Learning Exchange 02

We all have stuff we know, and we all have other stuff we want to know. Here I begin to explore a simplified example of a learning exchange by introducing three participants. Please meet Alice, Barbara, and Cathy

Learning Exchange 01

What if there was a mechanism to exchange the stuff we know for the stuff we’d like to know?

Learning and the Commons

For those of us concerned with the future of learning, there is a message in the research and history of the commons.

Threaded Bookmarks 08-February-2010

Three recent documents offer images of education in the future. I tried that once and concluded it’s better to build the future than anticipate it. Each of the three documents suffers similarly, but they are still well worth reading if the future of learning concerns you.

Regulation Cannot Come Soon Enough

Privacy is not something that needs financial justification. Does Google not understand this?

Knowing When to Say No

I wrote a post recently about the Faustian bargains we must make when offered something price-free but with contingencies. In this case I was talking about our choice in operating systems and browsers. Specifically I wrote about my own struggle balancing privacy against the attractions in Google’s new Chrome operating system and browser.

Pitifully few people actually read the post. I’ll take the blame for that. It had a weak title (Playing with Google Chromium OS) and an even weaker hook in the excerpt.

I’d like a second try. Except for a new title and this excerpt, the current post is identical to the one I published last week.

I thought that George Siemens used an appropriate degree of alarm when he said recently in his post Privacy that “it looks like we are just at the beginning stages of privacy obliteration.”

Privacy is a right, regardless of whether people are willing to pawn it off. In these early days of the Internet, companies should not be permitted to finese the right to privacy toward obliteration.