Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community

Ruth Slotnick shares an image posted on LinkedIn by Patrick Dempsey (I checked and he only posted on LinkedIn so I'm linking to this post so readers don't have to log in to LinkedIn to view it - I have no idea why Dempsey wouldn't share the image on an open platform). It's a good image, drawing the distinction between what I have in the past called 'free learning' versus 'control learning'. It obviously applies not only to AI policy and AI literacy, but to learning in general. Maybe there's a version out there on the web somewhere that expresses the same idea more generally. (Milestone of note: first feed name listed in OLDaily to contain an emoji).

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