@jondron

I educate people. Well, mostly me, but that's a good start.

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Hot off the press after many years of simmering, the open access version of my book, How Education works, is free to view or download at aupress.ca/books/120320-how-… (print and e-book versions coming soon)
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I interviewed @jondron about Generative AI in Higher Education, for our new @LivUni podcast series- podcasters.spotify.com/pod/s… #AI #edutech
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Educational Ends and Means: McNamara’s Fallacy and the coming robot apocalypse. By Prof ⁦@jondron⁩ via ⁦@mkalz⁩ youtu.be/QT1-SCmu8Yk?si=Plaf…

Educational Ends and Means: McNamara’s Fallacy and the coming robot apocalypse. Prof Jon Dron

Recording of a presentation by Prof Jon Dron on 18 January 2024 as ...

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Stories that matter and stories that don't: some thoughts on appropriate teaching roles for generative AIs jondron.ca/stories-that-matt…

Stories that matter and stories that don’t: some thoughts on appropriate teaching roles for...

Well, this was definitely going to happen. The system discussed in this Wired article is a bot (not available to the general public) that takes characters from the absurdly popular Bluey cartoon se…

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Published in #mdpidigital - The Human Nature of Generative AIs and the Technological Nature of Humanity: Implications for Education jondron.ca/published-in-digi… via @jondron

Published in Digital – The Human Nature of Generative AIs and the Technological Nature of Humanity:...

A month or two ago I shared a “warts-and-all” preprint of this paper on the risks of educational uses of generative AIs. The revised, open-access published version, The Human Nature of …

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Thanks @greeneterry for setting How Education Works to music! Listen to it at "EZ Learning - Audio Books with Beats" via #spreaker spreaker.com/show/ez-learnin…

EZ Learning - Audio Books with Beats

SEASON 2: https://www.aupress.ca/books/120320-how-education-works/ (By Jon Dron, published by Athabasca University Press) Get ready to experience learning-while-lying-down like never before with "EZ...

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Preprint - The human nature of generative AIs and the technological nature of humanity: implications for education jondron.ca/preprint-the-huma… via @jondron

Preprint – The human nature of generative AIs and the technological nature of humanity: implicati...

Here is a preprint of a paper I just submitted to MDPI’s Digital journal that applies the co-participation model that underpins How Education Works (and a number of my papers over the last fe…

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10 minute chats on Generative AI - a great series, now including an interview with me. What I spoke about is at jondron.ca/10-minute-chats-o… - thanks @timbocop

10 minute chats on Generative AI – a great series, now including an interview with me

This is a great series of brief interviews between Tim Fawns and an assortment of educators and researchers from across the world on the subject of generative AI and its impact on learning and teac…

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Research, Writing, and Creative Process in Open and Distance Education: Tales from the Field | Open Book Publishers jondron.ca/research-writing-… via @jondron

Research, Writing, and Creative Process in Open and Distance Education: Tales from the Field | Open...

Research, Writing, and Creative Process in Open and Distance Education: Tales from the Field is a great new book about how researchers in the field of open, online, and distance education go about …

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Cognitive prostheses and the future of the human race jondron.ca/cognitive-prosthe… via @jondron

Cognitive prostheses and the future of the human race

I have lived in Canada for over 16 years so I was surprised when, a few months ago, a conference-friend whom I had not seen for many years contacted me to ask whereabouts in Malaysia I lived. I bel…

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Some thoughts on the nature and value of education, disguised as a post about AI jondron.ca/the-artificial-cu…
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Now available! A timely book by @jondron that reframes popular families of educational theory and explains phenomena such as failures of learning style theories, literacies, the prevalence of cheating, and differences between online and in-person learning. aupress.ca/books/120320-how-…
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Look what just arrived on my doorstep! #howeducationworks from @au_press is now available in print and e-book formats jondron.ca/look-what-just-ar… via @jondron

Look what just arrived on my doorstep! #howeducationworks from @au_press is now available in print...

Hard copies and e-book versions of How Education Works are now available, and they are starting to turn up in bookstores. The recommended retail price is CAD$40 but Amazon is selling the Kindle ver…

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What does ChatGPT know about an #AthabascaU professor? And what does that tell us about its potential impact on society and culture? The answer may surprise you. @jondron #ChatGPT fal.cn/3zpmp
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A decade of unwriting: the life history of "How Education Works" jondron.ca/a-decade-of-unwri…

A decade of unwriting: the life history of "How Education Works"

About 10 years ago I submitted the first draft of a book called “How Learning Technologies Work” to AU Press. The title was a nod to David Byrne’s wonderful book, “How Music…

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I’m happy my grandkids can go to school in BC, where no kids up to Grade (🤔) 9 get graded any more, but sad for kids in grades 10-12, who still do due to PSE’s outmoded entry requirements. Can #PSE fix this, please? Grades are *so* very 1870. news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2023… #BCed

Progress reporting reaches remaining school districts

To support students as they gain skills and knowledge for the future, the remaining school districts will update their kindergarten through Grade 9 student progress reporting to align with curriculum...

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And at last it is here! Free to read, free to download, cheap to purchase, packed to the brim with pages.
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Who could have predicted this (apart from literally anyone}? People Are Using AI to Automate Responses to Site That Pays Them to Train AI flip.it/XRoZHv

People Are Using AI to Automate Responses to Site That Pays Them to Train AI

"One of our key sources of human data is no longer fully 'human!'"Chasing the TailAmazon’s Mechanical Turk platform, which launched in 2005, has allowed humans to make some money on the side by …

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May your journeys be rich, gentle, and challenging #AthabascaUGrad
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A spectacular show is going on for the #AthabascaU #AthabascaUGrad convocation ceremony today, live-streaming at athabascau.ca/convocation/ Congratulations to all of our amazing graduates!

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