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OL Daily, Stephen Downes

  • Cursor
    May 08, 2025 I was surprised yesterday when instead of the usual audience of zero people my livestream of 'Stephen Follows Instructions' attracted dozens. The fame! 'Stephen Follows Instructions' is a series where I try to follow instructions for various software products and services. In this episode I was trying to learn Typescript. Anyhow, in […]
  • Things from the 1980s
    TikTok, May 08, 2025 I saw this on the morning news: a two part (part one, part two) TikTok video where a father asks his 16-year old daughter about terms from the 1980s. Unsurprisingly, she doesn't know what they mean. But what I found interesting were her responses, where she shared what she thought they […]
  • Grappling With Systems Collapse: How Social Sector Leaders Can Respond
    Liz Ruedy, Tom Glaisyer, Rachel Reichenbach, SSIR, May 08, 2025 Food for thought. The argument offered here suggests that when the existing social system is headed for inevitable collapse (perhaps accelerated by a disruptive dragon king event such as a government operating outside the bounds of the constitution) the only useful response by change-makers is […]
  • MCP: What It Is and Why It Matters–Part 1
    Addy Osmani, O'Reilly Media, May 08, 2025 The real value of this article is the image (from The New Stack) making it clearer than a thousand words exactly what model context protocol (MCP) does in the world of AI. "In a nutshell, MCP is like giving your AI assistant a universal remote control to operate […]
  • Clippy
    Felix Rieseberg, GitHub, May 08, 2025 This is fun. "Clippy let's you run a variety of large language models (LLMs) locally on your computer while sticking with a user interface of the 1990s. Through Llama.cpp, it supports models in the popular GGUF format, which is to say most publicly available models. It comes with one-click […]

Michael Feldstein, E-Literate

  • EEP at 1EdTech Learning Impact: Solving the Right Problems
    I'm bringing my work and commitment to 1EdTech, starting at Learning Impact. Join me. The post EEP at 1EdTech Learning Impact: Solving the Right Problems appeared first on e-Literate.
  • AI Mindscape Prompting
    What kind of mindscape can you build with just one word? Gemini 2.5 Pro  and I explore how “knowledge” and “learning” in AIs are socially constructed on-the-fly. There are echoes here of social constructivism, of Socratic questioning, of distributed cognition. The post AI Mindscape Prompting appeared first on e-Literate.
  • Standards as Strategy: How 1EdTech Shapes the Future of Educational Technology
    In this conversation with Claude, I explore 1EdTech's journey from its origins as IMS Global to its current role shaping educational technology standards. We discuss how the organization's collaborative approach has evolved, particularly through innovations like LTI that transformed the EdTech marketplace. The conversation concludes with reflections on emerging challenges—especially AI—and how standards work must […]
  • AI, Competencies, and Self-Discovery
    Can AI help us capture non-obvious emergent competencies by observing the ones we display while doing our work? The post AI, Competencies, and Self-Discovery appeared first on e-Literate.
  • Cognitive Empathy: A Dialogue with ChatGPT
    A rethinking of thinking about thinking. The post Cognitive Empathy: A Dialogue with ChatGPT appeared first on e-Literate.

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Phil on EdTech

  • OPM Marketing Challenges
    Institutions often outsource online marketing due to internal challenges, but where are the weaknesses of the external partners?
  • Interesting Reads This Week
    Surveypalooza
  • Breaking Up Is Hard To Do
    Two very different approaches to ending relationships with OPMs
  • Europe in July
    Two conferences where we'd love to see you there: Open edX in Paris and Online Learning Summit in Leeds
  • ASU+GSV Debate
    Audio and transcript of my debate with Stephanie Hall