- Mike Caulfield – Web Literacy for Student Fact Checkers – Mike Caulfield's "nstruction manual to reading on the modern internet." Fact checking, detecting bias, getting around as a web-literate person. Built with PressBooks.
> We’ll show you how to find pages that have been deleted, figure out who paid for the web site you’re looking at, and whether the weather portrayed in that viral video actual matches the weather in that location on that day. We’ll show you how to check a Wikipedia page for recent vandalism, and how to search the text of almost any printed book to verify a quote. We’ll teach you to parse URLs and scan search result blurbs so that you are more likely to get to the right result on the first click. And we’ll show you how to avoid baking confirmation bias into your search terms.
> In other words, we’ll teach you web literacy by showing you the unique opportunities and pitfalls of searching for truth on the web. Crazy, right? – (OER literacy A&E research2.0 pressbooks )
- Bannon vows a daily fight for ‘deconstruction of the administrative state’ – The Washington Post – – (fascist_rhetoric )
- Stephen Bannon’s nationalist call to arms, annotated – The Washington Post – Because tracing the rise of fascism is not a game. – (fascist_rhetoric )
Tag: OER
- A decentralized web would give power back to the people online – Want open? Start with open federation. – (oer fedwiki openaccess federation )
- Institutionalized – Mike's recent paean to changing the institution from within. – (oer open_learning open )
- Clueless Microsoft language processing – It might be crap, but it can only get better – if it's mandated. "Office 365 is the crappiest, slowest, most annoying email system I have ever encountered, and that is really saying something. I could write reams for you about its stupidities and detrimental effects on my productivity. Its attempts at showing intelligence are perhaps its worst feature." – (mnscu erhetoric microagression micromanagement )
- A Domain of One’s Own in a Post-Ownership Society – resisting the subscriptio. – (oer foss education )
- ‘If you fight fire with fire, everyone burns’: how to catch a troll like Trump | US news | The Guardian – – (erhetoric rhetoric )
- Making and Breaking Domain of One’s Own: Rethinking the Web in Higher Ed – D2l course in a box? There are better options.
> So the LMS underscores and further codifies a set of beliefs and values: courses should be used as a unit of measure to more efficiently track and administer the business of higher education, and within those courses we should build standard interfaces, provide standardized features and tools, and promote, among our students, the expectation that their experiences from one course to the next will be, well, standard.
Why else did we end up with courses in boxes instead of domains of one’s own? – (d2l lms )
- The rhetorical style of spontaneous speech – – (linguistics orality erhetoric )
- Hypothes.is as a public research notebook – – (annotation DH notetaking )
- Choral Explanations and OER: A Summary of Thinking to Date | Hapgood – Mike's OV of choral voices. I'm connecting the choral with the Greek chora. – (oer wiki fedwiki chora )
Categories
What I’m reading 7 Jan 2016
- [toread] How I got excited about teaching again – – (assessment coursedesign )
- [toread] Media for Thinking the Unthinkable – – (dh InfoDesign infographics semiotics )
- Simulating The World (In Emoji) – A primer for DH students in understanding procedures and getting a sense of what's possible. By making. In open source. It's playtime. – (dh oer procedural_rhetoric digital_literature )
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What I’m reading 6 Jan 2016
- Clear the Way for More Good Teachers – The Chronicle of Higher Education – Here's an idea: Use teaching to increase retention. "ratcheting down the bureaucratic mechanisms and meetings and hiring an army of good teachers. If we replaced half of our administrative staff with classroom teachers, we might actually get a majority of our classes back to 20 or fewer students per teacher. This would be an environment in which teachers and students actually knew each other." – (none)
- The 2016 manifesto | manifesto for teaching online – – (oer openeducation manifesto de coursedesign )
- Manifesto for Teaching Online, rewritten for 2015 | jenrossity – – (oer )
- [toread] Bad Data Can Lead To Bad Policy: College students don’t spend $1,200+ on textbooks -e-Literate – – (oer )
- An Inconvenient Proof – A primer on data collection and processing. "Unless individuals are offered personal clouds or methodologies that provide privacy by design, it’s time to recognize that keeping people from controlling their personal data means we remove their ability to control their identity." – (privacy identity data_analysis )
- What’s So Radical about Defending Public Education? | The Academe Blog – A brief history of the corporatization – rise in costs, fall in wages, undermining of quality – of the state university. There's no place to hide. – (corporateculture corporatecreep )
- UBC student writes 52,438 word architecture dissertation with no punctuation — not everyone loved it | National Post – My kind of scholarship. – (dh )
- [toread] [priv] The Golden Lasso of Education Technology – – (dh edtech de d2l )
- The OER Case for Federated Wiki | Hapgood – Iterating towards openness. Mike discusses the workflow virtues of open by way of a how to. Next stop: federated wordpress. – (fedwiki wordpress howto Oer )
- Not-yetness: Examples | the red pincushion – – (ple complexity oer oe )
- Watters – Teaching Machines – A history of education as centered on its machinery – (oer e-learning edcationaldesign )
- The Internet doesn’t make you smarter; you only think it does – But the false confidence is not restricted to the internet – (fyc cognition psychology )
- The Rise Of The Screenshort™ – BuzzFeed News – – (blogging twitter screenshort )
- R.I.P. Blogging, Killed By Screenshorts – Using screenshots of a text note. – (blogging twitter )
- Why Free Is Not the Future of Digital Content in Education | WIRED – The good stuff is in the comments. Sometimes it's a joy to watch a self-serving educational publisher blather on about things outside her understanding. A brush this wide helps tar the entire enterprise. Well done MARY CULLINANE – (DE CC OER )
- Deploying a wiki – – (fedwiki )
- Fedwiki as a mockup prototype – Show FedWiki as a "mockup" prototype of Ward's next vision. Where as WikiWiki is a means for many to work on one piece of content (convergence) stored in one server, what if the similar mechanisms were in a place where we each manage our own small wiki, but through a network means, we can share and have it federated with collaborators. – (fedwiki rhetoric )
- Reflections on Federated Wiki Happening 2014 | catherinecronin – Forget if I tweeted this @catherinecronin reflection on #fedwiki yet, but it's well worth a read. – (fedwiki chorusofvoices )
- Reflection on #fedwiki: Two Tales of Two Forks | Francesbell’s Blog – This is a really thoughtful piece by @francesbell on forking in #fedwiki cc @WardCunningham – (fedwiki )
- Federated Wiki, Slow Cooperation, and a Kindle Parable | Hapgood – A Kindle Parable for #fedwiki participant's and a very partial reply to one part of @francesbell's post ;) – (fedwiki )