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Up to this point I’ve been assuming that I didn’t have a student readership, but now that I’m teaching a class…
Oh well, my real point is that we can’t turn off the electricity, so I may as well post this. This Tweet just in form Michael Wesch: “Chacha … new ways to [...]
Over lunch today I suggested, probably naively, the possibility that just as ‘technology’ had made dictation and secretaries pretty much obsolete, and that ‘technology’ might just be in the process of doing something similar to managers and hierarchies. My companion, correctly assuming that I was proposing some sort of program that might be ‘implemented’, [...]
As I understand the semantic web, which is somewhere between not very well and not at all, it will allow machines, or machine language, to describe human language. I have a slightly better understanding of human language, or at least the English portion of it, which is used to describe the world, but is not [...]
(This is a post that with it’s sister over on Sightwork has been hanging for a couple of weeks. I’m not sure if I’m a slow thinker; I know I’m a slow typer which accounts in part for the style, but that’s another post, as is ‘The Digital Divide & the Self-Selected’. Consider this a [...]
This was supposed to be a Friday Philosophy piece on a topic related to why this blog is called Learning Aesthetics, but as they say, “Shit happens.” I hesitated to use that phrase given that LA is, however unofficial, related to my professional life. I considered briefly using ‘S..t happens’ thus engaging you in a [...]
One of the problems with the multiplex approach is figuring out where to put things. My political bent has been made fairly clear over on SightWork and arguably doesn’t belong here. On the other hand the upcoming election is so important that conviction must trump other concerns, and besides this is a really interesting presentation [...]
Frightens us. Which is why we made lawyers. That requires some unpacking. As I understand it the idea of the Law is to remove uncertainty, to rely not so much on logic as the past, precedent, rules. The rules may not make any sense, but at least they’re rules; lawyers understand that. That philosophy extends [...]
caveat emptor…Sometimes things catch your attention in ways that don’t seem related to the context in which you encounter them. There’s been a discussion on IT Forum this week with a sub-theme of what might count as Web-2.0 competencies for learning, which turns out to be different from simply using. There was a lot of [...]
Despite my ‘terminal degree’, neither of the hats that I claim give me any authority to comment on being an ‘academic’; sometimes I think it would be fun but I don’t really know enough to have an actual opinion. On the other hand it seems worth while to put out some provocative pointers to knowledgeable [...]
Picking up on yesterday’s theme, and on a post from a while back; dean David Rubin postulated that ‘texting’ was, I don’t want to put words in his mouth but something like, “…replacinging traditional communication forms and thus discouraging face to face social interaction in class.” Something bothered me about that, but I couldn’t put [...]
