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Gina Minks

Connectivism glossary - Wikiversity - 0 views

en.wikiversity.org/...Connectivism_glossary

shared by Gina Minks on 19 Sep 09 - Cached
  • how they differ
    • Gina Minks
      Gina Minks on 19 Sep 09
       
      not seeing alot of differences in these terms than sociological terms. I had this same problem last year -- these terms aren't new
    • Christy Tucker
      Christy Tucker on 20 Sep 09
       
      Why is the fact that the terms aren't new create a problem? I guess I'm not seeing the issue with building on existing sociological language if it works.
Ed Webb

Gin, Television, and Social Surplus - Here Comes Everybody - 1 views

www.shirky.com/...looking-for-the-mouse.html

technology web2.0 shirky Culture future Media sociology history connectiveknowledge crowdsourcing networks

shared by Ed Webb on 28 Sep 09 - Cached
  • television watching? Two hundred billion hours, in the U.S. alone, every year. Put another way, now that we have a unit, that's 2,000 Wikipedia projects a year spent watching television. Or put still another way, in the U.S., we spend 100 million hours every weekend, just watching the ads.
  • The physics of participation is much more like the physics of weather than it is like the physics of gravity. We know all the forces that combine to make these kinds of things work: there's an interesting community over here, there's an interesting sharing model over there, those people are collaborating on open source software. But despite knowing the inputs, we can't predict the outputs yet because there's so much complexity.
  • The normal case of social software is still failure; most of these experiments don't pan out. But the ones that do are quite incredible
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  • It's better to do something than to do nothing. Even lolcats, even cute pictures of kittens made even cuter with the addition of cute captions, hold out an invitation to participation. When you see a lolcat, one of the things it says to the viewer is, "If you have some sans-serif fonts on your computer, you can play this game, too." And that's message--I can do that, too--is a big change.
  • media is actually a triathlon, it 's three different events. People like to consume, but they also like to produce, and they like to share.
  • Here's something four-year-olds know: A screen that ships without a mouse ships broken. Here's something four-year-olds know: Media that's targeted at you but doesn't include you may not be worth sitting still for. Those are things that make me believe that this is a one-way change. Because four year olds, the people who are soaking most deeply in the current environment, who won't have to go through the trauma that I have to go through of trying to unlearn a childhood spent watching Gilligan's Island, they just assume that media includes consuming, producing and sharing.
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