Skip to main content

Home/ Writing Across the Curriculum/ Group items tagged Maria Bustillos

Rss Feed Group items tagged

Filter: All | Bookmarks | Topics Simple Middle
Keith Hamon

Wikipedia And The Death Of The Expert | The Awl - 0 views

www.theawl.com/...ia-and-the-death-of-the-expert

Maria Bustillos wikipedia writing elearning social networking Education 2.0 PLN

shared by Keith Hamon on 30 May 11 - No Cached
  • If the printing press empowered the individual, the digital world empowers collaboration.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 30 May 11
       
      Collaboration is one of the key principles of connectivism: we must connect to collaborate, and we must collaborate to connect.
  • McLuhan drew from many, many sources in order to develop these ideas; the work of Canadian political economist and media theorist Harold Innis was instrumental for him. Innis's technique, like McLuhan's, forswears the building up of a convincing argument, or any attempt at "proof," instead gathering in a ton of disparate ideas from different disciplines that might seem irreconcilable at first; yet considering them together results in a shifted perspective, and a cascade of new insights.
  • Wikipedia is like a laboratory for this new way of public reasoning for the purpose of understanding, an extended polylogue embracing every reader in an ever-larger, never-ending dialectic. Rather than being handed an "authoritative" decision, you're given the means for rolling your own.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 30 May 11
       
      Again, we are forced to consider the implications of collaborative thinking in "an extended polylogue" on our traditional notions of critical thinking and reflective practices.
  • ...2 more annotations...
  • The threat to Britannica from Wikipedia is not a matter of dueling methods of providing information. Wikipedia, if it works better than Britannica, threatens not only its authority as a source of information, but also the theory of knowledge on which Britannica is founded. On Wikipedia "the author" is distributed, and this fact is indigestible to current models of thinking. "Wikipedia is forcing people to accept the stone-cold bummer that knowledge is produced and constructed by argument rather than by divine inspiration.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 30 May 11
       
      Shirkey is often insightful.
  • If my point of view needn't immediately eradicate yours—if we are having not a contest but an ongoing comparison, whether in politics, art or literary criticism, if "knowledge" is and will remain provisional (and we could put a huge shout-out to Rorty here, if we had the space and the breath) what would this mean to the quality of our discourse, or to the subsequent character and quality of "understanding"?
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 30 May 11
       
      This is a nice summary of Morin's concept of the dialogic, the fact of knowledge as always the tension between chaos and order, truth and lie.
  • Keith Hamon on 30 May 11
     
    Wikipedia is forcing us to confront the paradox inherent in the idea of learners as "doers, not recipients." If learners are indeed doers and not recipients, from whom are they learning? From one another, it appears; same as it ever was.
1 - 1 of 1
Showing 20▼ items per page