Since I am currently often asked about my opinion about ChatGPT I want to share why I do not write about ChatGPT. The discussion about ChatGPT (Generative Pretrained Transformer) is at least as annoying as the Wordle wave that has hit my social media channels some years ago.
If your productice work is 100% happening in digital environments the secure and reliable backup of data becomes a necessity and data-loss can have serious implications for all kind of processes. In this posting I will briefly describe my approach for the backup of data under the MacOS operating system.
Since many years I am using at least one external monitor for work and it has supported my productivity a lot. During an intensive time of online-meetings and online-teaching in the last 3 years I have extended my setup with another external screen so that I have three screens available.
Download the PDF of the CfP Special issue editors Dr. Michael Kerres, University Duisburg-Essen, michael.kerres@uni-due.de, http://kerres.name Dr. Pavlo Antonenko, University of Florida, p.antonenko@coe.ufl.edu, https://education.ufl.edu/faculty/antonenko-pavlo-pasha/ Dr. Marco Kalz, University of Education, Heidelberg, kalz@ph-heidelberg.de, https://kalz.cc Important Dates • March 15, 2022 —outlines of
The break and transition into the new year is always a time for me to optimise my workflows or to explore some changes in the way I handle information, tasks or communication. Via some tweets by Doug Holton I have discovered Logseq as a new framework and tool to handle my information workflow.
In the last two years I have slowly deviated from using GUI-interfaces for statistical analysis towards a more open and transparent approach. Before and during the pandemic I have shiftet my data-analysis completely to R and I have offered in the last semester for the first time a course on “Data Science in Education” in which I have used R intensively with students.
Twitter has recently announced that it will make the so called “full archive search” available for academic research.
I had already longer the plan, to develop a place which is somewhat slower compared to my Twitter account. In addition, I wanted to have a space in which I come back to pieces I mark as interesting but forget in the flow of the days. This is also reason for the title. Pieces which are lingering in your head for longer but then get overwritten by new pieces.
A new direction for the German digital education strategy? The German government has organized on the 22nd of February 2021 an online-event regarding a future strategy on digital education. The event was a mix of political intention statements and some advertisement of existing initiatives.