By Stephen Downes
March 17, 2004
Travel
Day
Today is a travel day, so a short
newsletter... I'll catch up tomorrow... By Anonymous, March
17, 2004 1:22 p.m.
[Refer][Research][Reflect]
Con-text? (An Inquiry)
According
to this paper, people communicate online both verbally and
non-verbally. "We will need to redefine not only our
beliefs of what constitutes communication here, but also
begin to assemble a new dictionary of online verbal and
nonverbal communication codes, accents, cues and meaning."
I am not completely happy with either theory used to frame
this discussion, channel theory or process theory, but I do
like the discussion, I like the whiteboard examples, and I
suspect that as non-verbal authoring tools become easier to
use we will see a lot more of this in online communication.
PDF, which DEOS News for some reason thinks handles
graphics better than a web page (I should introduce them to
this great new graphical browser called 'Mosaic'). By Mia
Lobel, Michael Neubauer and Randy Swedburg, DEOS News,
March 16, 2004
[Refer][Research][Reflect]
IEEE Members Furious
The simmering
debate at the IEEE has boiled over. "More than 5100
people—most of them members of the Institute for Electrical
and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)—have signed a petition
calling on the organization to 'cease discrimination
against IEEE members from countries that are embargoed by
the US government.'" The IEEE has had this sort of
controversy before; long time OLDaily readers will recall
the debate that erupted when IEEE authors were asked to
sign a document affirming that they had conformed to the
U.S. Diginal Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), a measure
that was subsequently revoked. By John Dudley Miller, The
Scientist, March 16, 2004
[Refer][Research][Reflect]
Learning Environmentalism
Seymour
Papert: To save the schools, we have to break them. The
current move toward standardization is a last gasp, "the
last twitch of the dragon's tail" as the old system dies.
It is natural, in such a time, for the bureaucracy to close
ranks, to centrally impose something like standardization
"instead of its direct opposite, higher standards." By
Stephen Downes, Stephen's Web, March 16, 2004
[Refer][Research][Reflect]
Sensitize / Desensitize
Again, and
let me stress, this is not a simple cause and effect
relationship. It's not about killing monsters, and then
going out and killing people. Rather, it is about shaping
one's understanding of the world. As moderator Renée-Marie
Fountain summed up nicely, it's about "how to sensitize,
how to desensitize, and who gets to do that." By Stephen
Downes, Stephen's Web, March 16, 2004
[Refer][Research][Reflect]
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