The same muscle that made them wonder why Beyonce’s Lemonade references Malcolm X can be put to use on other texts. This doesn’t have to be pandering to the youth.

consultant who was the architect of Medicaid changes in Vice President-elect Mike Pence’s home state of Indiana, to run a crucial section of HHS: the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

rump has chosen Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.), a fierce critic of the Affordable Care Act and a proponent of overhauling the nation’s entitlement programs, to lead the Department of Healt

So in judging the value of a technology, we need to look more closely at the ways in which it is being or could be used

can/should/will the human teacher be replaced by technology?

what is best done face-to-face and what online, and in what contexts?

OEP is still in its infancy.

customized and personalized learning that has the promise to open up our classrooms to those students who so need to be freed from its current construct

economic benefit

The real potential for OER to improve education is in its open license. In contrast to “all rights reserved” copyright, OER are licensed to allow anyone, anywhere, anytime to reuse, repurpose and redistribute the content.

ways that simultaneously improve their learning and the content they are learning with.

Wiki Education Foundation to promote editing of Wikipedia by students in academic contexts

not simply widespread, equitable access to content,

use in effective ways,

students and educators improved existing content, adding real value back to the real world.

engage his students in adapting a textbook to better fit the course outcomes.

students and educators improved existing content, adding real value back to the real world.

Using the full potential of OER by intentionally leveraging the open licenses is called open educational practice (OEP, or sometimes Open Pedagogy).

The ultimate value of OER is in the potential it holds to dramatically improve teaching and learning – value above and beyond what proprietary content can provide, given equal technology.

I believe that most education technologists pay the heaviest attention to the bottom three layers of this framework, with occasional attention to the content layer. Attention to actual teaching and learning is rare.

Faculty need the freedom to fail on their way toward pedagogical creativity.

We need universal, publicly-funded education that is less penetrated by market forces and values, less obsessed with measuring ‘outcomes’, less oppressive and more playful – for everyone.

Will this disturb the sleep of a woman near to giving birth?

Invest in the millennium. Plant sequoias.

So, friends, every day do something that won’t compute.

Be afraid to know your neighbors and to die.

this project draws inspiration from, and seeks to encourage, what bell hooks calls “the possibility of radical perspective from which to see and create, to imagine alternatives, new worlds.”

despite my grief, a sense of urgency has arisen.

2. The role of digital tools in the lives of students today. 3. The role of digital tools in the learning spaces that serve our youth.

The conservative idea, at that time, was that liberalism had gone insane for political correctness and continental theory, and that the way to resist the encroachment of Derrida was through fortifying summaries of Emerson. Great Books.

democracy depends on a public forum, and ours is upside down.

Politically speaking, precision is freedom.

One of the conditions of democratic resistance is having an accurate picture of what to resist.

Authoritarianism doesn't really want to convince its supporters that their fantasies are true, because truth claims are subject to verification, and thus to the possible discrediting of authority.

Facebook's algorithm, which promotes some links over others and controls which links appear to which users, likewise reflects a series of editorial choices, and it is itself a bad choice, because it turns over the architecture of American information to a system that is infinitely scammable.

radical hope. “What makes this hope radical,” Lear writes, “is that it is directed toward a future goodness that transcends the current ability to understand what it is.”

Darkness, after all, is breaking, a new day has come.

to bury the arc of the moral universe so deep in justice that it will never be undone.

No easy task to take in the fact that half the voters—neighbors, friends, family—were willing to elect, to the nation’s highest office, a toxic misogynist, a racial demagogue who wants to make America great by destroying the civil-rights gains of the past fifty years.

Repealing Obamacare, which has provided coverage to twenty-two million people, including Jim’s family members; cutting safety-net programs; downgrading hard-won advances in civil liberties and civil rights—these things will make the lives of those left out only meaner and harder.

especially those who elected Trump because they felt ignored and left behind. President Trump is almost certain to betray them.

They were rejecting élites, out of fear and fury that, when it came to them, these values had been abandoned.

Now it falls to us to listen with gracious and open hearts. This is not giving in or giving up. The hardest thing about democracy is the boring and irritating process of listening to people you don’t agree with, which is tolerable only when each side strives not to hurt the other’s feelings. To quote my colleague George Saunders, let today be National Attempt to Have an Affectionate / Tender Thought About Someone of the Opposing Political Persuasion Day. And (please, God) every day hereafter as well.

Nasty talk didn’t start with Trump, but it was the province of people we all viewed as idiots—schoolyard mobs, certain drunks in bars, guys hollering out of moving cars. When a Presidential candidate mocks a disabled man or a Muslim family that has sacrificed a son for our country, the behavior is stamped with a big “O.K.”

Rather than lose its “whiteness” (once again), the family chooses murder.

If it weren’t so ignorant and pitiful, one could mourn this collapse of dignity in service to an evil cause.

This is where teachers have a great opportunity to model the type of critical thinking that might link a letter by Frederick Douglass or James Baldwin to a more current essay by Ta-Nehisi Coates or Roxane Gay.

a great jumping-off point

Oh, and I give them a handy dandy bookmark with suggestions.

a time capsule of their thinking in high school English.

It was so extreme that in recent weeks, I was attacked for posting anti-Trump news stories on social media by furious people who took the position that to be overtly anti-Trump was to be covertly pro-Clinton.

Do they promote deep reading over interaction?

what it takes to do battle with fascism is a real left.

I think that this should give us a lot of empathy for the kids in Syria and other war torn countries, who want to get away from crazy and to come here. Like, just the fact that someone who said mean things was able to become president traumatized a whole generation of children. No building got blown up next to them. They didn't see their dad get torn apart in a car bomb.

almost half the people didn't vote at all. Of the half that did vote, Hillary got more votes and of the people that voted for Trump, only probably 10 percent of them endorsed all this crazy stuff; the other 40 percent were just giving a middle finger to either Hillary Clinton, DC, or PC stuff run amok, whatever that means to them. That doesn't mean that they all want to privatize Social Security or even build a wall, in fact. If you take the people that didn't vote, cut them in half and assume that some would have voted for Trump and some would have voted for Hillary, then you take her voters, that's like 150 million people. That's a lot of people who cannot be rationally included in the Trump camp at all. Then if you take the half of his voters, or more, probably, the vast majority of his voters who aren’t into a lot of his crazy stuff, you got a lot to work with.

The problem is that it's marbled through with xenophobia and misogyny and bigotry.

who labor in this vineyard the one that produces words and pictures.

“invisible humanities.”

But we also need to be both more explicit in voicing and acting on that commitment and more capacious in our understanding of the role of the humanities in the world.

So many of the lessons we teach—about the value of culture, critical thinking, history, philosophy—seem now invalidated with the election to the highest office of the land of an individual who has expressed in word and behavior nothing but distain and contempt for these things.

After falling in love with the Foucaultian concept of the panopticon like most advanced humanities students, I’ve come to wonder: is all surveillance by definition bad?

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The Mad Vendor’s Manifesto:

the floor

What was the total addressable market?

And that does seem valuable.

Navigating the modern educational landscape shares many parallels to navigating the physical world: learners are often trying to get somewhere (e.g., a job, a certification, or a set of marketable skills), they may want to know what topics or skills are “nearby,” and they may want to know what kind of roadblocks they may encounter along the way.

value-added groupings.

learning pathways lead to valuable skills (Lumina Foundation, 2016)

customized

data-driven decisions in order to measure, improve, and adapt student learning?

National Association of Media Literacy (NAMLE)

However, with a few exceptions, I’m still not seeing institutions embrace the entire spectrum of openness.

students and faculty as active contributors

whereby the learning analytics and data about the institution are open and available

uses open source software for its administration and for teaching and learning involves students and faculty in research which is published in open access journals for all to see and use

Which means we have to apply even greater pressure from the left: to march in greater numbers, to shout out louder against injustice, and to summon and be prepared to sustain everyday massive nonviolent civil disobedience on a scale not seen in this country for decades. Not because we refuse to acknowledge the results of the election. But because, as we would have written no matter who won last night, elections are only the beginning of the contest for power. And because in the coming contest there are some in immediate peril, who need our help, our energy, and our solidarity.

the themes

Open pedagogy – As OER becomes more of an accepted part of practice, openness encourages more experimentation with pedagogy, as well as a move from doing the same things more cheaply to exploiting the options of openness.

OER and data analytics – OER in combination with learning analytics, and the crossover with data viewed as an OER in itself.

There will be more collaboration, more attention to providing support to individuals, and more interaction between learners, as well as between learners and teachers.

open resources that address skills like collaboration and cross-cultural understanding, and resources tailored to workforce development needs, tie open education to skills as well as knowledge, which makes it even more valuable.

Open educational practice can not only model how to navigate a broad pool of information to find the most appropriate resources for understanding a topic

Second, the ideas around open pedagogy are still emerging.

Teachers are innovating their approaches to teaching, such as those inspired to bring their students in as the co-creators of their educational experiences (Example 1, Example 2)

educational building blocks

deport the undocumented

Resentment is no excuse for bald-faced stupidity. America is still the land where the waitress’ kids can grow up to become physicists and novelists and pediatricians, but it helps a lot if the waitress and her husband encourage good habits and the ambition to use your God-given talents and the kids aren’t plugged into electronics day and night. Whooping it up for the candidate of cruelty and ignorance does less than nothing for your kids.

People can behave foolishly, recklessly, self-destructively in the aggregate just as they can individually.

How Trump’s strange rise and Obama’s high rating can have coincided in the same moment will remain one of the permanent conundrums of our history.

Connection, even connection in pain and dismay, is the one balm for trauma of any kind.

I also believe that the comings and goings of politics and political actions in our lives must not be allowed to dominate our daily existence—and that if we struggle to emphasize to our children the necessities of community, ongoing life, daily pleasures, and shared enterprises, although we may not defeat the ogres of history, we can hope to remain who we are in their face.

how the affordances of technology modify our communication and our behavior.

authentic

Facebook’s

what kind of context do they need to consider?

For example,

I served as the first cycle’s discussion facilitator (a task that students will subsequently lead); as such, I read and then added my annotations (i.e. I highlighted text, added comments and questions, hyperlinked resources, and made note of subsequent course readings and activities).

From the privacy – and primacy – of LMS (specifically Canvas) discussion forums to the public “playground” afforded by Hypothesis; From the formality of pre-determined questions (which can privilege the scope and purpose of reading) to open-ended and less formal (re)action and exchange; and From an instructor’s authority to center and control textual discourse to a de-centering of power through a fracturing of attention, interest, and commitment.

no one cancontrol how the system will evolve.

indeed some might think,attacking the very idea of property

hen given to the next generation.

utting into thecommons one’s work product

For this is just how open source software works: with aninspiration, handed over to the public, in an imperfect but promisingform, which a public then can take up on its own and continue towork out. But with a promise, that what they produce with thisproduct leaves this open part open.

heInternet as it was in 1995 was a space that made it very hard to verifywho someone was; that meant it was a space that protected privacyand anonymity. The Internet as it is becoming is a space that willmake it very easy to verify who someone is; commerce likes it thatway; that means it will become a space that doesn’t necessarilyprotect privacy and anonymity.

The code of cyberspace—whether the Internet, or a net within the Internet—defines that space

a certain architecture in the Internet.

governance in thesense I mean.

And after extensive and engaged exchange on theNet, the glitch was undone.

this margin is too small

in the margin of his father’s copy of Diophantus’Arithmetica,he scribbled next to an obscure theorem

e defined by hospitality, but not a hospitality that involves a clearly defined host or guest. We certainly extend invitations

“Reading is a bridge to thought,” she says.

The online world, too, tends to exhaust our resources more quickly than the page.

reading had changed profoundly

the reading brain

And I think we should contemplate how we can build technologies that foster a deep and sustained attention to ideas, to knowledge, and yes, to public discourse.

This isn’t simply about technologies of distraction. This is about technologies of a fragmented discourse, one that privileges “comments” – never read the comments – versus a deeper, critical commentary.

“The Garden and the Stream: A Technopastoral.”

How do we learn to see differently and not just react to what’s “obvious” about these sorts of stories?

But I recently reread Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by nature writer Annie Dillard in preparation for this talk because it is fundamentally, I believe, a book about attention.

If there’s something to reclaim – or for many voices, to get to claim for the very first time – it is public discourse. It is, I hope, one that rests on a technological commons. I think we start towards that commons by thinking very carefully, by thinking very slowly and deeply, by cultivating very lovingly our spaces and places and own domains.

Essays that both stoke and assuage fears about “digital distraction” tend towards the ahistorical because their assertions almost always focus on the digital, on new technologies as the cause.

We have created a variety of technologies to help us manage information and memory – writing most obviously, but also codices, indices, tables of contents, libraries.

I find that those who want to dismiss such a thing as “digital distraction” tend to minimize the very real impact that new technologies do have on what we see, what we pay attention to.

Our communication practices might change – might – because of new computing technologies. But new practices tend not to be invented utterly whole cloth. The legacies of language and culture persist.

That’s something that’s desperately lacking in the steady stream of information flow online.

Yeah. I know. Weird. Books. Those old things. But ideas are developed more slowly and thoroughly in books.

attending to the digital,

If a school or teacher isn’t using Google Docs, a similar type of “talking to the text” can be achieved using Diigo, which also allows users to share marked-up documents with one another that include comments or highlights.

The technology didn’t do any of the thinking for students, but in this case the software helped build an outline as students discuss and winnow down their evidence, and their work has been conveniently saved in an easy-to-review manner.

goal of slowing down reading.

easy for students to access their work anywhere.

free

The key to getting kids to read deeply in any format is to have them engage with the text in meaningful ways. In the digital space, that means disrupting a pattern of skipping around, writing short chats and getting lost down the rabbit hole of the internet. It means teaching kids ways to break down a complex text, find key ideas, organize them and defend them. Practicing those skills in class can be time-consuming, but it also builds good digital reading habits that hopefully become second nature.

there isn’t enough longitudinal data to know if those deficits can be remediated by learning strategies specific to digital content.

Several studies found the decrease in comprehension on digital devices was more due to distractions on the internet than to the medium itself. Perhaps self-control is among the key skills to teach students expected to read more online.

social, collaborative spaces.

Many of his strategies resonate with teachers because they are based in research about how students have always made sense of difficult texts and are only enhanced by a few digital affordances.

casual digital reading

Students are doing more reading on digital devices than they ever have before

distinguish reading for fun on tablets, with the distracting bells and whistles, from reading for school, where material is less interactive but more straightforward for better absorption.

More research will need to be done, especially on how students use the annotation features of e-books, to get a clearer picture of how well students can take notes and be able to find them on digital readers. Perhaps technology will improve, and annotation features will become more intuitive in the next generation of devices.

“In a traditional school environment, you’re given a textbook and told not to write in it at all. And this is really counter-intuitive to what we want kids to be able to do in the real world,” he said. “We want them to write all over the things that they’re reading.”

She cites a new study that showed fifth-graders became better digital readers after learning how to use the digital annotation feature.

new training and practice

In a Hewlett Packard online survey of 527 college students at San Jose State University, 57 percent of students who responded said they preferred print materials to e-books when studying. When citing reasons for their preference, 35 percent of print users cited “note-taking ability” as a reason for preferring print vs. six percent of those who favored e-books.

“It seems that the very ‘richness’ of the multimedia environment that e-books provide — heralded as their advantage over printed books — may overwhelm children’s limited working memory, leading them to lose the thread of the narrative or to process the meaning of the story less deeply.”

“Reading comprehension research with multi-touch devices is still in its infancy and students will need to adapt new reading strategies in order to maximize their learning in this environment.”

according to one preliminary study presented by Heather Ruetschlin Schugar and Jordan T. Schugar of West Chester University.

One of the best ways for readers to show engagement with the text, he said, is through marginal annotations.

“You can also flip back and forth very easily, and spatially, there are advantages to print media.”

The trick to being a good reader, no matter the medium, is being an engaged reader, a fact that Pennington notes is well-supported by research. “It’s pretty clear that good readers are active readers engaged with the text,” he said.

stay engaged,

My students can’t write a clear sentence to save their lives, and I’ve had it.

On an everyday micro level,

”my views do not represent those of their employer” statements in social profiles.

imperfect analogy,

While the land you can see while walking down such paths can feel like public property (and, therefore, partly mine), it is, in actual fact, nothing of the sort.

As the web developed, both in terms of technologies and business models, it became easier to get a space in which you could express your thoughts online. However, instead of sharing these thoughts via a “Top Level Domain” (TLD) such as a .com or .org, you were merely granted space on someone else’s server.

The answer lies in inviting students to write for public purpose.

Educators, students, and writers everywhere are encouraged to participate in the platform through Election Day 2016.

best ye breed

vulnerability is the seed of true learning.

What emerged was the inherent knowledge within our own ranks,

students

curate and aggregate

step up and claim their own forms of learning.

Why does race matter?

But, despite this successful track record, this time around, I stepped back, and really thought about the point of this class.

no prescribed syllabus for the course.

they were in charge of their own learning outcomes.

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minimize the data your product collects

It is best to assume that the student information you collect in your app is statutorily confidential, unless it is de-identified

data security features

build privacy

After a couple of pages, my fingers twitched for a keyboard

I tried reading books,

calm, or spirituality. “Multitasking” was a mirage.

a constant dopamine bath for the writerly ego.

a constant stream of

this virtual living,

My brain had never been so occupied so insistently by so many different subjects and in so public a way for so long.

stream of internet consciousness

This approach only delivers substantial operational benefit if we can assume that replies have the same access control restrictions as their thread root. This seems like a perfectly reasonable requirement, but it’s not how our software works right now. How would we migrate existing replies that don’t match this requirement? (e.g. private replies on public annotations).