When you invent the ship, you also invent the shipwreck; when you invent the plane you also invent the plane crash; and when you invent electricity, you invent electrocution… Every technology carries its own negativity, which is invented at the same time as technical progress.
7 links for the week ahead
- Matthias Bastian (2024-04-14). ChatGPT’s web growth stagnates as Anthropic’s Claude gains ground in AI race.
- Helen Beetham (2024-01-03). Whose Ethics? Whose AI?.
- Donald Clark (2024-05-17). Does This ‘Her’ Moment Mark the Rise of AI Coaching
- Ryan Holiday (2024-07-19). Embrace Your Weirdness.
- Nathan Labenz (2024-06-22). The AI Doctor Can See You Now, With Vivek Natarajan and Khaled Saab From Google.
- Anne-Laure Le Cunff (2024-07-19). Active Reading: How to Become a Better Reader.
- Maximilian Schreiner (2023-12-28). Resemble AI’s Open-Source Model Transforms Noisy Audio Into Crystal-Clear Speech.
Patterns connect values to details
Goodyear, P. (2005). Educational design and networked learning: Patterns, pattern languages and design practice. Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 21(1).
There is a growing demand for advice about effective, time efficient ways of using ICT to support student learning in higher education. This paper uses one such area of activity – networked learning – as a context in which to outline a novel approach to educational design. The paper makes two main contributions. It provides a high level view of the educational design problem space. It then introduces the patterns based approach to educational design… In particular, it makes connections between the technicalities of design and the central place of values. A patterns based approach can help with encoding, sharing and using knowledge for educational design. But it is also a powerful way of connecting educational values and vision to the details of the tasks, tools and resources we offer our students.
Double-exposure images
I love these double-exposure images from Moss and Fog.
