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Thinking Aloud About Open Data Repositories
Stephen Downes, Dec 01, 2020, Team Presentation, Online vs MS Teams

This is a bit of thinking aloud about how we should approach the subject of data repositories from the perspective of data equity. I look at why we would do this, what challenges need to be addressed, who owns data, and how we should go about it (note - in the slide presentations the animations work - just click on the cross shaped-icons).

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Why discipline is one of the 7 habits of successful journalists
Paul Bradshaw, Online Journalism Blog, 2020/12/01

By 'discipline' here we don't mean 'enforcement' but rather the development of good habits. Paul Bradshaw writes, "Discipline can sometimes be seen as creativity’s killjoy, but this is a myth: there are numerous books about the subject, and in education around creativity you will find exercises that involve putting limits on the creator to encourage it." The big difference, to my mind, is between limitations that you impose on yourself, and limitations that are imposed on you from outside.

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The Problem of Learning Analytics and AI
Matt Crosslin, EduGeek Journal, 2020/12/01

Matt Crosslin writes, "different choices could be made to not create and collect data if the people in control wanted it that way. It is not inevitable that data has to be generated and collected." This is a good point. None of the current capacity to track and record data happened by accident. He continues, "I think that the basic fundamental lens or mindset or whatever you want to call it for publishing research or presenting at conferences about anything from Learning Analytics to AI has to be a critical one rooted in justice." Critical, yes. But different people have different conceptions of justice.

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