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Layering for Learning and Insert Learning
I created the phrase “layering for learning” some years ago to describe a collection of digital tools with a specific educational purpose. The phrase refers to online services that allow educators or learners to add instructional elements to existing web … Continue reading
What we have lost. Personal Computing is Seldom Personal
I have a solid understanding of digital technology because, while not a programmer, I have a long history of relying on the technology of the day. Even years before the personal computer, I wrote hundreds of pages of my dissertation … Continue reading
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The Digital Paradox: A Multi-Dimensional Analysis of Screen Time and Mental Health
A recent analysis of the screen time and mental health issue (Gupta and colleagues) has labeled positions taken on the basis of the highly inconsistent findings as oversimplified, hiding more nuanced representations that can be destructive or helpful. It follows … Continue reading
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Ground News – The Facts if You are Willing to Work for Them
Online news has become the target of a good deal of deserved complaints. Many sources still existing or derived from paper papers are cutting journalists as ad revenues have dwindled. Online only sources have proliferated, but get by without actual … Continue reading
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Legislative Struggles in Regulating AI Use by Children
The Trump administration has just released the National AI Legislative Framework. As I understand what a legislative framework means, the goal is to establish goals for legislators to guide related laws on identified topics in constrast say to temporary executive … Continue reading
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Vibe Coding an OPML File
I spent thousands of hours coding from the 1980s through maybe 2010. My original interest in technology was in exploring potential benefits and this first required I write learning games for the Apple II and eventually required that I operate … Continue reading