#edtech

Web 2.0 Country

Web2.0—the web of platforms, personalization, clickbait, and filter bubbles—is the only web most students know. That web exists by extracting individuals’ data through persistent surveillance, data mining, tracking, and browser fingerprinting and then seeking new and “innovative” ways to monetize that data. As platforms and advertisers seek to perfect these strategies, colleges and universities rush to mimic those strategies in order to improve retention.

From Pedagogy and the Logic of Platforms by Chris Gilliard via this post by Brian Lamb

Bryan Mathers

Recent Posts

Art vs. Idea

I met Grayson Perry at an event once. When he was asked what is art?…

4 days ago

A Typology of Interpersonal Recognition

Back in the old days of social media, h/t was a thing. (I remember having…

7 days ago

The Meaning of Recognition

I think in the early days of thinking about open credentialing, I got fixated on…

2 weeks ago

How you made them feel

I was listening to a politics podcast at the beginning of last week (weren't we…

2 weeks ago

Microcredentials and Recognition

Hidden in conversation are a whole host of metaphors, which are pictorial clues to the…

3 weeks ago

Elements of a badging policy

What creates the spark behind an illustration? There's nothing I love better than playing idea…

3 weeks ago