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Finding the Funk: 3 Ways to Add Culturally Responsive Critical Thinking to Your Lessons
Colin Seale, Cult of Pedagogy, 2022/07/26

This article looks at "helping teachers embed culturally responsive critical thinking into their existing curriculum so it doesn't feel like one more thing." Though its main purpose is to promote a book written by the author, i does offer some practical advice. One suggestion is to allow students to make up their own 'rules' - "there is nothing stopping third graders from designing their own rubrics for what makes a good paragraph 'good' based on their analysis of paragraphs written at various levels of quality," or example. Or "a more intuitive way to organize the periodic table of elements?" Or "rank the main characters from the most shady to the least shady." It's not about the new rules themselves - it's about the discussion around the rules. This is where we see the nuance and, if all goes well, culturally responsive critical thinking.

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Deontology Is Compatible with Act-Consequentialism
Douglas Portmore, Daily Nous, 2022/07/26

"It's standard to divide the moral landscape into deontology, consequentialism, and virtue ethics, thereby assuming that these three are mutually exclusive and jointly exhaustive," writes Douglas Portmore. But yo don't need a whole essay to show that deontology can be consistent with consequentialism; "treat every person as an end in themselves" is an example of both operating in a single maxim. In fact, though, the field of ethics is not exhausted by those three categories; in my own work I include social contract theory (normally thought of as a branch of political philosophy) and ethics of care and moral sentimentalism generally. All this is why it's so difficult to simply assert that we all know an 'ethics of edtech'.

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Who can afford not to sell out?
Alex Sujong Laughlin, Poynter, 2022/07/26

It's easy to be critical of those in edtech who went to work for the big companies and made 'house money'. But we need to be clear that a refusal to 'sell out' is made possible only with a certain level of privilege and security; "You don't turn down a job during the Great Depression." These are questions I've wrestled with my whole life. I've always worked for 'the company' whether it be the college, the university, or the government. But while I've always worked with one hand for the company, I've also dedicated one hand 'for myself', and it's with that second hand I've held on to the work worth doing, the values worth preserving.

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How Did REST Come To Mean The Opposite of REST?
Deniz Akşimşek, htmx, 2022/07/26

The term REpresentational State Transfer (REST) came from Chapter 5 of Roy Fielding's PhD Dissertation and originally referred to a request and response expressed entirely in hypermedia. Over time, however, these responses can to be encoded in JSON, and though not technically REST, is what tends to be called REST today. It's what I have been calling (and will probably continue to call) REST today. This article, though, is a good read that sets the record straight. Via Peter Murray / boost by Scott Leslie.

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What are the Barriers to Open Culture?
Brigitte Vézina, Camille Françoise, Ony Anuken, Dee Harris, Creative Commons, 2022/07/26

This report (22 page PDF) surveys experts in the Galleries, Libraries and Museums (GLAM) community to identify barriers to providing open access to resources in the sector. As the summary suggests, the major barriers are access to money and resources, the need for appropriate knowledge and skills along with apprehensions and risk aversion, and policy challenges including copyright law. Not surprisingly, the report is written in a tone that favours open access, though with recognition about the potential for commercial use and sensitivity to cultural and indigenous artifacts. Image: OpenGLAM.

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