OLDaily

Welcome to Online Learning Daily, your best source for news and commentary about learning technology, new media, and related topics. We publish six to eight or so short posts every weekday linking to the best, most interesting and most important pieces of content in the field. Read more about what we cover. We also list papers and articles by Stephen Downes and his presentations from around the world.

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Presentation
Ethics, Analytics and the Duty of Care: The Workshop
Stephen Downes, Nov 23, 2022, Online Educa Berlin 2022, Berlin, Germany

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We begin by looking at the applications of artificial intelligence and analytics in learning technology, describing in a structured way what decisions we actually make when we apply artificial intelligence, analytics, and neural networks to teaching and learning. We also survey the ethical issues that have arisen in the field, for example, bias in algorithms, justice and fairness, diversity and equity, bad actors and data manipulation, and a range of other concerns.

Some additional (big) resources:

• 1050 slides - pptx
• 1050 slides - pdf
• 997 page document
• Ethical Codes and Learning Analytics

[Link] [Slides]

DigcompEDU
Center for Digital Dannelse, 2022/11/23

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This is a self-assessment tool based on the The European Framework for the Digital Competence of Educators. I think a lot of people will find it useful (though note that as a self-assessment tool it requires honesty). It will ask for your email address after about 50 questions. I found the scale very opinionated and very focused on traditional in-class teaching environments. I answered it; you can see my results, which reflect my disinclination toward assessment and unwillingness to prescribe specific approaches to 'students' (who, for the same of discussion, I took to be OLDaily readers, though of course the tool can't conceive of teaching via email newsletter). Via Nadav Kavalerchik.

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Digital Pedagogy Toolbox: Designing for Care with Personas – BCcampus
Gwen Nguyen, BCcampus, 2022/11/23

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I'm doing my Ethics, Analytics and the Duty of Care workshop today, and this fits right in there. As Gwen Nguyen writes, "Starting with what personas are in teaching and learning, I discuss why and how we can build learner personas as the first step in designing for care, then finish with a few tips on how you can leverage personas to enhance teaching and learning programs." Nguyen also links to worksheets and posters as well as persona templates from Miro.

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Watch: Person uses thoughts to operate a wheelchair
Nat Levy, Futurity, 2022/11/23

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This post is presented in "gee whiz isn't that amazing?" style, but in fact people have been developing this sort of capability over time (and I've covered it here from time to time). This short article and video demonstrates (as the title suggests) people moving a wheelchair using thought alone. "In this case, three people with tetraplegia, the inability to move their arms and legs due to spinal injuries, operated the wheelchair in a cluttered, natural environment to varying degrees of success." No, it's not ready for the highway yet. But we can imagine a future in which this is possible. Here's the original press release from U of Texas and the formal publication.

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Converting Your Twitter Archive to Markdown
2022/11/23

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Today's Mastodon/Twitter update. Matthias Ott explains how to convert your Twitter archive into something useful (including fixing all the links, which because they're t.co links in the archive, will break when Twitter fails. From Jisc's Steve Bailey, things to consider when setting up your Mastodon instance. Miguel Guhlin with some brief reflections on transitioning from 13K followers to zero. Fediverse.info explains the fediverse in a video with cats and dogs. The EFF asks whether Mastodon is private and secure. Mark Carrigan asks whether there's a future for the academic social capital (can you guess he's from the LSE?) held on Twitter. Ted Curran points to an excellent tutorial on how to self-verify your account on Mastodon (I've done this myself as well). No blue checks needed! A short post on content warnings on Mastodon. Finally, confronting the possibility of not being on social media.

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