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Video for Learning: What the Research Says
Brian Mulligan, YouTube, 2022/01/13

It would be more accurate to title this video "what some research says" because I think it's premature to state that there is definitive and widespread consensus on all these points. That said, most of what Brian Mulligan advises in this video is what I do in my own videos, except for length. I'm inclined to agree that if your online learning is pure memory work, then short is probably better, followed by activities and whatnot. But my objective is never to have people remember stuff they can look up later, it's to stimulate the imagination and prompt deeper thought. And I've noticed that a lot of the really good educational video on YouTube ("the most significant learning platform on the planet") is long, sometimes very long. I like the reference to Donald Clark's Wildfire product, which uses AI and YouTube to generate learning content. I'm less enthused about the reference to Perusall, which has been getting a lot of (paid?) content placement recently.

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Newsroom automation strategies: Don't start with the tech, start with the 'why'
PressGazette, United Robots, 2022/01/13

By 'newsroom automation' the authors mean AI-generated news content. They say the point of automation isn't to replace journalists, but let's face it: "robot journalists sound like an editor’s dream." Education publishers are looking at the same technology and thinking the same thing. So the main message here is that "Simply adopting automatically generated content is not the goal in itself, it is a tool – a very powerful tool – but you must understand what it is you want that tool to ultimately achieve." Are we trying to save money? Are we trying to offer more up-to-date content? Are we trying to achieve real-time custom content? We should be telling publishers what the objective is, before they tell us what it is.

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EdTech and Skills
Craig Weiss, 2022/01/13

I don't think this occurs to a lot of people, though I think it should. "Before an EdTech vendor dives wholeheartedly into skills capabilities tied around job roles and opportunities, first let’s focus on learning for the next decade, by changing modality away from syllabus driven to learner/student driven." The context is a wider discussion around vendors who are emphasizing skills development and higher education institutions that aren't in a position to employ it.

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Self-Sovereign Identity: The Ultimate Beginners Guide!
Tykn, 2022/01/13

Self-sovereign identity is like a digital wallet. It contains credentials issued by governments and other agencies. You hold your wallet and show your credentials only when you want to. The credentials are digitally signed and registered so they can't be forged. This is a pretty comprehensive guide, though it is not written as clearly as it could be. For example, "Personal Data is not stored on centralised servers. Meaning that for hackers to steal 50 million digital identity records they would have to hack those 50 million people individually. Considerably more difficult." Written properly, this would be clearer. The same is true for the article as a whole. But it's still worth passing along, because the information is valuable and relevant. But don't pay money for any of this yet. Wait for the government-backed credentials to come onstream. Via Kieran Forde.

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