Tag: reading
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Link: Reading – It Can’t Be About the Numbers
https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2024/01/26/reading-it-cant-be-about-the-numbers/ …attentive reading fosters a sense of self and individual philosophy. Allowing time for the slow absorption of long-form content pushes back against mindless societal acceleration. The hope is that the practice counters the effect of Orwell’s “group think”.
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Physiopedia courses on developing skills to support learning
During 2023 I prepared a series of courses for Physiopedia Plus, aimed at helping students develop skills to support their learning. These courses are an extension of the Learning to Learn In Beta project I started a few years ago. Here are the courses on Physiopedia Plus, which are are accredited in Australia, South Africa,…
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A handy guide for dealing with books you don’t like
A step-by-step guide to help you decide how to deal with a book you don’t like. Via Dave Nicholls at his Paradoxa substack.
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Weekly digest (08-14 May 2023)
Using language models to write single-use apps George Veletsianos describes how he used ChatGPT to create a piece of software to solve a problem he faced during a research project. What are some of the implications? Teaching people pseudo code is much easier than teaching people the ins and outs of different programming languages. Could…
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Weekly digest (24-30 Apr 2023)
Modularisation of AI modelsI’m not even sure if this is a category, but I’ve been thinking about modularisation in the AI ecosystem. Basically, where you have component parts that are chained together to achieve objectives that no single component can achieve independently. When OpenAI enabled plugins for ChatGPT they extended the functionality of their language…
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Tool: Wikiwand – a modern reader for Wikipedia
Wikiwand is a modern reader for web and mobile, that optimizes Wikipedia’s amazing content for a significantly improved reading experience. Fortunately, all articles on Wikipedia are released under a free license, which allows us to fetch Wikipedia articles and optimize them for maximum readability and enjoyment. At Wikiwand, we’re all about providing you with a…
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Thinking in public: From note to publication – A conversation with David Nicholls
Towards the end of 2021 I recorded a conversation with David Nicholls.[1] I wanted to talk to Dave about his process for converting incoming information into the kinds of outputs that so many in the health professions community find valuable. We talked about how we both try to limit the information we’re exposed to, how we…
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Thinking in public: A conversation with Tom Jesson
Tom Jesson is a physiotherapist, and self-employed researcher and writer based in Houston Texas, who I’ve wanted to speak to for a while. While I’ve always known Tom to be a thoughtful and careful writer, evident in his work that’s been published and shared widely in physiotherapy circles, I’ve not really thought much about how…
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Comment: Reading books vs. engaging with them
TLDR – I think the value of reading a book once (without active engagement) is awkwardly small, and the value of big time investments like reading a book several times – or actively engaging with even part of it – is awkwardly large compared to that. Karnofsky, H. (2021, October 20). Reading books vs. Engaging…
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Resource: An overview of note-taking workflow and tools from Ton Zijlstra
There are hundreds of resources on note-taking systems so don’t take this post as anything more than a collection that caught my attention. Once you go down the ‘zettelkasten’ or ‘digital garden’ rabbit holes, you may find that it takes a while to get out again. If you already have a sense of what the…
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Comment: AI applications taking over professional tasks
Among the many, many tasks required of grade school teachers is that of gauging each student’s reading level, usually by a time-consuming and high-pressure one-on-one examination. Microsoft’s new Reading Progress application takes some of the load off the teacher’s shoulders, allowing kids to do their reading at home and using natural language understanding to help…
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Resource: Open Syllabus Galaxy
Open Syllabus Galaxy is a visualisation representing more than a million of most frequently assigned texts in the Open Syllabus corpus, a database of almost 8 million university syllabi.
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Knowledge is more important than money
Those who work really hard throughout their career but don’t take time out of their schedule to constantly learn will be the new “at-risk” group. They risk remaining stuck on the bottom rung of global competition, and they risk losing their jobs to automation, just as blue-collar workers did between 2000 and 2010 when robots…
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Moving between consuming and creating: Thinking about workflow
I use Pocket a lot. It’s not unusual for me to have more than 500 articles saved to read later, which to be honest, causes me a bit of anxiety. It’s a list of “things to do” that I know I’ll never finish. But I keep adding stuff to the list because I know that…
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I enjoyed reading (November)
Do you have the personality to be an Inquiry-based teacher? (Thom Markham): I’m finding this more and more in my own teaching…when I spend a lot of time engaging with students as people, rather than as recipients of information, they work harder and put in more effort. Of course, that often means that I need…
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I enjoyed reading (April)
Sudden site shutdowns and the perils of living our lives online (John Paul Titlow): When Google decided to shut down Reader and made the announcement a few weeks ago, this really made me think carefully about what I do online, and where I decide to do it. Obviously there’s incredible convenience in having someone else…
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I enjoyed reading (February)
Is the lecture dead? The real purpose of a lecture is to show the mind and heart of the lecturer at work, and to engage the minds and hearts of learners. It’s important to understand that lectures in themselves are not bad but that they, like any teaching medium can be used badly. A good…
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Doing more with less. Or, how to avoid distracting myself
I spend a lot of time online. A lot. And I’m beginning to realise that a lot of that time is spent bouncing around between applications, windows, tabs, etc, just checking up on things. When I get notified that new mail has arrived I have to check it, even though I know that I’ll probably…