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Computing Education Lessons Learned from the 2010’s: What I Got Wrong
Mark Guzdial, Computing Education Research Blog, 2020/01/14

The bulk of this post is devoted to the question of whether constructionism is the way to use computing in education. Mark Guzdial, like so many others, has followed the thinking of Seymour Papert in this. " The idea of building as a way of learning makes sense.," he writes. But as described by Papert, it may not make sense. "Some students do want to understand the computer soup-to-nuts, and that’s great, and it’s worthwhile making that work for as many students as possible. But I believe that it still won’t be many students. Students care about lots of other things (from business to design, from history to geography) that don’t easily map to a focus on code and mathematics." Image: Ahum.

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From context collapse to content collapse
Nicholas Carr, Rough Type, 2020/01/14

When social media first came into being, pundits like Michael Wesch and dana boyd talked of "context collapse" - you would no longer have a work identity, home identity, party identity, whatever; they would all collapse into a single public identity. But eventually people rebelled, and social media began to help us respect boundaries. But now we're entering the real on "content collapse". All content is the same. "A presidential candidate's policy announcement is given equal weight to a snapshot of your niece's hamster and a video of the latest Kardashian contouring." The danger here - as with context collapse - is that "content collapse consolidates power over information, and conversation, into the hands of the small number of companies that own the platforms and write the algorithms.

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Plagiarize This Jot
Christopher J. Sprigman, Jotwell, 2020/01/14

This is an interesting thought: "Essentially, academic plagiarism norms are the equivalent of a tax imposed on junior scholars, for the benefit of senior scholars. Junior scholars must err on the side of attributing ideas to senior scholars, whether or not attribution is accurate or helpful, on pain of suffering a plagiarism accusation. As a consequence, senior scholars collect “interest” on the intellectual capital of junior scholars."

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The Greatest Elearning ‘Hacks’ For Liberal Arts Education — CLAMP Hack\Doc Fest Highlights
Cristian T. Duque, LMSPulse, 2020/01/14

This article introduces us to CLAMP - the  Collaborative Moodle Liberal Arts Project. CLAMP has "a unique purpose, difficult to imagine in other LMS. To customize the software to cater the users and contexts fitting of a liberal arts education." This article summarizes the results of a recent hackfest held in Pennsylvania. Here are the highlights: Day 1 • Day 2 • Day 3.

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A Review of Blockchain based Educational Projects
Bushra Hameed, et.al., International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications, 2020/01/14

This article surveys a total of nine blockchain based educational projects (Edgecoin, Tutellus, Sony Global Education (SGE), TeachMePlease, SuccessLife, EchoLink (now called EKO), Blockcerts, Gradbase and OriginStamp) found in the literature and compares them with respect to the blockchain features being used and the services being offered, ultimately mapping the services to the features. It's a nice crisp review that gives the reader a pretty good sense of the overall environment.

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