Slides and audio from my talk 'Technology, Diversity and Human Connection' in Milagro, Ecuador, are now available: www.downes.ca/presentation...

A few short slides and audio of my (mostly) Q&A session at the Media and Education Conference, Leuven, Belgium. www.downes.ca/presentation...

Slides and video from my workshop Personal Learning in the Age of AI are now available. www.downes.ca/presentation... demonstration of convergent fediverse discussion software; interactive practice using the software among participants to conduct an learning event

CList currently supports: - read from feeds, Mastodon, Bluesky, search - decentralized DID (& following by DID) - fully decentralized chat, annotations, collections, collaborative authoring - multiple editor types - publish to Blogger, WordPress, social networks - save locally & much more .../2

<div id="post"><div id="post-title"></div><div id="post-content">We *have* created artificial intelligence and given it rights. But the AI isn't a computer program, it is a corporation. https://therealnews.com/citizens-united-delaware-judge"</div><div id="post-references"></div></div>

Long weekend bikepacking video www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sdI... I took advantage of the really nice weather from Saturday to Tuesday that I went on a bikepacking loop north to the Ottawa River and south to Avonmore, staying at a couple of Hipcamp sites along the way.

My proposal , 'Personal Learning in the Age of AI' has been accepted by OTESSA. Online conference (June 8-9) otessa.org/news/final-c... I will be summarizing work to date on CList and outlining my community-based approach to learning while everyone else is making tutoring chatbots.

Adding DID to RSS and Atom Feeds halfanhour.blogspot.com/2026/05/addi...

After three days of the #OLDaily funding campaign, I'm at 7% of my subscriptions target.

With my retirement now just a few days away I have added the subscription links to my page so you can support continued publication of OLDaily. www.downes.ca

Those Takeaways - halfanhour.blogspot.com/2026/03/thos...

I've posted my LinkedIn Newsletter publisher script on GitHub. github.com/Downes/linke... It's tailored pretty specifically to my own newsletter but your AI could use it as a starting point for your own LinkedIn newsletter. Runs in a Docker container on my cloud VPS.

I have added two new repositories to github containing updated code from my CList project. KVStore github.com/Downes/kvstore is a very secure key-value store for account information; ProxyP github.com/Downes/proxyp is a proxy allowing web servers to access APIs where resource sharing is required.

I am interviewed on the history, present and future of MOOCs by Saffron Mccullough for the MOOC Institute. Topics range from the origin of connectivism, neural networks and what they need to work, and the impact of AI on the future of learning. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wemf...

Inspired by a few others, I've posted a page titled An Album for Every Year of My Life (So Far) ... halfanhour.blogspot.com/2026/03/an-a...

I am interviewed by Geoff Cain for Episode #61 of Simon Says: Educate! Unpacking the Ethics of AI in Education. open.spotify.com/episode/0s5x... See also this summary and useful slide presentation from Ronald Lethcoe. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... #edtech

In the past we've had things like critical thinking and computational thinking. These were useful concepts. We might now want to coin a new discipline 'agentic thinking' . www.downes.ca/post/78869

My video 'Federated Open Learning Resources' as recorded by the Open Education Conference last fall is now available on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2Qb...

No newsletter today due to the migration. Existing links should be serving fine though.

All my Iceland photos fro last summer are finally posted: South Iceland: www.flickr.com/photos/steph... East Iceland: www.flickr.com/photos/steph... North Iceland: www.flickr.com/photos/steph... West Iceland: www.flickr.com/photos/steph...

Parts of my website are not working at the moment as I migrate it to the new VPS

The Questions We Ask About AI in Education halfanhour.blogspot.com/2026/01/the-...

The rest of my photos from today, in full size: www. flickr.com/photos/stephen_downes/albums/72177720331547013/ #photography

Listening to Music When the System Stops Listening, George Stroumboulopoulos. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujs9... You'll want to listen to Billy Bragg just after. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjUA...

The Conference Board of Canada is changing its name to Signal49 Research. Because decades of name recognition has no value, I guess.

Here's the big news I have to start 2026. halfanhour.blogspot.com/2026/01/step...

I have written an RSS reader that runs locally on your Windows / Mac / Linux desktop, coded with help from ChatGPT 5.2 (it took a *lot* of guidance to get what I wanted). It's PRE-ALPHA (please read the readme)

There has been a *deluge* of new resources in the learning and technology space over the last few days. The @oldaily.bsky.social account will be busy - you might want to unfollow it for a bit. I'll be spacing all the new stuff over the next week or so of email, RSS, LinkedIn and web editions.

A remarkable hour-and-a-half video from one of my go-to channels, Not Just Bikes. The video is a detailed take-down of 'vehicular cycling' as advocated by John Forester. According to Forester, cyclists should act like cars, and that bike infrastructure is dangerous. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRPd...

Convert your name to a Norwegian one. ainovakit.com/converter/no...

Slides, audio and transcript for the presentation I gave yesterday, 'Training and Educational Data Analytics: An Overview', are now available: www.downes.ca/presentation...

Slides and audio for my talk AI Applications: A Taxonomy www.downes.ca/presentation...

Slides and audio for my talk Federated Open Learning Resources www.downes.ca/presentation...

Now if I could only remember what I promised to present.... ;)

35 Days in Iceland - 13 - Breiðdalsvík - Day 19 www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQk5...

Podcast interview: Learning Networks and the Age of AI with Stephen Downes. www.downes.ca/post/78346

Another bikepacking video: 35 Days in Iceland - 12 - Djúpivogur to Breiðdalsvík - Days 17-18 www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_oQ...

ShiftED Podcast number 69 From MOOCs to Mindsets: Stephen Downes on Connection, Openness, and the Future of Scalable Learning www.buzzsprout.com/2404304/epis...

On Social Media as a Public Servant halfanhour.blogspot.com/2025/10/on-s...

Higher ed should be free so that democracy doesn't crumble again. TGIF

35 Days in Iceland - 11 - Stafafel to Djúpivogur - Day 16 - www.youtube.com/watch?v=8h_X... #Iceland #Bikepacking

35 Days in Iceland - 10 - Vestrahorn to Stafafel - Day 15 www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJ9g...

35 Days in Iceland - 9 - Hofn to Vestrahorn - Day 14 video - www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wzju...

Beyond Democratic Socialism - halfanhour.blogspot.com/2025/09/beyo...

35 Days in Iceland - 8 - Skogar to Vik to Hofn - Day 13 - www.youtube.com/watch?v=wq0h...

35 Days in Iceland - 7 - Skogar - Reykjavik - Skogar - Days 10-12 www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOtu... #bikepacking #iceland

A society that replaces 90 percent of its workforce with automation still has a responsibility to that 90 percent; otherwise, it ceases to be a society. www.downes.ca/post/78207

On Intelligence halfanhour.blogspot.com/2025/08/on-i...

"Every single problem we attribute to AI is a human problem with silicon makeup." hybridhorizons.substack.com/p/the-lies-w...