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Gideon Burton

the creative internet (106 things) - 5 views

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Google design creativity digital

shared by Gideon Burton on 29 Apr 11 - No Cached
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  • Gideon Burton on 29 Apr 11
     
    Amazing set of creative uses of the new media put together by Google.
  • Andrew DeWitt on 30 Apr 11
     
    Its really amazing what is out there!
creative outdoors

Superb Creative Outdoor Ideas - 1 views

I have always wanted to build a patio to enjoy a lazy afternoon whilst looking out to my garden or where I can enjoy a cup of coffee during weekends as well as an area to receive and entertain gues...

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Gideon Burton

How a 19-year-old student became one of the hottest political photographers i... - 1 views

www.niemanlab.org/...l-photographers-in-the-country

amateur pro-am photography creative commons

shared by Gideon Burton on 14 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • Gideon Burton on 14 Sep 12
     
    An example of someone succeeding at photography by seeking only reputation, not money, by publishing his work as Creative Commons-licensed.
Gideon Burton

Piracy is Progressive Taxation, and Other Thoughts on the Evolution of Online Distribut... - 0 views

openp2p.com/...piracy.html

piracy oreilly

shared by Gideon Burton on 12 Feb 12 - Cached
  • Gideon Burton on 12 Feb 12
     
    Obscurity is a far greater threat to authors and creative artists than piracy.
Jeffrey Chen

Making Capitalism More Creative - 0 views

www.time.com/...0,8599,1828069,00.html

Bill Gates creative capitalism improvement

shared by Jeffrey Chen on 26 Sep 10 - Cached
  • Jeffrey Chen on 26 Sep 10
     
    Great article by time magazine by Bill Gates about the modern issues of capitalism and areas for improvement
Morgan Wills

Google Image Search Implements CC License Filtering - Creative Commons - 1 views

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creative commons image search google cc license filtering

shared by Morgan Wills on 15 Oct 10 - Cached
  • Morgan Wills on 15 Oct 10
     
    How handy!
Trevor Cox

Website by Jacob Cass, a graphic designer - 1 views

www.justcreativedesign.com

digiciv education work

shared by Trevor Cox on 29 Sep 10 - Cached
  • Trevor Cox on 29 Sep 10
     
    I found this website and really think it exemplifies creative use of digital learning and education.
Andrew DeWitt

YouTube - Procrastination - 2 views

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procrastination youtube psychology behavior

shared by Andrew DeWitt on 29 Oct 10 - Cached
  • Andrew DeWitt on 29 Oct 10
     
    Creative video
Andrew DeWitt

xkcd: a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language - 0 views

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comics humor comic webcomic funny geek fun math open

shared by Andrew DeWitt on 08 Nov 10 - Cached
  • Andrew DeWitt on 08 Nov 10
     
    A funny comic strip for the intellectually minded. Randall Munroe, the creator of xkcd must be an open-source kind of guy because he has put something like a Creative Commons (noncommercial, attribution) license on his work.
Sean Watson

Has Greece escaped financial calamity? | Al Jazeera Blogs - 0 views

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shared by Sean Watson on 27 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Sean Watson on 27 Oct 10
     
    Al Jazeera has a creative commons license.
Brandon McCloskey

BBC News - The business of innovation: Steven Johnson - 0 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...business-11706476

digiciv economy business

shared by Brandon McCloskey on 08 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • The lone genius, beavering away in the seclusion of his lab is how most of us imagine the great moments of innovation have come into being. But is this really the whole story?
  • "[Good ideas] come from crowds, they come from networks. You know we have this clichéd idea of the lone genius having the eureka moment.
  • "And so much of that is because it's wonderfully set up for other people to build on top of other people's ideas. In many cases without asking for permission.
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  • "One of the lessons I've learned is that so many of these great innovators, Darwin is a great example of this, one shared characteristic they all seem to have is a lot of hobbies."
  • So what should companies be doing to foster innovation in their workforces?
  • "I think there's this abiding belief that markets drive innovation, corporations drive innovation, entrepreneurs driven by financial reward drive innovation, and while that's certainly true in many cases there's also this very rich long history of important world-changing ideas coming out of the more or less intellectual commons of the universities.
  • "Go for a walk; cultivate hunches; write everything down; but keep your folders messy; embrace serendipity; make generative mistakes; take on multiple hobbies, frequent coffee houses and other liquid networks; follow the links; let others build on your ideas; borrow, recycle, reinvent."
  • Brandon McCloskey on 08 Nov 10
     
    How the progress of technology and the economy are affected by creativity. Also the importance of isolation vs collaboration
Brandon McCloskey

Crowdsourcing: Turning customers into creative directors - 1 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...business-11437839

crowdsourcing digiciv economy

shared by Brandon McCloskey on 08 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • "What we think is good for the consumer doesn't matter - it's what the consumer thinks is good that matters."
  • When you link the consumer to the manufacturer there are huge areas of opportunity
  • It's the internet, of course, that makes crowdsourcing possible - on a global scale.
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  • But there are pitfalls. "The biggest caveat is the issue of curation. It's great you opening the gates up to everybody - but all of a sudden you're going to get a lot more stuff."
  • "We later learned that it was this revolutionary business model. I think the reason it's so pure like that is the reason it's worked so well as a crowdsourcing company."
  • "I think that the way companies are seeing crowdsourcing is a lot different from the way we see it. They are looking at it as this new business model, as a way to outsource your work to an anonymous crowd of people. We're more about giving people something productive to do with their passions."
  • it's not so much the software that makes the company, it's the community
  • "It's an affordable way to be ahead. You're able to see what your customers are thinking and what they're dreaming of, and you're able to measure that against what you're doing."
  • His concern is that by "mining" the crowd in this way, the wealth that results from the work done remains concentrated in the hands of the people who put out the call - ultimately endangering jobs and the economy. Mr Lanier also believes that crowdsourcing threatens creativity.
  • Brandon McCloskey on 08 Nov 10
     
    Examples of successful crowdsourcing
Gideon Burton

The Internet? We Built That - NYTimes.com - 1 views

www.nytimes.com/...he-internet-we-built-that.html

internet history anthology

shared by Gideon Burton on 24 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • it’s impossible to overstate the importance of peer production to the modern digital world.
  • What sounds on the face of it like the most utopian of collectivist fantasies — millions of people sharing their ideas with no ownership claims — turns out to have made possible the communications infrastructure of our age.
  • Peer networks laid the foundation for the scientific revolution during the Enlightenment, via the formal and informal societies and coffeehouse gatherings where new research was shared. The digital revolution has made it clear that peer networks can work wonders in the modern age.
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  • We have an endless supply of folklore about heroic entrepreneurs who changed the world with their vision and their force of will. But as a society we lack master narratives of creative collaboration.
  • what the Internet and its descendants teach us is that there are now new models for doing things together, success stories that prove convincingly that you don’t need bureaucracies to facilitate public collaboration, and you don’t need the private sector to innovate
Gideon Burton

The digital age an age of stagnation? - 2 views

www.wired.com/...future-shock

future shock wired

shared by Gideon Burton on 22 May 12 - No Cached
  • Gideon Burton on 22 May 12
     
    When Will This Low-Innovation Internet Era End?
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  • Sean Watson on 23 May 12
     
    Fascinating article. Thanks for sharing this, Dr. Burton. Do you think it's because internet technologies are mainly looked at as entertainment sources and not utilized as educational, academic, and research empowering tools? Is there something about the facility of information that hampers one's creativity, kind of like the cat and mouse game of dating that heightens one's mojo? Or could it possibly just be the result of a nation that has become exhausted with the competitive level necessary to transform this into what it may become? Or finally, do you think it's just a matter of time like the economic historian, Paul David said?
  • Gideon Burton on 25 May 12
     
    I do think it is a matter of time. People fall into ruts, even with revolutionary technologies. But enough is happening to keep this sphere innovating on the large scale even if it appears same-old in the short term. Nice to hear from you, Sean.
  • Sean Watson on 26 May 12
     
    Very interesting! Nice to hear from you too, Dr. Burton.
Gideon Burton

The Rise Of Visual Social Media | Fast Company - 0 views

www.fastcompany.com/...rise-visual-social-media

visual social media creative communities tumblr instagram

shared by Gideon Burton on 05 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • Gideon Burton on 05 Sep 12
     
    Will photos replace text messages as the connecting medium of choice?
Greg Williams

Connectivism - 1 views

www.itdl.org/...article01.htm

Connectivism learning theory education George Siemens

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  • 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

Getty, Liberation of Masterpieces as Open Content by $techgnotic on deviantART - 0 views

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creative commons open content art museum

shared by Gideon Burton on 20 Sep 13 - No Cached
  • Gideon Burton on 20 Sep 13
     
    A bold move by an important institution to open up its content.
Ariel Szuch

Should We Fear the Digital Economy Bill? - 0 views

publishingperspectives.com/...-fear-the-digital-economy-bill

digital economy copyright intellectual property publishing

shared by Ariel Szuch on 30 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • This indicates that no proof of copyright infringement must exist in order to block a Web site, just an assumption that a violation has occurred or will occur. Such broad language means that Web sites large and small, from YouTube to your next door neighbor’s blog, are in danger if accusations of copyright infringement are made against them.
  • Without any obligation to provide proof of wrongdoing, the bill creates the potential for abuse and…dare we say it…censorship.
  • The other side of the argument is, of course, that entertainment companies and copyright holders lose billions of dollars due to online piracy and illegal filesharing of copyrighted works.
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  • People and companies that make a living on content and intellectual property have a very real need to protect their investments and creative assets. Measures such as DRM and ongoing legal battles don’t seem to have slowed down online piracy.
  • But are such extreme measures like the Digital Economy Bill really necessary to fight copyright infringement? Should the British government be allowed limitless power to block Web sites and Internet users?
Trevor Cox

Creative Commons Licensing - 0 views

creativecommons.org

copyright creativecommons license digiciv

shared by Trevor Cox on 26 Oct 10 - Cached
  • Trevor Cox on 26 Oct 10
     
    I really want to get into this
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