A key issue for remote workers and really important to address to prevent burnout.
My advice:
1. Set your 'normal' work hours and train people to respect them.
2. Use tools to indicate availability (change your username if you have to!)
3. Be consistent.#remoteworking https://t.co/RjQpkPsnbf— ˗ˏˋ Doug Belshaw ˎˊ˗ 🇪🇺 ☠️ ✊ (@dajbelshaw) August 30, 2019
Month: August 2019
I really like your approach Colin. I must admit that I have become more , however I have a lot of work to do in making some of my practices more rigid.
What if the arts shifted from being a lesson on the timetable to being viewed as integral to learning and as a powerful means for inquiry?
My presentation explored key concepts that, in my experience, underpin the use of coaching in schools. I drew together insights from my reading, research, practical and personal experience of coaching in schools, with a particular focus on the organisational conditions necessary for coaching, and the effects of coaching on individuals and schools. I interrogated the complex interlocking elements that schools need to balance when working to build a coaching culture, including context, trust, rapport, way of being, differentiation, holonomy and semantic space.
Zeynep Tufekci provides a thread documenting her experience of the Hong Kong Protests. Not only does she include various observations, but she also curates a number of other resources.
The new feature, part of a wider set of tools covering “off-Facebook activity”, will not delete anything from Facebook’s servers, instead simply “disconnecting” data from an individual user’s account.
Erica Southgate discusses a new report and project produced for the Australian Government Department of Education to support the analysis of artificial intelligence in education. It touches on some of the concerns around AI, including:
- Bias
- Black box nature
- Digital human rights issues
- Deep fakes
- The potential for a lack of independent advice for educational leaders
The most recent study, which compared brains when they were listening and reading, showed that words tend to activate the same brain regions with the same intensity, regardless of input.
It was a finding that surprised Fatma Deniz, a postdoctoral researcher at the Gallant Lab and lead author of the study. The subject’s brains were creating meaning from the words in the same way, regardless if they were listening or reading. In fact, the brain maps for both auditory and visual input they created from the data looked nearly identical.
Jennifer Walter finds that context of reading or listening more than the mode itself? Stephen Downes suggests that much of the finding in this report are left to interpretation.
is just as productive as reading a book. I wonder if what matters more is the via Ian O’Byrne
MIT’s president, L. Rafael Reif, recently released an apology for the Institution’s ties to Epstein. I’m happy that the Institution acknowledges its role in the scandal. However, I find it ironic that the Institution took money that hurt these women, and their response is to throw money back. Money to non-profits is useful, but what will truly make change is a change of leadership and a strict precedent set for this to never happen again. Taking money from Epstein once is a mistake. Taking it over many years is not.
Five social networks that offer ripe opportunities for a “reunion tour” of your own
- Flickr. Owned and acquired, and later sold in a fashion very similar to Tumblr itself, the photo-sharing service (now owned by SmugMug) has moved to a pay model, but it could still be a great tool for folks that are looking for a more low-key version of photo sharing.
- DeviantArt. Going back to a vintage site doesn’t necessarily mean that the site will look like it did 15 years ago—something that can definitely be said of DeviantArt, which just released an ambitious redesign that was so out of character for the old-school platform that it recently trended on Twitter. It’s an opportunity to go back just after a snazzy renovation.
- LiveJournal/Dreamwidth. Technically, the old-school LiveJournal is still around, and the one you definitely don’t feel like sharing might still be online. But its ownership has changed dramatically over the years, in keeping in tune with its Russian user base, and it has led to moves that you might not be cool with. Fortunately, there’s an alternative in the form of DreamWidth, a fork of the original LiveJournal that’s been around for a decade.
- Internet Relay Chat or Usenet. If you’re a bit older, you may have gotten your first taste of a social internet through either of these digital protocols. They’re still around, though their focuses have changed dramatically, and you may find yourself most at home if you’re a developer. (IRC will be easier to get back into, just an FYI.)
- Blogging. As I wrote at the beginning of the year, the blogosphere is a culture worth defending, and if you can add something to it, you should! If you’re looking for the most retro-seeming blogging experience possible, Blogger is a good choice because Google hasn’t updated it in years.
Ernie Smith reflects on Automattic’s purchase of Tumblr and uses this as an opportunity to review and revisit some social media spaces that have seen better days, but still might be worth our revisiting. Personally speaking, I am an advocate for blogging and possibly POSSEing to some of these other places. Therefore, hedging your bets both ways.
Fiona, I forgot about the ‘Hire ten for $xxx’ deal while growing up. It was always so serendipitous. There would be those few films that had just transferred from Overnight to Weekly that you wanted to rent, but then you would be left grabbing all sorts of random flicks to get up to the given total.
On a side note, you might be interested in Reclaim Video and the effort to reclaim lost memories and technology.
Marten Koomen responds to the suggestion of having Year 9 NAPLAN test linked to future job applications.
1) My academic work addresses disengagement between system and citizen, which I've generally approached from student as citizen. This quote from Merlino shows the system disengaging from its citizenry.
System and citizen have now dehumanised the other in education.— Marten Koomen (@tulip_education) August 27, 2019
2) there are several 'technical' reasons why NAPLAN is disengaged from students.
i) Trend reporting distorts test content (paper under review)
ii) Standard errors means many students are not accurately reported
iii) NAPLAN online cannot be validly equated with paper-based— Marten Koomen (@tulip_education) August 27, 2019
3) Margaret Wu, the developer of the software that scales NAPLAN, has written extensively about the standard errors in NAPLAN, and how NAPLAN results cannot be used to make inferences about students. Here just one
— Marten Koomen (@tulip_education) August 27, 2019
4) Related to the standard error issue, is that NAPLAN online purports to more reliable (lower standard errors) but this violates that the second requirement for equating (a bit technical)
von Davier, A. (Ed.) (2011). Statistical models for test equating, scaling, and linking.⬇️ pic.twitter.com/PLI0XXcqqw— Marten Koomen (@tulip_education) August 27, 2019
5) I understand Merlino has largely left system management to bureaucrats who are now largely informed by corporate consultancy firms. These are distinct from the eduDrivel the floats on top of the teaching profession. This is where system-citizen disengagement emerges.
— Marten Koomen (@tulip_education) August 27, 2019
6) IMO the best way to burst this bubble is for there to be a legal challenge to NAPLAN, which could be mounted on the basis of a student being adversely affected for example. This will not happen, the industry has power players. But I'm here to help. End thread, thanks.
— Marten Koomen (@tulip_education) August 27, 2019
Thanks Doug for sharing this last episode. A classic ramble to end on.
“This is really interesting for us. It’s one of the very few chances we’ve had to look for evidence of parasitic infection in the bronze age,” said Marissa Ledger, a biological anthropologist on the Cambridge team. “It’s possible that a lot of these eggs were passing through the system, but a lot of people would have been infected. In a single coprolite we’re finding eggs from multiple different species.”
How do I engage someone whose viewpoint differs significantly from mine without necessarily triggering the shame-defensiveness-anger cycle?
I don’t have definitive answers but I’m thinking of ways I can help myself wrestle with these situations more effectively – which means in a way that I consider my own care and safety first before trying to save the world that’s already on fire.
Reflecting on the recent furore that has arisen around Tom Rogers’ post sharing who to follow on Twitter, Sherri Spelic share some tips and questions to consider when dealing with the toxic side of Twitter.
– Is my engagement here necessary or essential?
– Will this conversation be helped by my intervention? In what way?
– Use a side commentary by quote-tweeting the original source of conflict.
– Use questions or invite the person to elaborate on a point of confusion.
– What is this involvement calling forth in me?
– Is this time I have to dedicate to this cause right now?
This always has me coming back to Ian Guest’s PhD about Twitter and wondering about all the possibilities, as well as what part Twitter itself plays with all this.
Marginalia
The next time we feel drawn into a rage-inducing exchange, we can perhaps first ask ourselves how the platform benefits and if that’s where our energies are really best spent. Twitter loves our rage. Our individual and public health do not.
It is certainly far from ideal. Although I could use Indigenous to post to my site, I want more control, therefore post via the browser.
via Kottke