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Despite Their Huge Upside Potential, Why Do Most Platforms Fail?
Irving Wladawsky-Berger, 2019/09/26

This article summarizes and comments on a Harvard Business Review article that looks at the question. The HBR article states, " We grouped the most common mistakes into four categories: (1) mispricing on one side of the market, (2) failure to develop trust with users and partners, (3) prematurely dismissing the competition, and (4) entering too late." Platforms are hard to get right, writes Irving Wladawsky-Berger. "A platform strategy differs from a product strategy in that it relies on an external ecosystem to generate complementary innovations and/or business transactions.  The effect is much greater potential for innovation and growth than a single product-oriented firm can generate alone." But the possibilities for failure are much greated as well.

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Unexamined privilege and schools as sites of othering: Towards an ethics of commentary and debate
Yinka Olusoga, BERA Blog, 2019/09/26

The argument here is that "the professional workforce of education, from early years to university, remains generally unrepresentative of the wider population," and so "The production of educational knowledge is, therefore, predominantly the outcome of the collective contributions of a partial and skewed sample." One wonder what the research that led to, say, social networking would have turned out had it not been led by the luminaries at Harvard and MIT. And I wonder how much 'educational research' is created and marketed for the purpose of preserving the advantage of this elite.

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A New Open Textbook on Philosophy
Geoff Cain, Brainstorm in Progress, 2019/09/26

Geoff Cain points to this resource - I missed it when it came out a couple of weeks ago. It is an open text, Introduction to Philosophy: Philosophy of Mind that he says "surveys both historical and contemporary theories and debates around philosophy of mind to introduce first time readers to the field." It didn't seem so long ago this series on Rebus was just getting started. I was absolutely steeped in this stuff in the 1980s. Credit where credit is due: the book is by Eran Asoulin, Paul Richard Blum, Tony Cheng, Daniel Haas, Jason Newman, Henry Shevlin, Elly Vintiadis, Heather Salazar (Editor), and Christina Hendricks (Series Editor)

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A Wakelet Collection: EdTech Planning
Miguel Guhlin, Around the Corner, 2019/09/26

Miguel Guhlin uses Wakelet to create a curated collection of resources. " If you're not familiar with Wakelet, it's a terrific content curation app that I have written about several times. In this blog entry, I'll share my Wakelet on EdTech Planning," he writes.

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The Complete Beginner’s Guide to TikTok
Matt Schlicht, Medium, 2019/09/26

Good article. "On TikTok everything revolves around “sounds”. Sounds are little clips of audio, usually between 15 and 60 seconds long, which can range from music to tv shows to clips of conversations, that are overlaid on top of your TikTok video. When you record on TikTok you can first choose the sound you want to use and then as you hold down the record button the app will play the sound so you can lip synch, dance, or further choreograph your video to the words and beat of the sound."

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Ed Tech Metaphors
Alan Levine, GitHub, 2019/09/26

Alan Levine has coded a single page application that auto-generates Ed Tech metaphors you can use. My first try gave me the 'all you can eat buffet' metaphor, which I used just yesterday. The application is hosted on GitHub, and of course Levine makes all the code available. Have fun.

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