#datafixation Love this concept. A "wordplay that combines #datafication and #fixation. The article showcases how the datafication of #education presents compelling arguments about the importance and usefulness of #data, while remaining silent about the negative consequences of reducing students, learning, teaching, and education to superficial indicators. Such a one-sided view meets the criteria of fixation as anunhealthy #attachment." Pekka Mertala #edtech
https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839465820-003

“While we support the stated goals of these policies...we are concerned that overly broad policies will unintentionally harm the users they are intended to protect. We feel that it is important to consider the role vendor-neutral nonprofit organizations—especially public software repositories—play in the modern development of software.”
-Python Software Foundation
(@ThePSF)

Apereo adds voice to #CyberResilienceAct: https://www.apereo.org/content/open-letter-apereo-foundation-ed-impending-eu-regulatory-requirements
#OpenSource #HigherEd #EdTech

#OSS in #HigherEd

The University of Washington School of Medicine, #Columbia, and #MIT researchers released RF Diffusion, an #OpenSource artificial intelligence (#AI) program, through #ColabFold, part of #Google's Colaboratory. The code is also available from #GitHub.

#EdTech #HigherEducation #EdTechChat

https://www.ipd.uw.edu/2023/03/rf-diffusion-now-free-and-open-source/

#PLEASE PLEASE, #schools and #faculty, stop "teaching" #Adobe #Photoshop, #GoogleDocs, #Microsoft #Windows, #Zoom, and other commercial software applications.

You're not providing #students an #education, your providing companies customers.

We never taught Smith-Corona, or Turbo TS40, or Ford Tempo. We taught, respectively, typing, wood shop, and student driving. We should teach word processing, computer technology, and communications.

#K12 #Teaching #HigherEd #EdTech
#ScreemingInTheDark