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Post decrying the tracking of attendees at conferences and what it says about privacy and individual rights

Powerful post from Kate Bowles on othering and otherness and presence and the implications for edtech and educators.

A very long and detailed post looking at the maths of the pandemic and mitigation measures. The sooner you implement distancing the better.

Post about free 3D modelling tool.

FB is associating 'likes' with people without their knowledge.

coffee shop meetings boost productivity and creativeness because of moderate level of background noise. More meetings in coffee shops to enhance WCEL team performance!

We are stooping lower. After an Apple presentation, a US school board moves to claim copyright on all student and staff work.

Report on a change in Internet traffic post-copyright law changes.

Interesting research by @Waikato researchers showing the impact of the new file sharing law change on internet traffic. Conclusion: little net-change in traffic, users have simply shifted to more secure protocols.

Link to Danah Boyd video from Webstock on the attention economy and how social media can perpetuate the fear of missing something.

iBooks and the EULA lockdown

Detail on the iBooks lockdown.

Minor infringements in OER platforms could close the whole system down.

"NPR reports that Harvard physicist and professor Eric Mazur has largely gotten rid of the lecture in his classes, after finding that in lecture-based classes, students tend to commit to memory formulae and heuristics, but fail to develop deep understanding of concepts. Mazur has tried - and seemingly succeeded - to cultivate deeper learning with a combination of small group peer-instruction and a tight feedback loop based on in-class polling about particular problems."

Hey guys. Happy new year, hope yaz had a nice break. The idea posted in this thread at /. no doubt isnt new to you all, neither the whole learning-styles thing, but the thread itself is actually not a bad read, lots of differing opinions, not all geeks.

two axis graph about what is easy to assess cf. what is important in a networked world