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Fluid Learning | the human network - 0 views

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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.
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The Alternative's alternative | open Democracy News Analysis - 0 views

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shared by Adam Bohannon on 28 Apr 09 - Cached
  • Meier has found that an increase in cell-phone availability increases the likelihood (at least perceived by the public) that the government might be overthrown by violent means.
    • Adam Bohannon
      Adam Bohannon on 28 Apr 09
       
      What exactly does this mean? "At least perceived by the public"? That where cell-phone availability is high, the public perceives violent anti-government protest? Or that it is *actually* more likely to happen?
  • Meier has found that an increase in cell-phone availability increases the likelihood (at least perceived by the public) that the government might be overthrown by violent means.
    • Adam Bohannon
      Adam Bohannon on 28 Apr 09
       
      What exactly does this mean? "At least perceived by the public"? That where cell-phone availability is high, the public perceives violent anti-government protest as more likely happen? Or that it is *actually* more likely to happen?
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Heidegger 2 Twitter: Technology, Self & Social Networks. - 11 views

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shared by Adam Bohannon on 06 Dec 09 - Cached
  • Both object and subject are converted to a “standing-reserve”, to be disaggregated, redistributed, recontextualized, and reaggregated.
  • And human individuals, who were once reduced to resources (Frederick Taylor, and the authoritarianism of Human Resource departments), or “eyeballs” in the terminology of internet marketing executives; are now the creative engines of growth, innovation, and creativity.
  • This becomes even more interesting when we wonder about the context and meaning of start-ups intentionally exposing their office space’s ductwork - as if the open office with exposed pipes re-instantiates a manifestation of the hearth, or at least ‘un-hides’ the circulatory system of commerce.
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  • Postmodern technology uses the hyper-reality of simulations to get rid of the limitations imposed by reality. The limit of postmodern reality is not the total objectification of nature, but the replacement of reality by virtual reality totally under our control.
  • Borgmann’s antidote for losing our personality to the shallowness and superficiality of hyper-reality is to return to focal activities.
  • It takes commitment on our part to engage in focal activities, but the effort affords us a chance to maintain some sense of self in the technological world.
  • Thus technological rationality can claim that technologies are value neutral, and only uses are good or evil, despite the fact that the uses are shaped by the technologies.
  • And technology leads to new forms of domination. For the critical theorists history has always had domination, but in our time domination has changed from master over slave or lord over serf to the domination of humanity by economics and the market. We are given the illusion of liberty, but that is simply the freedom to choose between brands of mass-produced products.
  • Computer technology further de-contextualizes human experience by emphasizing information over understanding. And computers further domination by providing new means of tracking the productivity of workers to the corporation and depersonalizing supervision; very much a modern panopticon envisioned by Jeremy Bentham.
  • Foucault’s view allows for the possibility that information technology could be used to put people in more direct communication with each other and spread the concentration of power over society.
  • MS Word and freely available blogging software encourages us to constantly revise, so a work becomes a series of drafts, none of which is final (just like this post).
  • Gould’s attitude towards design finds philosophical support in pragmatism. Pragmatism recognizes that everyone is socially situated. Dewey taught that scientific theories or methods of logic are tools used in a certain social practice. Attention to the practices surrounding an object are important to understanding it. Since he viewed knowledge as participatory he argued that learning must come about by doing.
  • Metaphors provide us a way of understanding the world, by associating one thing with another. Powerful metaphors are like magic, and inform how we think of the objects described, revealing hidden aspects of the thing described. New metaphors for the forces in our lives will suggest new ways of living.
  • Metaphors interact with technology in several ways: technology serves as a source of metaphors, new technologies are understood metaphorically, and our metaphors in life pose problems to be solved technologically
  • By developing new metaphors, interface designers can suggest new ways of working with computers. If these metaphors are carefully chosen then they will provide a natural model which makes operation of the machine easy.
  • Just as metaphors can help us understand computers, computers can provide new metaphors for life. Postmodern theories of psychology suggest that there is no single unified “ego”, but that each of us is made up of a multiplicity of parts, while Minsky discusses the “agencies of mind” in his book “The Society of Mind.” Philip Bromberg claims that a healthy personality is one in which different aspects of the self can come to know one another and reflect upon each other.
  • This fluid multiplicity of personality is what gives us our flexibility and resilience.
  • Social networks allow participants to explore different aspects of their personality, to manufacture and evolve aspects of their personality depending on context and mood.
  • While some observers might see this activity as evidence of Heidegger’s disaggregation of the subject by technology, it can also be seen as a model for Bromberg’s self as being one while being many. This is just one way in which computer technology, the internet, and connected social networks can show us a new way of understanding ourselves.
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Are Your Social Media Relationships Real or Fake?, Page 2 of 2 - Associated Content fro... - 1 views

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shared by Stephanie Patterson on 01 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • While social media has opened the world to us, it can easily become a wall hide behind.
  • Stephanie Patterson on 01 Feb 11
     
    A brief look at how twitter can change relationships and interactions.
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The Ice Book, a Beautiful Pop-Up Book | Open Culture - 5 views

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    An awesome creative way to tell a story
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YouTube - An Open Letter to Educators - 9 views

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  • Steven Kelly on 10 Mar 11
     
    This video is really similar to the issues we're dealing with in our research projects.
  • Bill Genereux on 11 Mar 11
     
    Yep, that's Dan Brown. I really like the reply video from Mikelah.

Online Threats and Dangers - 2 views

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eBookfor iPad - Al Gore's Our Choice- FREE - 14 views

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  • Cyndi Danner-Kuhn on 08 May 11
     
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Why building your 'Personal Brand' is so important? | Pinhopes - 0 views

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  • Pinhopes Job Site on 06 May 14
     
    In this age of e-hiring, employers are increasingly shifting from traditional to highly dynamic medium of recruitment.
  • Pinhopes Job Site on 06 May 14
     
    In this age of e-hiring, employers are increasingly shifting from traditional to highly dynamic medium of recruitment.
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  • Pinhopes Job Site on 30 May 14
     
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Topics | No Film School - 0 views

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shared by J.Randolph Radney on 19 Jan 15 - No Cached
  • J.Randolph Radney on 19 Jan 15
     
    Open education resources for storytelling in video
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