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Join Us: ACE Framework Curriculum Launches to Facilitate Fall Planning
Robin DeRosa, Open CoLab, 2020/06/12

This is a useful framework "to support faculty as they work this summer on readying their curriculum for fall. It is organized around three core pedagogical values – Adaptability, Connection, and Equity." Under each of these values (they're arranged in a grid) are various topics that are described differently, with resources and examples, based on whether they're at the course or institutional level. The presentation is a bit over-engineered (there's too much clicking to actually see the content) and the name isn't great (I thought it was associated with the American College of Educators, but it isn't), but the content looks like it will be useful (what would be really great would be to embed a resource like this into the actual platform being used to create resources or curriculum for fall).

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The two-year fight to stop Amazon from selling face recognition to the police
Karen Hao, MIT Technology Review, 2020/06/12

Today's news features stories on Microsoft's and Amazon's decision to follow IBM's lead and stop developing general facial recognition technology. But as this article shows, these decisions didn't simply materialize out of thin air; they followed years of lobbying and activism. People putting in the work. It includes a letter written by nearly 70 civil rights and research organizations, 150,000 petition signatures, another letter from Amazon’s own shareholders, a memo from employees, a foundational study on the racial biases and inaccuracies built into the company’s technology, another study called Gender Shades on the gender and racial biases embedded in commercial face recognition systems, another paper that once again found huge technical inaccuracies, a defense of the work by nearly 80 AI researchers, and finally police reform bill that includes a proposal to limit face recognition in a law enforcement context.

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ePortfolios for educators
Sam Taylor, ALT, 2020/06/12

This post introduced an ePortfolios for educators resource consisting of a slide show plus activities created to help educators introduce the topic and work with ePortfolios. Sam Taylor writes, "this resource is based on workshops that I had previously facilitated at Cranfield University to those undertaking the PGCert in Academic Practice, mostly lecturers. It aims to showcase the various scenarios as to how ePortfolios can be used, why they are effective, and then how, as a practitioner, you can plan, design, deliver and assess an ePortfolio activity."

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Internet Archive closes the National Emergency Library
Geoffrey Rockwell, Theoreti.ca, 2020/06/12

I didn't think the Internet Archive would prevail in the lawsuit against its National Emergency Library (NEL) even though the NEL was designed to replace the services of regular libraries forced to close by the pandemic. And it hasn't. As this article notes, however, the idea of Controlled Digital Lending (CDL) itself is under attack; this is the practice of purchasing a book, digitizing it, and then lending access to that digitized copy on a controlled basis (so the idea is you're not lending out access to more copies than you own).

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A global outlook to the interruption of education due to COVID-19 pandemic: Navigating in a time of uncertainty and crisis
Aras Bozkurt, et.al., Asian Journal of Distance Education, 2020/06/12

Educators and researchers will very likely be citing this paper in the years to come. Written as it was in the midst of a global response to a pandemic, this substantial paper (127 page PDF) examines how education systems around the world responded to the need for social distancing, remote teaching, and online resources. Although the authors appear to have no particular agenda in mind, which I appreciate, "this study points out how social injustice, inequity and the digital divide have been exacerbated during the pandemic and need unique and targeted measures if they are to be addressed." The first 8 pages, in particular, are worth reading as a summation of the issues of our times.

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