Mark Smithers

HigherEd digital strategist and critical educational technologist. Views entirely my own. @[email protected]

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America, we see you. A fading ember atop a pile of shit. #ElectionDay

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I’m currently in stage 2 and just about to enter stage 3.

[The Oatmeal @Oatmeal]

Election survival advice

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.@binge why the absolute fuck do I have to sign in to my TV yet again. And what are you? Are you Binge? Streamotion or Hubbl? Please fix your UX it sucks big time and it's been like this for a long time.

[Gyll King Post Skip Diplomacy @GyllKing]

Thatcher sold the North Sea oil fields & in return we got a broken Britain & 171 billionaires.

Norway kept their much smaller oil fields & today have the biggest sovereign wealth fund in the world $1.4 trillion.

But yeah, it's socialists that run out of other people's money.

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@AmyClukey I’m curious as to what evidence are presenting to them that they used AI

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@CCguerilla But then I don’t have a PhD. Just 34 years experience in the academy and 30 years experience of digital learning. But the PhD’s the thing right.

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@CCguerilla Oh my, if I had a penny for every academic expert in Neolithic mud huts or neural networks or whatever that felt it perfectly ok to question my expertise in learning design or edtech or curriculum design.

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@AmyClukey Why don’t you try some more interesting and fun assessment activities that are probably more authentic and meaningful for everyone?

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@CCguerilla Hmmm. Technology maintains the status as quo once again :(

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@CCguerilla It’s a moronic tweet and the responses to it are just as bad. I started to reply to it but the bailiffs arrived and took away my will to live.

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@CCguerilla @JuusoNieminen If like to see a blurb that uses the phrase “fragments of human collarbone”.

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@AlisonBarnes25 The number of, supposedly intelligent people, that are prepared to publicly display their ignorance of what this means is quite amazing.

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@Dominiq48917046 That is the cost of one form of delivery. There are equivalent costs for other types of delivery.

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@BRKeogh What utter gibberish

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@Dominiq48917046 @_colourmeamused The cost should be the same

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@Slav636 @_colourmeamused And other people prefer a different approach

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@Slav636 @_colourmeamused Videos are just one type of learning activity. Well designed online asynchronous learning includes multiple types of both passive and active learning activities that are designed to allow learners to develop their skills and knowledge flexibly.

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@econoadabsurdam @_colourmeamused I suspect they aren’t.

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@_colourmeamused I love a well designed online, asynchronous learning experience. Lots of people do.

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@WingKristof @_colourmeamused Thank you for sharing. For other people the flexibility of online asynchronous learning offers a significant opportunity that they wouldn’t otherwise have.