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Davin Heckman, Idc, Jul 09, 2009

Interesting post that looks at some of the dynamics of technology and education. In particular, Davin Heckman considers the implications of treating attention as a commodity and what happens when people - including students - ask what their time is worth. "These are all philosophical questions that revolve around 'the internet as factory," he writes. And we can ask, he writes, what sort of future we can imagine for ourselves when the most intimate aspects of ourselves are not for sale. "I would hope that the approach they take is one that
is critical, resistant, and ultimately radical... We need to figure out what we want to 'defend' and what we want to change." This post originally appeared (truncated) on the IDC list. Find more of Heckman's work here.

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