Links I've collects, fun fascinating & frightening

As the education scholar Gert Biesta has argued, over the 1980s and ’90s the very idea of “education” was displaced in favor of an ideal of “learning.” Education implies a teacher, a subject, and a purpose; learning is something an individual does. What Biesta termed “learnification” meant that the transmission and application of knowledge became a priority […]

I am experimenting with gathering links with rss.chat here. I am pulling a rough post together for some of the links gathered there. Education This looks like a very interesting book. As important as her deep reporting on the tech industry’s ruthlessness are Singer’s profiles of the inspiring cadre of academics, educators, and activists who […]

The free event brought the H5P community together for a day of practical examples, product updates, thoughtful discussion and networking. Across the sessions, one message came through clearly: effective digital learning is not about adding more technology. It is about using the right tools with clear learning intentions. H5P is one of the features of […]

I prefer using Markdown over Word for document creation, it is simple and structured. Daring Fireball reported the integration of Markdown with OneDrive. I wonder if it could be used for teaching children before using more complex software like Word.

Thinking about teachers and pupils using WordPress, sparked, in part by Our Core Division posted by Matt Mullenweg

A note about the guided tour facility in the Pootlepress Blueprint Generator for the WordPress playground.

The daily create prompts users to explore the #ShowYourStripes webpage, illustrating over a century of temperature changes globally. Links to BiodiversityStripes which highlights the alarming decline in biodiversity. UK moths show an 86% drop since 1970. A recent survey indicates a 66% decline in flying insects in Kent since 2021.

Read: In the Woods by Tana French ★★★ 📚 Doorstop of a police procedural. Lots of psychological twist & turns. Vivid characters. Maybe too much horror in the crime, like most thriller books and movies nowadays.

Like: “Wait. You knew it was damaging mental health, sleep, attention and social development, and your response was… to give younger children even more access?” And we will say: “Well, yes. But everyone else was doing it.” A clear succinct run over social media & the young. Personally I think there might be something in […]

I like pixabot a tiny pixel character creator. Not sure where I saw this, there is a live editor at Pixabots — Pixel Character Avatars which is fun. Could be useful in class I think. Perhaps in Scratch when an uploaded gif is turned into a sprite with a costume for each frame.

This is a really interesting & powerful post. Problems from the tech giants, algorithms & AI, suggesting learning and anger as possible ways to fight back.

I've not posted a set of links for a while, keep saving them, but retired life is busier than I thought it would be.

I’ve been trying out my.wordpress.net and can see some interesting parallels with my all time favourite software HyperCard.

First Impressions: My WordPress is an interesting development. It allows you to have a totally private WordPress site in your browser. You could use this to test, develop or just play around with WordPress. It also looks like it could be used for developing an app just for yourself, or perhaps to export & share.

I saw a note from Sarah Honeychurch in an email thread about a problem with FeedWordPress, the plugin that makes the ScotEdublogs Aggregation work. This alerted Alan Levine who raised an issue and simplified the solution. Alan also had blogged about the problem, with his usual speed! I’ve applied the fix and this post should […]