By Stephen Downes
March 16, 2004
Learning Environmentalism
Seymour
Papert: To save the schools, we have to break them. The
current move toward standardization is a last gasp, "the
last twitch of the dragon's tail" as the old system dies.
It is natural, in such a time, for the bureaucracy to close
ranks, to centrally impose something like standardization
"instead of its direct opposite, higher standards." By
Stephen Downes, Stephen's Web, March 16, 2004
[Refer][Research][Reflect]
Sensitize / Desensitize
Again, and
let me stress, this is not a simple cause and effect
relationship. It's not about killing monsters, and then
going out and killing people. Rather, it is about shaping
one's understanding of the world. As moderator Renée-Marie
Fountain summed up nicely, it's about "how to sensitize,
how to desensitize, and who gets to do that." By Stephen
Downes, Stephen's Web, March 16, 2004
[Refer][Research][Reflect]
XML Guru Joins Sun Software
Tim
Bray gets a job with Sun (and we're happy for him), and in
compltely unrelated news, it turns out that it really is
like herding cats. By Martin LaMonica , CNet
News.Com, March 15, 2004
[Refer][Research][Reflect]
Interoperability between Information and
Learning Environments
– Bridging the Gaps
Like Scott Leslie, I had not
seen this paper before (getting information from IMS
continues to be a problem). The authors take us through
issues related to the connecting of (what they call)
"information environments and learning environments," that
is, between library systems and learning content management
systems. Leslie comments, "This draft paper... is
in my mind a model of clarity on the reasons for why these
beasts are different (for one, the 'transient' versus
'archival' nature of their contents) but also why and how
they need to interoperate." By Neil McLean and Clifford
Lynch, IMS, June 28, 2004
[Refer][Research][Reflect]
Five
Key Privacy Principles
Brief article that
outlines the core principles of privacy. The principles
are: awareness, consent, participation, integrity, and
enforcement.
By Stephen Cobb, Computerworld, March 15, 2004
[Refer][Research][Reflect]
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