by andflywrite | Apr 22, 2015 | BEST LINKS EVER
Twitter is trying to update it’s security capabilities to protect people from certain kinds of harassment. This is a complex undertaking, fraught with potentials for bad and/or unintended consequences, but seemingly necessary. How free is a “free...
by andflywrite | Dec 7, 2014 | BEST LINKS EVER
A tiny college based on socratic dialogue on great books has been ranked in some list as worst college in US, prompting editors at newspapers to send reporters out for a story. The Guardian filed this report, which emphasizes the unique and dramatically non mainstream...
by andflywrite | Dec 5, 2014 | BEST LINKS EVER, GO AHEAD CALLER
Two key components of motivation are autonomy and mastery. Autonomy is giving your learners the freedom to choose how they learn. Mastery is providing visible recognition when competence is reached. Both of these areas can be addressed by applying gamification...
by andflywrite | Oct 19, 2014 | BEST LINKS EVER, GO AHEAD CALLER
Amazing as it might seem, educational reform is still struggling to deal with some fundamental parameters that have been “with us” for 60 years or more. If we are trying to provide “universal education”…that is, a certain level of...
by andflywrite | Aug 21, 2014 | BEST LINKS EVER, T3YBC
Tolstoy famously began “Anna Karenina” with: Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. When is a Social Learning Construct like a family? Can we find the way happy SLCs are all alike? We want to learn the answer to that...
