“To that end, I propose a Data Bill of Rights. It should have two components: The first would specify how much control we may exert over how our individual information is used for important decisions, and the second would introduce federally enforced rules on how algorithms should be monitored more generally.”
Source: Congress Is Missing the Point on Facebook – Bloomberg
A new John Prine album and the latest episodes of Steven Universe are gonna get me through the day.
Terms that should be in every educator’s vocabulary: eye-reading, ear-reading, and finger-reading.
Let’s stop conflating eye-reading with intelligence.
The editor @wordpressdotcom still looks and acts like an untested and unmaintained mess on iOS Safari. So too the rest of the interface. Might as well turn it off and stop pretending that we care about the open mobile web. Same old bugs lingering for years.
“I’ve long tracked Facebook’s serial admission to having SIGINT visibility that nearly rivals the NSA: knowing that Facebook had intelligence corroborating NSA’s judgment that GRU was behind the DNC hack was one reason I was ultimately convinced of the IC’s claims, in spite of initial questions.”
“None of said anything, but we all felt it—the weight of trying to wrestle with the patriarchal legacy of our own tradition. Because here’s the truth: we hold as our sacred text one of the most sexist works of literature ever created.”
That Settles It, I Believe It, God Said It: Unraveling Divine Command Theory — Fundamentally Free
“it is men who need to step up and liberate boys from the culture of toxic masculinity”
In essence, they personalize the experience all on their own.
As a result, it is their agency and autonomy that helps them construct knowledge, supported only by strong relationships with their peers and teachers, coupled with an innately curious, intrinsic motivation.I began to see that personalized learning is not driven by technology or even solely by the teacher’s ability to personalize on behalf of the children: Personalized learning is driven by the learners themselves, guided by knowledgeable, empathetic teachers that know how to engineer a learning environment where autonomous learning and teacher-influenced learning can strike a mindful balance.
Source: This just in: Technology isn’t necessary to personalize learning. – InspirED
“…so many of the data scientists that are in work right now think of themselves as technicians and think that they can blithely follow textbook definitions of optimisation, without considering the wider consequences of their work. So, when they choose to optimise to some kind of ratio of false positives or false negatives, for example, they are not required by their bosses or their educational history to actually work out what that will mean to the people affected by the algorithms they’re optimising. Which means that they don’t really have any kind of direct connection to the worldly consequences of their work.”
“…we think that data people are magical and that they have any kind of wisdom. What they actually have is a technical ability without wisdom.”
Source: To work for society, data scientists need a hippocratic oath with teeth | WIRED UK
I updated “An Option for No Stats” with selections from “Audience Doesn’t Matter. | THE TEMPERED RADICAL” and “My name is danah and I’m a stats addict. – The Message – Medium”.
I love data and I hate stats. Not stats in abstract - statistics are great - but the kind of stats that seem to accompany any web activity. Number of followers, number of readers, number of viewers, etc. I hate them in the way that an addict hates that which she loves the most. My pulse quickens as I refresh the page to see if one more person clicked the link. As my eyes water and hours pass, I have to tear myself away from the numbers, the obsessive calculating that I do, creating averages and other statistical equations for no good reason. I gift my math-craving brain with a different addiction, turning to various games - these days, Yushino - to just get a quick hit of addition. And then I grumble, grumble at the increasing presence of stats to quantify and measure everything that I do.
Source: My name is danah and I’m a stats addict. – The Message – Medium
For the vast majority of us practicing educator types, blogging and participating in social spaces is about reflection, plain and simple. Every time that you sit down behind the keyboard for any reason – whether that’s to join in a Twitterchat, to read bits that appear in your social streams, or to create a new bit on your own blog, you are an active learner.
Articulation of ideas – whether it comes in the short form of a Tweet or the long form of a blog post – requires you to think carefully about what you THINK you know. Finding the right words to express your core notions about teaching and learning forces you to wrestle with what you actually believe.
Every time we make the argument that audience matters, we forget that reflection matters more. Our goal shouldn’t be to #becomepopular. It should be to #becomebetter. Blogging and sharing in social spaces can help us to do that whether anyone is listening or not.
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