Hybrid Learning Spaces
February 4th, 2020 by Graham Attwell
Its never boring with Yishay Mor. Here he is inviting you to send us videos, pictures or presentations which express your perception of a “hybrid learning space”.
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We are not Robots
November 12th, 2019 by Graham Attwell
We’re constantly asked to make decisions about personal data about us, and we are only just starting to grasp the impact these decisions have on us, and others.
Here, Renate Samson, Anna Scott and Peter Wells share findings from research published today, on how ‘the people’ understand data, and a tool we’ve created to help us all have more nuanced, constructive discussions about data about us. More information from the Open Data Institute.
Continually becoming: open learners and open educators
October 7th, 2019 by Graham Attwell
“Being open’ is not binary state or a one-time decision”, says Catherine Cronin. Many open educators and scholars have referred to openness as a way of being, or becoming . “Open educational practices (OEP) are continually negotiated by individuals within various contexts. And Zourou (2017) reminds us that engagement in OEP is “far from being a natural act”. So the work of open educators is complex: navigating the complexities of open practice and open learning ourselves; seeking to develop the reflective, open practices of the learners and students with whom we work; and, for many, experiencing tensions between enactment of open identities/OEP and traditional scholarly practices within our institutions.”
World Heutagogy Day
September 20th, 2019 by Graham Attwell
There seems to be a day for everything now. Anyway as I found out from the presentation by the ever creative Fred Garnett, 26 October is World Heutagogy Day!
Pontydysgu supports the climate strike
September 17th, 2019 by Graham Attwell
Pontydysgu staff will be supporting the climate strike on Friday 20 September. And later this year we will be launching a new project, CEYOU, aiming to support young people in developing the circular economy .
Cite your data
June 17th, 2019 by Graham Attwell
Neat short video from the UK data service about why and how you should cite data. Citations are always a bit of a pain, but the video shows how using the DOI make slife easy (and it expelains what the DOI is!
Unexpected Consequences
June 4th, 2019 by Graham Attwell
Tomorrow I am off to the Joint Technology Enhanced Learning Summer School (JTELSS), being held in Bari in Italy this year. I am running a workshop for the OurTown project (more to come later on that). The Summer School has a series of Slack channels which are being used to pass on information and share ‘things’. One thing the slides from presentations, one of which yesterday was by Marco Kalz. I especially like slide 14 where he says: “Technology Enhanced Learning ans been adopted as an apparently useful, inoffensive and descriptive shorthand for what is a complex and often problematic constellation of social, technological and educational change.”
Why you should read Sylvia Plath
March 12th, 2019 by Graham Attwell
It is EU funding deadlines week so little time to think, let alone write fuding bids. But I paused long enough to watch this excellent video on why you should read Sylvia Plath. The Open Culture web site has a good essay by Josh Jones, a writer and musician based in Durham, NC accompanying the video.
Noam Chomsky on Language Aquisition
February 27th, 2019 by Graham Attwell
Love this short video produced by the BBC and the UK Open University. If only all learning materials could be as good as this! How is it that we learn to speak and think in language so easily? Philosophers have argued about whether or not we have innate ideas. Whether we are born knowing things, as Plato believed, or rather, as John Locke and other empiricists argued, the mind is a blank slate on which experience writes. Noam Chomsky, gave a twist to this debate in the 1960s. Narrated by Gillan Anderson. Scripted by Nigel Warburton.
Brexit fun?
February 21st, 2019 by Graham Attwell
Brexit is not much fun (in fact its causing me a lot of stress. But at least here is something genuinely funny – with a fair bit of truth thrown in.
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Cyborg patented?
Forbes reports that Microsoft has obtained a patent for a “conversational chatbot of a specific person” created from images, recordings, participation in social networks, emails, letters, etc., coupled with the possible generation of a 2D or 3D model of the person.
Racial bias in algorithms
From the UK Open Data Institute’s Week in Data newsletter
This week, Twitter apologised for racial bias within its image-cropping algorithm. The feature is designed to automatically crop images to highlight focal points – including faces. But, Twitter users discovered that, in practice, white faces were focused on, and black faces were cropped out. And, Twitter isn’t the only platform struggling with its algorithm – YouTube has also announced plans to bring back higher levels of human moderation for removing content, after its AI-centred approach resulted in over-censorship, with videos being removed at far higher rates than with human moderators.
Gap between rich and poor university students widest for 12 years
Via The Canary.
The gap between poor students and their more affluent peers attending university has widened to its largest point for 12 years, according to data published by the Department for Education (DfE).
Better-off pupils are significantly more likely to go to university than their more disadvantaged peers. And the gap between the two groups – 18.8 percentage points – is the widest it’s been since 2006/07.
The latest statistics show that 26.3% of pupils eligible for FSMs went on to university in 2018/19, compared with 45.1% of those who did not receive free meals. Only 12.7% of white British males who were eligible for FSMs went to university by the age of 19. The progression rate has fallen slightly for the first time since 2011/12, according to the DfE analysis.
Quality Training
From Raconteur. A recent report by global learning consultancy Kineo examined the learning intentions of 8,000 employees across 13 different industries. It found a huge gap between the quality of training offered and the needs of employees. Of those surveyed, 85 per cent said they , with only 16 per cent of employees finding the learning programmes offered by their employers effective.
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