Stephen Downes

Allan Levine tagged this for OEG Connect and I have to admit I don't get it. I don't get why the wealthiest educational institution in the world needs to divert "generous founding grants from the Susan Crown Exchange and Pivotal Ventures, a Melinda French Gates Company" in order to fund something like this. I don't know why it needs the branding and marketing and Instagram  account. I don't know why their Teaching Digital Well Being report (48 page PDF) directs me to Common Sense Media resources I have to sign in to view. I don't know why you have to vote on your personal values, and why this is the set of values to choose from. I don't know why they didn't realize the five rights framework they linked to is a sports betting site. I don't know why they spend so much time on so-called thinking traps. They mention supporting agency for young people, but spend so much time - as in the section on tech habits - focusing how how what young people do is wrong, and why they should change.