don’t throw out your books
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Rhizomatic learning, knowledge and books | Jenny Connected - 0 views
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Perhaps it is not the books themselves but the power we grant them just because they are books. There are lots of reasons why we did this: they were the best technology available for carrying information, they are the tools of power for status quo and revolutionary alike, they have are now the traditional, default method. Yet we are at the beginning of an age which has other methods that are even more ubiquitous. The mobile device is becoming preeminent because it not only carries words but also images, moving and static, and sounds, ours and others. It is immediate and easily reproducible.
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Are we going to ignore or throw away our books and so throw away our history? Doesn’t our past inform our present and future?
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Iain MacGilchrist’s book – The Master and his Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World.
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he traces how the left hemisphere has grabbed more than its fair share of power
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We need books, but we also need to engage with them critically. We need text, but we also need to be able to see its limitations. We need abstraction, but we also need embodied learning. We need to exercise both the left and right hemispheres of our brains.
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I say give books the comeuppance they deserve. Who is the boss of the mind? Mine is reactionary sloganeering here, so let me be less molotov. I, meaning my whole self, am the boss, the master. I am weary of being told and of accepting as writ (holy irony that) that the written word is supreme. I find myself revolting (please no Henny Youngman jokes) against words by my frail attempts to use tools that are decidedly not books--zeega, vine, photography, video, soundcloud, augmented reality--to wrestle control from literacy and return to orality.
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On your side Scott would agree that it is not books who are at fault. Please let us not shoot the messenger. It is our use of books and our abdication to their organization, to their legibility that is our downfall.
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Reader Response theory comes to mind here too. I see where this is both coming from and headed but my own attitude is, like anyone else's, still very much influenced by my personal reading history. I was an only child and, in a time when families moved much less than now, we moved often because of my father's work with a geophysical crew. I didn't spend entire school year in one place or even the same state until the 5th grade -- did not fall behind because my mother taught me to read early and my father made maths fun with cards, dice and dominoes. Add that all that up -- books spoke to me, were my family and friends. FYI Terry, my father was a storyteller and master punster
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touches of sense...: Doodling in Latin... - 1 views
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I just couldn't be bothered.
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I am the one at the back that the teacher gives stern looks to.
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I am the archetypal distracted student.
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This class has got nothing to do with me.
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left me feeling a little frustrated
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subjectives
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lump of concrete just under the surface
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I chose three posts which marked me from the first days of rhizo15:
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Of note: I wrote a post today before I read this that explored 3 ways of looking at 1 walk: http://rhetcompnow.com/tools/one-walk-three-ways/
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"Ethics in MOOCS: the Two Four Ten or so Commandments of #rhizo15"
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uses language
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exudes energy in her writing
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"Those who can meander freely through such a course as #rhizo15, whether it be maze-like or cloud-like or layers-deep or miles-wide, should consider this choice, this freedom, this perquisite of economy and culture and opportunity as an entryway into possibility." This is the work of more than just facility, this is flexing and breathing and working repetition to serve a larger purpose--that of pointing to the nature of contingency in the world of free agent. We open the doors of adjacency one after the other and here she points to our agency as a working through and through mazes and more mazes. Sweet metaphor.
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one of the games that I prefer.
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If you like this then go to these two podcasts: https://soundcloud.com/allusionistshow/puns https://soundcloud.com/allusionistshow/c-bomb
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Dejected
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dejected, ppl. a. (dɪˈdʒɛktɪd) [f. deject v.] 1.1 lit. Thrown or cast down, overthrown. arch. 1682 Wheler Journ. Greece vi. 427 Buried in the Rubbish of its dejected Roof and Walls. 1881 H. James Portr. Lady xxvi, Looking at her dejected pillar. b.1.b Allowed to hang down. 1809 Heber Passage of Red Sea 12 The mute swain‥With arms enfolded, and dejected head. c.1.c Of the eyes: Downcast. 1600 [see 3 b]. 1663 Cowley Pindar. Odes, Brutus ii, If with dejected Eye In standing Pools we seek the Sky. 1715-20 Pope Iliad ix. 626 With humble mien and with dejected eyes Constant they follow where Injustice flies. d.1.d Her. Cast down, bent downwards; as dejected embowed, embowed with the head downwards. 1889 Elvin Dict. Her., Dejected, cast down, as a garb dejected or dejectant. †2.2 Lowered in estate, condition, or character; abased, humbled, lowly. Obs. 1605 Shakes. Lear iv. i. 3 The lowest and most deiected thing of Fortune. 1641 Milton Reform. ii. (1851) 71 The basest, the lowermost, the most dejected‥downe-trodden Vassals of Perdition. a 1680 Butler Rem. (1759) II. 14 Able to reach from the highest Arrogance to the meanest, and most dejected Submissions. 1721 [see dejectedness]. 3.3 Depressed in spirits, downcast, disheartened, low-spirited. 1581 Marbeck Bk. of Notes 115 So that he was deiected and compelled to weepe for very many, which had fallen. 1608-11 Bp. Hall Medit. & Vows i. §39, I marvell not that a wicked man is‥so dejected, when hee feeles sicknes. 1667 Pepys Diary (1879) IV. 369 Never were people so dejected as they are in the City. 1793 Cowper Lett. 8 Sept., I am cheerful on paper sometimes, when I am absolutely the most dejected of all creatures. 1835 Lytton Rienzi x. viii, Thus are we fools of Fortune;-to-day glad-to-morrow dejected! b.3.b transf. (Of the visage, behaviour, etc.
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Adjacent
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adjacent, a. and n. (əˈdʒeɪsənt) [ad. L. adjacent-em pr. pple. of adjacē-re to lie near; f. ad to + jacē-re to lie. Cf. Fr. adjacent, 16th c. in Littré.] A.A adj. 1.A.1 Lying near or close (to); adjoining; contiguous, bordering. (Not necessarily touching, though this is by no means precluded.) adjacent angles, the angles which one straight line makes with another upon which it stands. Also fig. in Logic of nearness in resemblance. c 1430 Lydg. Bochas v. xiii. (1554) 132 a, There wer two cuntries therto adiacent. 1509 Barclay Ship of Fooles (1570) 104 [He] warred on other realmes adiacent. 1606 Shakes. Ant. & Cl. ii. ii. 218 A strange inuisible perfume hits the sense Of the adiacent Wharfes. 1663 Gerbier Counsel 6 The Houses adjacent, and those which are opposite. 1745 De Foe Eng. Tradesm. XI. xxxiv. 72 Those parts of Essex, Surrey, and Kent, which lie adjacent to London. 1789-96 J. Morse Amer. Geog. I. 302 The adjacent inhabitants had assembled in arms. 1827 Hutton Course of Math. I. 317 The sum of the two adjacent angles dac and dab is equal to two right angles. 1846 Mill Logic iii. xxi. §4 (1868) II. 108 With a reasonable degree of extension to adjacent cases. 1860 Tyndall Glaciers i. §2. 20 Furnishing ourselves with provisions at the adjacent inn. †B.B n. That which is adjacent, or lies next to anything; an adjoining part; a neighbour. Obs. 1610 Healey St. Aug., City of God 721 The LXX rather expressed the adjacents, then the place it selfe. 1635 Shelford Disc. 220 (T.) He hath no adjacent, no equal, no corrival. 1725 De Foe Voy. round World (1840) 224 The whole place and its adjacents.
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Conject