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Kathi Berens's List: Social Media
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Aug 29, 11
David Cameron contemplates restricting social media in the UK, reversing his pre-Riot position.
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Aug 29, 11
Uncompensated labor; corporate uses of fans' creative energy and UGcontent, lack of control over the uses to which one's digital artifacts are put; the "impossibility" of extracting oneself from social networks. My word: imbricated.
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Aug 29, 11
Well-known and -regarded article that cautions youth against "being used." Marxist analysis.
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Aug 29, 11
Shared in advance of the MobiityShifts conference at the New School, which he is organizing.
Very well done overview -
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Aug 30, 11
data visualization of tweets following east coast (locus=Virginia) quake
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Aug 30, 11
Possible solutions to combat the distraction factor
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Aug 30, 11
Does banning work?
I would add: does it work in the workplace? -
Aug 30, 11
Siva Vaidhyanathan cited at the end: sometimes he wants students to shut their laptops.
Ask students to interrogate the rhetoric of this piece. Assumptions, elided information and POVs. -
Aug 30, 11
Does distaction actually impede learning?
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Aug 30, 11
Many of these pieces are by Cathy Davidson. Excellent materials. Mine the metadata.
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Aug 31, 11
Attention blindness is the fundamental structuring principle of the brain, and I believe that it presents us with a tremendous opportunity. My take is different from that of many neuroscientists: Where they perceive the shortcomings of the individual, I sense an opportunity for collaboration.
The 20th century taught us that completing one task before starting another one was the route to success. Everything about 20th-century education, like the 20th-century workplace, has been designed to reinforce our attention to regular, systematic tasks that we take to completion. -
Aug 31, 11
Last in a 3-part series.
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Aug 31, 11
Syllabus for Cathy Davidson's hybrid class "This is Your Brain on the Internet." See esp. course assignments and readings (on brain plasticity). My versions: Immordino-Yang and Damasio....
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How are collaborations different when they are face-to-face than when virtual, mediated by technology?
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Our own classroom will move back and forth between actual and virtual experiences, including observation of highly complex collaborative environments (including choreography, improvisation, and other ways of interacting with and without words), some of which involve technology and some of which do not.
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Aug 31, 11
Note "contract grading." See also the collaborative final the students authored.
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Sep 19, 11
UCR study 5K participants culled from their iLab and a survey company that gets study participants.
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