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by ffdixon1 1y ago
I’m the co-founder of BigBlueButton, an open source virtual classroom we’ve been building since 2007. About three years ago, we integrated tldraw into BigBlueButton as our whiteboard. It’s been an excellent upgrade over our old, simple whit
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by ffdixon1 1y ago
> (perhaps frustratingly for the student), force them to iterate through something to get an answer. IMHO, I think feeling frustration is the whole point -- it's how our brains rewire themselves, it's how we know we are learnin
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by ffdixon1 1y ago
I re-read the abstract and they tried two different modes of ChatGPT-4, "base mode" and a "tutor mode". The tutor mode helped students more, but it cautioned at the end: > Our results suggest that students attempt to
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by ffdixon1 1y ago
Oreos are food, but only good in controlled quantities. During covid, many of my co-workers cited putting on extra weight as they were unconsciously snacking on junk food when working at home. It was just to easy to have another bite when
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AI is like hyperprocessed foods for learning(blindsidenetworks.com)
25 points by ffdixon1 1y ago|20 comments
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by ffdixon1 1y ago
Is overuse of generative AI by students acting like hyperprocessed foods for learning? Quick dopamine hits. Immediate satisfaction. Long-term learning deficits. How to break this cycle? I wrote this article to try to answer this question.
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by ffdixon1 2y ago
I'd like to echo the impressiveness of tldraw. At the BigBlueButton project, an open source virtual classroom, we built tldraw into the core. It has saved us countless development hours as we stopped trying to build our own whiteboar
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by ffdixon1 6y ago
We use the demo servers (which have a lot of load) to test the latest builds. Try it now.
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by ffdixon1 6y ago
I am the Product Manager for BigBlueButton. We have been building out the project for the past 12 years to focus on one market: online learning. With Covid-19, it has been a pretty intense 2020 for the BigBlueButton project In 2020, we’ve
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by ffdixon1 6y ago
We're in the process of moving away from an internal build system for the packaging to having the debian package scripts as part of the repo. This work is underway for BigBlueButton 2.3 (the next version) and beyond. Once we get them
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by ffdixon1 6y ago
I am the product manager for BigBlueButton. While we implement most of the capabilities you would expect in a web conferencing system, we focus on giving the instructor many ways to engage students for learning. Being open source has enab
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by ffdixon1 8y ago
I grew up on Byte magazine. Love the covers and the articles on programming. My parents had bought me a TRS-80 Model I with Level III Basic and learned programming by typing in programs (and then debugging them) from Byte and other magazi
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by ffdixon1 9y ago
OK, have to say this is pretty cool. Reading about how to do something is good, but ephemeral. Applying what you are learning (and making mistakes and figure out what went wrong) is a far better way to learn. Kudos to the author of this
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by ffdixon1 9y ago
I must have ready ZMM at least seven times (so far) in my life. Back when I was taking an undergraduate, I read it the first time and was inspired to take as many English courses as I could. I wanted to be a technical writer. After a ser
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by ffdixon1 12y ago
Cool. I wish you all possible success in your project!
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by ffdixon1 12y ago
I'm the project manager for BigBlueButton. Our goal is to provide remote students a high-quality on-line learning experience. Building an open source web conferencing system is no small task, but it is very satisfying. I noticed in th