For us all fully to share memories of mass atrocity (such as slavery, Holocaust, ethnic cleansing) and the abjection of individuals, and to share a commitment to social justice, we need both to overhaul the curricula at every level of our education system and to implement a radical redistribution of wealth and power. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Unattributed[Edit][Delete]: Will Wikipedia Mean the End Of Traditional Encyclopedias?, Wall Street Journal [Edit][Delete] September 12, 2006By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Various authors[Edit][Delete]: The Future of learning in a Networked World, September 15, 2006By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Stephen Downes[Edit][Delete]: WWW Applications - Bloemfontein, September 15, 2006By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Scott Jaschik[Edit][Delete]: You May Have Been YouTubed, Inside Higher Ed [Edit][Delete] September 6, 2006By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Jeff Jarvis[Edit][Delete]: Books Will Disappear. Print is Where Words To To Die, The Guardian [Edit][Delete] June 8, 2006
I was thinking about this in the train station in Manchester. I once wanted to be a science fiction author, an ambition I sometimes secretly reconsider. But these days, they only publish what seems like one or two science fiction authors. It was always a nice job, but now even more so. "In print, books rely on scarce shelf space, gatekeeping agents and editors, and expensive production. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Johncn[Edit][Delete]: Connectivism: Danger or Opportunity, The Education Bazaar [Edit][Delete] June 6, 2006
Good discussion of George Siemens's recent Connectivism White Paper. "Where I'd like to see connectivism go is in the direction of personalized learning environments, or perhaps what Siemens calls 'learning ecologies'. However, I'd like to take that idea in the K-12 realm to be a PLE that would follow the student through school, and then beyond. I think we can take existing technologies that build social relationships and harness these for learning AND instruction". More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Ken Fisher[Edit][Delete]: The Question of Banning Laptops in Class: It's Academic, Silly, Ars Technica [Edit][Delete] June 1, 2006
The Chronicle of Higher Education has come out with yet another vaguely anti-technology article, this time about giving professors the capacity to shut down wireless access in a classroom. But more interesting is this essay in response by Ken Fisher pointing out that shutting down wireless will not only annoy students, it merely delays the inevitable. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Stephen Downes[Edit][Delete]: Hiatus, March 6, 2006
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Erick Schonfeld[Edit][Delete]: The Next Net 25, Cnn [Edit][Delete]CNN [Edit][Delete] March 3, 2006
Many of these 'next 25' companies will be familiar to OLDaily readers. There is certainly a trend happening, which this story captures. "The Next Net is deeply collaborative: People from across the planet can work together on the same task, and products or tools can be rapidly tweaked and improved by the collective wisdom of the entire online world. The new era is also creating a realm of endless mix and match: Anyone with a browser can access vast stores of information, mash it up, and serve it in new ways, to a few people or a few hundred million." What this article misses, though, is that the Next Net (as CNN calls Web 2.0) won't be driven so much by these companies as it will by open content, open access, and open source. More...
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