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"...We should say to modern democratic government, you need to beware of incumbents bearing policy fixes. Because their job, the job of the incumbents, is not the same as your job, the job of the public policy maker. Their job is profit for them. Your job is the public good.
And it is completely fair, for us to say, that until this addiction is solved, we should insist on minimalism in what government does. The kind of minimalism Jeff Jarvis spoke off when he spoke of "do no harm".
An internet that embraces principles of open and free access, a neutral network to guarantee this open access, to protect the outsider.
But here is the one think we know about this meeting, and its relationship to the future of the internet. The future of the internet is not Twitter, it is not Facebook, it is not Google, it is not even Rupert Murdoch.
The future of the internet is not here. It wasn't invited, it does not even know how to be invited, because it doesn't yet focus on policies and fora like this.
The least we can do is to preserve the architecture of this network that protects this future that is not here."
Premonitions/ foreboding, sleeping and waking.
Compare to Jonathon's journal at the castle. Also where this fits in with timetable. Hyperlinking cross-references would be handy here.
The clock was striking one
There was a bright full moon, with heavy black, driving clouds, which
threw the whole scene into a fleeting diorama of light and shade as
they sailed across.
ruins of the abbey coming into
view, and as the edge of a narrow band of light as sharp as a sword-cut
moved along, the church and churchyard became gradually visible.
it
seemed to me as though something dark stood behind the seat where the
white figure shone, and bent over it.
flew down the steep steps
to the pier and along by the fish-market to the bridge, which was the
only way to reach the East Cliff. The town seemed as dead, for not a
soul did I see.
I could see a white
face and red, gleaming eyes.
CHAPTER 8
MINA MURRAY'S JOURNAL
I ran on to the entrance of the churchyard.
As I entered, the church was between me and the seat, and for a minute
or so I lost sight of her. When I came in view again the cloud had
passed
she was still asleep
she was breathing, not softly as usual with her, but
in long, heavy gasps, as though striving to get her lungs full at every
breath
she put her hand to her throat again and
moaned
Fortune favoured us, and we got home without meeting a soul
she rose without a word, with the obedience of a child
Lucy is
sleeping soundly. The reflex of the dawn is high and far over the
sea…
she
looks better this morning than she has done for weeks
two little red points like pin-pricks, and on the band of her
nightdress was a drop of blood.
Fortunately it cannot leave a scar, as it is so tiny
twice during the night I
was wakened by Lucy trying to get out
to bed with the key on my wrist as
before
brilliant moonlight, and the soft
effect of the light over the sea and sky, merged together in one great
silent mystery
flitted a great bat, coming and going in great whirling
circles
suddenly Lucy murmured as if to herself…
"His red eyes again! They are just the same."
She appeared to be looking over at our own seat,
whereon was a dark figure seated alone
The red
sunlight was shining on the windows of St. Mary's Church behind our
seat, and as the sun dipped there was just sufficient change in the
refraction and reflection to make it appear as if the light moved
COLORS: black, red, white, grey. Despite being in the country, few (if any?) references to green or blue (skies)
she is fretting about something. I wish I could find out what it
is.
Lucy was languid and tired, and
slept on after we had been called
She confided to me
that she has got her death warrant.
her heart is weakening
17 August.--No diary for two whole days. I have not had the heart to
write. Some sort of shadowy pall seems to be coming over our
happiness. No news from Jonathan, and Lucy seems to be growing weaker,
I trust her feeling ill may not be from that unlucky prick of the
safety-pin.
the
tiny wounds seem not to have healed. They are still open, and, if
anything, larger than before, and the edges of them are faintly white.
LETTER, SAMUEL F. BILLINGTON & SON, SOLICITORS WHITBY,
TO MESSRS. CARTER, PATERSON & CO., LONDON.
17 August
"Dear Sirs,--Herewith please receive invoice of goods sent by Great
Northern Railway. Same are to be delivered at Carfax, near
Purfleet, immediately on receipt at goods station King's Cross. The
house is at present empty, but enclosed please find keys, all of
which are labelled.
boxes, fifty in number, which form the
consignment, in the partially ruined building forming part of the
house and marked 'A'
The goods leave by the train at 9:30 tonight, and will be
due at King's Cross at 4:30 tomorrow afternoon.
Lucy is ever so much better. Last night she slept well
all night, and did not disturb me once.
"I didn't quite dream, but it all seemed to be real. I only wanted to
be here in this spot. I don't know why, for I was afraid of something,
I don't know what.
I heard a lot of dogs howling
I went up the steps
It seemed a little uncanny to me
My soul seemed to go out from my body and float about the
air. I seem to remember that once the West Lighthouse was right under
me, and then there was a sort of agonizing feeling, as if I were in an
earthquake, and I came back
At last, news of
Jonathan. The dear fellow has been ill,
19 August.--Joy
I am to leave
in the morning and go over to Jonathan, and to help to nurse him if
necessary, and to bring him home.
LETTER, SISTER AGATHA, HOSPITAL OF ST. JOSEPH AND
STE. MARY BUDA-PESTH, TO MISS WILLHELMINA MURRAY
My journey is all mapped out, and my luggage ready
"I write by desire of Mr. Jonathan Harker, who is himself not strong
enough to write, though progressing well,
He wishes me to say that he has not sufficient
money with him, and that he would like to pay for his staying here,
so that others who need shall not be wanting for help.
He has told me all about you, and that you are
shortly to be his wife. All blessings to you both! He has had some
fearful shock
his ravings
have been dreadful, of wolves and poison and blood, of ghosts and
demons,
we knew nothing of his friends,
and there was nothing on him, nothing that anyone could understand.
He came in the train from Klausenburg, and the guard was told by the
station master there that he rushed into the station shouting for a
ticket for home. Seeing from his violent demeanour that he was
English, they gave him a ticket for the furthest station on the way
thither that the train reached.
19 August.--Strange and sudden change in Renfield last night.
You don't count
now. The master is at hand.
it is some sudden form of religious mania which
has seized him
It looks
like religious mania
the God created from human
vanity sees no difference between an eagle and a sparrow.
For half an hour or more Renfield kept getting excited in greater and
greater degree. I did not pretend to be watching him, but I kept
strict observation all the same.
"The Bride maidens rejoice the eyes
that wait the coming of the bride. But when the bride draweth nigh,
then the maidens shine not to the eyes that are filled."
If I don't sleep at once,
chloral, the modern Morpheus! I must be careful not to let it grow
into a habit.
had
lain tossing about, and had heard the clock strike only twice, when the
night watchman came to me, sent up from the ward, to say that Renfield
had escaped.
The attendant told me the patient had gone to the left, and had taken a
straight line, so I ran as quickly as I could. As I got through the
belt of trees I saw a white figure scale the high wall
He was talking, apparently to some one
Chasing an errant swarm of bees is nothing to following a naked
lunatic
I heard him say…
"I am here to do your bidding, Master. I am your slave, and you will
reward me, for I shall be faithful. I have worshipped you long and afar
off. Now that you are near, I await your commands
His cries are at times awful, but the silences that follow are more
deadly still,
"I shall be
patient, Master. It is coming, coming, coming!"
"Rupert Murdoch uses eG8 to talk up net's power to transform education
News Corp chairman claims 'Victorian' schools are 'last holdout from digital revolution'
Kim Willsher in Paris
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 24 May 2011 18.10 BST
Rupert Murdoch, the News Corporation founder and chairman, used his address to the eG8 Forum in Paris on Tuesday to call for more investment in education and "unlocking the potential" of the world's children.
Murdoch said it was not a question of putting a computer in every school, but concentrating on opening up opportunities for youngsters to flourish by using targeted and tailored software.
News Corp moved into the $500bn (£310bn) US education sector in late 2010, paying about $360m in cash for 90% of technology company Wireless Generation, which provides mobile and web software to enable teachers to use data to assess student progress and deliver personalised learning."
We've had Ely Broad, Bill Gates, and a host of other billionaires (even George Lucas) attempting to "fix" our education system. They're not doing so well. What is so interesting to me about Murdoch, despite his pirate-like business practices, is that he sees what I think is the real direction for the future of education.
Oddly unlike his right-wing colleagues, he's not pushing for vouchers or more school privatization. Unlike the technocrats, he's not pushing for more and more computers in schools. He sees the solution to our schooling problems as "targeted and tailored software."
Many (maybe most) countries, including the U.S., lack the political will as societies to fix education the way that Finland did. Software is the other path.
Much discussion today centers around the platform. Will we use smart phones or e-tablets or netbooks? Will we see $1 apiece apps as the learning modules or cloud-based solutions? Will our new learning software run on iOS or Android? All of that is window dressing and barely worthy of discussion.
For me, Murdoch hit the nail on the head. We have too little software "targeted and tailored" to education or, at least, too little highly professional quality software.
Errh yes about Murdoch pushing "targeted and tailored software" , Harry. But see also: "News Corp moved into the $500bn (£310bn) US education sector in late 2010, paying about $360m in cash for 90% of technology company Wireless Generation, which provides mobile and web software to enable teachers to use data to assess student progress and deliver personalised learning."
So he is doing at software level what Microsoft etc were doing at hardware - and at times software - level: promoting his wares in a very juicy market.
We've had "targeted and tailored to education" software for decades, now: LMSs, addons to office suites, etc. Some good, some bad. The problem with software that is targeted and tailored to education is that it is a) often boring; b) perforce based on an abstract general idea of education; c) often remote from what gets used outside school.
Would it not be better to train teachers in adapting whatever software is generally available, be it desktop or on the cloud, to fit their and their specific students' needs?
My point is simply that Murdoch gets it. His motives don't have to be pure for us all to benefit from the light he's shining on educational technology.
Regarding the software, your points are well-taken. However, one extra qualification must be added. The software must be "good." That means it must avoid the problems you list.
"Would it not be better to train teachers in adapting whatever software is generally available, be it desktop or on the cloud, to fit their and their specific students' needs?'
I disagree with this analysis. Software not created for educational purposes will only adapt so far. It is, for example, word processing substituting for paper and pencil. That's worthy of doing but really makes no difference in instruction.
When software is created specifically for learning, it can reach much more deeply into the learning processes. It's not just peripheral but central to learning. You can adapt lots of software to education in lots of ways, and I've read of many very clever adaptations. Almost all could be done without the use of a computer, albeit somewhat less efficiently but nonetheless effectively.
I read Murdoch's call, which echoes something I've been saying for many years, as meaning that we have to build software that answers the necessities of learning. We don't have much today.
Taking up your example of word processing as substitute for pen and pencil , Harry: true, and that's what I retorted in the late 1990's to a digitalophobe academic, when we met about the Italian translation of one of his books, and he boasted of having got a letter from a publisher saying he was their last author to deliver typescripts on paper and not as a digital file. I pointed out that cut and paste, copy and paste (the things he particularly hated the ease of in digital media) existed in the real world looooooong before computers, let alone PCs, let alone the Web.
And yet... in 2007 I was asked to set up at very short notice an intensive preliminary French workshop for participants in a master course in intercultural studies: though in Lugano, the course was to be in French and English. I asked for access to the Moodle for the course, to store course materials there etc. The organizers refused: "The Moodle will only be explained to the students in the first week of the course proper".
The idea that graduate students needed to have a Moodle explained to them in 2007 seemed peregrine, but rather than arguing, I set up a for-free wiki instead.
At our first meeting, the students asked why we weren't using the Moodle, I repeated the official explanation, they laughed and got the hang of the wiki immediately. Then, for reading comprehension, they chose one of the assigned texts for the course: a longish book chapter they had received by e-mail as a grayish PDF based on a low-resolution scan, based on a reduced photocopy to make 2 pages fit on an A4 sheet: i.e. with no margin to take notes on.
So we printed the PDF, separated the pages with scissors, pasted the separate pages with glue sticks on new A4 sheets, to get wider margins to write in. And then we made a wiki page for it, copied in it the subheadings, between which the students, added the notes they were taking, working in groups on the new paper version. Result: http://micusif.wikispaces.com/Vinsonneau