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alperin

Collaborative Learning for the Digital Age - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Hi... - 5 views

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  • he wasn't the one who had played it on us
    • alperin
      alperin on 15 Oct 11
       
      we play it on ourselves
  • everything we've learned about how to pay attention means that we've been missing everything else.
  • I want to suggest a different way of seeing, one that's based on multitasking our attention—not by seeing it all alone but by distributing various parts of the task among others dedicated to the same end
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    • alperin
      alperin on 15 Oct 11
       
      central aim of article
  • We chose a flashy new music-listening gadget that young people loved but that baffled most adults.
  • This was an educational experiment without a syllabus. No lesson plan. No assessment matrix rigged to show that our investment had been a wise one. No assignment to count the basketballs.
  • In the iPod experiment, we were crowdsourcing educational innovation for a digital age.
  • Interconnection was the part the students grasped before any of us did
    • alperin
      alperin on 15 Oct 11
       
      but did this all continue?
  • "Participatory learning" is one term used to describe how we can learn together from one another's skills. "Cognitive surplus" is another used in the digital world for that "more than the sum of the parts" form of collaborative thinking that happens when groups think together online.
  • collaboration by difference
  • It signifies that the complex and interconnected problems of our time cannot be solved by anyone alone
  • It always seems more cumbersome in the short run to seek out divergent and even quirky opinions, but it turns out to be efficient in the end and necessary for success if one seeks an outcome that is unexpected and sustainable.
  • All conceded that it had turned out to be much harder to get their work to "stick" on Wikipedia than it was to write a traditional term paper.
  • The Internet, she discovered, had allowed them to develop their writing
  • except the grading.
  • Contract grading goes back at least to the 1960s. In it, the requirements of a course are laid out in advance, and students contract to do all of the assignments or only some of them
  • If we crowdsource grading, we are suggesting that young people without credentials are fit to judge quality and value. Welcome to the Internet
  • attention blindness
  • trapping us in our own attention blindness
Liu He

The New Atlantis » Virtual Friendship and the New Narcissism - 3 views

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shared by Liu He on 23 Oct 11 - Cached
  • On social networking websites like MySpace and Facebook, our modern self-portraits
  • carefully manipulated
  • interactive
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  • ephemeral
  • Does this technology, with its constant demands to collect (friends and status), and perform (by marketing ourselves), in some ways undermine our ability to attain what it promises—a surer sense of who we are and where we belong?
  • There are sites specifically for younger children, such as Club Penguin
    • S Chou
      S Chou on 25 Oct 11
       
      What's in it for young children and social networking media? Here is what they tell parents: http://www.clubpenguin.com/parents/ 
  • the activities social networking sites promote are precisely the ones weak ties foster, like rumor-mongering, gossip, finding people, and tracking the ever-shifting movements of popular culture and fad. If this is our small world, it is one that gives its greatest attention to small things.
  • entrenched barriers of race and social class undermine the idea that we live in a small world. Computer networks have not removed those barriers.
    • Jennifer Bundy
      Jennifer Bundy on 24 Oct 11
       
      Computer networks maybe increasing the barriers between communities just through access
    • alperin
      alperin on 25 Oct 11
       
      Work I've read on real social networks (such as a network of every MSN Messenger conversation) show that the average shortest path length is < 8. Of course, this is still restricted to people who are digitally connected, but MSN is a relatively low technological barrier.
    • S Chou
      S Chou on 25 Oct 11
       
      The digital divide can be hard to keep track of given the page of technological change, but here is an interesting (if slightly dated) place to start: http://wireless.ictp.it/simulator/
  • protean selves
  • Today, our self-portraits are democratic and digital
  • one giant living dynamic learning experience about consumers
    • S Chou
      S Chou on 23 Oct 11
       
      Actual article, if anyone is interested in the business point of view. http://customerlistening.typepad.com/customer_listening/2007/01/pg_boosts_socia.html
  • certain kinds of connections easier, but because they are governed not by geography or community mores but by personal whim, they free users from the responsibilities that tend to come with membership in a community.
  • The secret is to tie the acquisition of friends, compliments and status—spoils that humans will work hard for—to activities that enhance the site.
    • S Chou
      S Chou on 23 Oct 11
       
      Implies that, on some level, real human needs are being met.
    • Jennifer Bundy
      Jennifer Bundy on 24 Oct 11
       
      The antedote on choosing between 2 pages - is it because we are blindly following based on numbers or is the pattern about authenticity (more people=more reliable)? Maybe the two are inseparable and it doesn't really matter...
  • Real intimacy requires risk—the risk of disapproval, of heartache, of being thought a fool. Social networking websites may make relationships more reliable, but whether those relationships can be humanly satisfying remains to be seen.
  • level of social involvement decreases
    • S Chou
      S Chou on 25 Oct 11
       
      Does not mean causality.
  • people you might have (should have?) fallen out of touch with—it is now easier than ever to reconnect to those people
    • Jennifer Bundy
      Jennifer Bundy on 24 Oct 11
       
      This brings up the idea that maybe there is a reason that we lose track of people or outgrow them. Now, with Facebook it is very awkward to acknowledge that you are no longer friends - and that it's not necessarily a bad thing
  • we should be asking isn’t how closely are we connected, but rather what kinds of communities and friendships are we creating
    • S Chou
      S Chou on 25 Oct 11
       
      Are there different expectations around social networks and their consumers/users/people? In other words, why do we seem more offended by a social network calling their target audience consumers than we would say, a shampoo company?
    • S Chou
      S Chou on 25 Oct 11
       
      Like multi-tasking, which originated in reference to computers, is this another instance of computer-based concepts and languages seeping into our cultural sense of self? 
    • S Chou
      S Chou on 25 Oct 11
       
      MySpace hosts a population of primarily young people, to what extent is age and maturity not being considered in this argument? 
    • S Chou
      S Chou on 25 Oct 11
       
      Does this argument ignore the degree to which social networks are pathways and representations of friendship, and not the end-all-be-all?
  • Vital statistics, glimpses of bare flesh, lists of favorite bands and favorite poems all clamor for our attention—and it is the timeless human desire for attention that emerges as the dominant theme of these vast virtual galleries.
  • “an entirely new way for consumers to express their individuality online.” (It is noteworthy that Microsoft refers to social networkers as “consumers” rather than merely “users” or, say, “people.”)
  • it relies on e-mail to determine whether “any two people in the world can be connected via ‘six degrees of separation.’
Howard Rheingold

Your brain vs technology: How our wired world is changing the way we think | Page 4 | H... - 3 views

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attention multitasking

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  • Howard Rheingold on 13 Nov 11
     
    He discusses another study conducted in a lecture class where half the students were allowed to have their laptops open and the other half had to keep them shut. At the end of the lecture the two groups were tested on retention of information - the group without laptop access did "a significantly better job" of recalling what they'd just been taught. "When you think about it, it's not a big surprise - you're not distracted. On the other hand, despite that, we're seeing more and more schools embrace the idea of allowing their students to have their laptops with them and have rich wi-fi connections in classrooms,
  • Howard Rheingold on 13 Nov 11
     
    This long article attempts to be even-handed about the debate regarding the effects on the brain of using digital media. A key assertion, which has yet to be backed up by sufficient contemporary empirical research, but which makes sense in light of what is known about neuroplasticity, is that the human brain adapts very well to its environment and now that exposure to digital media on screens is a very significant portion of the environment for many people, brains are changing -- and not necessarily in beneficial ways -- to adapt to the media environment. The empirical evidence will come in over the next 5-10 years and this argument will be closer to settled. For the time being, I think it pays to keep an open mind in both directions.
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