Becoming the machine TL;DR #185 – 2/15/2019 Hi all, welcome to TL;DR. My name is Ian O’Byrne. I research, teach, & write about technology in our lives. I try to synthesize what happened this week in tech…so you can be the expert as well. I posted a couple of things this week: Motivations behind “screentime…
In a recent blog post, Greg McVerry examines the challenges and opportunities of injecting some IndieWeb philosophies into Google Scholar, and other systems for tracking, citing, and identifying publications. His post closes with the following statement: Citations stink. Like I said a canonical link as citation is my dream but we are way off from…
How well do you trust what you read online and in social networks? It is highly likely that the quality of digital texts and links that you obtain as you read search and sift through the internet has been slowly degrading. This is because without knowing it, something called the filter bubble is sifting…
I’m currently a part of a professional learning community (PLC) that is focusing on digital portfolios in our teaching and assessment. As part of this work, we’re moving quickly into thinking about developing a domain of one’s own across a couple of our programs. In this post, I’ll identify my initial thoughts about the elements,…
As detailed in the annual report for 2015-2016, BadgeChain has undergone a series of changes in the first year of the organization. As we enter into our second year we, the core members of BadgeChain, see opportunities within the field, as well as in our own work that we would like to pursue. As part…
In conjunction with the members of the Core BadgeChain team, I wanted to take a moment to review the work of BadgeChain over the last year and discuss our future path. This post will serve as a comprehensive report of our organization’s activities throughout the preceding year (2015-2016). Getting started Almost a year ago Kerri Lemoie…
Welcome to the first round of BadgeChain Reads. This project is organized and facilitated by the BadgeChain team. The purpose of this work is to foster open discussion about the issues and trends in blockchain and related technologies. Furthermore, it is our hope to engage in discussion while focusing on the facts presented in the…
Podcasts are quickly becoming a popular storytelling medium that you can use to spread ideas and get your message online. In this series of posts, I’ll detail everything that you’ll need to know as you get started in the world of podcasting. These posts tend to be a bit granular in providing guidance for you as you…
Our column on Computational Participation: Understanding coding as an extension of literacy instruction was recently published in JAAL. I co-wrote the column with Quinn Burke and Yasmin Kafai. As a supplement to the column, we invited a series of experts to spend some time discussing the broader impact of the details presented. The end result is a series…
Podcasts are becoming very popular as a new storytelling medium to spread ideas and your message online. In this series of posts, I’ll detail everything that you’ll need to know as you get started in the world of podcasting. Our first post focused on understanding, subscribing, and listening to podcasts. The second post discussed identifying the…