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3 education innovations to watch in 2024 (hint: it's not just about skills and AI)
Julia Freeland Fisher, Christensen Institute, 2024/01/04

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Predictions coming from the Christensen Institute tend to my mind to be more about what they want to happen (or would like to see happen based on their own theories about the world) rather than what will actually happen. Still, I'll list these here (quoted):

1. Innovations making career-connected learning more student- (versus employer-) centric.
2. Models that expand brokers, not just information, to grow student support, navigation, and ROI.
3. AI-powered tools to multiply, rather than replace, human conversations.

It's pretty easy to predict the emergence of student-cntered network-based learning technologies. I've been doing it for years. But their arrival remains stubbornly elusive.

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The Internet Is About to Get Weird Again
Anil Dash, Rolling Stone, 2024/01/04

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"The human web, the one made by regular people, is resurgent," writes Anil Dash. "We are about to see the biggest reshuffling of power on the internet in 25 years, in a way that most of the internet's current users have never seen before." One driver of change: the regulators, who are finally pushing back against the tech giants. Another is the plethora of social networks following the demise of X/Twitter. Dash also points to "the people who had been quietly keeping the spirit of the human, personal, creative internet alive are seeing a resurgence now that the web is up for grabs again." The article is open access on Rolling Stone, but here's the Internet Archive version, just in case. See also this follow-up post on Dash's own website.

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Trilium
Adam Zivner, GitHub, 2024/01/04

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I've set up a new Cloudron environment I will be using at least for the next little while (or longer, depending on how it goes). One of the applications available inside Cloudron is an open source note-taking application called Trilium. I can share my Trilium notes publicly: here's an example with the Trilium demo content served from my website. It's similar to Google Keep, Evernote or Obsidian but feels a lot easier to use and, of course, I don't need to worry about a company discontinuing it or suddently making it a lot more expensive. You can set up an instance of Trilium without using Cloudron; installation and use is described in this excellent video by JamesTurland at Jim's Garage. Here's the GitHub (it doesn't otherwise appear to have a home page). There's also a web clipper extension to save web pages directly to Trilium from your browser. Want more? Trilium extensions.

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Logo Update
Logo Foundation Publications, 2024/01/04

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I recently read a post from Peter Skillen about valuing the contributions of pioneers in edtech. Following up on a Facebook thread that inspired the post, I found this reference to the Logo Exchange archives. It was basically typed text on paper, mailed out to subscribers once a month for the first ten years and quarterly thereafter. It was based on a programming language called Logo, which as Wikipedia summarizes was "widely known for its use of turtle graphics, in which commands for movement and drawing produced line or vector graphics, either on screen or with a small robot termed a turtle" (imagine if we used small turtles today instead of arrows for cursors!).

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Most prevalent jobs of young bachelor's degree graduates by detailed field of study
Statistics Canada, 2024/01/04

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What's the most prevalent occupation for a recent philosophy graduate in Canada? Retail salespersons and visual merchandisers. That doesn't surprise me a bit, given my own experience as a 7-Eleven clerk. And it just goes to show that while some people (such as nursing, pharmacy and teaching) tend to go straight into their professions after their education, most other people take more time to settle into a profession. "Only a very small number of academic programs were associated with a specific job... Most academic programs were instead linked to several jobs. In many cases, these jobs were at least somewhat related to the program. These results point to the importance for most graduates of developing various skills that could potentially be used throughout their careers." (p.s. it's interesting to note the classifications by National Occupational Classification (NOC) and the Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) in this article).

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