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stephen s web stephen downes knowledge learning community books publications newsletter posts articles presentations about now oldaily olweekly please select a newsletter and enter your email to subscribe stephen downes spent 25 years as an expert researcher at the national research council of canada specializing in new instructional media and personal learning technology with degrees in philosophy and a background in journalism and media he is one of the originators of the first massive open online course has published frequently about online and networked learning and is the author of the widely read e learning newsletter oldaily he is a popular keynote speaker and has presented at conferences around the world more stephen downes stephen downes ca casselman canada stephen s retirement faq vision statement support oldaily oldaily has been free and open to all readers since 2001 it is a valuable and widely used resource for educators researchers and learners worldwide please consider a monthly contribution to sustain the time and resources required to publish it every day supporter 10 month sustainer 20 month benefactor 50 month patron 100 month here s what s in the latest edition of oldaily cloud based vs self hosted messaging which do you prefer this is such a great question i m going to post it here do you prefer cloud based platforms like slack microsoft teams or google chat or do you use a self hosted alternative like apphitect rocketchat or mirrorfly i would imagine the vast majority of people use the cloud based solutions and may not have even heard of the hosted solutions obviously the two modes fit different use cases i would ideally lean toward self hosted but have in fact always used cloud hosted so i need to think a lot about what this question means to the people who are answering it today total kathrin oeglobal connect 2026 06 18 direct link writing was never a test of who could think there are some nuggets of goodness in this article that is far longer than it needs to be the first is right near the beginning ai is not a tool it s actually a medium i like that recasting ai can be used to create express and distribute our ideas and thoughts even if we struggle with an inflexible and linear medium like language but what does creating in ai look like there are some good ideas an emphasis on both speaking and listening the idea of flaw speak which is the deliberate degrading of one s speech to avoid being perceived as ai algo speak where the reader we were writing for stopped being a person and became a system and almost exactly half way through a list of things people actually do when using ai in writing it s more than just cut and paste the author warns at the beginning that the article is ai assisted i thought it would be really funny if near the end the author recanted and said it was all human after all alas that never happened today total abi awomosu how not to use ai 2026 06 18 direct link the fable of ai in education the term tokenomics has already been defined to apply to blockchain but i m going to apply it in a new context to describe the new and emerging science of minimizing the use of tokens while maximizing ai utility tokenomics will be a hot topic of discussion on university campuses because as marc watkins notes in this article there is no realistic path forward to providing all students with access to advanced ai that alone he writes should make even the most staunch ai critic pause and ask who aside from the already affluent and extremely resourced institutions will have such access and what this means for opportunities for all students p s i am not on board with the new uses and meanings for the word jagged today total marc watkins rhetorica 2026 06 18 direct link the easier technology gets the more challenge matters the core message here which draws from a jonathan haidt ted talk is that in a time when technology makes many aspects of our lives much easier helping students develop the mindset to pursue what is difficult meaningful and worthwhile has never been more critical i find that a bit ironic because in the world of easy and hard ted talks are definitely on the side of easy but i agree with the need to do hard things that is for example why i decided to bikepack despite being the wrong age and the wrong body shape for anything like that but importantly some things like say buying food or paying rent should be easy and some things are better when they are hard like say things that are meaningful whatever that means the easy thing is to say do hard things the hard thing is to say which things should be hard to do today total george couros 2026 06 18 direct link the current state of play ai in higher education and the road ahead i mostly agree with what s expressed in this article but i disagree with the tenor which has the university still providing and the student still consuming as in this for example the convergence of learning analytics ai advising systems early alert platforms and wellness monitoring has created something genuinely new the data to support learners holistically is increasingly available what most institutions lack is the architecture to connect it the governance to use it responsibly and the human capacity to act on what it reveals i m not seeing the university recognize its need to transform from authority to enabler which is what it will need to do when expertise is widely distributed today total tanya gamby david kil rachel koblic paul leblanc mihnea moldoveanu george siemens educause review 2026 06 18 direct link why is meta destroying its engineering organization obviously i don t feel any sympathy for meta as a company and while i do feel for its employees i consider this to be a bit of a case of you reap what you sow anyhow this is a long and to me quite interesting inside look at how meta has pivoted toward ai at the expense of its software engineering staff and some of the consequences that followed the takeaway will resonate with many if you re in a leadership position and feeling the temptation to make drastic org changes for ai related reasons take a deep breath and see where it left meta but i prefer to view it more broadly any organization that treats its staff as disposable runs the risk of throwing away its core sure you may be left with an engine of sorts and a large customer base but ai first organizations will be built from the ground not by hollowing out existing enterprises today total gergely orosz the pragmatic engineer 2026 06 17 direct link all the posts subscribe web today s oldaily oldaily email subscribe web this week s olweekly olweekly email subscribe rss individual posts rss combined version json oldaily podcast oldaily audio websites stephen s web and oldaily half an hour blog leftish blog mooc ca stephen s guide to the logical fallacies grsshopper moncton free press let s make some art dammit contact email stephen downes ca email stephen downes nrc cnrc gc ca skype downes 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