Content-type: text/html Downes.ca ~ Stephen's Web ~ The Master Switch, digital citizenship, and WWIC

Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community
"'Choice, freedom and openness' is not a given in the information business" says Artichoke, noting that there has been a not-so-subtle "shift from helping students adopt cyber-safe practice online to helping students become responsible cyber-citizens." The former, it seems to me, is about empowerment, while the latter more resembles indoctrination. As Tim Wu says in The Master Switch, "History shows a typical progression of information technologies: from somebody's hobby to somebody's industry; from jury-rigged contraption to slick production marvel; from a freely accessible channel to one strictly controlled by a single corporation or cartel – from open to closed system."

Today: 6 Total: 108 [Direct link] [Share]

Image from the website


Stephen Downes Stephen Downes, Casselman, Canada
stephen@downes.ca

Copyright 2024
Last Updated: Nov 24, 2024 12:08 p.m.

Canadian Flag Creative Commons License.

Force:yes