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alperin

Brainstorms: Life on the Screen Excerpts - 1 views

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turkle identity presentation of self

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  • the computer has become even more than tool and mirror
  • other people
  • But it is on the Internet that our confrontations with technology as it collides with our sense of human identity are fresh
  • alperin on 23 Oct 11
     
    Part of Mind to Mind with Sherry Turkle
alperin

Christine Rosen Joins The War On Flow | Stowe Boyd - 3 views

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  • I am not trying to do as many things simultaneously as possible, as quickly as possible, using as many technologies as possible. I am trying to remain connected to a large, sprawling network of thousands of edglings, and to gain an understanding of the world through that connection.
  • the human mind is really bad at memory, and that we have developed all sorts of compensating techniques to counter that weakness.
  • Yet memory is arguably the mind’s original sin. So much is built on it, and yet it is, especially in comparison with computer memory, wildly unreliable.
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  • Nearly every sort of physical skill mastery involves multitasking.
    • S Chou
      S Chou on 19 Oct 11
       
      This argument seems to remove the human place in determining what goes into a computer memory - as if data gathers entirely on its own, without a human setting the clock or parameters.
  • It may be that in this age — unlike Jame’s 1890s — we need to retain the youthful mind-wandering instead of a settled sort of thinking in comfortable and well-worn ruts.
  • Christine Rosen
alperin

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

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shared by alperin on 15 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • 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
S Chou

Can You Hear Me Now? - Forbes.com - 7 views

www.forbes.com/...176.html

shared by S Chou on 15 Oct 11 - Cached
  • it is more important to stay tethered to the people who define one's virtual identity, the identity that counts.
    • Jennifer Bundy
      Jennifer Bundy on 15 Oct 11
       
      What about the identity in "real life"? Does virtual identity really count more than that one? Maybe quantity of people that are seeing us virtually matters.
    • alperin
      alperin on 15 Oct 11
       
      juan alperin: I also ask: is it the virtual identity that they are trying to remain connected to? Or their 'real' identity, the person they are when they are 'home', instead of at a conference?
    • Liu He
      Liu He on 16 Oct 11
       
      Is it because online world boosts their self-esteem the reason that people care more about online others? If the virtual reality does count more, what's the point about being real and making face-to-face contact? What's real about virtual reality?
  • The culture that grows up around the cell phone is a communications culture, but it is not necessarily a culture of self-reflection--which depends on having an emotion, experiencing it, sometimes electing to share it with another person, thinking about it differently over time. When interchanges are reduced to the shorthand of emoticon emotions, questions such as "Who am I?" and "Who are you?" are reformatted for the small screen and flattened out in the process.
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  • The robotic crocodiles slapped their tails and rolled their eyes; the biological ones, like the Galápagos tortoises, pretty much kept to themselves.
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