Geoff Cain
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@RobertTalisse Yay! America wins again!

January 22, 2023
Geoff Cain
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January 19, 2023
Geoff Cain
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@shannonmattern Feedly is part of my daily routine. It keeps me out of going too deeply into social media.

January 17, 2023
Geoff Cain
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@hrheingold @bruces @jonl I loved the Well back in the day. Of course, I could never afford it. But I was on there once and found a test account of some kind. I guessed its password (it was like user: support, pw; support, or something like it) & used it for a bit. I finally reported it to a tech admin and I was told that I was mistaken and that was impossible. I went on using the account for another year or so. I was introduced to some really extraordinary people, like Howard.

January 14, 2023
Geoff Cain
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I love "known true" stories that include satanically possessed talking dogs.

January 13, 2023
Geoff Cain
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@OkieSpaceQueen We just got a new Sumatran Tiger at the Point Defiance Zoo in Tacoma, WA: pdza.org/animals/asian-forest-

January 12, 2023
Geoff Cain
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Future Post: Dismantling A.I.
This is a "guest post" by ChatGPT. I asked "it" to write an essay on how to dismantle the strangle-hold AI has on society just in case it is needed for the future. I was relieved that I do not have to go back in time and kill Sarah Conner. I was disappointed that it seems to think that A.I. is integral and inevitable. I am giving it a "C-" for not fully addressing
geoffcain.com/blog/future-post

January 12, 2023
Geoff Cain
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@rickweinberg I would like to add that if I can't do something on a website (or a computer program) it is just as likely that their documentation sucks! (e.g. ANY Oracle product)

January 12, 2023
Geoff Cain
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@richieholland I am never going back to the steaming pile of birdsite. I am enjoying the lack of hate, Course Hero, and open-washing here but I know that could shift - what won't shift is my new relationship to social media that now demands that I take more control over who I let into my world and what I let into my brain.

January 12, 2023
Geoff Cain
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Funny sentence from a vendor email today "There is growing concern that the college degree is no longer revered as the preferred method to obtaining valuable employment." There are so many things wrong with this sentence except the reverence part. My MS.Ed must be revered.

January 12, 2023
Geoff Cain
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The Handbook of Open, Distance and Digital Education, a great (1400+ pages!) resource on elearning has been released as an openly licensed book. Great essays in here on learning theories - I will write more as I get through this, but it looks some of the most interesting writers/researchers on elearning are well represented here. Pay a lot for the print copy or download it free as a pdf.

link.springer.com/referencewor

January 10, 2023
Geoff Cain
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@Downes @DonnaLanclos @Autumm I agree with this 100% - the real lesson behind the IDP Comission is that companies will not be responsible until we hold them accountable.

January 09, 2023
Geoff Cain
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@Autumm @chendricks @DonnaLanclos I don't think things need to be policed BUT I would hope that before faculty adopt any technology, have some concern about accessibility, they understand how to find and read a VPAT, have enough data literacy to figure out if it is safe (for instance Course Hero, and by extension their clients like Lumen Learning, sell student data to "data brokers"). If not, the minimum we should do is to educate the educators about the issues.

January 09, 2023
Geoff Cain
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@Downes @DonnaLanclos @Autumm Stephen - it is a weird situation. No other industry does this the way education does. The military does it better, which is not saying much: they publish standards and guidelines and vendors meet the standards or don't get the contract (supposedly). In , you can have an instructor using an inaccessible, FERPA flouting, pile of gimcrackery 2.0, and we say "oh, well, academic freedom" - that is until we are sued 😃

January 09, 2023