This would allow us to fetch an annotation and all of its replies, already in a conversation tree, using a single call to Elasticsearch. Or, to fetch a set of N annotations matching some query, and all their replies, using a single call to Elasticsearch. Updates to replies result in the reindexing of their thread root annotation.
Humble school teacher here, but this sounds very right to me.
not indexed in their own right as separate documents.
Makes sense to me from a discursive stand point.
replies always inherit their group from the thread root
Even if I annotated as "only me" on a group annotation for a group I'm a member of?
public replies to (your own) private annotations
Wah?
That means that they can independently be set to either “shared” within a group (members of that group can see the reply) or not (only the reply’s author can see the reply).
I see this as something key to retain depending on if it causes problems.
Use case: a prof has preannotated a text for a course--perhaps as a public group. She wants to use this every semester. She'll use groups so that each semester's students have their own conversation, but that conversation can and should include her, maybe they could just be public annotations.
But it should be evident from the kinds of facts that bold and dogged reporting unearths,
There's something naive here in her conception of the mediated process of information production and dissemination.
But these calls should be based on the individual merits of the stories,
So apply this to the above mention of Clinton's email. Does the story merit coverage? this much coverage?
The shame reflects an ugly and lethal trend in this country’s history—an ever-present impulse to ignore and minimize racism, an aversion to calling it by its name.
To me, it's something more: it's the ability to call it by name in one sentence and then in the next completely ignore it's presence. That's the problem it would seem with TNC's colleagues at The Atlantic, one day calling out Clinton calling out Trump's racism, the next pointing out Trump's racism.
The shame reflects an ugly and lethal trend in this country’s history—an ever-present impulse to ignore and minimize racism, an aversion to calling it by its name.
To me, it's something more: it's the ability to call it by name in one sentence and then in the next completely ignore it's presence. That's the problem it would seem with TNC's colleagues at The Atlantic, one day calling out Clinton calling out Trump's racism, the next pointing out Trump's racism.
white grievance, no matter how ill-founded, can never be humiliating nor disqualifying. On the contrary, it is a right to be respected at every level of American society from the beer-hall to the penthouse to the newsroom.
God damn, TNC consistently hits the nail on the head when it comes to contemporary US race relations.
University of Texas at Austin.
Huh....
integrated with every major LMS;
Ding.
FERPA compliant
Check.
automatically generated "student confusion report"
Awesome.
This study was cited in a New Yorker article on becoming a better online reader.
Moreover,to help users create annotations with appropriate semantic tags to promote reading comprehension, the proposed system provides seventypes of reading annotation scaffolds: reasoning, discrimination, linking, summary, quizzing, explanation, and other (Fig.1).
To do
CC @judell
facilitate text review.
More benefits: as a study tool, review
how different article styles
Hmmm...
can reduce thetime spent on irrelevant discussions.
Focuses class discussion
high-level thinkin
Critical, analytical thinking
reading attitude
Love this phrase!
positive in-terest and high learning satisfaction
More benefits.
irect and explicit comprehension,inferential comprehension performance, and use of reading strategy.
Benefits of collaborative annotation.
raditional paper-based reading annotation method and face-to-facediscussions.
Suggests the two are exclusive when they don't need to be.
However, many studies agree that screen-based reading leads toshallow reading, short attention spans, and poor comprehension.
The problem h solves?
Carnegie Classification
test
Advance digital age learning.
Duh.
Take advantage of student-centered pedagogy.
Student directed research? Any TX area students?
Encourage audience participation
workshop?
For software developers,
Agree with everything above and below about interrogating the underlying pedagogies of edtech tools and software developers collaborating with teachers, etc. but are AUPs written by software developers?
After reviewing 109 AUPs,
Would be amazing to see these annotated!
transmitting information
Fascinating and disturbing find.
her advisor uses the "intrusive advising" recommended by the Guided Pathways to Success program
LOL. Looks like I annotated this article with hypothes.is a while back when I was researching a talk on surveilance in edtech.
I've long been intrigued by this type of advisory surveilance after hearing a very compelling defense of its use at a conference: the claim, by the President of Georgia State, was that these programs did indeed improve retention.
In full expectation of being bombarded by dissenting comments, I'm interested in troubling the standard opposition of surveilance as applied to technology by many critical academics. (And I say this with a long love affair with Foucault et al.)
Without going to far off topic here, is it totally fair to move from the censorship of information that is the focus here to what could be at least I'd hope a more nuanced use of data to inform?
Because the filters between her and the Internet block access to information,
Not to derail this great discussion, but Isn't the Internet already a filter? We need to teach students that even Google is always already filtered...
athom, that you are real, and then he becomes a warm, gay, sensitive
wow
volunteer
So this is an opt-in project.
NSF’s Cyberlearning and Future Learning Technologies program
“With a better understanding of a learner’s state of mind, textbooks can make personalized recommendations for further study and review.”
What's missing here is the agency of the learners. There's not reason such a tool/study can't empower (and protect) the student in this process. As described here, they do sound a bit like a rat in a maze.
unobtrusively
This claim certainly needs to be troubled...
nonprofit, open-source
Some of us had a conversation on an inferior conversation tool called Twitter earlier. Does the non-profitness, openness of the project save it from some of the critiques leveled there? I don't think so. I especially appreciated how @JenProf complicated the idea of what open means there.
it was nobody’s biz until you got there
Observation and experience require a subject?
Open to teachers,
hi!
Today, we have since become so habituated to public lighting that our primary association with street lights is that they deter criminal activity and make us feel safe.
Is that really a false assumption? I'm totally on board with the overall argument here--big Mike Davis fan!--but feel this goes a step too far.
Austin's moon towers were supposedly a response to a late-nineteenth century serial killer), but have not prevented youth from gathering, indeed they have occasioned such gatherings:
Designs that are unpleasant to some are put into place to make things more pleasant for others, and that latter category might just include you.
I'm really excited to see how we turn the argument of this essay toward the design of learning technologies and courses, specifically in how we might locate tacit power relations in seemingly innocuous (sometimes "unpleasant") interfaces...
Automation need not impoverish education: we welcome our new robot colleagues.
Audrey Watters had something different to say about this idea of automation at last year's DPL Institute.
Face-time is over-valued.
I'm not sure we need to say this to defend the value of digital pedagogy. I'd rather view it all as more of a continuum than a differently valenced dichotomy depending on your POV.
Designing for discovery is tricky business
Indeed, it's almost an oxymoron.
Having just finished a year working at an educational technology company, I’ve also seen from that side how learners become quantities on a spreadsheet, numbers on an infographic. I worry that researching learners and learning is not the same as knowing learners and learning
Especially coming out of the (shared) biographical context here, I'm interested in further discussing this idea...
we talked about the importance of adopting practices that keep complexity in our educational processes,
This reminds me of one of my favorite quotes, from Patricia Williams's The Alchemy of Race and Rights:
That life is complicated is a fact of great analytic importance.
That’s hard to do.
And a positively (and positive) anti-corporate logic. Witness the rhetoric of "solutions" so pervasive in at least Silicon Valley tech and edtech.
we should make space for things that don’t fit into our tidy conceptions about education.
Here's perhaps an interesting take on this issue form someone working on the tech side of edtech, trying to build tech for teachers and students, and help them leverage that tech for teaching and learning:
As I say above, it's obviously hard to market this kind of "untidiness." When people are "shopping" for technology for the classroom, most don't want things that half work or might work or try it and let us know what works/doesn't. That only goes so far.
Don't get me wrong, the early adopters of both products I've worked on were just the kind of people who wanted to be part of that kind of experiment and by collaborating closely with them, I believe I've been able to direct product development in both projects towards a more authentic pedagogical value. But that process doesn't, at least I don't think it can, "scale"--a term I realize has it's own problematic ideology.
But I also get frustrated with this lack of tidiness because I want to offer a good product/service/experience to my educational users. I don't want to disrupt the teaching and learning process that should be the focus of everyone's energy in a classroom by my own tool's buginess. I don't want to suggest that a tool can be invisible, but I also don't want a tool to be the focus.
Despite my hesitancy about "untidiness"--no doubt further entrenched by my own anal retentiveness--I'm really interested in how edtech, or perhaps indie edtech, might actually incorporate this kind of philosophy. As long as centers for teaching and learning, and teachers and learners themselves, are on board, I don't see why it can't work.
but you can’t actually “increase dancing”
I'd argue that YouTube has increased dancing, but I'm mostly just using that as an excuse to share this video:
the way a sentence arises from grammatical templates/rules
Or the way a poem/argument emerges from the form of a sonnet.
work on architecture,
Seems like architecture will be a valuable metaphor for our conversation about instructional design.
Interestingly, Alan Levine opens a recent blog on Domain of One's Own with a nice architectural metaphor for that great project:
Like a small stubborn, unique, old fashioned house surrounded by modern monolithic mega modern glass and steel structures, the Domain of Ones Own project started at the University of Mary Washington stands out as one hope amongst Educational Technology’s adoration of mega scale, management, analytics, automation, and tall tall towers of data, data, data.
but scientific staff.
So this is a scientists POV, that's kind of interesting. I guess the social media pressure is largely (though not exclusively) around building lab brands?
Perhaps it's worth pointing out that there are many different ways to use social media, academically and otherwise. Kim Kardashian, my friend from high school, and myself all have different ways of using these tools. Some are worthy or social critique, some annoying, some fun, some empowering.
Instagrammer
Not sure why Instagram is the go-to social media platform here. I would have gone with Twitter which, at least in the humanities, indeed does seem to serve a critical role.
employability is not directly correlated to how many likes you get on your Instagram posts.
At least in academia, employability is definitely not correlated to social media presence, though I would actually argue it should be: as evidence of the public scholarship of socially networked scholars.
the work of careers advice gurus.
Is this a thing? Particularly in academia? I never got any advice about careers from someone in such a role, none the less a protip about the role of social media in such a career.
Using social media to impress people that you know
This is an assumption about the role of social media and the goals of socially networked academics that is not supported.
I'm a serious academic,
Title kind of sets the tone as rather condescending.
it provides an additional way for students to go wrong beside the Public or Group problem
What do you mean by "go wrong" here? Annotate in the wrong place?
But for some of the summer articles (one out of three of mine) in Hypothes.is, the section one highlights is quoted in the annotation without spaces, which is ugly.
I'd like to see an example here. I know this is a problem we need to address with how poetry line breaks are not rendered in annotation referents.
I had thought that analysis and counting their contributions
So, what you want is a dashboard of student activity? Where you can get a count of annotations but also respond? Would you want to respond directly in app or privately?
In any case, let's definitely talk further about your needs here.
I have been contacted by Jeremy Dean of Hypothes.is for ways to integrate with Canvas – this might be a huge help next year.
In its initial state, the alpha app will simply activate h automatically on select PDFs and public webpages within the LMS.
But, we do hope to quickly build out a feature that would allow the export of a set of annotations (student A's annotations on text 1) into speedgrader. This should allow for easy check on completion as well as a way to offer substantive feedback on a student's annotation practice more broadly.
no way to limit that or point them directly to the group page
This is desperately needed. The latter is coming sooner than the former.
We have partnered with Hypothes.is to enable students to highlight and take notes in the text. The discreet pop-up menu on the right enables students to create a free Hypothes.is account that will save their highlighting and note-taking and allow them to see others’ public notes and highlights. *Note: we intend to beta test this feature in the Reader for the fall and for both the Reader and the main text in the spring.*
This is awesome news!
see their surroundings in a new way
Do they really see something, though? It's neat that the game is sending people to parks and landmarks, but how much are they actually taking in of that real world?
It strikes me that web annotation is a kind of "augmented reading" that might be compared to augmented reality programs like Pokemon Go and interrogated/celebrated in similar ways.
Do we lose focus on our surroundings while social reading--distracted from the realities around us by the virtual? Or does social reading help us make connections, help us to see the world around us better?
Personally speaking, I've both discovered a piece of public art that I've never known about before and nearly walked into oncoming traffic as a result of playing around with the new Pokemon Go game.
No, Donald, you don’t.
Love the simplicity of this line. Hillary should pocket it for the debates.
Sounds a bit like a parent talking to a child which seems about right.
Annotate this article with images from Jacob Riis.
After so many years of Republican politicians refusing to even talk about factory closures,
But haven't Democrats been doing this, like, forever?
deeply pessimistic vision of a country
And then there’s Donald Trump.
It was here that in delivery, after the crowd booed at the first mention of the GOP nominee, that Obama ad-libbed one the best lines of the convention: "Don't boo, vote!"
Given the jeers from "Bernie or Bust" delegates over the first few days of the convention, it was hard not to read the line as a broader rebuke to those who might sit this one out.
or jihadists or homegrown demagogues
This is a powerful line (read: burn), basically lumping together Trump--the homegrown demogogue--and terrorists.
It occurred to me that Stack Exchange and Federated Wiki were in fact part of a broader movement in how collaboration was now happening in communities, and that it was time to bring this more general process into the OER movement.
Someone should write a book on these different knowledge making projects (Wikipedia, Genius, Reddit included) and the different interfaces they created and the philosophies and politics that underlay those interfaces and the communities that become of them...
The problem, said Ward, was that wiki was a relentless consensus engine. And for certain things (e.g. encyclopedias) that might not be a bad thing, but as a way of working it had its drawbacks.
I'm fascinated by this point.
This was/is one of the critiques of (Rap) Genius as well: hip as its authoritative voice was, it nonetheless moved toward the encyclopedia. Though the company has since pivoted to allow more individual commentary than encyclopedic exposition--I don't think they've quite worked this out in the UI yet--the original site, and the part I think that is still most compelling was the Wikipedia for rap lyrics.
But from a pedagogical perspective, that expository mode of analysis was really only one, and perhaps not even the most important, use of collaborative annotation. For my part, I allowed teachers to duplicate texts and create their own versions, instructing their students to annotate however thy wanted them to: authoritatively, discursively, inquisitively, with GIFs.
own version of the page,
So this forking is something I've long not grasped from this wiki revival (and the whole git movement). What if the need for consensus has less to do with the need for singular, encyclopedic voice than simply a single page. That is, it's a UI problem more than a content problem.
Perhaps I need to spend more time in GitHub et al., but generally I don't want to read a bunch of separate takes on a thing. For me, the window of time in which a hashtag is useful for knowledge gathering is quite short. I feel like I would get lost among the forks.
Part of the reason that I like annotation is that the "fork" of the original content is not too distant and still very much attached to a single page. To me that trail seems cleaner and clearer than duplicating content and starting a new path...
And in the end the work that is produced is often acceptable to everyone but exciting to none.
From a literary theory POV, it's also antithetical to (post)modern thinking about how we make meaning of texts.
Teaching and learning are the core business of most higher education institutions. How much of that core business are we willing to outsource?
Such an important question!
The idea is to separate the course administrative tools & functions (like classlists and gradebooks) from the teaching and learning tools, and allow faculty to mix and match tools to fit their pedagogical needs.
What's the role of content here?
Our students are not us. If we merely teach to how we prefer to learn, we exclude a majority of our students.
This is perhaps the single most important (and in retrospect most obvious) lesson I learned as a young teacher. It's not just how we "prefer to learn," though it's everything from what we bring to the learning moment, what we had for breakfast, how much we slept last night, etc.
Melania Trump: From Small-Town Slovenia to Doorstep of White House
Should be "Melania Trump: From Small-Town Illinois to Doorstep of the White House," in following Trump's plagiarism of Michelle Obama's 2008 DNC convention speech.
n the face of danger
This fearmongering tone was continued on night one of the 2016 GOP convention.
xploratory grants for developing new pathways.
Like how about open education tools and app stores?
Plato makes it clear in Phaedrus
This has become a go-to reference for both defending and critiquing new media. See here for example.
If education is automated.
Who's actually making this argument in such stark terms?
those of us in education – students, teachers, administrators –
This is obviously personal, but why not include folks working on education software? (I work on the software side of edtech but consider myself an educator) I realize that Watters in particular has a view of edtech as largely unaligned with the interests of practicing educators. And that criticism (and exclusion) is often warranted. But if we perpetuate the dichotomy between educators and educational software developers (broadly defined) then it would seem we don't stand much of a chance of rectifying the overall situation.
A recent Pew Research survey found that white evangelical Christians supported Mr. Trump, 78-17, an even larger margin than Mr. Romney’s lead at this time in 2012.
This boggles my mind.
When Little Bird, a social media data mining company, analyzed a week of Mr. Trump’s Twitter activity, it found that almost 30 percent of the accounts Mr. Trump retweeted in turn followed one or more of 50 popular self-identified white nationalist accounts.
Scary.
Why do we keep judges out of politics? To protect the rule of law.
I'm just not so sure the two can be so easily separated...
Ethan Winnett, 31, of Waukegan, Ill., said Mr. Sanders might be being “duped” or “threatened” by Mrs. Clinton and vowed never to vote for her even if she’s back by the senator. The computer engineer believes Mrs. Clinton is “more crooked than Trump” and said he felt “betrayed” by Mr. Sanders’s endorsement.
UGH
a tight hug.
Oh, there it is!
yet no hug
Heretofore known as the non-hug that elected President Donald Trump.
an unprecedented decline in bar passage rate.
Can't resist: I can think of other reasons why this might be the case and they don't have to do with the fashion/opinions of the profs.
you are completely ignorant
A little scary that these sweeping statements are the work of someone in graduate school for law. They sound like they're written by someone much younger.
your view that some of those demographics matter more than others. That alienates and isolates all non-black groups.
As the professor points out below, this "invisible 'more'" (or "only") is one of the fundamental misreadings of the #BlackLivesMatter slogan and movement.
ungentleness
What a perfect, terrifying neologism for the Trump movement..
—they only picked it up because when I went, and when I announced, that I’m running for President, I said, ‘You know, this country has a big, big problem with illegal immigration,’ and all of a sudden we started talking about it
So sue me, O.K.?
Great campaign slogan for Trump.
Let me begin by thanking Harris Wofford for his contributions to this country in so many different ways.
Wofford is a former US senator who was a surrogate for Obama during the campaign and had just introduced the candidate before the speech. He has had an uncanny presence at many important moments in US history. Here he is with JFK in 1962--the occasion was the first contingent of the Peace Corps which Wofford helped start.
any reasonable person in Secretary Clinton’s position, or in the position of those government employees with whom she was corresponding about these matters, should have known that an unclassified system was no place for that conversation.
This assumes people understand how email works.
to increase attainment of high-quality credentials through expanded use of the DQP and Tuning to build a learning-based credentials system.
What role might h play in such an ecosystem?
Instructional processes must begin and end with students ― with “learners and what they learn.” This idea—of shifting the focus away from an institution-centric construct and toward understanding and meeting the needs of students—is absolutely central.
Very much aligns with the NGDLE movement at EDUCAUSE.
Instructional Processes
Focus on pedagogy
Learner-Centered
focus on student-centered pedagogy
One of the candidates running for President this year has promised to deport eleven million undocumented immigrants living in the United States, as well as block Muslims from entering the country altogether. Try to imagine this policy enacted using the tools of modern technology. The FBI would subpoena Facebook for information on every user born abroad. Email and phone conversations would be monitored to check for the use of Arabic or Spanish, and sentiment analysis applied to see if the participants sounded "nervous". Social networks, phone metadata, and cell phone tracking would lead police to nests of hiding immigrants.
Right, the whole NSA thing seems even scarier when I imagine Trump not Obama in charge. I guess that's in part the whole finger on the button argument.
They invest in tools, esp early stage.
Direct Investments We make a limited number of grants outside of our challenge efforts to nonprofit entrepreneurs developing breakthrough tools and services that can strengthen the design and implementation of innovative school models and have the potential to achieve scale and sustainability.
They make direct investments in innovative tools
Metadata that have been stripped of all direct and indirect identifiersare notconsidered protected informationunder FERPA because they are not PII.
But this data is only interesting from a consumer angle if it is linked to individuals.
In order to create studentaccounts, the districtor schoolwill likely need to give the provider the students’ names and contact informationfrom the students’ education records, which areprotected byFERPA
The basic info that h collects does categorize as PI according to FERPA.
So creating accounts without email addresses would be a way to circumvent FERPA.
personally identifiable information (PII) from students’ education records from unauthorized disclosure.
Limit retention to what is useful.
So what data does h retain?
Do annotations count as data?
software is increasingly deployed from hosted services, as opposed to on a local district network
So if data is hosted locally then it's less of/not an issue?
(but not nonprofits)
COPPA doesn't apply to non-profits?
Madeleine Pape, a 2008 Olympian from Australia, testified for Chand. Pape lost to Caster Semenya in the 2009 World Championships, Semenya’s last race before her sex-test results were made public. Pape had heard runners complain that Semenya was a man or had male-like advantages, and she was angry that Semenya seemed to win so easily. “At the time, I felt that people like Caster shouldn’t be allowed to compete,” Pape told me. But in 2012, Pape began work on a sociology Ph.D. focusing on women in sport. “With my running days behind me, I had the space to think more critically about all that,” she says. “Until that point, I had no idea that the science of sex differences is extremely contested and has shifted over time, as have the regulations in sports, which change but don’t improve as they try to get at the same questions.”
I love this.
To get to that future, we have to think and act with our children’s Internet in mind.
This means your file can come from someone else’s computer nearby—more quickly, and without going through third parties
a collection of overlays
Hmmm
Even if you trust everyone spying on you right now, the data they're collecting will eventually be stolen or bought by people who scare you. We have no ability to secure large data collections over time.
Fair enough.
And "Burn!!" on Microsoft with that link.
You'll see a residential theme park for tech workers, surrounded by areas of poverty and misery that have seen no benefit and ample harm from our presence. We pretend that by maximizing our convenience and productivity, we're hastening the day when we finally make life better for all those other people.
Love how Marcej grounds his argument in the everyday geography of the tech world.
If after decades we can't improve quality of life in places where the tech élite actually lives, why would we possibly make life better anywhere else?
Damning question!
People who excel at software design become convinced that they have a unique ability to understand any kind of system at all, from first principles, without prior training, thanks to their superior powers of analysis. Success in the artificially constructed world of software design promotes a dangerous confidence.
Been there.
games with photorealistic graphics, and stand now on the cusp of a new wave of virtual and augmented reality experiences.
No doubt all this will be very cool and maybe revolutionary in certain ways. The simple sensory experience of walking through the whatevillions of molecules we pass through each day just can't be completely replicated. It'll just be another carnival ride.
But we do not need change based on the demagogy, bigotry and anti-immigrant sentiment that punctuated so much of the Leave campaign’s rhetoric — and is central to Donald J. Trump’s message.
Can one be taken without the other? I don't know the answer, but have the feeling they are more intertwined.