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Jon Dron argues "that the term 'environment' is a dangerously misleading metaphor for the online systems we build to support learning, that leads to poor pedagogical choices and weak digital solutions." He proposes instead "an alternative metaphor of infrastructure and services that can enable more flexible,...

We saw Tumblr announce support for ActivityPub late last year and today we're reading that Medium will offer Mastodon...

I love articles like this because they describe the thought process involved to solve a design and development problem. This particular example might be beyond the capacity of most students (or it might not!) but it serves as an excellent example of how the...

Geoffrey Rockwell links to an article in Wired (may be behind a paywall; I can't tell any more with these adaptive paywalls). "The article talks about digital twin technology designed to create an avatar of a particular person that could serve as a family companion." Despite what the article suggests, we won't get good avatars of our grandparents, though. There's just not...

This is quite a nice summary from Contact North of what we've learned about chatGPT over the last month or so. The 'ten facts' in the article are, from my perspective, undeniably facts, which means we don't have the hyperbole of claims that chatGPT will replace everything or that it shouldn't be used for anything. Some of the items describe what the program does, some of them describe some of the reaction to it, and one - arguably the most speculative - describes...

"Koko let 4,000 people get therapeutic help from GPT-3 without telling them first." People will blame this on GPT-3 but the real culprit is some organization that thought it was OK to experiment on humans without a proper ethical review. It gets worse the deep you get: "a Koko bot...