Re: Digital Textbooks and Locally-stored Student and Educational Data

Why is it appropriate to provide links to any, or, if some then not all, of the participants’ web content or previous forum discussions?




The conversation had moved on beyond the earlier dispute regarding sociolinguistic register, metadiscourse or metacommunication.  The behavior of the forum participants, including former W3C TAG chairs, sitting W3C chairs, et al, is visible to arbitrary neutral third parties.  It was made clear that one or more of the current chairs had no desire to address that misconduct.







I’ve complained about Web language before in educational contexts, underscoring the importance of teaching rhetorical structure, essay writing, while students converse informally, with slang or in short paragraphs or messages on the Web.  Many linguistics tend to enjoy the use of language or vocabulary or opine about the proper usage of language.  That participants would desire to be told to speak informally or to use slang, to chat rather than argue or reason, or to consider interpersonal dynamics as a part of the standards process, are matters of W3C organizational policy.




The conversation had moved on to the dispute regarding Larry Masinter referring to topics pertinent to digital textbooks, Document Personalization and User Data Privacy: Client-Side Document Processing Utilizing Locally-Stored User Data and User Models: http://www.w3.org/community/argumentation/2014/08/12/document-personalization-and-user-data-privacy-client-side-document-processing-utilizing-locally-stored-user-data-and-user-models/ as some sort of a hoax.






Thank you for mentioning my contribution of adding a new kind of argumentation, interpretive (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argumentation_theory#Interpretive_argumentation , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpretive_discussion), to the argumentation theory encyclopedia page list: conversational, mathematical, scientific, legal, political (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argumentation_theory#Kinds_of_argumentation).





Informationally, my updated blog is at http://phoster.com .










Kind regards,




Adam Sobieski





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