Open Letter in reply: Open Letter in reply: Wikipedia is just a bunch of people deciding what they think is important, adding and correcting things they assert are information. At least, that’s what you’d believe if you took Saturday’s piece…
UPDATE 2016: I wrote a draft paper about this some time ago (in 2014 I guess), I don’t think I’m going to do anything with it (I don’t think it’s quite right either) so download the draft: Assessing the Measure…
New paper out on ORO. This is the accepted Journal of Learning Analytics version (i.e. some changes might still be made) of the paper we wrote up from our LAK13 presentation, and we anticipate it being in publication in the…
This is just my stuff (video & slides) from the conference, with a twitter archive thing too, bit pushed for time but I’d encourage everyone to check out the other presentations :-). Based on my reader chapter (Translated into Russian…
After my LAK13 talk someone (sorry, forget who) asked (roughly): “you don’t actually think you can use learning analytics to tell us about epistemology do you?” In this post, I’ll first discuss the answer to the (intended) question. I’ll then…
Earlier this year I took the Google Advanced Power Searching with Google MOOC. For one of the assignments I did some research on a relatively long standing interest of mine – the use of internet in exams in Denmark, a…
Does the absence of reply imply no opinion, laziness, no knowledge (“I don’t know about [x,y]”), no positive knowledge (e.g. thinking someone should “go x”) or/and no negative e.g. advising them “don’t go y”), a belief someone else will do…
This post is a copy of the course syllabus for week 6 as of 17:15 GMT 15/03/2013 (licenced under a CC attribution licence) https://learn.canvas.net/courses/33/wiki/week-6-epistemology-and-pedagogy George Siemens runs the course, and Simon Buckingham Shum and I wrote the material for this…
This post discusses epistemology – first the sorts of questions we might ask when applying epistemology to education, and then a general taster of the areas epistemology covers (which is by no means comprehensive). If you want to comment, click…
http://www.extended-knowledge.ppls.ed.ac.uk/?page_id=163 Can I retire and just let Edinburgh get on with it? I’ve never been to Scotland….I wonder if I could visit. I wrote my MA thesis at the IoE on the implications of the extended mind thesis for how…
Algorithms and big data are provocative right? Is Google personalisation a risk to our epistemic autonomy? Are recommender systems epistemically problematic in general? Is an over reliance on search engines to know what we want – even if we don’t…
So here’s an interesting question – are exam grades good at (indeed, are they aimed at) establishing the epistemic virtue of the student? Having piqued your interest, I’m afraid I can only offer some thoughts on it here – but…
That’s the law in Florida ya know…. http://www.historians.org/perspectives/issues/2006/0609/0609nch1.cfm
The new Facebook Graph search will allow users to conduct a much finer grained search across their networks than they currently can. It’s not hard to imagine how facebook & Bing’s relationship might be built on here for feeding into…
I read ‘Social Epistemology’ at some point last term (see below for citation), and got a lot from it. The blending of social-normative elements of epistemology, pragmatism, and virtue epistemology are particularly interesting. I wish I’d know more about this…
What does it mean to think that a pupil has made progress? What would it look like if a group of pupils all made the same amount (relatively) of progress? Thinking about these questions reveals a lot about what we…
In my work we might look at implementing pragmatic lessons on the web in two ways: 1) the technical solution seeks to represent the data ‘pragmatically’ somehow; 2) the user solution seeks to scaffold the user to understand the pragmatic…
In a spark of creativity which kept me active for a while over Christmas, I had an idea about using the feedback ratings on the bottom of most Wikipedia pages as a tool to analyse the epistemic judgements on those…
Following on from my ‘Evaluating Google as an Epistemic Tool’ post I’m just exploring the Open University’s RISE and the related OpenURL projects both of which use log data on academic searches to provide users with article and journal level…
I wrote (with my supervisors) a draft paper, available for commenting on google docs (it’s already there so I won’t transfer it to this system). The paper is available at the link below and discusses how I conceptualise the relatioship…
