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Commentary by Michael Moore on the AJDE review of Teaching Crowds

Posted on January 6, 2016 by admin / 0 Comment

Some excellent reflections from the always wonderful Michael Moore on our book, albeit indirectly through the eyes of the book’s reviewer, Jason Oliver (s...

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RSS Jon Dron’s blog and bookmarks

  • Democratech: reflections on the human nature of blockchain April 30, 2025
  • Just a metatool? Some thoughts why generative AIs are not tools March 27, 2025
  • We are (in part) our tools and they are (in part) us March 7, 2025
  • Venturing into the Unknown: Critical Insights into Grey Areas and Pioneering Future Directions in Educational Generative AI Research | TechTrends February 28, 2025
  • Slides from my TRU TPC keynote: “It’s a technology problem: How education doesn’t work and why we shouldn’t fix it” February 18, 2025
  • Understanding collective stupidity in social computing systems February 14, 2025
  • Published in JODDE – Learning: A technological perspective February 1, 2025
  • How AI works for education: an interview with me for AACE Review January 2, 2025
  • The collective ochlotecture of large language models: slides from my talk at CI.edu, 2024 December 10, 2024
  • New paper: The Manifesto for Teaching and Learning in a Time of Generative AI: A Critical Collective Stance to Better Navigate the Future November 29, 2024
  • Slides from my ICEEL ’24 Keynote: “No Teacher Left Behind: Surviving Transformation” November 24, 2024
  • Announcing the First International Symposium on Educating for Collective Intelligence (and some thoughts on collective intelligence) November 18, 2024
  • The Second Coming November 6, 2024
  • Video and slides from my webinar, How to Be an Educational Technology: An Entangled Perspective on Teaching September 24, 2024
  • How AI Teaches Its Children: slides and reflections from my keynote for AISUMMIT-2024 September 4, 2024

RSS Terry Anderson’s blog

  • Portugal – Driving, Parades, Tourists, and Funiculars May 5, 2025
  • Susan and I make it to Our 44th Anniversary February 1, 2025
  • This “January in Jasper” January 28, 2025
  • Dulcimer Video April 20, 2023
  • Disruptive Critical Theory Strikes Canadian Unitarians May 9, 2022
  • Interaction in Distance and Online Education: A Research Review March 16, 2022
  • My Home Solar Finances August 26, 2021
  • Why I swim in a fishbowl January 23, 2021
  • Emergency Distance Education March 13, 2020
  • Most Eco Solstice Tree December 23, 2019

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