by Cameron Nichol | Nov 29, 2021 | Teaching and Learning
This ARS Technica article “Could search engines be fostering some *Dunning-Kruger?” is a summary of some research by Asst Prof Adrian Ward out of the University of Texas. People mistake the internet’s knowledge for their own It’s not about algorithms...
by Cameron Nichol | Nov 28, 2021 | This made me laugh
Naomi Kritzer of Will Tell Stories for Food blog has been posting an annual list of Gifts for People you Hate (guide to passive-aggressive gifting) for over a decade. Perhaps you weren’t considering a hoodie with a laser eyed T-Rex being ridden by a sloth, maybe...
by Cameron Nichol | Nov 25, 2021 | Cool Tools for Teaching
Campus Technology has produced a pretty good, and fairly long list of learning applications. Free Resources to Help with Remote Learning in 2022. November is probably a good time to start looking at it ahead of Semester 1 2022. There’s too much to work through...
by Cameron Nichol | Nov 22, 2021 | Ed Tech use
Educause have produced this article Top 10 IT Issues, 2022: The Higher Education We Deserve. It’s a reflection on the enforced changes caused by Covid and the ongoing impact those changes will have on university teaching. A lot of articles have been written over...
by Cameron Nichol | Nov 21, 2021 | This made me laugh
In the 90’s if you wanted to create a free website you went to Geocities. It launched in 1994 and closed in 2009. At it’s peak it had over 38 million sites and claimed to be the third most visited site on the web. It was a simpler time when more was never...
