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anonymous

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crowd source digitalciv recaptcha

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  • anonymous on 26 Oct 10
     
    This is a cool way to crowd source digitizing book
Brandon McCloskey

Chinese Cow Manure Generates Electricity In Largest-Ever Methane Capture System | Popul... - 0 views

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  • A gigantic Chinese dairy farm is now the world’s largest methane farm, turning a massive source of greenhouse gas emissions into a lucrative renewable energy source.
  • Brandon McCloskey on 23 Nov 10
     
    How agricultural advancements are evolving their own energy converters.
Gideon Burton

The digital age an age of stagnation? - 2 views

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future shock wired

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  • 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 Benefits of Distraction and Overstimulation -- New York Magazine - 1 views

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distraction critique internet

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  • What information consumes is rather obvious: It consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.
Greg Williams

Connectivism - 1 views

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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
anonymous

Twitter, Facebook, and social activism : The New Yorker - 2 views

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activism socialmedia

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      anonymous on 03 Feb 12
       
      Do you agree with this?
  • This is in many ways a wonderful thing. There is strength in weak ties, as the sociologist Mark Granovetter has observed. Our acquaintances—not our friends—are our greatest source of new ideas and information. The Internet lets us exploit the power of these kinds of distant connections with marvellous efficiency. It’s terrific at the diffusion of innovation, interdisciplinary collaboration, seamlessly matching up buyers and sellers, and the logistical functions of the dating world. But weak ties seldom lead to high-risk activism.
  • The evangelists of social media don’t understand this distinction; they seem to believe that a Facebook friend is the same as a real friend and that signing up for a donor registry in Silicon Valley today is activism in the same sense as sitting at a segregated lunch counter in Greensboro in 1960.
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  • Boycotts and sit-ins and nonviolent confrontations—which were the weapons of choice for the civil-rights movement—are high-risk strategies. They leave little room for conflict and error. The moment even one protester deviates from the script and responds to provocation, the moral legitimacy of the entire protest is compromised.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 03 Feb 12
       
      But it was just a phone.
  • A networked, weak-tie world is good at things like helping Wall Streeters get phones back from teen-age girls.
  • These events in the early sixties became a civil-rights war that engulfed the South for the rest of the decade—and it happened without e-mail, texting, Facebook, or Twitter.
  • “It is time to get Twitter’s role in the events in Iran right,” Golnaz Esfandiari wrote, this past summer, in Foreign Policy. “Simply put: There was no Twitter Revolution inside Iran.”
  • The cadre of prominent bloggers, like Andrew Sullivan, who championed the role of social media in Iran, Esfandiari continued, misunderstood the situation. “Western journalists who couldn’t reach—or didn’t bother reaching?—people on the ground in Iran simply scrolled through the English-language tweets post with tag #iranelection,” she wrote. “Through it all, no one seemed to wonder why people trying to coordinate protests in Iran would be writing in any language other than Farsi.”
  • What mattered more was an applicant’s degree of personal connection to the civil-rights movement.
Jeffrey Whitlock

Naked economics: undressing the ... - Google Books - 1 views

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      Jeffrey Whitlock on 21 Sep 10
       
      For those who shudder in fear or flee because of boredom when faces with the subject of economics, then this book is for you! this book breaks down economics in a gloriously simple and fun way.
Jeffrey Chen

Open Science Project - 2 views

www.openscience.org/blog

Science 2.0 open sourcing blog digiciv

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  • Jackie C on 21 Sep 10
     
    I loved how I went to this URL and the first entry was about molecular simulation. I'm just starting a research project with this. I hope that other people will get excited about the prospect of open science, or even as excited about the research and software as I am :)
  • Katherine Chipman on 22 Sep 10
     
    Great link Jackie! I followed your link and really enjoyed reading some of the posts. One that I found particularly interesting is called "What, exactly, is Open Science?" I hadn't really thought about the importance of having research be available and open to everyone, but this article made me think about it and I agree. Thanks again for the link.
  • Jeffrey Chen on 13 Dec 10
     
    A great website that shows how science is becoming more open. A group of scientists "who want to encourage a collaborative environment in which science can be pursued by anyone who is inspired to discover something new about the natural world."
Katherine Chipman

California (Geography) - 1 views

quod.lib.umich.edu/...text-idx

encyclopedia

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  • Katherine Chipman on 22 Sep 10
     
    Encyclopedia entry on "California". The entry on America said that more specific information was given under the different regions. I decided to look up California, since that was one of the regions the entry listed. This is quite an entertainging description of California and it makes me wonder what their sources were.
Erin Hamson

School (Architecture) - 0 views

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encyclopedia science

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  • This text may be freely searched and displayed. Permission must be received for subsequent distribution in print or electronically. Please contact the translator or spo-help@umich.edu for more information.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 23 Sep 10
       
      The article is on one school of architecture, not likly to be found in a modern encyclopedia.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 23 Sep 10
       
      Notice the avaliability of this source. Doesn't flow with open science, or the open knowledge descirbed therein.
  • Erin Hamson on 23 Sep 10
     
    This is an article from the Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert. I clicked on it interested in how architecture was seen and got a quick history lesson!
Kevin Watson

Wikimedia Foundation - 0 views

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digiciv open access wikipedia wikimedia wiki opensource

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      Kevin Watson on 22 Sep 10
       
      It's interesting how many teachers will not allow you to use Wikipedia as a source, but in light of this digital civilization class, isn't it a form of Open Access Information, and shouldn't it be praised in a way?
  • Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment.
Andrew DeWitt

A Tale of two cities - Google Books - 1 views

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google books tale two cities French revolution

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  • Andrew DeWitt on 30 Sep 10
     
    A good historical fiction read on the French Revolution.
  • Trevor Cox on 30 Sep 10
     
    This book is a great commentary on people and governments. If you haven't read it, you must.
Madeline Rupard

Helium--An interesting idea. - 0 views

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digiciv open wikipedia blog wiki information revolution communication education knowledge

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  • Madeline Rupard on 14 Oct 10
     
    I stumbled upon this website the other day. Its an article site with a bunch of hired authors. "Wait--hired authors!!" You say, in righteous defense of the open "wiki" model. But the cool thing about hired authors is that they are all viewing and rating each other's articles. Hence, "helium," the best articles rise to the top. I mean who decided that it was the best system to have bored 40 year olds living with their parents as the main source of information. (Let's be honest, those wikipedia articles didn't write themselves.) The good thing about a paid workforce is that there is a sense of pressure under writing the articles. Their business model is in and of itself an "invisible hand." Anyways, i thought it was a cool idea. Voila.
Jeffrey Whitlock

The pioneers: or, The sources of the ... - Google Books - 0 views

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      Jeffrey Whitlock on 13 Oct 10
       
      Written by one of the most popular early romanticist writers. A book very relevant to our class because it contains themes from both Romanticism and the Frontier.
Sarah Wills

The Selfish Gene (Richard Dawkins)- Google Books - 0 views

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  • Sarah Wills on 18 Oct 10
     
    Focuses the theory of natural selection not on the organism but on the genes. A very interesting read.
Rhett Ferrin

Crowdsourcing - 0 views

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      Rhett Ferrin on 10 Nov 10
       
      This is the author's blog about crowdsourcing, so this will give you relevant, up to date information.
  • Crowdsourcing: A Definition I like to use two definitions for crowdsourcing: The White Paper Version: Crowdsourcing is the act of taking a job traditionally performed by a designated agent (usually an employee) and outsourcing it to an undefined, generally large group of people in the form of an open call. The Soundbyte Version: The application of Open Source principles to fields outside of software.
  • Gideon Burton on 22 Oct 10
     
    Jeff Howe's blog about the topic he has championed in Wired and through his book Crowdsourcing.
Andrew DeWitt

Throw Grammar from the Train - 0 views

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Grammar blog words punctuation humanism humanist

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      Andrew DeWitt on 29 Sep 10
       
      Fascinating!  You could subscribe to the Boston Globe to read "The Word" written by this author, or you could read her blog.  I'm thinking: open source, free media, etc.
  • Jan Freeman has written The Word, a weekly Boston Globe column
  • Andrew DeWitt on 29 Sep 10
     
    A Blogspot "Blog of Note" that emphasizes the fascinating power of words, grammar and punctuation.  A modern-day renaissance humanist
Kristi Koerner

The progress of America: from the ... - Google Books - 0 views

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  • Kristi Koerner on 12 Oct 10
     
    An interesting book with a good perspective
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