February 2012
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“Remixing is writing in the 21st century. It is literacy for a new generation. It...”
– Lawrence Lessig (via Making JGB)
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“For one thing, [Tumblr and Pinterest] are overwhelmingly visual: images nearly...”
– Felix Salmon writes about how How Sharing Disrupts Media. There are some upsides, including enhanced self-expression and signal amplification.
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“What information consumes is rather obvious:
it consumes the attention of its...”
– Herbert Simon, Recipient of Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics and the A.M. Turing Award, the “Nobel Prize of Computer Science”
(via ChangeThis.com)
“Compare the archive of a conference held in 1990 to one held in 2010 – the...”
– Network Weather : The Digital Scholar: How Technology Is Transforming Scholarly Practice : Bloomsbury Academic
Martin Weller identifies the radical differences, and challenges posed by the curated digital artefact of a modern conference.
Center for Digital Storytelling: Values &... →
Everyone has many powerful stories to tell.
Listening is hard.
People see, hear, and perceive the world in different ways.
Creative activity is human activity.
Technology is a powerful instrument of creativity.
Sharing stories can lead to positive change.
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“Their truth, I suspect, might be this: there’s no one left to turn...”
– The Metamovement | Umair Haque. Eudaimonics. Redesigning Global Prosperity.
Let’s extend this thought to Educational institutions.
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Being digital is not enough
I just had the realisation while highlighting my printed eReserve copy of the chapter “Good Connections” from Negroponte’s Being Digital that we’re doing it all wrong. Here I am working with carbon toner on dead trees, and petroluem based (possibly toxic)highlighter to mark-up a document that was once digital.
What is worse than that the document, itself copied from...
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“OK, the idea that kids these days are “digital natives” is a nice, self-serving...”
– California Dreamin’ | MetaFilter (via ayjay)
Just signed up for EDIT 521 Principles and Practices of eLearning as part of the grad cert in eLearning at UNE. Looking forward to getting my thinking cap back on. More reading!
This is going to be tough, new baby due in a few weeks, the grad cert in tertiary teaching firing up again in April, and tons of work on.
From the reserve I’m taking home some John Naisbitt and Nicholas Negroponte...