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These Alaska moms couldn’t find a Yup’ik children’s book. So they made one themselves
Julie Depenbrock, NPR, 2024/09/04

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What I like is that they created a resource where none existed. "Yup'ik is the most spoken Native language in Alaska, but finding Yup'ik books for young children can be almost impossible. These moms created their own – and now they're fielding nearly 1,000 orders." What would have been better would have been had they been funded and thus able to share the resource freely with everyone.

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The Internet Archive just lost its appeal over ebook lending
Emma Roth, The Verge, 2024/09/04

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As Dan Gillmor says, "publishers will tolerate libraries only as long as they can control everything about how books can be loaned. If public libraries were being invented today, the cartel would make their core functions illegal."

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How Generative AI Affects Open Educational Resources – improving learning
David Wiley, improving learning, 2024/09/04

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David Wiley hits some of the right notes, and some (in my view) less right, in this post: "the first lesson," he writes, "is this: open licensing – giving people permission to use their agency, enthusiasm, and creativity to engage in the 5R activities – unlocks human potential. And so we have to move beyond narrow thinking about how generative AI impacts our work with traditional OER and begin thinking more broadly about the power 'generative OER,' in which we treat generative AI itself as an OER."

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Why Free Learning Needs Free Artificial Intelligence
Stephen Downes, Half an Hour, 2024/09/04

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'Free' learning means two things to me: first, the idea that learning ought to be zero cost, and second, the idea that learning ought to be open and inclusive. Together these paint a picture of access to learning as part of the basic infrastructure of a society. 

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