Top Tools for Learning 2022
It’s that time of the year again when educators and developers send their list of top tools to Jane Hart. You can see my full list of web-based tools and…
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Future of the Metaverse
My contribution to a report by Elon University’s Imagining the Internet Center and Pew Research, The Future of the Metaverse. Opportunities for fraud and scams will abound. As well, there…
Running Mojolicious in a Docker Container
Mojolicious is a real-time Perl-based web framework that can be used for writing modern web applications. Today in an episode of Stephen Follows Instructions I took it out for a…
Install Perlbrew in Ubuntu Image in Docker Desktop
Documenting this because the instructions on the Perlbrew website completely failed for me. I got various errors, including an error 5888 when I tried to run perlbrew. I started with…
Vincens Vives Interview
I was recently interviewed for the Vincens Vives blog (in Spanish). Below is the full-length set of answers I sent, in English, to the questions I was posed. In recent…
Language is a Physical Construct
Capturing a short tweet threat for posterity, because it will just disappear in Twitter. Language is a physical construct; it exists in the world, not the mind. We contribute to…
AISEO Paraphraser Result
I wrote an article yesterday. It was a political article, but what I said isn’t the point here. This post reports on my use of the article to test the…
Keys to a Professional Learning Community: My Own List
I said on a recent post that “Alexandra Minhai says successful professional learning communities depend on four factors: being a safe space, validation by peers, crowdsourcing ideas, and accountability. If…
We Should Decolonize Names
Over the years I’ve had occasion to collect names any number of times. The standard way to do this is with an online form. You then store the names in…
The Cognitive Level
Image: © pkab.wordpress.com. Tony Bates has offered a preliminary critique of my paper on connectivism. He suggests that, in the words of Ebbinghaus, “What is true is alas not new,…
A Better World Online
Asked to ‘imagine a better world online,’ experts hope for an immersive digital environment that promotes fact-based knowledge, protects individuals’ rights, empowers diversity and provides tools for breakthroughs and collaborations…
What’s Wrong to Me
I have a political blog, Leftish, where you’re get an idea of my sense of right and wrong on a range of political issues. But I want to take a…
Looking Forward
Following Ben Werdmüller and Laura Ritchie, two members of a small eclectic Mastodon community I belong to, I am using the turn of the calendar to look forward and not…
Taylor’s Masterpiece
Taylor Swift first came to my attention in 2008 with the song ‘Love Story‘, an adaptation of the story of Romeo and Juliet from her second album Fearless. What caught…
A Canadian DARPA?
This post responds to Alex Usher’s article Non-existent Preconditions for DARPA Success, which looks at a promise to implement a Canadian DARPA, and offers reasons why the conditions for success…
Learning and teaching and pandemic opportunities, challenges and lessons learned
This is an unedited automated transcription by https://otter.aiof my talk given at Nottingham Trent University (online via Teams) Trent Institute for Teaching and Learning (TILT). The full presentation page is…
Remarks on Interactivity
I wrote this in response to an inquiry. I am bringing the constructs and principles of Information Systems (IS) with those of Connectivism since the previous studies rarely consider the…
Considerations on the Framework for Ethical Learning Technology
As readers may know, I’ve been looking a lot recently at ethics related to online learning. In particular, I’ve studied a number of ethical codes and frameworks, publishing a paper…
Case Studies in MOOCs
Right, I’ve never used one in a MOOC. So how I would set one up is a bit speculative, though based on some examples (references completely forgotten) I’ve seen in…
The Myth of Post-Covid Skills, Reconsidered
A few comments on this post… Having taken a look, I don’t think a search of the top ten Google results for ‘post-COVID skills’ was the best place to look…