Edtech zombies may live out there somewhere, but are oft forgotten, maybe now arising out of some obscure LLM garbling, but heck, research papers can summon them too. Who better to shine a light in the creepy fields than Stephen Downes? His March 1o OLDaily post surfaced Open Education Is the New Punk: A Subversive […]
Hmmm, what to write about? Maybe, me! No, I am mulling about Geology, my semi-accidental path into it as a near-career, the tectonic shift into educational technology, and all the intertwingly stuff I think of as I write. Who can resist cool rocks? My work path weaving from computers to geology back to computers could […]
Welcome back to an old song around here, the ideas and ways of giving attribution when reusing the creative works of others. My approach is ABA, Always Be Attributing. The hyperlink is perhaps the simplest and easiest way, as perhaps it might be coined by some weirdo as “linktribution” (yet one more stillborn neologism). But […]
I both wince and smile when I see those proclamations about the web [internet] being broken. I’d like to know the field data that is based upon. To say this confidently, someone would have to visited and explored every single corner of the web. I for one have been exploring for 2 plus decades and […]
Somewhere in recent web travels I read someone’s post who had just discovered the insight and inspiration of Vannevar Bush’s seminal 1945 essay published in the Atlantic in 1945 As We May Think (linking to the open ACM version as sadly the original one from the Atlantic is stuffed behind their foul paywall). I have […]
Likely a mis-applied generalization, but in a few different education spheres I am sensing that both the overload of new tech and the adoption of pre-built systems are contributing to a decline in the will/awareness to look being what an interface presents us. Thus the shiny front allure of GenAI to vibe the work for […]
The week of muzzling the blog to spend time commenting on other blogs is over. Did anyone notice? I’m not sure I did. No suggestions for more blogs to read came in, but I had a good enough supply from my RSS feeds spotting posts in Mastodon and plucking a few from the Reclaim Hosting […]
Tis here a bubbling goo of a post. It’s been oozing in my drafts folder, the one between my ears. And iits actually not even new. But I have been getting these questions from a few corners, seeing the ripples everywhere. I am already lined up to vent my opinion on at least two panels […]
I am more than comfortablly qssured that no generative AI can really hallucinate my writing. See those trademarked typos? Me. See a quirky nonsensical title? Me. I digress, as usual. Here is a typical small tale of unexpected adventure of one thing leading to another, like a neural path, but none one that can be […]
Sigh, one cannot avoid The Topic, the Only Thing as it has been grailed. At least it provides fodder for some mocking. It’s so easy even with the merest of ChatGPT et al interaction to respond under the influence of the Weizenbaum effect made visible in the verbs we choose. And like Laura Czerniewicz wrote […]
