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Data Literacy Resources
DaLi, 2023/07/28

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This is, according to the website, a "collection of existing data literacy activities and resources." I'm happy they didn't include the ones that don't exist! I'm sure it's not all existing resources, but there's a pretty good of them from a variety of international sources. Good stuff.

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When tending learning landscapes, what matters most?
Pippa Yeoman, srhe, 2023/07/28

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The answer to the question in the title is of course at the very end of the article: "It is the care with which we anticipate what is to come and prepare accordingly — building the structure and yielding to the flow — that matters most." I think it would have been more useful to start with this and then to explain what it means and how we know we're doing it. Instead we get sort of a stream-of-consciousness story about what led the author to this conclusion.

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Apparently spotted at ICML (via Bored Yann LeCun)
Omar Shapira, Mastodon, 2023/07/28

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This post is all over Mastodon (and nowhere else, according to Google Search). The title of the poster in the image is: "You can just put a poster at ICML". The poster then proves exactly that by its very presence. If not a winner of best poster, it should certainly be a contender. "This attack opens new avenues of research into defenses, including embodied human agents fine-tuned to detect and remove spurious content."

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Technology in education: A Tool on Whose Terms?
Manos Antoninis, et al., UNESCO, 2023/07/28

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This is a massive (435 page PDF) report from UNESCO's Global Education Monitoring Report team. I haven't read it all, but happily, the sections come prefaced with a list of 'key messages' so it's easy to get an overview. That said, these messages will not be a surprise to people in the field: while acknowledging the impact of technology, the authors maintain that education has not yet been transform, and those it has been impacted most are those in higher education in mostly wealthy countries. Technology changes so rapidly it's impossible to evaluate its impact on outcomes, and what evidence we have comes from the vendors. There's also a risk of adopting technology without sufficient attention to the downsides. The overall tenor of the report - which I'll characterize as 'super super cautious' makes it amenable to misrepresentation; as Ben Williamson takes pains to show, the report does not (despite media reports) call for a ban on cellphones in classrooms.

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