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Hope for the Future
Audrey Watters, Hack Education, 2022/03/09

I always have time for Audrey Watters, even when she's being upbeat, as she is - in a way - in this article. I think there's something to the idea of the 'grammar of schooling' that she talks about, and the role history plays in shaping that, though I also want to think about changing schooling by changing the grammar. I've written about that elsewhere. And I also wish she's name names in her articles. Not so much her inspirations and influences, like hooks, Freire and the rest, but the "people in education and education technology, who've not only screwed up the tools and practices of teaching and learning over the past year or so, but who have a rather long history of bad if not dangerous ideas and decisions." Because I'm a font of self-doubt I read these articles asking "Is it I?" but I really don't think it is - which means if true there's a whole other history of ed tech to talk about, the history I'm living and writing. No?

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Experts and Explanations
Clark Quinn, Learnlets, 2022/03/09

It feels odd to read this post, because it's clear that while Clark Quinn understands that expert knowledge isn't composed of easy-to-read explanations, he continues to write as though experts 'compile' and 'store' their knowledge as though they were computers. But because what they know can't be articulated, he reasons, they are therefore bad teachers. "It's clear that experts should not be the ones doing the explanations...  Don't give experts the job of communicating to anyone but other experts, or to experts on working with experts to get explanations." Maybe the problem is with the demand for easy-to-grasp 'explanations'. These may be easier to teach, but it may be that they are the wrong thing to teach.

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What is the future of assessment and feedback?
Sarah Knight , JISC, 2022/03/09

This article introduces a guide that describes seven principles for good assessment and feedback (quoted):

• help learners understand what good looks like
• support the personalised needs of learners
• foster active learning
• develop autonomous learners
• manage staff and learner workload effectively
• foster a motivated learning community
• promote learner employability

Nothing radically new but still useful. P.S. Isn't it time students in stock photos each got their own computer, instead of having to share a screen?

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About the AIS Consortium
AIS Consortium, 2022/03/09

The Adaptive Instructional Systems (AIS) consortium is a not-for-profit organization formed under the IEEE Industry Standards & Technology Organization (ISTO) "to promote the development and adoption of effective AIS solutions and to support the industry and organizations that produce them." Its Global Learning Toolkit (GLT) is available at their GitLab site, though it appears you have to be approved for access (ditto the Mattermost discussions). "The GLT is an open AIS framework available to the public and intended for commercial use" and "is a forked baseline of the Generalized Intelligent Framework for Tutoring (GIFT)." Image: Sottilare, et.al.

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