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Group type:	Public
Started on:	2008-02-09
Interests:	instructional learning pedagogy students technology
Category:	Schools & Education
Bookmarks:	28
Members:	8
Visits:	72
Last active:	on 02-11-2008

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A group for the teachers and staff at a workshop held at Penns Grove-Carney's Point High School on 11 Feb 2008

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Bill Wolff

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Wired 13.08: We Are the Web

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it is the plausibility of the impossible
posted by Bill Wolff on 02-11-2008
supercomputers in part to advance us in that direction. He now believes the
first real AI will emerge not in a stand-alone supercomputer like IBM's proposed
23-teraflop Blue Brain, but in the vast digital tangle of the global Machine.
posted by Bill Wolff on 02-11-2008
The human brain has no department full of programming cells that configure the mind. Rather, brain cells program themselves simply by being used. Likewise, our questions program the Machine to answer questions. We think we are merely wasting time when we surf mindlessly or blog an item, but each time we click a link we strengthen a node somewhere in the Web OS, thereby programming the Machine by using it.
posted by Bill Wolff on 02-11-2008
It's on.
posted by Bill Wolff on 02-11-2008
Amish Web sites?
posted by Bill Wolff on 02-11-2008
"The network is the computer."
posted by Bill Wolff on 02-11-2008
At its heart was a new kind of participation that has since developed into an emerging culture based on sharing. And the ways of participating unleashed by hyperlinks are creating a new type of thinking - part human and part machine - found nowhere else on the planet or in history.
posted by Bill Wolff on 02-11-2008
posted by Bill Wolff on 02-11-2008
Computing pioneer Vannevar Bush outlined the Web's core idea - hyperlinked pages
- in 1945, but the first person to try to build out the concept was a
freethinker named Ted Nelson who envisioned his own scheme in 1965.
posted by Bill Wolff on 02-11-2008
- Wow, this is really cool.
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posted by Bill Wolff on 02-11-2008
Before the Netscape browser illuminated the Web, the Internet did not exist for
most people
posted by Bill Wolff on 02-11-2008
He was certain that every document in the world should be a footnote to some
other document, and computers could make the links between them visible and
permanent.
posted by Bill Wolff on 02-11-2008
Before the Netscape browser illuminated the Web, the Internet did not exist for
most people. If it was acknowledged at all, it was mischaracterized as either
corporate email (as exciting as a necktie) or a clubhouse for adolescent males
(read: pimply nerds). It was hard to use. On the Internet, even dogs had to
type. Who wanted to waste time on something so boring?
posted by Bill Wolff on 02-11-2008
The memories of an early enthusiast like myself can be unreliable, so I recently
spent a few weeks reading stacks of old magazines and newspapers. Any promising
new invention will have its naysayers, and the bigger the promises, the louder
the nays. It's not hard to find smart people saying stupid things about the
Internet on the morning of its birth. In late 1994, Time magazine
explained why the Internet would never go mainstream: "It was not designed for
doing commerce, and it does not gracefully accommodate new arrivals."
Newsweek put the doubts more bluntly in a February 1995 headline:
"THE INTERNET? BAH!" The article was written by astrophysicist and Net maven
Cliff Stoll, who captured the prevailing skepticism of virtual communities and
online shopping with one word: "baloney."
posted by Bill Wolff on 02-11-2008
posted by Bill Wolff on 02-11-2008
exceeds 600 billi
posted by Bill Wolff on 02-11-2008
phenomenon is more confounding than blogging. Everything media experts knew
about audiences - and they knew a lot - confirmed the focus group belief that
audiences would never get off their butts and start making their own
entertainment. Everyone knew writing and reading were dead; music was too much
trouble to make when you could sit back and listen; video production was simply
out of reach of amateurs
posted by Bill Wolff on 02-11-2008
What we all failed to see was how much of this new world would be manufactured
by users, not corporate interests.
posted by Bill Wolff on 02-11-2008
What will most surprise us is how dependent we will be on what the Machine
knows - about us and about what we want to know. We already find it easier to
Google something a second or third time rather than remember it ourselves. The
more we teach this megacomputer, the more it will assume responsibility for our
knowing. It will become our memory. Then it will become our identity. In 2015
many people, when divorced from the Machine, won't feel like themselves - as if
they'd had a lobotomy.
posted by Bill Wolff on 02-11-2008

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New Jersey Education Association

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Wired 13.08: We Are the Web 2005

The Netscape IPO wasn't really about dot-commerce. At its heart was a new cultural force based on mass collaboration. Blogs, Wikipedia, open source, peer-to-peer - behold the power of the people.

Tags: future history instructional-technology internet-history netscape technology trends web web2.0 wired on 02-10-2008 -Cached -About Shared by:Bill Wolff

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4President.tv

Television campain ads 1952 to present, with URLs so they can be annotated

Tags: 2008 election political-ads politics television on 02-10-2008 -Cached -About Shared by:Bill Wolff

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The Living Room Candidate

Archive of Presidential campaign commercials from 1952 to the present.

Tags: campaign candidate history media media-history political-ads politics television video on 02-10-2008 -Cached -About Shared by:Bill Wolff

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