemotive academic voice.

How do we engage online with the writing we find there?

If empowerment is to happen with DoOO, it must happen for all.

delegitimated as “scribbling.”

it has been critical that this writing be both public and allow students to take part of a wider digital conversation, one that is ultimately not dictated by others, including their instructors

There are also frequent standardized tests and a custom-built software system that uses analytics to manage applications, admissions, parent satisfaction, and student outcomes.

teacher quality is the single most important factor in a student’s education

All Pearson-backed schools agree to test students frequently and use software and analytics to track outcomes.

Networked, open, transparent

that's going to inform the nature of their practice

It cuts both ways and it's disenfranchising across the board

we cannot teach them

people who engage with technology are not motivated by their age category

If I were to identify one area for further study in the academy, it would be this re-opening of the complex and nuanced world of language modalities: oral and written, static and changing

not enough attention has been paid to complications of language as mediated through technology, which blurs conventional boundaries of written and spoken in significant ways

he Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution, Walter Isaacson repeatedly makes the point

Recognizing that my student has clipped and pasted ideas or actual phrases from an academic journal, video, blog, or website without crediting them deserves to be labeled academic dishonesty of the worst sort! Reading my own words and concepts appearing as unattributed “received wisdom” identifies a brilliant follower clearly deserving high accolades, — or at least an A!

We need more diverse books, voices, attitudes, journals, and styles.

It is long past time for us to put an end to the miniscule and irrelevant plagiarism wars and begin a more significant reconsideration of what we mean by research, citations, and the respectful integration and communication of information old and new, original and borrowed, tweeted, blogged and podcast, online and oral, read and viewed. It’s time to bury APA, MLA, op. cit., Ibid, et al. — along with the other dead horses they came in on.

bluster and strut

Instructional design bears a special burden: to initiate but not to conclude.

Bowie looked to one of his favorite bands at the time, The Pixies, for inspiration.

But I added a way to win — if I play Tetris every day

But to me, it became the truest representation of life there is

annotating explicitly to make connections between what they’re reading and the rest of the world can help them see why particular texts matter and are still relevant today

We are living increasingly in a culture of response.

We seem to have gone from a non-linear mode of communication – nodes and networks and links – toward one that is linear, passive, programmed and inward-looking

predictability means control

But hyperlinks aren’t just the skeleton of the web: they are its eyes, a path to its soul.

You open the Facebook app on your smartphone and dive in

Stewart, B. E. (2015). Scholarship in abundance: Influence, engagement, and attention in scholarly networks. Charlottetown, P.E.I.: University of Prince Edward Island. Retrieved from http://www.islandscholar.ca/download_ds/ir:15431/OBJ/ir_15431.pdf

we need to stop blaming students for the state of education

At the bottom of this argument is a question of technique, which in some lecturers’ hands becomes a question of tradition, of the “right” way to educate.

"I do not believe that knowledge is embedded in documents, just as beauty is not embedded in objects. Beauty and knowledge are created by joining and creating complex relationships between creators, viewers, contexts, histories, etc."

Let’s map the contours of its nihilism a little more carefully.

twaddle

The kind of kid who deliberately chooses to be a thief is one that bears watching.

Policy

In particular it focuses on how digital technologies can support and contribute to five specific educational priorities: raising attainment, tackling inequalities and promoting inclusion, improving transitions into employment, enhancing parental engagement, and improving the efficiency of the education system.

What’s not there can at times be even more helpful than what is. Embrace the silence and let it speak for you.

technology's ability to help us more richly collaborate with our students and more effectively share the fruit of those collaborations with the wider publics that our universities serve

By replacing a static textbook — or other stable learning material — with one that is openly licensed, faculty have the opportunity to create a new relationship between learners and the information they access in the course. Instead of thinking of knowledge as something students need to download into their brains, we start thinking of knowledge as something continuously created and revised.

It did take a willingness to see the institution from the student’s point of view.

One common observation about online education is that it will mean ‘bricks for the rich and clicks for the poor.’ Something like this has indeed happened, though ‘…clicks for the poorly served’ would be more accurate.

Faves as honest representations of how we feel. Let us be honest. Smart, thoughtful, intentional people don’t love everything.  They don’t even like everything.  They tend to be precise in their language.  Sometimes they just want to attend to something.  Sometimes they want to dwell in uncomfortable places because they are almost guaranteed learning zones. When you force academics to “like” it, it cheapens what that means to them.  What it means to us.

To be generous, hopeful, and forgiving will in the long run make for stronger networks and communities. It works in nature. Cooperation is a necessary behaviour to be open to serendipity and encourage experimentation.

People in networks cannot be told what to do, only influenced through other nodes (people) due to their reputation. If people don’t like you, they won’t connect. In a hierarchy you only have to please your boss. In a network you have to be seen as having some value, though not the same value, by many others.

there was little privacy in the village, as there seems to be no more privacy today

The moral moment is when the text calls on the reader–on me–just as the patient calls on those who offer care. The here-I-am of the writing is a generous offering of self as witness. The generosity calls for a response of here-I-am from the reader. … The dialogue of author and reader is the beginning of other dialogues; in the multiple sites where medicine is offered and received, where care is given, and where healing occurs.

When was the last time that you held in your hands a piece of writing that was dear to you because of the hand that touched the paper before you?

digital writing comes to you apparently weightless, placeless and cleaned of time

Sixty percent of faculty members agree they are concerned about recent attacks on scholars for comments they made on social media. Most say this has not influenced how they communicate on social media.•Tech administrators do not view the Yik Yak app, which allows geo-targeted comments about people, as having caused controversy on their campus, and do not think colleges should regulate access to this app. Faculty members are a bit more likely to say the app has caused controversy and to say it should be regulated, but those are still the minority views among professors.

The sense of participatory collective—always fraught—has waned as more and more subcultures are crammed and collapsed into a common, traceable, searchable medium. We hang over each other’s heads, more and more heavily, self-appointed swords of Damocles waiting with baited breath to strike.

The compromise here is easy.  Faculty accept the expertise of the educational experts and instructional designers, and welcome them into their course design process as a resource rather than competitors.  At the same time, educational experts and instructional designers should accept the expertise of the faculty.  Stop trying to tell them what education is.

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