Eat The Data


The pre-session bumper by Dr Jones.

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Note: recorded audio for this session has been broken down into short chunks and placed with the accompanying images below. If you prefer a longer form listen, a longer cut is here (32 MB MP3), and the slideshow is online.

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Eat the data

EAT THE DATA

Reclaiming innovation

Keynote / Intro (657 kb MP3)

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καινοτομία

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Innovation not always a good thing (900 kb MP3)

As noted, Audrey Watters covered much of the history of innovation in her excellent talk at CNIE two days earlier. I reference the work of Benoît Godin, particularly “καινοτομία: An Old Word for a New World, or, The De-Contestation of a Political and Contested Concept” available at csiic.ca.

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sleep_learning_lpInnovation fatigue

Broken status quo


Innovation fatigue (1 MB MP3)
Sample from Benjamin Bratton’s We Need to Talk About TED

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now_i_am_become_deathnow_i_am_become_death2Disruption

Disruption (1.9 MB MP3)

Again, Audrey covered this stuff very well in her talk so I cut this part short. I would also point to her “Myth and Millennialism of Disruptive Innovation” and “A Future with Only Ten Universities”. I refer to Dan Carlin’s wonderful podcast Hardcore History, and you can still download his epic series on the Mongols.

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Getting better?

Getting Better? (1.4 MB MP3)

This section samples Bruce Sterling’s 2013 SXSW closing address. And listening here I realize I drew a lot of the framing and language for the “everything is worse” riff from Sterling as well.

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shining_internetThe web we lost

The web we lost (2.7 MB MP3)

This section draws heavily on Anil Dash’s “The Web We Lost”. (He followed it up with “Rebuilding the Web We Lost”.) I read from Tony Hirst’s “Innovation’s End”. I wrote about the travails of RSS somewhat recently.

The NSA/Snowden revelations open up a huge rabbit hole only alluded to here, but if you think Canada is not complicit in pervasive online spying, and have never heard of “Five Eyes”, maybe start here. And then keep going.

 

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howardThe web we fell in love with

The web we fell in love with (3 MB MP3)

The “weird utopian Buckminster Fuller on acid idea of a university” that I worked at fourteen years ago was TechBC. It may not have been quite that weird, but it was an inspiring and exciting place.

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Bag Of Gold from Tim Owens on Vimeo.

Drawn from Gardner Campbell’s 2009 “No Digital Facelifts: Thinking the Unthinkable About Open Education”.

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double-edged_swordTame the web

Taming the web (1.6 MB MP3)

Drawn from Jim Groom’s “Taming the Web”.

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The LMS


The LMS (1.5 MB MP3)

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Robert_Crumb_s_Brief_History_of_AmericaTechnology is not neutral

Technology is not neutral (1.4 MB MP3)

Reference to Tannis Morgan’s CNIE presentation.

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FIVE ARGUMENTS AGAINST THE LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

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Argument one: systems

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Argument one systems (1.1 MB MP3)

Reference to Tom Woodward’s “LMS Metaphors”.

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Argument two: silos


Silos (1.4 MB MP3)

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lifepreparationpearsonproductsArgument three: missed opportunities


Missed Opportunities (1.5 MB MP3)

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Argument four: costs


Costs (1 MB MP3)

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Argument five: confidence


Confidence (1.3 MB MP3)

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Get rid of it


Get out (500 kb MP3)

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Open – JIBC (650 kb MP3)

ABC of Autonomia Disreflexia, see also Rural Disaster Resilence Planning Toolkit, Introduction to Reception Centres and Group Lodging

Tannis Morgan’s CNIE 2014 Presentation

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rmooc2rMOOC: a learning and sharing platform

rMOOC (1.4 MB MP3)

rMOOC.ca, Ashok Mathur’s description, Alan Levine’s technical recipe

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120515


We take some calls (2.1 MB MP3)

D’Arcy is right. We’ve been talking this stuff for a long time.

For examples of well-rendered open platforms: UBC Blogs, CMS, and Wiki. UMWBlogs. The Cuny Academic Commons and Blogs@Baruch.

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loopamp Trailing edge technologies


Trailing edge (900 kb MP3)

Mike Caulfield, “Educational Technology and the Sources of Innovation”, references early cMOOCs, DS106, FemTechNet, Phonar, Lumen Course Frameworks.

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Leading edge users


Leading edge users (1 MB MP3)

References Mike Caulfield again.

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New generalists


New generalists (1.4 MB MP3)

References Novak Rogic, “Generalists vs the Army of Waste”, and “One More on Generalists”. UBC CMS.

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Holger Czukay (in the navy) (1984)

User innovation toolkits


Toolkits (448 kb MP3)

Jon Udell, “MOOCs need to be user-innovation toolkits”.

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Screenshot 2014-05-15 11.18.25


Domain of One’s Own (1.1 MB MP3)

The Domain of One’s Own page at UMW. They’ve also created this excellent video about the initiative.

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Reclaim Hosting (1.1 MB MP3)

Reclaim Hosting site. Backstory. See also Kin Lane, “Reclaiming my Domain”.

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ami_search_results“seamlessly sharing infrastructure”


sharing infrastructure (1.3 MB MP3)

Jim Groom: “Next Generation Sandbox”, “Ghost from the Machine”.

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A Culture of Innovation from umwnewmedia on Vimeo.

…a common value system that we are all working towards to make the future of education as accessible and equitably distributed as possible, while at the same time maintaining the humane and interpersonal dimension of learning that makes the whole enterprise meaningful—serial innovation is a mission not a happy accident.


Culture of innovation (812 kb MP3)


Innovation is… by SoundCamp (4.7 MB MP3)

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Users drive innovation


User-driven (576 kb MP3)

The UBC Math Exam Resources wiki, led and built by students. Sample question. Students just developed and released an Android app.

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abetopia


Utopia (474 kb MP3)

Background and links about this work from CNIE presentation with Ken Simpson. Examples: Juana Zeme (video); Abetopia (video).

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Our choice


Our choice (642 kb MP3)

Reddit: I am Tim Berners-Lee. I invented the WWW 25 years ago and I am concerned and excited about its future. AMA

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Grandma & pa Elias, Brian & CJ - 1976


The right way (1.9 MB MP3)

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