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Vanessa Vaile

Twenty-First Century Literacies | HASTAC - 0 views

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education evomlit multiliteracies cognition literacies

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

The Multiliteracy Project - 0 views

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evomlit multiliteracies education

shared by Vanessa Vaile on 10 Feb 10 - Cached
  • esponsibility to not only educate the minds, but also the hearts of my students
  • I want my students to look at knowledge in a connected and ethical way
  • personal self-understanding on an intellectual and emotional level
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  • higher level thinking skills
  • encourage students to attain greater self-understanding
  • The Multiliteracy Project is a national Canadian study exploring pedagogies or teaching practices that prepare children for the literacy challenges of our globalized, networked, culturally diverse world. Increasingly, we encounter knowledge in multiple forms - in print, in images, in video, in combinations of forms in digital contexts - and are asked to represent our knowledge in an equally complex manner.
  • ighlight two related aspects of the increasing complexity of texts
  • (a) the proliferation of multimodal ways of making meaning where the written word is increasingly part and parcel of visual, audio, and spatial patterns; (b) the increasing salience of cultural and linguistic diversity characterized by local diversity and global connectedness .
Vanessa Vaile

The power of 'random': 'Seemingly loopy' technique could dramatically improve communica... - 0 views

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evomlit networsk

shared by Vanessa Vaile on 11 Feb 10 - Cached
  • network coding.
  • Most networks right now are built roughly along the same principles as a transportation network, or any other network that’s trying to deliver tangible goods,
  • With network coding, however, a router doesn’t just hand off the packets it receives; it mathematically combines them into new, hybrid packets. If the combination is done cleverly enough, this makes the whole network more efficient.
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  • But if, instead of forwarding our messages, the router combines them and broadcasts the combination, there are only three total transmissions. Since you have a copy of the message you sent me, you can subtract it from the combination, and I can do the same with the message I sent you. If our laptops and the router do a little extra processing, they reduce the system’s bandwidth consumption by 25 percent.
  • proved a counterintuitive result: in many cases, the best way to combine data at a router is to do it randomly.
  • Random coding yields the biggest gains in networks where connections are spotty, but where there are several possible routes between sender and receiver.
Vanessa Vaile

Media Habit - 0 views

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evomlit multiliteracies sociocultural lens collaborative learning story-telling

shared by Vanessa Vaile on 09 Feb 10 - Cached
  • the most modern communication tools — blogs, podcasts, YouTube — are actually returning us to an ancient form of media, one in which everyone participates on almost equal footing.
  • fundamental human urge to tell our own stories
  • Before mass media, before the written word — for all of human history — story-telling was a shared privilege.
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  • Mass media succeeded in creating a common culture, but did nothing to foster the communities that naturally emerge when people tell their stories to each other.
  • Now, finally, there is a counter-trend.
  • Howard Rheingold framed it beautifully, when he wrote The Virtual Community, nearly 15 years ago: "Perhaps cyberspace is one of those informal public places, where people can rebuild the aspects of community that were lost when the malt shop became a mall."
  • newest digital technologies are returning us to the most ancient form of media — one in which a natural order is restored; our individual stories take center stage
Vanessa Vaile

Too Many Social Networks … Too Little Time | Thoughtpick Blog - 0 views

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evomlit thoughtpick tools multiliteracies web2.0 social media chaos management CMC

shared by Vanessa Vaile on 05 Feb 10 - Cached
  • There are just way too many networks to keep up with and just not enough time to follow all those conversations that are going on all of them.
  • Gizapage: Social Media Hub
  • simplifies the way people can keep up with each othe
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  • . It provides you with a one-stop shop for all your social networking profile
  • FriendFeed
  • Power.com: all your friends in just one place
  • Power.com tries to do for social media what Meebo has done to IM’s; basically blurring the boundaries that separate one network from the other and allowing to use them all from one interface and exchange information and images from any of them and to all of them.
  • ultimate interoperability
Vanessa Vaile

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

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evomlit multiliteracies hastac elearning education reimaging learning Digital Nation

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

mental_floss Blog » Chris Anderson on the path to the post-print future - 0 views

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evomlit multiliteracies publishing postprint mental_floss

shared by Vanessa Vaile on 03 Feb 10 - Cached
  • Chris Anderson via telephone what he thinks will happen to print magazines (and publishing in general) as we move further and further into a digital space.
  • check out the current issue of Wired magazine on newsstands now; he wrote the cover story “The New Industrial Revolution.”
Vanessa Vaile

Crossing the Physical and Linguistic Divide (By Catherine Carbiness) - Teaching Village - 0 views

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evomlit multiliteracies education elearning resources

shared by Vanessa Vaile on 02 Feb 10 - Cached
  • experimented with a variety of methods to engage my students in their learning.  My latest endeavor involves introducing different kinds of technology to enhance the teaching
  • PikiFriends
  • PikiFriends is an interactive website where students can post blogs, pictures, and short messages on each other’s page.  The purpose of creating PikiFriends was to help EFL (English as a Foreign Language) students practice elements of the English language.
Vanessa Vaile

Google News Adds Personalized Story Tracking - 0 views

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evomlit new news-tracker personalized tagging aggregator web2.0 tools

shared by Vanessa Vaile on 02 Feb 10 - Cached
  • Want to track a hot story being covered by multiple news outlets?
  • story clusters
  • fully customized news tracker.
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  • automatic summary technologies
  • There are a wide variety of ways that news could be served up to people in the future.
  • syndication and subscription approach
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    fully customized news tracker ~ could be used to track key phrases as well as stories as they appear in news
Vanessa Vaile

"Digital Nation": What has the Internet done to us? - 0 views

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evomlit opinion salon.com Digital Nation PBS culture

shared by Vanessa Vaile on 31 Jan 10 - Cached
  • My bosses at Suck.com, meanwhile, accurately predicted that the Web would soon become something between a gigantic mall catering to the lowest common denominator and an infinite tabloid echo chamber. Their mantra: Sell out early and often. Why? Because those of us musing about murderous robot showdowns (or scratching out angry cartoons under a pseudonym, for that matter) would all go back to grabbing ankle for The Man sooner than we thought. What they didn't know, and never could've predicted, was that the Web would also transform itself into an enormous, never-ending high school reunion (See also: hell).
  • My bosses at Suck.com, meanwhile, accurately predicted that the Web would soon become something between a gigantic mall catering to the lowest common denominator and an infinite tabloid echo chamber. Their mantra: Sell out early and often.
  • What they didn't know, and never could've predicted, was that the Web would also transform itself into an enormous, never-ending high school reunion (See also: hell)
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  • finally safe to proclaim, together, that the information age has officially arrived.
  • futuristic "Blade Runner"-esque digital dystopia
  • Douglas Rushkoff is currently reconsidering his unconditional love for new media in Frontline's "Digital Nation" (premieres 9 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 2, on PBS, check local listings), an in-depth investigation into the possibilities and side effects of our digital immersion.
  • how are we changing what it means to be a human being by using all this stuff?"
  • Dilbert-meets-Derrida perspective
  • "Most multitaskers think that they're brilliant at multitasking," says Stanford professor Clifford Nass. But "it turns out that multitaskers are terrible at nearly every aspect of multitasking."
  • IBM uses "Second Life" to hold virtual meetings between people who live thousands of miles from each other. Each person at the meeting is embodied by a different avatar, and the participants end up feeling like they've met in person,
  • Can we hold our Salon meetings this way, and can my avatar be an enormous roach that occasionally hits other people over the head with a crowbar?)
  • Vanessa Vaile on 31 Jan 10
     
    from I Like to Watch - Salon.com: internet criticism + review of PBS series on internet use
  • Vanessa Vaile on 31 Jan 10
     
    sharing this Luddite moment w/ Webheads... can you smell the irony in the air
Vanessa Vaile

Join the Digital Debate Here - 0 views

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education evomlit opinion web2.0

shared by Vanessa Vaile on 31 Jan 10 - Cached
  • We've heard lots of talk about the revolutionary nature of Web 2.0, the conversion of whole populations from passive receivers of information (and propaganda) into active citizens and critical consumers and content-creators. Skeptics don't buy it, at least not all of it.
  • "The Future of Education: Charting the Course of Teaching and Learning in a Networked World."
  • orum hosted by Steve Hargadon
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  • various discussions and controversies over the Digital Age
  • Host and guest can see the feedback unfold and respond during the chat. Then, Hargadon opens the discussion to everybody,
  • The project is an excellent specimen of the best kind of intellectual engagement, which wouldn't be possible without digital technology.
  • Vanessa Vaile on 31 Jan 10
     
    Mark Bauerlein, Brainstorm column- The Chronicle of Higher Education
Vanessa Vaile

Folksonomies - Cooperative Classification and Communication Through Shared Metadata - 1 views

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folksonomy tagging metadata classification tags evomlit

shared by Vanessa Vaile on 30 Jan 10 - Cached
  • This paper examines user-‍generated metadata as implemented and applied in two web services designed to share and organize digital media to better understand grassroots classification.
  • metadata has generally been approached in two ways: professional creation and author creation
  • creating metadata, primarily in the form of catalog records, has traditionally been the domain of dedicated professionals working with complex, detailed rule sets and vocabularies
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  • A second approach is for metadata to be created by authors.
  • There are problems with this approach as well
  • This paper examines a third approach: user-‍created metadata, where users of the documents and media create metadata for their own individual use that is also shared throughout a community.
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