Here in one place are some largely unfiltered snippets from my FriendFeed "stream" (about 2 posts per day) for the period 4 June to 14 June 2012.
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Expert Panel member Andrew Pollard provides some very carefully written background to the National Curriculum Review. - http://ioelondonblog.wordpress.com/2012...
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e-learning at scale in schools - via @donaldclark - great overview of Heriott-Watt U's big, long-standing and incrementally developed SCHOLAR programme by Cliff Beevers and Phillip John for the Gates Foundation. - http://scholar.hw.ac.uk/export...
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Not doing things by halves. More than 1 m. items in "Japanese Institutional Repositories Online" including datasets, theses, learning materials, articles. - http://jairo.nii.ac.jp/en/
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Peer-based instruction. Article [PDF] by Marc Prensky about Eric Mazur 's "Learning Catalytics" system. - http://marcprensky.com/writing...
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You don’t get a Nobel Prize for doing what you are told. Interview with MediaLab's Joi Ito, for whom the key to successful innovation is disobedience is key to innovation. Iinterview in Wired. - http://www.wired.com/busines...
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Worth reading in full. Cory Doctorow "acceptance speech" when receiving an honorary doctorate from the OU. - http://craphound.com/?p=4043
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Computer games 'improving pupils' GCSE results' - Telegraph - "Playing computer games can dramatically boost children’s exam results in basic subjects, it was claimed yesterday." - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/educati...
Glass, G. V & Welner, K.G. (2011). Online K-12 Schooling in the U.S.: Uncertain Private Ventures in Need of Public Regulation. Boulder, CO: National Education Policy Center. [PDF] - http://nepc.colorado.edu/files...
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Video assessment and certification: Italian (& Chilean!) ingenuity - Donald Clark reports on work by Marco Zennaro, Enrique Canessa and Carlo Fonda from ICTP's m-learning workshop - http://goo.gl/P1LF0 - http://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.co.uk/2012...
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Apropos of unique researcher IDs: Lynn Conway, the inventor of Dynamic Instruction Scheduling (which as I understand it underpins VLSI chip design), started her professional life with a different identity which she had to change after IBM fired her in 1968 for being a transsexual. - http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people...
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Computing teacher (ex software developer and analyst Charlie Love) "bids to provide Glow's successor", using Google Apps and other free tools. - http://www.tes.co.uk/article...
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Why is e-learning so unpopular? - good post by Clive Shepherd. One reason: "The thirty year legacy of self-paced e-learning being more bad than good is hard to overcome." - http://clive-shepherd.blogspot.co.uk/
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The FT's Samuel Brittan is no lefty. All the more important that you read his "You don’t need to be a lefty to support Krugman" - http://www.ft.com/cms...
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Terrific piece in the 7/6/2012 Independent by Avraham Burg, past Speaker of the Knesset. Burg argues that the West Bank settlements are "the dark alter ego of Israel" and that Israel's "hidden personality is manifest there. Evil, aggressive and impenetrable." http://www.webcitation.org/68Ffm99...
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Great opportunity. Call for 2 new Editors for ALT's #OpenAccess journal "Research in Learning Technology". - http://www.alt.ac.uk/news...
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The Curious Case of Internet Privacy by @doctorow in the MIT Technology Review is definitely worth reading. One thing it makes you realise is that being fiercely protective of your users' data and being very explicit about the lack of use you put it to is a Good Thing To Do. - http://www.technologyreview.com/news...
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A clear and useful post by Neira Jones about the media and information side of responding to being hacked - http://neirajones.blogspot.co.uk/2012...
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The Poverty Site. Someone “in the field” needs to take this ace site over, updating it. To make that happen, funds will be needed. <RT - http://www.poverty.org.uk/
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Very informative: Tablet Landscape Evolution - a 31/5/2012 report from Morgan Stanley - http://www.webcitation.org/68DlEA0... - 37 page PDF.
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How To Redirect Mobile Users - sage advice as usual for people running web sites from Terence Eden [@edent] - http://shkspr.mobi/blog...
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Jaye Richards-Hill writes well, interestingly, and at length about "big IT" machinations in Scotland concerning the next iteration of the schools-wide learning platform Glow. [Archived at http://www.webcitation.org/68DGOEd...] - http://www.agent4change.net/grapevi...
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The Curious Case of eBook Sharing Sites. Interesting piece by Microsoft Research's Alice Marwick about the burgeoning of non-geek sites for sharing DRM-cracked and other ebooks, including text books. Also archived at: http://www.webcitation.org/68D9e2I... - http://socialmediacollective.org/2012...
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The Benefits of Making It Harder to Learn - by creating "cognitive disfluency" in the learning design. James M Lang writes in the Chronicle of Higher Education. The comments on the article are worth browsing as well. See also http://www.jamesmlang.com. - http://chronicle.com/article...
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What Lies Beneath: Some Thoughts on MOOCs’ Tech Infrastructure. Useful post by Audrey Watters on Michael Feldstein's (now multi-author) e-Literate blog. - http://mfeldstein.com/what-li...
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Blackboard's acquisition of Moodlerooms and NetSpot and hiring of ex-Sakai Chuck Severance. Dian Schaffhauser comments in Campus Technology. Inconclusively. - http://campustechnology.com/Article...
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Peter Suber's SPARC Open Access Newsletter #164 has a thorough update on the rise of "libre" open access. - http://www.earlham.edu/~peters...
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Mary Meeker's 2012 Internet Trends report - http://www.webcitation.org/6896POa... [112 page PDF of slide deck] - via @jjn1 in http://www.guardian.co.uk/technol.... Plenty to chew on.
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The future of education is online and self-directed. Interesting piece - with seven point action plan - by fm.schmoller.net reader Tom Diffenbach arguing clearly why online self-directed learning is a new "production paradigm" (not Tom's phrase) that planners and policy makers need to plan for. - http://www.pennlive.com/editori...
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