"We have to do it in the Facebook" (4)
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Law & Disorder (55)
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We're all of a week into 2009, and already Republican National Committee Chair Mike Duncan has a lock on quotation of the year: We have to do it in the Facebook, with the Twittering, the different technology that young people are using today. Social media: You know, for kids! This comes from yesterday's debate between candidates for Duncan's job, which you can watch in full via C-SPAN. Call it confirmation bias, but I think the ...
Musing lazily about catch-and-release and its application in the digital world (7)
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Some time ago I had the opportunity to go fly fishing for the first time, in the Provo, near Salt Lake City in Utah. It was an exhilarating experience, just what I needed at that particular time in my life. I hope to repeat the experience soon. Beginner’s luck meant that I caught quite a few fish that day. Something far more important happened to me that day, though. I learnt about the joy of ...
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rightantler said:
Nice to see Bookcrossing mentioned ... must check my account!
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Boris Mann said:
The concept of "renting" digital objects makes a lot of sense. It's also directly related to NetFlix -- you pay for a bundle where you can have N videos checked out, but in actual fact you have access to virtually every movie ever made. I've been thinking about this as well in my use of Valve's Steam gaming service, and other buy online services.
Participatory Media Literacy: Why it matters (29)
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Those of us striving to integrate participatory media literacy practices into our classes often face resistance. Other faculty might argue that we are turning away from the foundations of print literacy, or worse, pandering to our tech-obsessed students. Meanwhile, students might resist too, wondering why they have to learn to use a wiki in an anthropology class. The surprising-to-most-people-fact is that students would prefer less technology in the classroom (especially *participatory* technologies that force them ...
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Eric said:
Nothing new here, but this is a nice and concise re-hash of one of the main supporting arguments.
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Paul Roberts said:
Interesting perspectives on the social and political benefits and risks from participatory media
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Darren Draper said:
Powerful:"The surprising-to-most-people-fact is that students would prefer less technology in the classroom (especially *participatory* technologies that force them to do something other than sit back and memorize material for a regurgitation exercise). We use social media in the classroom not because our students use it, but because we are afraid that social media might be using them."
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Guillermo Lutzky said:
Si la cultura de la imprenta es el entorno en el que floreció la Ilustración y que sentó las bases de la Revolución Industrial, los medios de comunicación participativos pueden a su vez recrear los entornos cognitivos y sociales en el que la vida del siglo XXI tendrá lugar (un cambio en la forma en que funciona nuestra cultura). Por esta razón, los medios de comunicación participativos no son otro contenido para ser incluído en el plan de estudios como tan sólo capacitación laboral para los trabajadores del conocimiento.Howard Rheingold’s Participative Pedagogy for a Literacy of Literacies.
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gavoweb said:
exactly! We use social media in the classroom not because our students use it, but because we are afraid that social media might be using them - that they are using social media blindly, without recognition of the new challenges and opportunities they might create.
The generation raised on the internet | The kids are alright | The Economist (3)
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The Economist: Computing and software (13)
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The times they are a-changin'WORRIES about the damage the internet may be doing to young people has produced a mountain of books—a suitably old technology in which to express concerns about the new. Robert Bly claims that, thanks to the internet, the “neo-cortex is finally eating itself”. Today’s youth may be web-savvy, but they also stand accused of being unread, bad at communicating, socially inept, shameless, dishonest, work-shy, narcissistic and indifferent to the needs of ...
9 Ways to Visualize Consumer Spending (28)
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GOOD Magazine's most recent infographic (above and below) on consumer spending got me to thinking about all the other approaches I've seen on the same topic. The number of ways to attack a dataset never ceases to amaze me, so I dug a little. Yeah, there are a bunch - but here are some of the good ones. Got some more? Leave a link in the comments. Here's the full GOOD Magazine consumer spending graphic ...
"Innovation" is Dead. Herald The Birth of "Transformation" as The Key Concept for 2009. (24)
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"Innovation" died in 2008, killed off by overuse, misuse, narrowness, incrementalism and failure to evolve. It was done in by CEOs, consultants, marketeers, advertisers and business journalists who degraded and devalued the idea by conflating it with change, technology, design,...
