Agency and Algorithms

https://abject.ca/agency-and-algorithms/

Our terms…

I really don’t know what to think…

 

It seemed so promising…

The promise of “small pieces, loosely joined”

UBC blogs, wiki

In those optimistic times, I viewed FIPPA as bureaucratic security theatre:

 

 

Maybe I didn’t fully appreciate what we were dealing with…

YouTube kids
Facebook wants your nudes
Facebook Nazis
State of journalism
Unregulated, not understood – law, NSA

 

 

Meanwhile, in learning technology…

“Personalized” learning
“Automatic” grading
NGDLE – the “zen-like emptiness”

Audrey Watters, “Education Technology and ‘Fake News‘”:

School hasn’t changed in 100 years. Half of American colleges will be bankrupt in 10 to 15 years. Half of high school classes will be taught online by 2019. 65% of primary school students will end up in jobs that don’t exist yet. The college lecture is dying. Flying cars are coming, and you’ll be able to get a nanodegree from Udacity in the subject by 2018. Self-driving cars for everyone! Thermal imaging can now tell how hard you’re thinking. We can monitor students’ brainwaves to see if they’re sufficiently “engaged” in class. Virtual reality will be used to teach empathy. VR will revolutionize education. Second Life will revolutionize education. Khan Academy will revolutionize education. And on and on and on and on and on and on.

 

Passivity – via Martha Burtis
Passivity – via Anne-Marie Scott

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Towards Openness: Safety in Online Learning

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Digital Sanctuary

 

 

 

Web Literacy for Student Fact Checkers

Yes, digital literacy… but which one?

 

When assessing articles about bullying on the websites of the American Academy of Pediatrics (“the Academy”) and the American College of Pediatricians (“the College”).

“Lateral Reading: Reading Less and Learning More When Evaluating Digital Information”

 

 

   

 

Lawyering in the 21st Century

Apps for Access to Legal Justice

 

SPLOT!

“Containing the Future of OER” – Jim Groom

 

Platform Cooperativism – Ours to Hack and to Own

 

Sketch by Bryan Mathers

Open ETC… Made in BC – https://opened.ca/

Cloning ready to run learning tools, via WordPress and other open frameworks (apps.opened.ca/).