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Vanessa Vaile

Reimagine Learning for a Digital Nation: Competition Reopens | HASTAC - 0 views

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shared by Vanessa Vaile on 04 Feb 10 - Cached
  • Last night I watched the PBS Special "Digital Nation."   It was an excellent example of a "transitional" documentary.  It began with the tired harangue about how youth today are going to the dogs.   It included some very suspicious sound bites by scientists whose actual work is far more interesting and nuanced than the punditry that appeared on TV. 
  • It was creepy.
  • But I am also skeptical when the Internet is posed as the great danger to our children
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  • Yes, the novel was the video game of the Industrial Age. 
Vanessa Vaile

P3 Conference 2010: Or, How Attending a Digital Humanities Conference Helped Me to Valu... - 1 views

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shared by Vanessa Vaile on 13 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • P3 stands for Peer-to-Peer Pedagogy
  • ethics of using digital tools.  "Its not about homogenizing difference," she said; "its about making space for difference." 
  • P3 reminded me that it's not about the technology--it's about the people who create it, collaborate on it, and question it. 
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  • Even at a digital conference, it's ultimately the people that make that time worthwhile. 
  • The Future of Thinking: Learning Institutions in a Digital Age, by Cathy Davidson and David Theo Goldberg,
  • lateral rather than hierarchical modes of learning, individualized educational strategies, global vision, lifelong learning, and collaboration by difference. 
  • "technology is not just software and hardware.  It is also all of the social and human arrangements supported, facilitated, destabilized, or fostered by technology." 
  • On my way home, I read William Powers' Hamlet's Blackberry: A Practical Philosophy for Building a Good Life in the Digital Age.  Powers argues that by living in a world where "everyone is connected to everyone else all the time," we become disconnected from our own self-awareness and inner depth. 
  • Today's digital technology explosion is no different from the advent of language, writing, mass-produced print or the telegraph
  • Seven Philosophers of Screens: Plato, Seneca, Gutenberg, Shakespeare, Franklin, Thoreau and McLuhan, who lived through other technological explosions
  • By following the lessons of these seven philosphers in "a tour of the technological past," Powers shows how we can combat "the conundrum of the connected life" with techniques he calls the "Walden Zone" and the "Internet Sabbath," sacred times and places to disconnect with the Internet and reconnect with ourselves and our loved ones.  Both of these books, like the P3 UnConference, celebrates technology not as an end to itself, but as a means to enhance the human experience.  And like the P3 UnConference, both value time away from technology as a way to enhance that experience even more. 
Vanessa Vaile

Twenty-First Century Literacies | HASTAC - 0 views

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shared by Vanessa Vaile on 13 Feb 10 - Cached
  • What cognitive skills are crucial for educators to attend to in our digital age? Media theorist and practitioner Howard Rheingold has talked about four "Twenty-first Century Literacies"--attention, participation, collaboration, and network awareness
  • see http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/rheingold/category?blogid=108&cat=2538
  • Futurist Alvin Toffler argues that, in the 21st century, we need to know not only the three R's, but also how to learn, unlearn, and relearn.  Expanding on these, here are ten literacies that seem crucial for our digital age.  
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  • Attention:  What are the new ways that we pay attention in a digital era?
  • Participation:  Only a small percentage of those who use new "participatory" media really contribute.  How do we encourage meaningful interaction and participation?  What is its purpose on a cultural, social, or civic level?
  • Collaboration:   How do we encourage meaningful and innovative forms of collaboration? 
  • methodology of "collaboration by difference"
  • Network awareness: 
  • how we both thrive as creative individuals and understand our contribution within a network of others
  • Design:   How is information conveyed differently in diverse digital forms? 
  • Narrative, Storytelling:  How do narrative elements shape the information
  • Critical consumption of information
  • Digital Divides, Digital Participation: 
  • Ethics and Advocacy:
  • Learning, Unlearning, and Relearning:
  • trying to unlearn ones reflexive responses to change situation is the only way to become reflective about ones habits of resistance.
Vanessa Vaile

Does the Internet Promote New Forms of Communication? | HASTAC - 0 views

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shared by Vanessa Vaile on 20 Jan 10 - Cached
  • It is often remarked that email causes many problems because people often send emails as if it were oral communication (with a loose form of control) and receive them as if they are written communication (as if they are carefully crafted).  
  • ead by both "audience members" and the "author," and in different ways and in different
  • contexts.
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  • The speech act that is Internet communication is remarkably complex and comes with a variety of situational and cultural rules. 
  • locked-in syndrome
  • (Do we write in a different way with a pen than with a keyboard? In 140 characters?  In a term paper versus a blog?
  • who creates the protocols of communication and how
  • really unpack what communication and what it does on its most fundamental levels.
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