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Presentation
Three Frameworks for Data Literacy
Stephen Downes, Oct 21, 2023, 20th International Conference on Cognition and Exploratory Learning in a Digital Age, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal

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Data literacy education across three frameworks: the competency model defining data literacy, the assessment of data literacy competencies, and methods for the development of data literacy in an organization.

• Based on the paper Three Frameworks for Data Literacy.
• Slides PDF
• Ethics Course given as Example

 

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Shared Metacognition in a Community of Inquiry
Randy Garrison, Online Learning, 2023/10/23

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This paper (13 page PDF) was used as the point of departure at a session I attended today. "It is hard to see effectiveinquiry without awareness and strategies associated with the inquiry process," writes Randy Garrison. "Self and co-regulation of the inquiry process drives knowledge development and deep approaches to learning."

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Trait and State Academic Emotions: Two Sides of the Same Coin?
Madeleine Beig, Universitat Konstanz, 2023/10/23

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I wonder what learning styles sceptics would make of 'trait emotions'. This topic came up today as I reacted to what I felt was an odd definition of 'emotion' as 'mental states that arise spontaneously'. It was explained to me that this definition, and the corresponding account of 'academic emotions', arises from trait emotions, which are based on the idea that "people differ from one another in terms of where they stand on a set of basic trait dimensions that persist over time and across situations." So, for example, a person might reliably become nervous before a test. They are related as similar to the 'big five' character traits: "openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism." See also Driscoll and Powell, States, Traits and Dispositions.

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Can more dreamers become doers? Fixing Canada's entrepreneur shortage
CBC, 2023/10/23

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Pierre Cléroux, chief economist at the Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC), "said the entrepreneurship decline 'simply can't be ignored,' because new businesses are responsible for 'almost all net new job creation in this country.'" In response to the 'shortage', BDC recommends that "Some of the difficulties of entrepreneurship can be overcome by helping business owners develop 'soft skills,' such as grit, marketing and how to interact with people." It's hard not to roll my eyes at this. If it were a real problem, we would expect a direct investment in programs and services - for example, tax credits (or even free help with taxes), a stronger social net (for the large percentage of businesses that fail), greater immigration (to offset demographic changes), etc. As is so often the case, the recommending 'education' is a way of avoiding the problem (assuming it's a real problem) rather than directly dealing with it.

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The problem with "tacit/explicit"
Nick Milton, Knoco stories, 2023/10/23

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Harold Jarche links to this post pointing to a problem with the longstanding distinction between tacit and explicit knowledge. "Now I expect all of you are reading this and thinking 'Well, I am quite clear on the difference between tacit and explicit'. Yes, you are clear, but at least 50% of people within the KM field will be equally clear, and will disagree with you. Therefore you will be communicating at cross-purposes... That is why you will find no reference to tacit and explicit in the body of the ISO KM standard." Well I don't think the ISO is the final word on a debate that is at least 2500 years old. I do think there's a pretty clear distinction between 'can be expressed in words' and 'cannot be expressed in words', which I believe is what was the intention of the terminology.

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