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20 Nov 09
The Future Is All About Context: The Pragmatic Web
Our online identity will increasingly be defined by three "pillars": who I say I am, what I do and say, and who I connect to (and who connects to me).
To clarify, our online identities are comprised primarily of three specific kinds of data:
Explicit or prescriptive data (i.e. the data that I input about myself: name, age, occupation, etc.);
Activity or behavioral data (i.e. what I do and say online);
Relationship data (i.e. my social graph and what my connections say about me).
Facebook is nothing more than perhaps the largest single database of this kind of online identity data: explicit, activity and relationship data.
19 Nov 09
"Streams of Content, Limited Attention: The Flow of Information through Social Media"
Just because we're moving towards a state where anyone has the ability to get information into the stream does not mean that attention will be divided equally. Opening up access to the structures of distribution is not democratizing when distribution is no longer the organizing function.
Some in the room might immediately think, "Ah, but it's a meritocracy. People will give their attention to what is best!" This too is mistaken logic. What people give their attention to depends on a whole set of factors that have nothing to do with what's best.
Keeping Friends Close and Friends with Good Credit Scores Closer | Center for Democracy & Technology
The social networking trend also forces a re-examination of the question of what data is sensitive. Sensitive information has traditionally been defined in terms of Social Security number, medical, and financial information. Facebook’s defaults, for example, keep user contact information private but make their list of friends public. It is becoming increasingly apparent that online and offline, we are judged by the company we keep.
Half an Hour: Free Learning and Control Learning: On the So-Called Failure of Constructivist, Discovery, Problem-Based, Experiential, and Inquiry-Based Teaching
And what’s important about Polanyi’s work is that he says, the bulk of our knowledge, even our conceptual knowledge, is ineffable. That means it cannot be represented in words, which means that a statement (which is a theory) is not a good expression of that knowledge, and that a law is not a good expression of that knowledge.
09 Nov 09
UNLEARNING PEDAGOGY Erica McWilliam
Abstract
Our teaching and learning habits are useful but they can also be deadly. They are useful when the conditions in which they work are predictable and stable. But what happens if and when the bottom falls out of the stable social world in and for which we learn? Is it possible that learning itself - learning as we have come to enact it habitually - may no longer be particularly useful? Could it be that the very habits that have served us so well in stable times might actually become impediments to social success, even to social survival? This paper explores reasons why we may need to give up on some of our deeply held beliefs about teaching and learning in order to better prepare young people for their social futures.
Futurity.org – First impressions sometimes say it all
Even when viewing the targets in the controlled pose, the observers could accurately judge some major personality traits, including extraversion and self-esteem. But most traits were hard to detect under these conditions. When observers saw naturally expressive behavior (such as a smiling expression or energetic stance), their judgments were accurate for nine of the 10 personality traits. The 10 traits were extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotional stability, openness, likability, self-esteem, loneliness, religiosity, and political orientation.
05 Nov 09
Pontydysgu – Bridge to Learning » Blog Archive » Facebook, Digital Identities, openness, sharing and privacy
as digital identities become ever more important, it is critical that we have the rights and the tools to manage that identity and that social network providers appreciate and support those rights and make it easy for individuals to understand how they can mange both privacy and openness. This is an issue which will not go away.
Yong Zhao ELDA Summer Institute
Very smart debunking the international education gap myth, exploration of learning skills.
The Ph.D Problem
The weakest professional, because he or she is backed by the collective authority of the group, has an almost unassailable advantage over the strongest non-professional (the so-called independent scholar) operating alone, since the non-professional must build a reputation by his or her own toil, while the professional’s credibility is given by the institution. That is one of the reasons that people are willing to pay the enormous price in time and income forgone it takes to get the degree: the credential gives them access to the resources of schol-arship and to the networks of scholars that circulate their work around the world. The non-academic writer or scholar is largely deprived of those things.
Against Transparency | The New Republic
We need to see what comparisons the data will enable, and whether those comparisons reveal something real. And it is this that the naked transparency movement has not done. For there are overwhelming reasons why the data about influence that this movement would produce will not enable comparisons that are meaningful
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