Presentation
Personal Learning in the Age of AI
Stephen Downes, Jun 09, 2026,
OTESSA 2026, Online
This is a workshop that updates attendees on the development of open source technology developed by the author that supports continuous personal learning is a distributed environment. Includes: brief description of the fediverse and introduction to major fediverse services such as Mastodon, Bluesky, Peertube, etc.; demonstration of convergent fediverse discussion software; interactive practice using the software among participants to conduct an learning event; consideration of learning potential for personal learning environments; and demonstration of AI use as a tool for creativity and engagement (as opposed to answering questions or writing essays).
COMPASS GenAI Reflection Version 1
Netlify,
2026/06/09
Presented at a conference today: "The COMPASS tool supports instructors to develop key recommendations for student use of GenAI. As students report using GenAI in their task planning, task enactment, and reflection, COMPASS guides instructors to consider potential benefits and consequences of GenAI across seven evidence-informed categories."
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Pedagogy of Human Flourishing with READCO.ai
Chryssa Themelis,
AACE,
2026/06/09
This is an approach I can get behind: "instead of viewing students primarily as future economic assets, our approach is grounded in the Education for Human Flourishing framework, integrating arts, Socratic AI, and the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to nurture the 'whole person' in an increasingly automated world." The Readco.ai framework includes five major elements: "adaptive problem-solving; ethical competency; interpreting the world; appreciating the world; and acting in the world." Now to be sure, I might have a different list, and I'd word them differently, but this is much better than thinking of people as economic units.
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What it feels like to work with Mythos
Ethan Mollick,
One Useful Thing,
2026/06/09
How good is the newest Claude model (known to the world as Mythos, but named Fable for some reason)? "In experiment after experiment I conducted, it outperformed basically every other public model I have used by a considerable margin. It was capable across many problems and produced some startling results — it would work up to a dozen hours executing on multi-page specifications." When (and if) it becomes available to me I'll follow up with my own assessment.
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Speaker feeds
2026/06/09
Why don't more conferences do this? "Browse speakers from past FFConf who still publish on their own blog. Filter by year or topic, search by name or session keyword, then download an OPML file of the feeds you picked and drop it into your feed reader." Sure, we often get lists of X/Twitter accounts or Facebook identities, so often by people who complain about corporate takeover of the learning space. We are the ones who make our choices; we should stop making the wrong ones.
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Open Source Software Sovereignty Evaluation Matrix
Emma Irwin,
GitHub,
2026/06/09
This is from Emma Irwin's digital sovereignty presentation and overviews a mechanism for evaluating software based on the four freedoms that define open source software: to use, to inspect, to share, and to modify. A fifth layer is added: to govern. She suggests "turning this table into an RFP questionnaire with written response fields for vendors" or "developing a numerical scoring system to weight the operational impact versus technical compliance."
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Web Domain Castles in the Sand
Alan Levine,
CogDogBlog,
2026/06/09
The main lesson here is that web domains are temporary. I mean, we've always known this (after all, we have to keep paying year after year or the domains will expire). Institutions have never shown any sort of domain loyalty - Otago Polytech allowing Open Education Global's Mastodon domain to expire is just the latest example of this. And as Alan Levine comments, " digital durability rides more on the individual than the institution." But maybe this is more about dukkha than domains, "the anxiety or stress of trying to hold onto things that are constantly changing." Anyhow, Levine seems ready now to let time pass. "I love keeping my old sites up and going or at least archived, but who am I kidding? It's all just sand piled up and the big waves will come one day."
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How AI is quietly changing what we think the human mind is
Shai Tubali,
Big Think,
2026/06/09
There are some interesting ideas here: "Thomas Metzinger's work on minimal phenomenal experience: the simplest possible conscious experience a human, animal, or biological creature could have. Some suggest pure awareness, free of content. (Anil) Seth points to another possibility: 'foba' — the feeling of being alive." The search here is to find the difference between the machine and the embodied - but I really think we'll find the difference between the abstract and the individual.
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