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Friday Finds — Positive Propaganda, Seductive Details, Thinking Fast & Slow

Mike Taylor

8) Last Week’s Most Clicked: AI-Powered Learning Design News & Notes Facts Don’t Change Minds This is a thought-provoking article that explores the role of propaganda in shaping public opinion and argues that it can be an effective tool for persuasion despite its negative connotations.

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Digital Literacy in the Age of Information: Ensuring Credible Content

Kitaboo

Avoiding Biased Decisions Digital propaganda of the modern world is crafted with conviction and finesse. The internet can be a slippery slope, considering the sheer volume of misinformation and biased propaganda on distribution. You may fall prey and admire a certain ideology within no time.

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Generation Mobile

Nick Leffler

I’ve been sitting on this idea for a while. First it sat in my idea pad for several months and now I’ve been writing random thoughts down for at least a month. Leave all that propaganda behind, just give me a mobile phone and a mobile friendly web and I’m happy.

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Our digital future 9: Omni-choice learning

Learning with e's

In the tech industry, it's already seen as a notorious element in targeted advertising , surveillance and propaganda (for example in recent elections). I quite like the idea of 'omni-choice' learning, where each learner can shape their pathways individually to suit their expectations, needs, approaches to study and personal contexts.

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A week of working and Learning in Ukraine

Challenge to Learn

Although propaganda tries to turn it into that. But at the same time it is a strange idea that you are presenting on a topic like eLearning in a country where there is a war going on and people are struggling to make ends meet (most of the people in the audience are teachers). It is not the war of the Ukrainian people.

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Confused? Welcome to the Learning System World of 2024

eLearning 24-7

The whole “active user” that is counted is seriously propaganda unless that vendor sends an invoice to you each month and charges you for each month. It may be 1,000 or 2,500 or 5,000 or 10,000 or how much revenue the client brings in (bad idea, but anyway, have fun with that). That’s it. If The problem? The problem?

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Forecasts for 2024 – Learning Tech and Systems

eLearning 24-7

Machine Learning was well-known (it’s another form of AI), so the idea that generative AI, in this case, ChatGPT would take off (even though Gen AI was already out there), definitely a surprise. And the idea that it is private generation ai, is a misnomer. Once While I see a lot of pluses it is still missing some items.

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