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Justin Hall - bud.com
This is an interesting concept. "URLs with time and date stamps define a geography. The hypertext choices we make describe hours of our life. Using the Attention Trust Firefox browser extension, bud.com will collect the surfing trails of willing participants. By uploading their browser history, players will be setting the bud.com server to task, interpreting that data into their own networked reflection." It's interesting not so much because of the gaming aspect but because of the use of the browser extension to collect and interpret browsing data in a multiuser environment. Here's t From
OLDaily on June 28, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..
Commission on the Future of Higher Education - Commission Report 6/22/06 Draft - U.S. Department of Education
Educators in the United States are up in arms over a draft report released by a federal higher education committee, but the report doesn't say anything we haven't been saying here for several years. "History is littered," it says, "with examples of industries that, at their peril, failed to respond to or even to notice changes in the world around them, from railroads to steel manufacturers. Without serious self-examination and reform, institutions of higher education risk falling into the same trap." Quite right. Moreover, higher education institutions are not accessible, the report From
OLDaily on June 28, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..
George Siemens - Constructivism vs. Connectivism - Connectivism Blog
Post outlining some of the distinctions between connectivism and constructivism. One point needs considerable clarification. Siemens complains of constructivism, "The act of learning itself is still perceived to be in the head of the individual." As a commentator writes, "Where else would it happen?" And of course, that's where it happens. But what is learned by an individual is incomplete - it is as though the process of learning produces a key in our heads - the production occurs entirely in the head, but it still requires a lock and a door in order to be of use.Siemens also o From
OLDaily on June 28, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..
Unattributed - Librarians Condemn Captain Copyright - CIPPIC
From the website: "the Canadian Library Association unanimously passed a resolution condemning Access Copyright's misguided 'Captain Copyright' advocacy website... as posing 'a threat to our shared information commons by providing biased copyright information to the Canadian public, particularly children and schoolteachers.'" Can't argue with that. [
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OLDaily on June 28, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..
Jay Rosen - The People Formerly Known as the Audience - PressThink
If I wrote, "The People Formerly Known as Students," what would you say? How would you react if I said, "We graduate from wanting learning when we want it, to wanting it without the filler, to wanting learning to be way better than it is, to teaching and educatingg ourselves when it meets a need or sounds like fun." Well - this is what I am saying, and I am saying it because this is where the evidence points - just as people are taking control of media, they will also take control of learning. [
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OLDaily on June 28, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..
Marc Canter, et.al. - PeopleAggregator
Marc Canter's PeopleAggregator site has now launched in an alpha version. On the one hand, it looks and feels just like another social networking application, and with a clunky and awkward interface. But on the other hand, the premise is that because it uses open APIs, it should be the first in a network of distributed social networks. This would be much more interesting. You need to be invited to get a look inside - but if you send me an email (please give me your first name, last name and email address, so I don't have to look them up) I'll send you an invite (no guarantees th From
OLDaily on June 28, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..