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Presentation
Technology, Diversity and Human Connection
Stephen Downes, Jun 22, 2026, V UNEMI English Convention, Milagro, Ecuador

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In this keynote I outline the basic elements of connectivism and then trace the implications through a disssion of technlogy, diversity, and human agency, the major themes of the conference. There were a few tech issues up front but we got through them and it all worked out well.

 

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Multi-Agentic EdTech: The Promise and the Costs
Michael Feldstein, e-Literate, 2026/06/22

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Michael Feldstein offers a useful summary of what 'multi-agentic AI' might look like in education: "Imagine a team of learning designers, each of which has particular skills and is assigned to perform a particular task on the way to designing a course. Imagine also that they have workflow and communications tools so that one designer can know when there's work waiting from another designer." He also touches on the cost of the multi-agentic workflow, especially across institutional boundaries, as there's no real way to moderate it - costs are shifting from flat-rate to per-token, where users are charged for content both input and output, the scale of both of which are determined by the individual agents.

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There are too many JavaScript schema libraries, so support only one
Aaron Harper, Inngest Blog, 2026/06/22

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This is rather technical, but is an example of building compatibility in the 'interfaces' between different application domains. "Standard Schema does not standardize error formatting, metadata, defaults, JSON Schema generation, or schema introspection. If you need those, you still have library-specific work to do.... There are too many JavaScript schema libraries. The fix isn't fewer libraries. It's an interface they can all agree on."

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Transforming AI models into useful model organisms
Mariya Toneva, The Transmitter, 2026/06/22

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I have talked in the past about the similarity between neural networks and human brains (as recently as a few days ago) and while there is overlap, they are not the same, and this article is careful to draw the distinction. At the same time, there is a lot of overlap, and we can learn from that. "By moving away from seeing AI models as finished computational models of the brain and instead leveraging them as model organisms that we can perturb and evolve, we move closer to cognitive neuroscience that doesn't just describe the brain but truly understands its mechanics."

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How the Open Knowledge Format can improve data sharing
Google Cloud Blog, 2026/06/22

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The Open Knowledge Format (OKF) is "an open specification that formalizes the LLM-wiki pattern into a portable, interoperable format. This is a vendor-neutral, agent- and human-friendly standard for representing the metadata, context, and curated knowledge that modern AI systems need." It's also useful for other purposes. "If you've used Obsidian, Notion, Hugo, or any of the LLM wiki patterns that have emerged over the past year, the shape will feel familiar. OKF formalizes the small set of conventions needed to make these patterns interoperable."Here's the GitHub repo. Via Shubham Saboo.

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Visualization experiments
Matthias Melcher, x28's New Blog, 2026/06/22

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Interesting extension of Matthias Melcher's diagramming tool. I too use WinDirStat (I recommend it if your hard drive is too full). At some point I need to write an article about the two-pane layout.  

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