In-Flux- Science, Technology and Innovation - The Idea of Innovation"...the project on the idea of innovation looks at innovation as a category and its historical development since Antiquity. It identifies the concepts that have defined novelty through history and that have led to innovation as a central category of modern society." […]
- The Perils of Perfection - Evgeny Morozov"Whenever technology companies complain that our broken world must be fixed, our initial impulse should be to ask: how do we know our world is broken in exactly the same way that Silicon Valley claims it is? What if the engineers are wrong and frustration, inconsistency, forgetting, perhaps even partisanship, are the very features that allow us to morph […]
- An Institution Is Not an Invention: Heretical Thoughts on Mitra « Mike Caulfield"He urges us to destroy a system that he has not made the slightest effort to understand. He sees math added at a particular time in educational history, makes some broad claims about why that might be, and associates the utility of math in the current curriculum with a series of decisions made by thousands of individual administrators nearly two centur […]
- DRM Chair only works 8 times"all the joints of the chair are cast in wax with a piece of nichrome wire embedded in the wax. An Arduino with a small switch keeps track of how many times the chair has been used, while a solenoid taps out how many uses are left in the chair every time the user gets up. When the internal counter reaches zero, a relay sends power through the nichrome w […]
- Thom Yorke: 'If I can't enjoy this now, when do I start?' | Music | The Observer"We were so into the net around the time of Kid A," he says. "Really thought it might be an amazing way of connecting and communicating. And then very quickly we started having meetings where people started talking about what we did as 'content'. They would show us letters from big media companies offering us millions in some mobile […]
- Facebook Is Recycling Your Likes To Promote Stories You've Never Seen To All Your Friends - Forbes"Facebook is now recycling users Likes and using them to promote “Related Posts” in the news feeds of the user’s friends. And one more thing, the users themselves have possibly never seen the story, liked the story or even know that it is being promoted in their name." […]
- Briefing on MOOCs for the Board of Governors"Comparatively few of the nation’s more than 4,000 degree-granting American colleges or universities …. have the personnel, instructional and technological infrastructure, reputation (brand), and available cash to invest in launching their own MOOCs" […]
- Learning Through Digital Media » Crowdmapping the Classroom with UshahidiVia Scott Leslie: "Returning to our opening example of Blackboard’s interaction design, we can see how verisimilitude to the classroom has been deliberately created to maximize the more efficient management academic labor in order to cut administrative costs and cater to the exploding market within higher education for distance learning. Developing a di […]
- Science, Technology and Innovation - The Idea of Innovation
Monthly Archives: November 2011
Multi-Point Live Mix
A sudden chorus of whoops and yibbles burst from a kind of juke box at the far end of the room. Everybody quit talking. The bartender tiptoed back, with the drinks. “What’s happening?” Oedipa whispered. “That’s by Stockhausen,” the hip … Continue reading
They repeat it and I hear it and I love it.
There are many that I know and they know it. They are all of them repeating and I hear it. I love it and I tell it. I love it and now I will write it. This is now a … Continue reading
Higher Education and Private Good
Off-campus today, so if I want “24 hour access” to this article, it will only cost me… Actually, I can’t find out how much it will cost me until I give Wiley my credit card information. Can you imagine any … Continue reading
Posted in Abject
Tagged copyright, corporatization, doom-mongering, higher education, library, open, open content, sustainability
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An artefact brought forth from a parallel dimension, one superficially like our own
I’ve watched it a few times now, and still can’t believe that this exists. See also parts Two, and Three. There is also a version specifically edited for fans of The Runaways. The 1978 Rock and Roll Sports Classic would … Continue reading
Toward a theory of Disconnectivism
INTRODUCTION: Disconnectivism is driven by the delusion that decisions are made on any basis of reality whatsoever. New information is continually being discarded when it conflicts with dominant interests. The inability to draw distinctions between important and unimportant information drives … Continue reading
Posted in Abject, Pointless
Tagged corporatization, doom-mongering, higher education, privacy, wiki
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Art Lessons – Dragon
Step-by-step instructions, and Strongbad models some fine art feedback skills as well… And Trogdor comes in the NIIIIIGHT!!!!!
Participation as Piracy
Way overdue as a pointer, but a couple weeks back Adrian Johns paid a visit to UBC, giving a very rich talk entitled “The Intellectual Property Defense Industry and the Crisis of Information”. Dr. Johns’ abstract sums it up quite … Continue reading
Posted in Audio
Tagged copyright, corporatization, ds106, open, open culture, open education, open web, presentation, radio, Video
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