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Mike Wesch

Fluid Learning | the human network - 0 views

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education future crowdsourcing Pesce trends

shared by Mike Wesch on 31 Dec 08 - Cached
  • The lesson is simple: control is over. This is not about control anymore. This is about finding a way to survive and thrive in chaos.
  • trend toward sharing lecture material online
  • what role, if any, the educational institution plays in coordinating any of these components
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  • In this near future world, students are the administrators. All of the administrative functions have been “pushed down” into a substrate of software. Education has evolved into something like a marketplace, where instructors “bid” to work with students. Now since most education is funded by the government, there will obviously be other forces at play; it may be that “administration”, such as it is, represents the government oversight function which ensures standards are being met. In any case, this does not look much like the educational institution of the 20th century – though it does look quite a bit like the university of the 13th century, where students would find and hire instructors to teach them subjects.
  • The instructor facilitates and mentors, as they have always done, but they are no longer the gatekeepers, because there are no gatekeepers, anywhere
  • The classroom will both implode – vanishing online – and explode – the world will become the classroom.
  • Opening education up to market forces is a good thing when the market is a collection of people who want their children to get a great education (parents/guardians). Market forces are not a good thing when the market is a collection of people who want shorter, easier classes and more time to hang out (students).
  • If it can be rated, graded, or judged it will be. If that information can be archived it will be. If it can be accessed it will be. If it can be shared it will be. That is, as you point out, disruptive.
  • I read George’s comment with sadness. It does kids an injustice. Most kids don’t like a “soft” teacher. They want a fair deal. Think of your own school days- who were the teachers who inspired you - it wasn’t the guy who wanted to be your friend - it was the the guy who taught you with enthusiasm, knowledge and above all could communicate his ideas to you.
Mike Wesch

Smart Mobs: iBuyRight: mobile social/environmental info scanner - 0 views

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legalities mtm

shared by Mike Wesch on 10 May 07 - Cached
  • NeoMedia Technologies patented the technology behind camera phone barcode scanning a decade ago and they are in current litigation with ScanBuy, who saw their copyright infringement charges against NeoMedia dissmissed last year. Currently NeoMedia's Patent Infringement counter-suit against ScanBuy remains pending and will undoubtably be upheld later this year. NeoMedia has thus far won copyright infringement cases brought against Virgin Entertainment, LScan, and AirClick.
Mike Wesch

The Evolution of ... Text, The Web, Us | Guidewire Group - 0 views

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tmiuu web2.0 wesch

shared by Mike Wesch on 22 Jan 08 - Cached
  • fter the panel, Gary sent us a link to KSU Anthropology Professor Michael Wesch's fantastic video, which beautifully demonstrates the evolution of text, the Web, and - dare I be so hyperbolic - human communications. This video, Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us, makes the case for technology evolution better than our two hours' of discourse.
Mike Wesch

mobiles, human rights, and anonymity - 0 views

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mobile anonymity future

shared by Mike Wesch on 26 Mar 09 - Cached
  • So that got me wondering: is there a mobile equivalent of Tor? For those of you who aren't familiar with it, TOR is a software project that helps Internet users remain anonymous. Running the TOR software on your computer causes your online communications to bounce through a random series of relay servers around the world. That way, there's no easy way for authorities to track you or observe who's visiting banned websites. For example, let's say you're in Beijing and you publish a blog the authorities don't like. If you just used your PC as usual and logged into your publishing platform directly, they could follow your activities and track you down. With Tor, you hop-scotch around: your PC might connect to a server in Oslo, then Buenos Aires, then Miami, then Tokyo, then Greece before it finally connects to your blogging platform. Each time you did this, it would be a different series of servers. That way, it's really difficult for authorities to trace your steps.
  • Mike Wesch on 26 Mar 09
     
    Mobile Phones, Human Rights and Anonymity I've been playing around with my new Nokia N95 for the last couple of weeks and quite amazed with its ability to stream live video from the phone to the Internet. Like last weekend when I streamed from the Smithsonian Kite Festival; for around 30 minutes I gave a tour of the festivities and took questions from users as they watched the stream over the Internet. I've also spent some time talking it up with colleagues at NPR, brainstorming the possibilities of what would happen if reporters used these phones - or if their sources did. The example that keeps coming to mind regarding the latter scenario is the rioting in Tibet. While some video has leaked out, it's been limited and often delayed. Imagine if the protestors were able to webcast their protests - and the ensuing crackdowns - live over their phones using China's GSM network? The video would stream live and get crossposted via tools like YouTube, Seesmic and Twitter, spreading the content around so it can't be snuffed. But that raises an obvious question - how long could protestors or dissidents get away with such activities before getting caught? If you were running software on your phone to send live video over a 3G network, like I've been doing on my N95, you'd think it wouldn't take too much effort on the part of the mobile provider and/or government to figure out which phone was sending the signal and its precise location. So that got me wondering: is there a mobile equivalent of Tor? For those of you who aren't familiar with it, TOR is a software project that helps Internet users remain anonymous. Running the TOR software on your computer causes your online communications to bounce through a random series of relay servers around the world. That way, there's no easy way for authorities to track you or observe who's visiting banned websites. For example, let's say you're in Beijing and you publish a blog the authorities don't like. If you just used your PC as
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