Thoughts and Notes
The knowledge delusion: What changes and what stays the same
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An interesting discussion took place between two prominent e-thinkers who both agree that the 'nature of knowledge' is changing but disagree on how and what the implications are. Stephen Downes summarises the notion of changing knowledge as follows.
Twitter backlash exposes shallowness of modern psychology
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The Inquisitr responds to a recent Times article on Twitter with the phrase 'load of bollocks, up to a point' but he is wrong. It is entirely and thoroughly bollocks. There is not a single quote in that article that is not at least partially nonsense. More than anything the psychiatric response to Twitter stems from the profound failure of modern psychology which for the last hundred or so years has lived off a populist reification of some of Freud's interesting insights. For instance this quote from Alain de Botton:
A load of Twitter - Times Online “To ‘follow’ someone is to have a fantasy of who this person you’re following is, and you use it as a map reference or signpost to guide your own life because you are lost,” says James. “I would guess that the typical profile of a ‘follower’ is someone who is young and who feels marginalised, empty and pointless. They don’t have an inner life,” he says.
The female mystique nonsense
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The perceptive folk at Shiny Shiny have hit the nail on the head. I've been meaning to write about this for a while and I'm preparing a column about this for Lidové Noviny at the moment so this post came as a pleasant surprise. The bottom line is, the folk theory that men find it difficult to understand women because of some inherent gender difference is nonsense. The vast majority of the difference is a result of the constant discursive reinforcement and socialisation by men and women, as was so perceptively observed by Shiny Shiny:
Shiny Shiny: Bandai helps women understand the men As the old clichés go, women are hard to read, woman don't know what they want (bla bla bla) and this ultimately ends up with men relentlessly moaning about how much disdain they have for not being able to understand what we want. Such a phenomenon is this little bugbear there was even a whole movie about it. But, I think a lot of you will agree (especially the women) this incomprehensible slump that men grumble about swings both ways. And if the Onna Dameshi (Girl Tester) is anything to go on, we need help understanding the male species too.
If a word falls in the woods...The interactional nature of meaning
It seems the Oxford dictionary has inadvertenly posed a rather serious challenge to the semanticians of the world. They launch a fun little website asking the net to save individual words reminiscent of the parrot Gerald Durrell's "Talking Parcel". Lifehacker immediately recognized the utility of such a project for party entertainment:
No fair in Bulgarian: Universals of language and particulars of culture
A rather silly comment in the Christian Science Monitor about the consequences of the supposed lack of the word for 'integrity' in Bulgarian on the Bulgarian economy recently drew the ire of Mark Lieberman on the Language Log:
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The opening of the network to
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Gendered discourse as a consequence of gendered socialisation
I've been planning to write a column or speak on the radio about this for a long time and I'm happy that Amanda Carpenter beat me to it. Her observation on fashion and make up being to women what sports are to men, is one of not insignificant sociological depth. What we talk about and consequently what we're interested in is a function of the group we talk about it with. And the discourse (and even the interest) has a dimension of group utility.
Everyone is a discourse analyst now: Multimodality and hypostasis
What is the difference between a discourse analyst with training in linguistic methodology and a blogger or the reader of a blog? Discourse analysis relies on the human capacity to understand text but it is also embedded in the social practices of discussing and inferring the meaning from text. The following example of a simple computer-generated graphical representation of Obama's speech (courtesy of Wordle.net) in many ways does the job of half an academic paper. It presents the data and lets the reader infer meanings (particularly in comparison with other speeches).
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we can say that discourse
we can say that discourse analysis is one methodology that aims to
break a speech earlier units by the relationships between them. Next
question would be what are these units? If we start from the smallest
units to the largest, we note the following: Audio, morpheme, word,
sentence and discourse. So if we say that a discourse is a product
structure to bring together two or more sentences and we have O1 = "The
girl cried" O2 = "Dad's office." The speech will be "The girl cried.'s
Father carried her," a discourse analyst can infer the following:
"Detect is important because it serves as a mechanism of cohesion, ie,
connect these sentences, and can be read as a narrative. This just
described is one of the first approaches of discourse, whose name,
Address as supraoracional level.
The second approach is the use of language and speech, this speech
is studied in context and is conceived as the use of language and
action units defined in terms of its implications for interaction
between speaker and listener. In this approach the focus is on
conversational analysis, pragmatics, since it takes into account the
context and language use situated in the east. John Austin gives us
important information within pragmatics, with everything related to
speech acts, performative utterances, among others. A common situation
is to negotiate meanings in interaction, for example: debt help "I would like to
review these reports." The same we could put it this way "Could you
review these reports?".
Moreover, a third approach is the speech as a way of signifying
experience from a particular perspective, this approach highlights the
discourse as practices that are the objects of which we speak, as
beliefs, ideologies or images in propelling subjects. Thus, there are
objects or themes that make speech possible, for example literacy, then
this is demonstrated in his speech some kind of progress.
And fourth and last approach is the Discourse as social practice,
where practice is seen as the normal way in which people use resources
to act together in the world and that social life is made of practices,
ie, routine activities this is the connection between abstract and
concrete. The importance of this practice is to articulate the language
along with other social elements such as non-discursive material
respects, sequence of actions, identities, beliefs, etc..
Everyone is a discourse analyst now: Multimodality and hypostasis
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Obama, Socialist Realism and the Inventory of Expressive Units of Culture
Obama and swaying fields of corn was a major theme of his 30-minute pre-election and then Elizabeth Alexander's poem at the inauguration brought it home during the inauguration:
Anaphoric islands, the free world and folk theories of language
BBC NEWS | World | Americas | The 'misunderestimated' president? "I want to thank my friend, Senator Bill Frist, for joining us today. He married a Texas girl, I want you to know. Karyn is with us. A West Texas girl, just like me."
The complex communications
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X.25 was independent of the
X.25 was independent of the TCP/IP protocols that arose from the experimental work of DARPA on the ARPANET, Packet Radio Net and Packet Satellite Net during the same time period. Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn developed the first description of the TCP protocols during 1973 and published a paper on the subject in May 1974. Use of the term "Internet" to describe a single global TCP/IP network originated in December 1974 with the publication of RFC 675, the first full specification of TCP that was written by Vinton Cerf, cheap web hosting Yogen Dalal and Carl Sunshine, then at Stanford University. During the next nine years, work proceeded to refine the protocols and to implement them on a wide range of operating systems. The first TCP/IP-based wide-area network wireless internet was operational by January 1, 1983 when all hosts on the ARPANET were switched over from the older NCP protocols. In 1985, the United States' National Science Foundation (NSF) commissioned the construction of dedicated server the NSFNET, a university 56 kilobit/second network backbone using computers called "fuzzballs" by their inventor, David L. Mills. The following year, NSF sponsored the conversion to a higher-speed 1.5 megabit/second network. A key decision to use the DARPA TCP/IP protocols was made by Dennis Jennings, then in vps hosting charge of the Supercomputer program at NSF.
Getting new technologies used
Another example of why the adoption of technologies is not dependent only on the technologies themselves but rather on the desire of the users themselves. This reminded me of two instances of extremely popular and seemingly easy-to-use Web2.0 services falling short on usability.
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Tips on introducing new technologies
This is an interesting list of tips for disseminating technology in an institution. I find 4 and 5 particularly intriguing. Not doing a pilot seems so counterintuitive but given that so many pilots get so entrenched that their adoption is a given no matter what the results that skipping them in certain instances (and just doing a brief trial) may be the best solution. More creative gathering of feedback may include walking into classrooms and asking the students. Well-worth reviewing.
More than features: Criteria for software selection
This report suggests that institutions should pay attention to more than just the features of a given platform. OpenSource (Sakai) and closed-source (Blackboard) systems alike relying on the Java enterprise approach are often too heavyweight for relatively small institutions. Even a basic install requires enterprise-level support. Moreover, more lightweight equivalents Moodle, Elgg and Drupal can be up and running on a single left-over machine and scale up when uptake increases.
Think globally, interact locally
This is an interesting example of how an essentially global technology can influence profoundly local interactions.
Homegrown Software Boosts Classroom Interactivity at Community College
Personalisation by the back door
It looks like another way to approach personalisation is through the acknowledgment of the fact that the educational routes of people today are too diverse to be manhandled into a single jacket. Portable personal e-portfolios would certainly be one such way. They do not require the personalisation of provision or even assessment but rather the personalisation of qualifications. Which is ultimately the goal of all personalised approaches.
Personalisation and Technology
An interesting presentation on integrating ICT and personalisation innovation. [slideshare id=11208&doc=ict-and-personalised-learning-20312&w=425]
Institutional skills bank: Something to consider
All the talk about adopting new and emergent technologies in education often overlooks one important factor! You need people with underlying skills to implement them and, not insignificantly, people with the proper skills to use them. (All that in addition to a proper institutional innovation and development culture.) This article in PC World hints at what those might be, but...
How critical should we be of Web2.0?
ESRC Society Today - Harnessing the power of the 'new' worldwide Web The event is part of the National Festival of Social Science, organised by the Economic and Social Research Council to showcase cutting edge research and highlight important issues in the social sciences.
Who is scrutinising the scrutinisers of the impact of Web2.0?
The approach of the following story did not exactly fill me with confidence.
Web 2.0's impact on students under scrutiny - ZDNet UK A committee chaired by Sir David Melville, former vice chancellor of the University of Kent, plans to report in December on how such technologies affect the behaviour and attitudes of existing students and those about to move into higher education.
IT skills and habits AFTER education
Here's an interesting study that shows that business practices are often not quite in sync with what students use at school (and quite likely not quite in sync with what companies say they want).
The Future of Technology and Education
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Education 2.0? Futures, pasts and presents
There are various interesting slideshows on Slideshare.net that show us education and its future in interesting lights. Here are some of them.
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Can social systems do the same for classroom time that teaching machines never did?
Creating a Collaborative Syllabus Using Moodle A "collaborative syllabus" is one in which the students have the ability to help determine the specifics of a course. Those specifics can be any element that a professor is willing to be flexible with (such items as the objectives, grading, attendance policies, types of assignments, and so on).
Can personalisation address the digital generation's issues?
This video presents a vision of the new generation that may or may not point us in the right direction for personalisation. It puts forward a vision of radical social and cognitive difference that we need to take into account when constructing an online space. On the other hand, we need to approach this critically lest we fall into the trap of innovating based on the surface appearance.
Gluing it all together
If we lived in a perfect world, we could design a learning system that would do everything right the first time and serve us perfectly forever after. However, in such a world, we could never get to the system which tends to evolve in similar ways organisms evolve. New revs mutate and some mutations are more suitable to the current environment so they survive. That's how we got some of the best in Web2.0 design inspite of the mirriad of Web2.0 mutations that didn't make it. In other words, this evolutationary approach is a great metaphorical vehicle for technological progress.
PBL on YouTube
YouTube is obviously useful for more than just silly cat videos, it's a surprising source of information about student learning. Here's one that shows how students are personalising their learning at a US secondary school:
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- They offer another way of reading PBL - Project-Based Learning but it's still basically a technique for encouraging personal involvement of students in their learning and giving them increasing control over deciding what to learn. In other words, Personalised Learning.


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