Privacy Paradox – What Your Phone Knows
Featured image by Rami Al-zayat Bruce Schneider makes an interesting distinction in his interview in this episode, “so imagine I hired a private detective to eavesdrop on you…” he’d bug your home etc and the report would contain the content of your conversations, that’s the data. However, “if I were to ask him to put…
Privacy Paradox – Prelude
Feature Image by Matthew Henry As a long time listener to the WNYC podcast, Note to Self, I often listen to the different challenges they present to their listeners. I’ve been reflecting on a number of challenges presented by the show’s host, Manoush, and am finally ready to dive into the Privacy Paradox. Maybe I’ll…
Monogamous Book Club – Revealing Hegemony
Hegemony and Information Design Information Design In reverse order from the title, let’s start with information design (something I presume should be readily transferable to the work of instructional design). DiSalvo explains here that information design concludes in the creation of artifacts that render data. Artifacts can include any combination of elements such as: type,…
Monogamous Book Club – Design and Agonism
A path of least surveillance traced in Manhattan (courtesy of the Institute of Applied Autonomy). via Defining Adversarial Design I had recalled a bit about defining adversarial design, but I found myself equally challenged to think about it again as I read this chapter. The author goes through quite a bit of detail to separate…
Monogamous Book Club – Forward
Pavan Trikutam About a month ago Jim Groom posted an invite on his blog, Bavatuesdays, to join a monogamous book club. The underlying idea being that sometimes you need a little motivation or a reason to carve out specific time to get to your reading list. I know I need that anyway. The idea of…
Hopping on the Open Pedagogy Train
Open or Closed flickr photo by cogdogblog shared under a Creative Commons (BY) license Having attended the last two Open Ed Conferences, engaging in conversations in a few Canadian higher ed institutions, and working on a large OER development project through Alberta OER, I have struggled to resolve what “open” or “OER” mean. By…
That’s not making…is it?
I’m still thinking about all of the great conversations heading to, during, and heading home from the ETAD Summer Institute this year, the theme of which was Makerspaces. I’ve seen Tweets and blogposts for a couple of years now. I recall a somewhat recent experience where an enthusiastic undergraduate education student asked if anyone in…
Educational Technology and Design Summer Institute – Day 3
On the third day of the summer institute we were treated to Michelle Davis’ journey in creating maker spaces in new places. Lucky for us she wrote an ebook detailing the key decisions, and influences that lead to the learning commons maker space taking the shape it did. If you’d like to learn more about…
ETAD Summer Institute 2016 – Day 2
Today we continued our facilitated discussions about making, maker spaces, design, and education lead by two of our guests: Brandy Burdeniuk and Marc Gobeil. Brandy kicked off her session with a quick creative exercise. We were paired and asked to interview the person next to us: Roles Jet Fuel Kryptonite Unknown Fun Fact Following the…
ETAD Summer Institute 2016 – Day 1
Today we kicked off the fourth annual ETAD Summer Institute, a project I have had the pleasure of supporting since before it was called a summer institute. Jay Wilson opened the day with a brief history of the Institute and an overview of the philosophy we follow in planning the event. The short version is,…