Stephen Downes

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"Ideas spread because they are good at spreading, not because they are inherently valuable." - Me
Interview with Michelle Moore
Audio Webcast Interview
Interviews with Maddog Hall and John Selmys
Interview with Martin Dougiamas, Creator of Moodle
Becta Report On Benefits of Web 2.0 in the Classroom
SupportBlogging's New Google Custom Search Engine
Nancy E. Willard Audio Interview on Internet Safety
Thinking about Thinking and about Educational Commerce
Social Networking As Professional Development
Seeing Ed Tech Really Working in Indiana
Twitter for Conference Back-Channel Chat
Ready for Prime Time: Open Source Programs for the K-12 Desktop
What Will Teachers Be Like in 10 Years?
SH Interviews DK From the UK
A 14-Year-Old Talks Educational Technology
Social Networking in Education
Web 2.0 Is the Future of Education
Learning Styles Theory Versus Sustained Hard Work
New Ning Plans: The Good, The Bad, and the Unknown
Looking for Opportunities or Sponsorship
Teacher 2.0
The Closing of LearnCentral.org
Reforming Ed Reform Panel with Downes, Gardner, Kohn, and Stager
The Free Learning 2.0 Conference: Great Keynotes and Sessions and YOU!
MOOC.me
Library 2.012 Starts Tomorrow
Plato's Cave, The Emperor's New Clothes, and Schooling as an Institution
Learning Revolution - Recordings
The Generative Approach to Education
AI and the Calculator Effect
Generative AI's Three Body Problem
The Source Code of Human Civilization and the Real Danger of AI
LLM Cultural Censorship Is Corporate Risk Management
Structural Blindness: Why Neither Humans Nor AI Reason as Well as We Think


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