Thanks to Jeff Rubenstein for a thoughtful comment. I agree that the division between ‘content’ and ‘paper + ink’ isn’t always the best way to approach the discussion, and should note here that it was generated as a metaphor to frame a response to a commonly raised issue. Jeff
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Half an Hour: A Message About Learning from the Shop Floor
Dear Boss, Thank you for your email about e-learning, titled ‘A message about learning from the C-suite’ which was reprinted in Chief Learning Officer. You asked some questions and made some comments, so I thought I’d take this opportunity to reply. Thanks for asking how I’m keeping up my skills
Continue readingHalf an Hour: On the Indieweb
I’m going to take Daniel Goldsmith’s excellent post Praxis and the Indieweb as a point of departure for this post. Like Goldsmith, I am a fan of the Indieweb, or at least, the concept of the Indieweb. And I’ve been involved, at least around the periphery, in its development for
Continue readingHalf an Hour: Remote Comments
I’ve had an idea in the back of my mind for a long time now, and as I get closer to a real-world gRSShopper other people can actually use I began to ask around is anyone had seen an implementation. In a word, the response was “no”. So I decided
Continue readingHalf an Hour: Upcoming Webinars
Webinars for the new year. I did the first one last week and the rest are upcoming. All in cooperation with Maskwacis Cultural College. See https://continuingeducationi.blogspot.com/ January 18, 8:30-9 am MT Edmonton Description Join the National Research Council’s Stephen Downes, a specialist in online learning technology and new media, for an
Continue readingHalf an Hour: Institutional Support for Personal Learning
Unedited Automated Transcript, December 14,2020 All right, um, so hello everyone. This is Stephen Downes again, this is personal learning taking ownership of learning online parts seven now to get the best benefit you want to see what I’m sharing here fullscreen rather than and what they call gallery view
Continue readingHalf an Hour: What’s Next for MOOCs
Hi, I’m Stephen Downes videoing in from Casselman in Ontario, Canada. My talk today is called What’s Next for MOOCs. Now that might be a bit of a surprise for you because you probably read last year or maybe the year before or five years ago, that moocs are
Continue readingHalf an Hour: A Personal Learning Platform
This is an unedited auto-generated transcript from my talk today to Creative Commons Lightning Talks. Hi everyone, it’s Stephen Downes here from Casselman Ontario Canada. This presentation is for a personal learning platform and I want to advise ahead of time that I know this isn’t something like expect you
Continue readingHalf an Hour: Lessons From the Pandemic
As we all know, when things shut down beginning in 2020 we had to adapt to working and learning from home. It was a hard time; a lot of people lost their jobs and a lot of companies went under. We made the rapid transition to what we called ‘remote
Continue readingHalf an Hour: Being Online: Facing the Digital Future Together
This is an unedited auto-generated transcript of my talk for LINC home learning professional development, November 28, 2020. All right so for the purpose of a recording and I’ve just turned on my audio here oops and I should turn on my start recording over here, all right so this
Continue readingHalf an Hour: Reflections on the Futures of Education
On the Futures This post is a series of short comments on the just-released document from the Canadian UNESCO chairs on the future of education. It consists of six short contributions from across the country from the various UNESCO chairs to a larger document, Humanistic Futures of Learning: Perspectives from
Continue readingHalf an Hour: Reimaging Open Educational Resources
This is an edited transcript of my presentation ‘Reimaging Open Educational Resources’ presented November 10 2020 to the Open Education 2020 Conferemce. https://www.downes.ca/presentation/534 So what I want to talk to you today talked about with you today is open education resources. I’m going to talk about content addressable open education
Continue readingHalf an Hour: 12 Degrees of Freedom
I just read a post from Mitch Resnick on the seeds that Seymour Papert sowed, and highlighted for myself this most important statement: “Seymour rejected the computer-aided instruction approach in which ‘the computer is being used to program the child’ and argued for an alternative approach in which ‘the
Continue readingHalf an Hour: Open Learning, Open Networks – Online Learning in 2020
This is an unedited auto-transcript of the talk delivered November 3, 2020. Hello. Hello everyone pleasure to be here today. This presentation will be in English. I’m going to be talking about open learning open networks and. Just a few just a few notes to begin our presentation. First of
Continue readingHalf an Hour: The Future of Online Learning 2020
This is an edited text transcript from my presentation from April 27, 2020. Presentation page (audio, video, slides): https://www.downes.ca/presentation/520 This talk is about change. It’s about the change we see individually in our homes and in our workplaces and it’s about the (Read more…) changes sweeping through society. It’s also
Continue readingHalf an Hour: Cruft
Responding to Donald Clark’s excellent article, Let’s move on from ‘Unintelligible Intelligences’ – IQ, Multiple Intelligences, Emotional Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence… “Let’s take this idea further. Koch (2014) claimed that ALL networks are, to some degree ‘intelligent’….” Not just Koch. This is, of course, the core idea in Connectivism. Though as
Continue readingHalf an Hour: Boxing gRSShopper
What, again? Yes, again. Today I’m working on creating and saving a reusable Docker image of gRSShopper. I have the benefit of some previous work on this set-up, and so it might work today, so I’m documenting my process. Note: I’m doing all this so you don’t have to. You
Continue readingHalf an Hour: Wait, Why Did He Pick That?
Wait, why did he pick that? My newsletter is called OLDaily, which is short for ‘Online Learning Daily’, a title I ripped off from ‘Arts & Letters Daily’, which started publishing just a bit before mine. Readers know by now, after almost 20 years, that I cover a wide swath
Continue readingHalf an Hour: Feedback to Feedly
Just a quite note I sent to Feedly about it’s AI tool Leo and my OLDaily workflow… I’ve been a Feedly Pro user for many years and moved to Pro+ for the AI and Twitter support. I have two major comments: – first, it’s too expensive. I’m not going to
Continue readingHalf an Hour: Being There: What Presence Means in a Digital World.
This is an unedited automated transcript produced by my Pixel 4 from this presentation: https://www.downes.ca/presentation/526 Hi everyone. I’m Stephen Downs and I bring you greetings from my home office in Castleman, Ontario, Canada. Thank you for taking the time to watch my presentation today. It’s called being there and
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