Irwin DeVries

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Open/online learning, open educational practices, critical and hope-full approaches. Associate Faculty, Royal Roads University, Canada. Guitars, audio recording. Former hitchhiker. PhD Education. Living on the unceded lands of the Coast Salish peoples. He/him. -- #OER #OEP #OpenLearning #HigherEd #HigherEducation #OpenEducation #OpenPedagogy #Guitars #Recording

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Bloghttps://idevries.com/
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Musical effortshttps://irwindevries.bandcamp.com
Irwin DeVriesJan 7, 2024
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"2023 Word of the Year is ā€œenshittificationā€ ā€“ American Dialect Society

https://americandialect.org/2023-word-of-the-year-is-enshittification/

2023 Word of the Year Is ā€œEnshittificationā€

Sheraton New York Times Square Hotel, New York, NYā€“Jan. 5ā€”The American Dialect Society, in its 34th annual words-of-the-year vote, selected ā€œenshittificationā€ as the Word of the Year for 2023.

American Dialect Society
Irwin DeVriesJan 5, 2024
"The Claudine Gay Debacle Was Never About Merit" - Tressie McMillan Cottom in NYT. Paywalled, but few a gift reads available https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/04/opinion/claudine-gay-resignation-harvard.html?unlocked_article_code=1.LU0.Xu0c.PBH6cCi38Cpg&smid=url-share
Opinion | The Claudine Gay Debacle Was Never About Merit

Merit, itself, cannot be defined. That is why the concept is so useful for slippery slopes.

The New York Times
Irwin DeVriesJan 5, 2024
From the ā€œNo commentā€ dept.
Irwin DeVriesDec 26, 2023
I suspect thereā€™s an endless circuit of regifted boxes of liquor-filled chocolates circling the globe, re-emerging Christmas after Christmas to horrify new victims, who then store them for regifting the following year.
Irwin DeVriesDec 21, 2023
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Universities: why are you still on Twitter/X?

As I have explained before, I left the platform formerly known as Twitter at the end of August 2023 and haven't looked back. Many of my friends and colleagues have quit too, most of them setting up accounts on Bluesky and/or Mastodon. In recent months, a number of big companies have also stopped advertising on Twitter/X too. It's not just the systematic amplification of hateful tweets from a variety of antisocial bigots,ā€¦

http://telescoper.blog/2023/12/20/universities-why-are-you-still-on-twitter-x/

Universities: why are you still on Twitter/X?

As I have explained before, I left the platform formerly known as Twitter at the end of August 2023 and havenā€™t looked back. Many of my friends and colleagues have quit too, most of them settā€¦

In the Dark
Irwin DeVriesDec 18, 2023
ā€œā€¦if humans were a manufactured part of the Autopilot system, its designers would have taken into account a well-known defect of ours: when we get bored we stop paying attention.ā€ https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-commentary/elon-musk-tesla-crash-1234930544/
Elon Muskā€™s Big Lie About Tesla Is Finally Exposed

More than 2 million of the cars are being recalled ā€” because Teslaā€™s ā€œself-drivingā€ systems have always been anything but

Rolling Stone
Irwin DeVriesDec 13, 2023
Apereo FoundationDec 13, 2023

December micro conferences (the last one of 2023) is Today at 3 PM Eastern U.S. time. Registration is open until one hour before the event. Reach out to [email protected] for assistance.

Wayne Mackintosh, UNESCO Chair in Open Educational Resources and Managing Director, OER Foundation Ltd., for a presentation and Q&A on "Reflecting on anomalies in OER: Is ā€˜Openā€™ broken, and if so, can education fix it?"

#opensource #oer #education

https://apereo.civicrm.org/civicrm/mailing/view?id=248&reset=1

Join us on Dec 13 for the next Apereo MicroCon: Reflecting on anomalies in OER: Is ā€˜Openā€™ broken?

Irwin DeVriesDec 6, 2023
World Wide Web ConsortiumDec 6, 2023

W3C has posted that we are no longer active on X/Twitter and have directed all our followers here to Mastodon.

We are encouraging all W3C-related accounts to do the same.

Encourage your friends to follow us here!

Irwin DeVriesNov 30, 2023
Kim TallBearNov 29, 2023
Faculty Position Available in Social, Political, and Ethical Dimensions of Technology in Development, Department of Global Development, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Cornell University
https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/26353
Cornell University, Department of Global Development

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Irwin DeVriesNov 26, 2023
Paywall but should be good for one ā€œfreeā€ article. Concept could be extended to other settings too; e.g. more time for team work, needs analysis etc. vs design in ID: ā€œThe thing Iā€™m relatively good at is knowing whatā€™s worth building, what users like, how to communicate both technically and humanely. A friend of mine has called this A.I. moment ā€˜the revenge of the so-so programmer.ā€™ As coding per se begins to matter less, maybe softer skills will shine.ā€ https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/james-somers
James Somers

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