As has been written in the International Principles on the Application of Human Rights to Communications Surveillance: Privacy is a fundamental human right, and is central to the maintenance of democratic societies. It is essential to human dignity and it reinforces other rights, such as freedom of expression and information, and freedom of association, and …
Author: D Draper
Ed Tech rocks. When it doesn't get in the way of learning.
When #Data Misdirects
I got a Fitbit for Christmas and have loved it! I’ve loved how it effortlessly tracks my physical movements, and I love how it pushes me to remain active. There have been times when, near the end of the day, I’m prompted to take “just 834 more steps” in order to reach my daily goal. …
If Tomorrow is #DLDay, When Do We Celebrate Learning with Pencils? #LwPDay
February 5th is Digital Learning Day! Fun, I know. There’s a pledge you can take, by clicking a link. I took it, I know.1 There’s even an official avatar. How many days do you know that have their own avatar? Now, I appreciate a good party as much as the next guy, but why do we really …
Robots Speaking to Robots
Twitter user and apparent “Digital Learner and Teacher” Nick Chater has configured IFTTT to auto-tweet a link to my posts every time I publish. Upon scanning his Twitter feed, it appears that it’s been quite some time since he’s posted anything in person; nearly every tweet includes an IFTTT link or other script-generated action. Robots …
Vendor Trust and Their Competence with #EdTech Data
Bud Hunt writes a very timely post in which he expresses rightful disgust over the level of care many current vendors tend to take with student data. I can’t fathom why publishers and vendors are so willing to play fast and loose with precious data – student personal info, their schoolwork and creations, etc. But …
Increased Perspective on Vulnerability
Stephen Downes continues the Learning Is Vulnerability discussion by agreeing with much I’ve written, stopping just short of the “eating is vulnerability” comparison I chose to include. Draper writes, “Learning is no more vulnerability than eating might be.” Quite so. But every time we eat, we are vulnerable. Not ‘vulnerable’ in the sense-of-community kumbaya sense. …
The (Im)Perfect Human Side of Blogging
I love this post by Dean Shareski, but not for the reasons you might think. What begins as a somewhat rushed (?) rant about the digital divide becomes clarified in the comments, and eventually solidifies into a strong argument against our common language habits associated “the achievement gap.” I love that the post is imperfect, …
When Learning Isn’t Vulnerability
I’ve sat on this post for several days now, because I empathize with the sense of fear that George Siemens described two weeks ago: When I first started blogging, I had a sense of fear with every post (“did that sound stupid?”), loss of sleep soul-searching when a critical comment was posted, and envy when peers posted …
Introducing the NEW Drape’s Takes
Yep, I did it. I packed up my things and decided to move – from Blogger to WordPress – and I have to admit, I really like the new view. I’ve used WordPress before; back when I was setting up department websites at Brighton High School in 2005. Those were pre-iPhone days. Let’s just say WordPress …