or, How A Meme With A Reference To A Jew For Jesus Hip Hop Artist Reminded Me Of Dangerous Ideas
I don’t really remember how I got there, but I ended up at memepool, the brainchild of del.icio.us founder Joshua Schachter and Jeff Smith. Posted on January 5th, 2006, was an entry which read:
The popularity [...]
From visual searches to verbal searches, (without intending to pull an Annie Hall) Marshall “The Medium Is The Message” McLuhan must be having a celestial party right now.
Podzinger is a search engine for podcasts. Rather than allowing you to just search for a podcast based on the title, description, tags, or categories (as podcasting [...]
Has anyone stopped to think about how computers might be different if the first widespread human-personal computer input device was the sketch pad and not the keyboard? I usually try to avoid the googly-eyed “wow” factor of new technologies, but this one, Retrievr, is very cool and has the potential for facilitating access for [...]
Here are some things that are making me think as we transition into 2006:
Joanna Weiss predicts that 2005 will mark the beginning of the end of serendipity.
George Siemens is grappling with the nature of meaning making, learning, and subjectivity.
Doug of Borderland is searching for a “broadened conceptualization of curriculum.”
Lisa Lynch and Bob Stein of the [...]
Here are some worthwhile and interesting responses to and critiques of my last post, The Emergence of Meaning: Wikipedia As Object-Centered Sociality:
Artichoke posted a response positing, “‘What does it do?’ takes precedence… over what it might mean.”
Stephan Downes writes, “…I read the value of Wikipedia differently…. Wikipedia’s article selection also varies - while editors [...]
This is the first in an occasional series in which I hope to develop an argument for the continued development of critical literacy skills in “new media.” I am hoping to argue that it is not enough to grapple with the products and artifacts of these new media as “media types” (e.g., video, audio, [...]
There is no question in my mind that many of the ways that technology has developed — especially in facilitating the forging of connections between learners and content, learners and teachers, and learners and learners — are great boons to the field of education and to the cause of improving the learning process in general. [...]
With a toddler, a half-time job with full-time responsibilities, a dad-ship, a husband-ship, a strong sense of civic duty and right-and-wrong, and a desire to keep up with this blog thing, I often feel myself being pulled in multiple directions at once. The end result is that basically nothing gets done or done all [...]
There is no question in my mind that our tools of the information age — computers, the Internet, cell phones, all the associated accoutrements — are changing the way we, as participants, do things and even think. That certainly doesn’t mean that these changes are necessarily and always changes for the good.
George Siemens of the [...]
Just a couple of weeks ago, I commented on a post at Savage Minds, an anthropology blog I like to read on a regular basis. It seemed like a fair comment on the article, until I returned later and read a few more comments people had left. What I had done was my comment made [...]
