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Imagine if we didn’t know how to use books – notes on a digital practices framework
Dave Cormier, Dave’s Educational Blog, 2019/09/02

It's hard to imagine not knowing what to do with a book, but that was in fact the case in the days before near universal literacy. Now we're in that position again, but with respect to digital technologies, says Dave Cormier. The comment comes in the context of presenting a dradft of "a model for preparing an education system for the internet" and Cormier suggests that "some people are never going to make it all the way to being ready to teach with or on the internet."The model offers four progressively more accomplished levels of digital literacy, from basic awareness, though use, creativity, and finally, teaching.

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Brazil Keynote on Self-Efficacy
Laura Ritchie, lauraritchie.com, 2019/09/02

Text and video of a talk on self-efficacy in education - what I, I think, would call agency. To a large degree it is an exploration of the history of self-efficacy, from the work of Albert Bandura, though various efforts to develop self-efficacy scales, to considerations of different types of self-efficacy and the relation between it and performance. This talk reports on a study of music students to determine "the relationship was between their self-efficacy, their practice time, and the quality of their attainment." Laura Ritchie concludes, "Establishing a strong sense of self-efficacy sets the foundation for a continuing pattern of learning and achievement, through professional development and an active pursuit of personal growth.

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Ubiquitous tools, connected things and intelligent agents: Disentangling the terminology and revealing underlying theoretical dimensions
Katrin Etzrodt, Sven Engesser, First Monday, 2019/09/02

This paper describes "the progressive merging of invisible tools, working in the background (Ubiquitous Computing), integrated into every domain of life and connected to the Internet (Internet of Things), with independently thinking and acting actors (Artificial Intelligence), implemented both into environments (Ambient Intelligence), and into everyday objects (Smart Objects)." In so doing, it extracts "our dimensions of modern technologies: Connectivity, Invisibility, Awareness, and Agency." Interesting read.

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“What makes a Learning Technologist?” – Part 1 of 4: Job titles
Daniel Scott, ALT, 2019/09/02

The headline may seem to suggest it's a job title that make a person a learning technologist, but that isn't the intent. Rather, the point is that learning technologists may have many different job titles. "34%(13) of respondents stated that they had Learning Technologist in their title, whilst 66% (25) had a different title, e.g. education, blended, designer or other that includes duties of a Learning Technologist." That seems like an odd place to start a series on "What makes a learning technologist" but I imagine the remaining articles of this series will have more substance.

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Expert predicts 25% of colleges will "fail" in the next 20 years
CBS News, 2019/09/02

The number refers to colleges in the United States, which has a different system than most of the rest of the world. "They're going to close, they're going to merge, some will declare some form of bankruptcy to reinvent themselves. It's going to be brutal across American higher education." The article tells us only that the expert, Michael Horn, "studies education at Harvard University", but I would imagine it's this Michael Horn from the Christensen Institute, which may lead you to take the prediction with a grain of salt.

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