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Gideon Burton

MediaBerkman » Blog Archive » Matthew Battles on Going Feral on the Net: the ... - 0 views

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feral wild net podcast Berkman

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  • Gideon Burton on 17 Sep 12
     
    Explores the metaphor of the internet as a wild
Gideon Burton

Introduction to Openness in Education - 2 views

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openness education open

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  • Gideon Burton on 04 Jan 12
     
    A course by David Wiley at Brigham Young University exploring open culture in its various iterations.
Greg Williams

Teaching in Social and Technological Networks « Connectivism - 0 views

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connectivism teaching learning education

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  • What is the role of a teacher?
    • Greg Williams
      Greg Williams on 26 Sep 12
       
      And what is the role of education? Hard to know what the teacher should be doing if we can't answer that
  • How can we achieve clear outcomes through distributed means? How can we achieve learning targets when the educator is no longer able to control the actions of learners?
  • control is being replaced with influence.
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  • A curator is an expert learner.
  • they don’t adhere to traditional in-class teacher-centric power structures. A curator balances the freedom of individual learners with the thoughtful interpretation of the subject being explored.
Greg Williams

Connectivism - 1 views

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Connectivism learning theory education George Siemens

shared by Greg Williams on 12 Sep 12 - Cached
  • Do we acquire it throu
  • These theories, however, were developed in a time when learning was not impacted through technology.
  • In many fields the life of knowledge is now measured in months and years.
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  • The amount of knowledge in the world has doubled in the past 10 years and is doubling every 18 months according to the American Society of Training and Documentation (ASTD). To combat the shrinking half-life of knowledge, organizations have been forced to develop new methods of deploying instruction.
  • Technology is altering (rewiring) our brains. The tools we use define and shape our thinking
  • learning as a lasting changed state (emotional, mental, physiological (i.e. skills)) brought about as a result of experiences and interactions with content or other people.
  • Objectivism (similar to behaviorism) states that reality is external and is objective, and knowledge is gained through experiences. Pragmatism (similar to cognitivism) states that reality is interpreted, and knowledge is negotiated through experience and thinking. Interpretivism (similar to constructivism) states that reality is internal, and knowledge is constructed.
  • Behaviorism states that learning is largely unknowable, that is, we can’t possibly understand what goes on inside a person (the “black box theory”)
  • Cognitivism often takes a computer information processing model. Learning is viewed as a process of inputs, managed in short term memory, and coded for long-term recall.
  • Constructivism suggests that learners create knowledge as they attempt to understand their experiences
  • Constructivism assumes that learners are not empty vessels to be filled with knowledge. Instead, learners are actively attempting to create meaning. Learners often select and pursue their own learning. Constructivist principles acknowledge that real-life learning is messy and complex.
  • learning that occurs outside of people
  • The ability to synthesize and recognize connections and patterns is a valuable skill.
  • In today’s environment, action is often needed without personal learning – that is, we need to act by drawing information outside of our primary knowledge.
  • An entirely new approach is needed.
  • How can we continue to stay current in a rapidly evolving information ecology?
  • We can no longer personally experience and acquire learning that we need to act. We derive our competence from forming connections.
  • Unlike constructivism, which states that learners attempt to foster understanding by meaning making tasks, chaos states that the meaning exists – the learner's challenge is to recognize the patterns which appear to be hidden
  • The capacity to form connections between sources of information, and thereby create useful information patterns, is required to learn in our knowledge economy.
  • A network can simply be defined as connections between entities.
  • Nodes that successfully acquire greater profile will be more successful at acquiring additional connections
  • Finding a new job, as an example, often occurs through weak ties. This principle has great merit in the notion of serendipity, innovation, and creativity. Connections between disparate ideas and fields can create new innovations.
  • Connectivism is the integration of principles explored by chaos, network, and complexity and self-organization theories.
  • Learning and knowledge rests in diversity of opinions.
  • Decision-making is itself a learning process. Choosing what to learn and the meaning of incoming information is seen through the lens of a shifting reality. While there is a right answer now, it may be wrong tomorrow due to alterations in the information climate affecting the decision.
  • The starting point of connectivism is the individual.
  • This cycle of knowledge development (personal to network to organization) allows learners to remain current in their field through the connections they have formed.
  • the internet leverages the small efforts of many with the large efforts of few.
  • example of a Maricopa County Community College system project that links senior citizens with elementary school students in a mentor program. The children “listen to these “grandparents” better than they do their own parents, the mentoring really helps the teachers…the small efforts of the many- the seniors – complement the large efforts of the few – the teachers.” (2002). This amplification of learning, knowledge and understanding through the extension of a personal network is the epitome of connectivism.
  • Implications
  • The pipe is more important than the content within the pipe. Our ability to learn what we need for tomorrow is more important than what we know today. A real challenge for any learning theory is to actuate known knowledge at the point of application.
  • acknowledges the tectonic shifts in society where learning is no longer an internal, individualistic activity
  • Greg Williams on 12 Sep 12
     
    "Technology is altering (rewiring) our brains. The tools we use define and shape our thinking." . . . or so this fellow argues in a pretty detailed paper
Gideon Burton

High Tech History | A weblog exploring computer technology, digital history and early h... - 0 views

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technology history blog

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  • Gideon Burton on 12 Sep 12
     
    Great background on key players and places in the development of tech and computing
Kristi Koerner

Descartes' Life and Works > Descartes' 1616 Law Thesis -- English Translation (Stanford... - 0 views

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    • Kristi Koerner
      Kristi Koerner on 20 Sep 10
       
      Why did Descartes see Law as the way to explore rationality?
  • Kristi Koerner on 20 Sep 10
     
    Descartes Law Thesis
Katherine Chipman

Royal Society (British science society) -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia - 0 views

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      Katherine Chipman on 23 Sep 10
       
      It is amazing that something that began in the 1600's is still active and involved today in the furthering of knowledge and exploration! The Society has made significant contributions throughout its history, and those contributions continue today.
  • Shuan Pai on 23 Sep 10
     
    Britannica blurb about the Royal Society. Gives some brief but good background info.
  • Parker Woody on 23 Sep 10
     
    Short description of the beginnings of the Royal Soceity
Katherine Chipman

Privacy and Online Information - Chris Hoofnagle Fall 2007 | OER Commons - 0 views

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online privacy

shared by Katherine Chipman on 29 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • In this course students will first gain an understanding of the basics of how search engines work, and then explore how search engine design impacts business and culture. Topics include search advertising and auctions, search and privacy, search ranking, internationalization, anti-spam efforts, local search, peer-to-peer search, and search of blogs and online communities.
Erin Hamson

The Frontier In American History: Chapter X - 0 views

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  • As the American pioneer passed on in advance of this new tide of European immigration, he found lands increasingly limited
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 12 Oct 10
       
      The close of the Frontier
  • . But the captains of industry by applying squatter doctrines to the evolution of American industrial society, have made the process so clear that he who runs may read.
  • it seemed not impossible that the outcome of free competition under individualism was to be monopoly of the most important natural resources and processes by a limited group of men whose vast fortunes were so invested in allied and dependent industries that they constituted the dominating force in the industrial life of the nation
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 12 Oct 10
       
      Unregulated turn of events, the people were turned loose and made the best of it. What is wrong with this? They set the standards, and there is no room for competition.
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  • Mr. Harriman
  • mastering the economic forces of the nation
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 12 Oct 10
       
      According to Adam Smith and the free market economy theory, the people are the best regulators. This sounds like socialism...
  • The Granger and the Populist were prophets of this reform movement. Mr. Bryan's Democracy, Mr. Debs' Socialism, and Mr. Roosevelt's Republicanism all had in common the emphasis upon the need of governmental regulation of industrial tendencies in the interest of the common man
  • "the State University and the public school system which it crowns would be the strongest evidence of its fitness which it could offer."
  • "general system of education ascending in regular gradations from township schools to a State University, wherein tuition shall be gratis and equally open to all," expresses the Middle Western conception born in the days of pioneer society and doubtless deeply influenced by Jeffersonian democracy.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 12 Oct 10
       
      applying pioneer principles of avaliability and indivdualism to education and other opportunities to suceed in life as presently constituted.
  • propaganda to induce students to continue
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 12 Oct 10
       
      Want everyone to go to college to become their best individual self.
  • all under the ideal of service to democracy rather than of individual advancement alone
  • The times call for educated leaders.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 12 Oct 10
       
      And have yet to cease to call for experienced leaders. Which is why we are all sitting here reading this, to become educated leaders.
  • The test tube and the microscope are needed rather than ax and rifle in this new ideal of conquest
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 12 Oct 10
       
      influence of technology on life
  • It is hardly too much to say that the best hope of intelligent and principled progress in economic and social legislation and administration lies in the increasing influence of American universities.
  • able to think for themselves, governed Dot by ignorance, by prejudice or by impulse, but by knowledge and reason and high-mindedness,
  • The learning of the few is despotism; the learning of the many is liberty.
  • At first pioneer democracy had scant respect for the expert.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 12 Oct 10
       
      individualism
  • That they may perform their work they must be left free, as the pioneer was free, to explore new regions and to report what they find; for like the pioneers they have the ideal of investigation, they seek new horizons.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 12 Oct 10
       
      application of pioneer ideals
  • Thus it is the function of the university to reveal to the individual the mystery and the glory of life as a whole
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 12 Oct 10
       
      opening the mind to new ideas and ideals
Katherine Chipman

Smithsonian: Museums - 0 views

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museums smithsonian

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  • Katherine Chipman on 05 Oct 10
     
    Here is a link where you can explore the Smithsonian a little more. The variety of the museums, collections, exhibits, etc. is amazing!
Danny Patterson

A different perspective of how women viewed the american frontier - 0 views

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American Frontier Women Exploration

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  • Danny Patterson on 11 Oct 10
     
    This site brings up a different perspective on how women viewed the actions involved in the American frontier. Generally speaking, the acts of violence performed by the men to the Indian tribes was unnecessary and women were victims of such hostility, leaving them unable to perform their responsibilities.
Shuan Pai

Establishing Cause & Effect - 0 views

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  • Shuan Pai on 02 Nov 10
     
    exploring the case-effect relationship
Megan Stern

MoMA | The Museum of Modern Art - 0 views

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digiciv Modernism

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  • Megan Stern on 27 Oct 10
     
    Explore some of the Modernist art of our time, from sketches to photography to kitchens.
Katherine Chipman

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/linguistics-and-philosophy/24-00-problems-of-philosophy-fall... - 1 views

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relativism

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  • Katherine Chipman on 28 Oct 10
     
    A great paper exploring relativism.
Daniel Zappala

A Logic Named Joe - 1 views

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science fiction

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  • Say you punch "Station SNAFU" on your logic. Relays in the tank take over an' whatever vision-program SNAFU is telecastin' comes on your logic's screen. Or you punch "Sally Hancock's Phone" an' the screen blinks an' sputters an' you're hooked up with the logic in her house an' if somebody answers you got a vision-phone connection. But besides that, if you punch for the weather forecast or who won today's race at Hialeah or who was mistress of the White House durin' Garfield's administration or what is PDQ and R sellin' for today, that comes on the screen too.
    • Daniel Zappala
      Daniel Zappala on 03 Nov 10
       
      Joe is Google
  • it made Joe a individual
    • Daniel Zappala
      Daniel Zappala on 03 Nov 10
       
      Joe has machine intelligence.
  • But I think he went kinda remote-control exploring in the tank.
    • Daniel Zappala
      Daniel Zappala on 03 Nov 10
       
      Joe is using data mining.
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  • An' logics can do a Iotta things that ain't been found out yet.
    • Daniel Zappala
      Daniel Zappala on 03 Nov 10
       
      In science fiction, machine intelligence launches us into the unknown -- computers might be able to do things that we can't conceive of ourselves!
  • In theory, a censor block is gonna come on an' the screen will say severely, "Public Policy Forbids This Service."
    • Daniel Zappala
      Daniel Zappala on 03 Nov 10
       
      Joe disables content filtering services.
  • The screen says, "Service question: What is your name?" She is kinda puzzled, but she punches it. The screen sputters an' then says: "Secretarial Service Demonstration! You—" It reels off her name, address, age, sex, coloring, the amounts of all her charge accounts in all the stores, my name as her husband, how much I get a week, the fact that I've been pinched three times—twice was traffic stuff, and once for a argument I got in with a guy—and the interestin' item that once when she was mad with me she left me for three weeks an' had her address changed to her folks' home. Then it says, brisk: "Logics Service will hereafter keep your personal accounts, take messages, and locate persons you may wish to get in touch with. This demonstration is to introduce the service."
    • Daniel Zappala
      Daniel Zappala on 03 Nov 10
       
      More echoes of Google -- privacy vs convenience
  • Then I sweat!
    • Daniel Zappala
      Daniel Zappala on 03 Nov 10
       
      Social networking makes it easier to be unfaithful, causes tension in marriages.
  • Logics are civilization! If we shut off logics, we go back to a kind of civilization we have forgotten how to run!
  • That couldn't be allowed out general, of course. You gotta make room for kids to grow up. But it's a pretty good world, now Joe's turned off. Maybe I'll turn him on long enough to learn how to stay in it. But on the other hand, maybe—
    • Daniel Zappala
      Daniel Zappala on 03 Nov 10
       
      Technology introduces new moral questions
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