Transcript Digital madness update for CMB

Digital stuff that’s caught my eye lately
Kathy’s CMB update
May 13, 2009
8:30 a.m. CDST
I do have a plan
for today’s talk:
Fun stuff
Big news of late
About teaching &
learning:
attention:
the 21st-century
commodity?
collaboration
non-text-based
communication
The web is a space
defined by kids.
Avast there, Facebook matey
DON’T MISUNDERESTIMATE
THE IMPORTANCE OF SILLINESS
Can’t figure out
the differences
between zombies
and vampires?
Relax!
You’re not alone.
And check out
the answer at
How Stuff Works
CIA Following Bin Laden
on Twitter
The Borowitz Report
February 27, 2009
failblog: to infinity and beyond
David
after
dentist
Viral
video
just
gets
more
viral.
Other stuff
actually
matters.
Could
(should)
Google
have
identified
the
swine
flu
outbreak
early?
Stuff
White People
Like
Falun
Data Information Center
Falun Gong
data centers
route requests
around censors
Clay Shirky on "Newspapers & thinking the unthinkable"
Frank Rich's thoughts
Newsweek: Big media R.I.P. (TimeWarner spins off AOL)
digital reader platform of choice
WSJ:
how the e-book will change the way we read & write
• Every word & symbol can be searched, annotated, indexed
• Infinite bookstore at your fingertips all the time
• Total immersion becomes rare
• Networked info & conversation
• Something like iTunes distribution
• Copyright? Who knows?
WSJ
DOJ is
checking out
the Google books
settlement
Wolfram | Alpha debuts this month (this week?)
(here’s a bit more info)
Novatel MiFi personal hot spot
From Verizon – about $100, mid-May
Linda Stone's
HBR “Breakthrough Idea” of 2007
CONTINUOUS PARTIAL ATTENTION
About fragmented attention
• What do we educators do about …
– the traditional lecture format?
– lengthy articles & book chapters?
– text-based teaching & learning?
• (more about this shortly …)
• Studies suggest podcasting works well because students
listen repeatedly and / or in chunks
Gen M’ers have grown up in multi-groups most of the time
COLLABORATIVE LEARNING
& WORK
How well will Gen M’ers learn or work
in isolation?
• In class & online, Gen M’ers have been working in groups as
far back as they can remember – multi-groups / multiactivities / many are simultaneous
• They count on fast feedback & collaboration
• They also count on being able to work anywhere, anytime
• What constitutes “cheating”?
NON-TEXT-BASED
COMMUNICATION & LEARNING
Business communication Back in the Day
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* check out lingo2word.com
Ooh!
Let's
give
this
a try!
Or you could use a video
You could use a cookbook.
to learn how to make
Or you could use a video
to learn how to make Guy Kawasaki's Famous
Guy Kawasaki's Famous Teriyaki
TeriyakiSauce
Sauce
The story of stuff
This
Webby-award winner
is a huge hit
in P-12 schools
right now.
The points I’m trying to make
•
5 years is geologic time for digital innovation.
•
Keep an eye AHEAD, all the time. Trendspot.
– The web & the way people use it won’t be the same in 5 years, but you can scope out
the general outline of what it will be.
•
The same in spades for teaching & learning behavior – critically important for
understanding Gen M & beyond.
– Continuous partial attention
– Collaboration
– Media-based, real-time, immersive formats
•
As we develop & implement new approaches, will they carry us forward so that:
– Our students & the people they’ll be supervising will be successful?
– we can move into the future easily?
•
How will CMB handle its own trendspotting?
Some tips & starting points
for getting knowledgeable & comfortable
with life online
Build community context first
It’s about five very specific user spaces: communities
Learning
Research
Workplace
Culture / entertainment
Neighbourhood
© Stephen Abram / SIRSI-Dynix
Basic lifehacking (that word is so over)
YOU NEED:
• a fast browser
• a fast connection
• a fast processor
• lots of memory
It’s nice to have a web geek
around the house, but it isn’t necessary.
Read these regularly,
but make news & updates
come to you automatically.
Don’t waste time searching for them.
Set up subscriptions or RSS feeds from these sites or others you really like, but
beware the resulting clutter in your inbox or aggregator:
– NYT daily tech section
– Wired
– David Pogue’s web site & online column & Pogue's Posts blog
– TechCrunch
– Gizmodo
– BoingBoing
Keep an eye on what Google is up to – you just have to do this for a while – in
the news and at the Google site.
Follow research, emerging issues, conversation,
& best practices on topics that interest you.
Internet & society
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Pew Internet & American Life Project
Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society
Electronic Frontier Foundation
MIT Media Lab
Online teaching & learning
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Sloan-C (A Consortium of Institutions and Organizations Committed to Quality Online Education)
UMUC Center for Teaching and Learning "Best Practices for Online Teaching“
Educomm Conference web site & archives
Educause
Bethany Bouvard (New Mexico State University)
– http://tektrekker.pbwiki.com : instructional design using FREE 2.0 tools
Sarah Robbins (Ball State University) (Co-author, SecondLife for Dummies)
– http://ubernoggin.com/archives/278 : the educational side of SL
Gen M
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Harvard’s Digital Natives Project
Mediated Cultures (Michael Wesch’s digital ethnography project @ Kansas State University)
Digital academic research & publication
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Coalition for Networked Information
Ithaka
Internet Archive (including the Wayback Machine)
dSpace @ MIT
Interesting thinkers
(in the order they occurred to me)
Kevin Kelly
danah boyd
Sherry Turkle
Howard Rheingold
Nicholas Carr
Trent Batson
Michael Wesch
Clay Shirky
Ray Kurzweil (my hero)
Get socially networked.
Get on Facebook and LinkedIn, even if you only lurk, like I
mostly do.
Figure out how and when to protect your privacy.
Multiple selves, fake info, etc. can sometimes be A Very Good Idea.
And remember that it’s very easy for lots of others to track
your habits on the web.
Maintain your online privacy
at a level that makes you comfortable.
• TrackMeNot generates fake queries  a fake trail through
the web
• Tor hides your IP address by routing thru proxy nodes
• EPIC (Electronic Privacy Information Center) is the premier
consumer watchdog organization
Take advantage of the “cloud.”
Use Google or other “cloud” apps for your personal email, doc
& link storage, photo sorting & sharing, etc. etc. etc.
– don’t rely on HD or local server storage alone
– do make it easy to share whatever, whenever, with
whomever
You can find out all the apps & services that Google offers here.
Don’t let digital stuff (including e-mail)
overwhelm you.
Get organized. Simplify, simplify, simplify. Check out:
• 43folders
• David Allen’s Getting things done (GTD)
Get hip, like me:
You Should Have Seen This and Internet Meme Timeline
Where the hell is Matt?
All you need to know to Twitter [NYT]