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This post cites a study that suggests that audio conferencing might be better than video conferencing for learning. "Taking 198 people, in 99 pairs, doing 30 minute sessions and six tasks, (the researchers) found that video dampened or impaired then ability to speak in turns and...

This is another 'literacy' to add to your list of literacies. In this post, 'learning literacy' means something like 'knowing how to learn', though I would think there is an affective element as well, something along the lines of 'being willing to relearn'. The author...

Mini-Heap describes this post under the heading 'the metaphysics of blockchain'. It's a good title. The main idea here is that blockchain for Bitcoin works because the record is the fact. But for something like, say, a birth date, the fact exists independently of the...

Has education changed for good, or just changed for now? The answer, it seems, depends a lot on the change. "Respondents expressed confidence that recent increases in faculty engagement with instructional design and technology will continue in future academic years, as will institutions...

This article makes the point that "for aspiring journalists from low-income backgrounds, systemic industry barriers compound from the start." The descriptions of student journalists spoke to me, paralleling my own experience. "Editors at my university’s independent newspaper work...

Two things of note here. The first is the author's main argument, which is this: "ready-trained NNs like GPT-3 or CLIP are often tailored as the basis of specific recognizer applications and then may end up deployed in public situations... This is the future of security holes in...