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What the Duck?
Steve Wheeler, Learning with e's, 2019/09/05

When I want to show how everyone is different, I just point to the fact that everyone wore different clothing. However, a different approach is taken by some speakers. Which leads to this: "it's ironic that although the exercises were designed to demonstrate that we all think differently and create accordingly, the same exercise was being done (without any co-ordination) by two different keynote speakers at two separate events." I wonder where duck 0 was first spotted.

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Google has secret webpages that feed your personal data to advertisers, report says
Oscar Gonzalez, Cnet, 2019/09/05

Each of us has an individual web page somewhere on the internet. The page is blank, but it's unique to your digital fingerprint, and when web-based advertsiements display on your browser, they send a request to this secret web page, which is logged and tracked. It's a widespread practice and is known as cookie syncing, or cookie matching, and it's a way for advertisers to follow your every move even if you have cookies disabled. A Google developer page on cookie matching describes the process, which is used to support real-time bidding for ad placement. If you use an ad blocker like Ublock Origin, these requests are blocked, but if you don't, or if you whitelist websites, you're being tracked. More: MediaPost, Brave (more) (which provides proof), Towards Data Science (describes the fingerprinting for anonymous ussers),

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Alt-C Graph
NodeXL, 2019/09/05

I ran across this page while browsing through the #FemEdTech tag. "The graph represents a network of 1,422 Twitter users whose recent tweets contained "#altc", or who were replied to or mentioned in those tweets, taken from a data set limited to a maximum of 18,000 tweets." It's interesting not only because it shows the relations between tags and tweets and people (sort of) but also because the bulk of the page is an unimaginative set of 'top 10' lists of this and that, which really has nothing to do with graphs. There's also an experimental interactive version of the graph available.

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Why Teens Are Creating Their Own News Outlets
Rainesford Stauffer, Teen Vogue, 2019/09/05

When I created my own newspaper in Grade 5, content was limited to what I read and saw around town, the technology of the day was a typewriter and a mimeograph machine, and my reach was limited to where I could carry copies. By contrast, theCramm gathers from news sources around the world, uses Instagram and Instant Messaging, and can reach readers anywhere there's an internet connection. I graduated into a world of zines and underground pubs, newspapers, websites and, eventually, this newsletter. I wonder what 15-year old Olivia Seltze will graduate into.

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What is an ID? A Survey Study
Olysha Magruder, Daniel Arnold, Mel Edwards, Shaun Moore, Online Learning Journal, 2019/09/05

This article (24 page PDF) is similar to the one on what makes a learning Technologist covered here a few days ago. But rather than one discipline having many job titles, this article reveals one job title having many disciplines. This article surveys literature on the topic, identifies a list of competencies, then asks actual IDs whether they employ those competencies. What counts as an instructional designer varies quite a bit from institution to institution. We see in some cases something like a project management role, while in other cases we see something like a content designer.

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