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Except online has mostly been

PeraclesPlease — Mon, 22 Apr 2019 16:57:26 +0000

Except online has mostly been "watch a video" rather than interactive. Ted Talks are 15 minutes for a reason. If the *format* or platform can be more engaging, maybe personality can cut through. As an example, project teams seem to like Slack, whereas previous platforms were duds.

A very good point.

artappraiser — Mon, 22 Apr 2019 16:53:34 +0000

In reply to A simple question: did you

A very good point.

One that even goes to *gasp* "elitism," where people prefer face time with a very special person, personal input, where they get the impression that the teacher actually cares about what they think and how they think...

A simple question: did you

NCD — Mon, 22 Apr 2019 16:47:39 +0000

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A simple question: did you ever have a teacher(s) in college, HS or even grade school who years or decades later, you still recall as a great educator, creating student enthusiasm for the class topic, learning and discovery? ...Yes..?

Now, do you recall an engaging, semester long online required supplemental exercise(s) for a college course....or a wonderful, stimulating, mandatory online course of continuing education for your profession and/or job? . can you recall any single great online course? .No...?

Yeah, I'm very aware that my

ocean-kat — Sun, 21 Apr 2019 21:55:27 +0000

In reply to Cuz not every video in the

Yeah, I'm very aware that my skill in searching and finding shit on line is pretty weak. Thanks for the help. Excellent talk. She summarizes what I've been reading and thinking about from dozens of articles perfectly. Many of us think that this disinformation and these lies have little power because we see right through them. But a sufficient number of people believe them, they have incredible power and this is just one of several reasons why governments need to severely limit the power of facebook and google.

Cuz not every video in the

PeraclesPlease — Sun, 21 Apr 2019 20:54:04 +0000

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Cuz not every video in the world's on YouTube?
hardly seems fair...
https://www.ted.com/talks/carole_cadwalladr_facebook_s_role_in_brexit_an...

I really got a kick out of

artappraiser — Sun, 21 Apr 2019 20:44:23 +0000

In reply to Silicon Valley Came to Kansas Schools. That Started a Rebellion.

I really got a kick out of this piece. What's going on here seems as American as apple pie! Almost straight out of de Tocqueville. Americans are square pegs and one cannot cram them into a board with round holes. Added plus: you can't blame it on "what's the matter with Kansas?" people alone, it's a phenomenon that's happening in several political demographics,including Brooklyn hipsterville and Cheshire, CT which I looked up to find that politically, it is like the ultimate suburban swing town

The resistance in Kansas is part of mounting nationwide opposition to Summit, which began trials of its system in public schools four years ago and is now in around 380 schools and used by 74,000 students. In Brooklyn, high school students walked out in November after their school started using Summit’s platform. In Indiana, Pa., after a survey by Indiana University of Pennsylvania found 70 percent of students wanted Summit dropped or made optional, the school board scaled it back and then voted this month to terminate it. And in Cheshire, Conn., the program was cut after protests in 2017.

I read the linked WaPo article on Brooklyn: Students protest Zuckerberg-backed digital learning program and ask him: ‘What gives you this right? That was not just any old school but a specialized interest one Brooklyn’s Secondary School for Journalism

And I love that the NYTimes at the end of the story does a shout out for more skinny, basically saying: anyone else out there want to help bash Zuckerberg too? Give us some dirt....

Gives me some hope about the whole propaganda news/bot problem...and the supposed decline of socialization...even most loners want to be forced to learn to interact with other people as part of their schooling..we are not breeding a nation of incels....etc.

I saw this article but there

ocean-kat — Sun, 21 Apr 2019 20:05:13 +0000

In reply to Carole Cadwalladr Ted Talk -

I saw this article but there's no link to the actual Ted talk. I searched for it on youtube and found a few videos talking about her Ted talk but no links to the actual Ted talk. Maybe it's just that my search skills suck.

Carole Cadwalladr Ted Talk -

PeraclesPlease — Sun, 21 Apr 2019 19:43:04 +0000

In reply to Silicon Valley Came to Kansas Schools. That Started a Rebellion.

Carole Cadwalladr Ted Talk - "Hi Mark, Sheryl, Sergei, Jack... - Silicon Valley's Broken"

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/apr/21/carole-cadwalladr-ted-tech-google-facebook-zuckerberg-silicon-valley