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Iterating Toward Equity
David Wiley, improving learning, 2022/01/28

"Our guiding question has become 'what can we do to eliminate race and income as predictors of student success?'" says David Wiley. The result was something called the Belonging Framework, integrated into Lumen learning's broader Evidence-based Teaching Practices Framework (it doesn't have a page of its own; you can find it on the lower right of the page). Lumen also "created user testing centers embedded within minority serving institutions (MSIs)." I'm not going to be critical, because addressing inequity is worthwhile, but I will note that there are various ways to define 'student success', and these have a lot to do with how we define equity as well.

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In-depth Review of Georgetown’s Quantum Mechanics Course
Adrian German, Class Central, 2022/01/28

To me the real quantum computing course was Phil Kaye's Quantum Algorithms course that I attended parts of last year. It was enough to convince me that quantum computing is a real thing and that it's more than just really fast computing. If I were starting a career in computing, that's probably where I'd start. And Kaye knows his stuff cold. Kaye has co-authored the book (284 page PDF) on quantum computing. NRC has worked with him to set up an Applied Quantum Computing program. Kaye's course was unfortunately an in-house course -- I haven't convinced my employers of the value of open scholarship yet (but I keep trying). Meanwhile, I guess you could access these courses, or similar work from Chicago or MIT.

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Watch2Gether- Watch Videos Together in Real Time
Med Kharbach, Educational Technology and Mobile Learning, 2022/01/28

This sounds really neat: "Watch2Gether is a platform that allows you to watch videos with your friends and family remotely wherever they are in the world. While watching, you can also interact with each other via text and video chat. Watch2Gether works right on your browser and you do not need to install any software. You don't even have to create an account to start a collective video watching experience." Maybe I'll try it with the Olsen video. Watch my Twitter.

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Three things web3 should fix in 2022
Casey Newton, Platformer, 2022/01/28

Casey Newton begins by noting "it felt like everyone I knew was sending me the same link. “The Problem With NFTs,” a long video essay by the Canadian media critic Dan Olson." I've also seen the link, but I haven't watched the two-hour video (maybe on the week-end). This post, though, is sort of a reply to it. The three things? First, he says, make crypto transactions safe, reliable, and approachable to normal people. That's a pretty tall order but it will happen, eventually. Second, he says, make a moderately efficient blockchain 'computer.' Right now everything involving web3 technology generally is too slow. It will get better, but better hardware won't do it alone. Third, he says, develop technologies for mitigating harassment and abuse. Well that would be the golden grail. It would give us a reason to leave all those other places full of harassment and abuse far behind. I think this is possible (it's actually one of the appears of web3) but needs proper design. And it wouldn't hurt if harassment and abuse wasn't so socially acceptable in the wider world of media, marketing and politics.

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Future of Work Is Nothing Without Consideration For The Future of Learning
Modern Learners, 2022/01/28

It's just an advertisement, so ignore the sales part. This post features one of the better Venn diagrams I've seen. The three circles are community, events and content. Nothing really new there. But the descriptions are what makes it unique, describing why each of these things alone is insufficient. Originally, I misinterpreted this diagram. I thought each circle was contrasting community, events and content online (ie., 'alone') versus in-person. That would have been an even better diagram! Maybe somebody with better skills than I should draw that! Via Mike Taylor's Friday Finds. If it

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