Had a walk in the drizzle yesterday, felt pretty puffed.
map: Beinn Chaorach
Category Archives: Micro
And the main one that influences how I use it is HyperCard.
I prefer keynote’s simpler interface, but this is a great description of using open ended software in the classroom.
On April Fool’s day a pupil said to me, do you know we have been calling you Mr Johnathan all day. I had wondered why they were using my name so much! Need to get my ears tested.
Cuddly Educational AI!
Interesting & scary thread for those at BETT and other education events. Linked abstracts worth a peek.
Something about this "Education AI" cuddly cuboid mascot, apparently greeting visitors to the big UK edtech show BETT this weekend, really freaks me out. It's like a fuzzy friendly black box disguising exactly what AI in education entails. pic.twitter.com/ieaZfofye2
— Ben Williamson (@BenPatrickWill) March 26, 2022
technology weirds the world
My big thesis about technology is that “technology weirds the world” — instead of ruining or fixing it, it typically changes it in a bunch of unexpected ways, twisting the contours of human life into shapes never seen before.
The Next War
It will take place,
it will take time
it will take life,
and waste them.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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Pome Newsletter by Matthew Ogle
Black on Blue
Two years ago today was the last day before schools closed for lockdown. Seems longer than that:
“Listen where ever you get your podcasts” == the sound of victory in the battle to keep the podcastosphere from being dominated by evil tech companies.
Read: The employees: a workplace novel of the 22nd century by Olga Ravn ★★★★☆ 📚
Quite unclassifiable, science fiction, elliptical, mysterious and compelling. I found Lea Guldditte Hestelund at Overgaden, the art exibit the book is ‘based’ on, helpful.