Author Archives: x28

Future

Posted on September 22, 2022 by x28

I watched Stephen Downes’s beautiful slides about “The Future of Learning Technology”, and made notes about Agency, what we learn, Creative Experiences, textbooks, apprenticeships, and more. Continue reading →

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Minimal GitHub for reassurance

Posted on August 26, 2022 by x28

Finally I have found the minimal GitHub procedures for my simple use case: just reassuring me a safe way back from trying out changes of my code. Continue reading →

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Conversations with tools

Posted on August 13, 2022 by x28

The ‘conversation’ with GPT-3 certainly creates inspirations, and it can be compared to blog reactions, or to Luhmann’s communication with his Zettelkasten. But it is a matter of preferences. Continue reading →

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Pruning for Output

Posted on July 13, 2022 by x28

The key of my workflow from ‘Zettelkasten’ notes to an output is probably to see which items need to be pruned. Continue reading →

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Edtech weariness?

Posted on July 7, 2022 by x28

For me, the distinction between my optimism and pessimism about ed tech is rather simple: I believe in simple, low tech tools that are really tools and not patronizing prostheses.
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Cognition at scale

Posted on June 17, 2022 by x28

My thoughts about the story of the ‘sentient’ chatbot LaMDA, considering scale as strength of IT.
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Make it Meaningful

Posted on June 13, 2022 by x28

I bought @quinnovator’s new book “Make It Meaningful”, and I like it very much.
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Curating my blog archive

Posted on May 8, 2022 by x28

Now you can browse my blog archives via category pages that each contain a short summary, and excerpts for most of the blog posts. Continue reading →

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Seven ways to …

Posted on April 8, 2022 by x28

Prompted by a question on Twitter, I assembled some suggestions for “balancing towards more ‘right-hemisphere’ thinking”.
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Figure it out

Posted on March 25, 2022 by x28

It is a wonderful book about understanding. There are rich, comprehensive, very plausible descriptions of how we understand by associations, with external representations, and through interactions.
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