[Script Info] Title: [Events] Format: Layer, Start, End, Style, Name, MarginL, MarginR, MarginV, Effect, Text Dialogue: 0,0:00:04.24,0:00:05.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For the session this afternoon Dialogue: 0,0:00:05.62,0:00:06.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have the distinct pleasure Dialogue: 0,0:00:06.48,0:00:07.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To introduce two of my good friends Dialogue: 0,0:00:07.42,0:00:08.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Gardner Campbell, from Baylor University Dialogue: 0,0:00:08.59,0:00:12.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Jim Groom from the University of Mary Washington. Dialogue: 0,0:00:12.27,0:00:15.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They require absolutely no introduction beyond that. Dialogue: 0,0:00:15.18,0:00:18.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's why we'll let them get on with the show, so Dialogue: 0,0:00:18.62,0:00:24.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,please help me welcome these two guys Dialogue: 0,0:00:24.74,0:00:26.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you, Cole Dialogue: 0,0:00:26.00,0:00:28.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thanks everybody for being here after lunch Dialogue: 0,0:00:28.24,0:00:30.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is always the great deadly zone Dialogue: 0,0:00:30.02,0:00:31.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where your blood sugar and my blood sugar Dialogue: 0,0:00:31.96,0:00:33.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the biochemistry, the neurons Dialogue: 0,0:00:33.63,0:00:36.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but we're going to force through this Dialogue: 0,0:00:36.30,0:00:38.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we're going to make it Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.04,0:00:39.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have a good feeling about this Dialogue: 0,0:00:39.51,0:00:43.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,every presentation I've been in Dialogue: 0,0:00:43.55,0:00:45.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has something very striking in it for me Dialogue: 0,0:00:45.69,0:00:46.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sometimes it has been ideas Dialogue: 0,0:00:46.96,0:00:50.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sometimes it's the level of innovation Dialogue: 0,0:00:50.04,0:00:51.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just the sheer energy of innovation Dialogue: 0,0:00:51.84,0:00:56.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sometimes it's a little more close to the bone Dialogue: 0,0:00:56.89,0:00:58.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the session that Leigh Blackall did Dialogue: 0,0:00:58.96,0:01:00.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't know if he's in here now Dialogue: 0,0:01:00.20,0:01:02.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but the session he did before lunch Dialogue: 0,0:01:02.54,0:01:05.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,really struck me with the sense of frustration Dialogue: 0,0:01:05.95,0:01:09.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I feel...a lot...maybe you do... Dialogue: 0,0:01:09.32,0:01:12.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we live in an age of marvels and wonders Dialogue: 0,0:01:12.67,0:01:14.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that don't seem to be making Dialogue: 0,0:01:14.10,0:01:15.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a substantial difference Dialogue: 0,0:01:15.64,0:01:17.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the most serious activities Dialogue: 0,0:01:17.65,0:01:19.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we engage in as human beings: Dialogue: 0,0:01:19.08,0:01:20.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Education Dialogue: 0,0:01:20.96,0:01:23.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are a lot of reasons why that's no-one's fault Dialogue: 0,0:01:23.56,0:01:26.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are a lot of reasons why that's everyone's fault Dialogue: 0,0:01:26.41,0:01:28.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and there's a lot of people Dialogue: 0,0:01:28.61,0:01:29.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we can point at and blame Dialogue: 0,0:01:29.98,0:01:31.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sometimes justifiably so Dialogue: 0,0:01:31.75,0:01:35.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but rather than round up the usual suspects Dialogue: 0,0:01:35.16,0:01:37.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have this sense of Dialogue: 0,0:01:37.77,0:01:39.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What a waste! Dialogue: 0,0:01:39.54,0:01:41.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why is this not happening? Dialogue: 0,0:01:41.25,0:01:42.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We've had the Internet Dialogue: 0,0:01:42.45,0:01:43.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We've had computers Dialogue: 0,0:01:43.35,0:01:46.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We've had all these amazing conversations Dialogue: 0,0:01:46.46,0:01:47.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at conferences like this Dialogue: 0,0:01:47.80,0:01:50.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about the possibilities Dialogue: 0,0:01:50.57,0:01:51.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Is this making a difference? Dialogue: 0,0:01:51.58,0:01:52.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean we can say: Dialogue: 0,0:01:52.51,0:01:53.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sure, we have success stories Dialogue: 0,0:01:53.82,0:01:54.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but we keep thinking Dialogue: 0,0:01:54.65,0:01:56.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when does the tide turn? Dialogue: 0,0:01:56.39,0:01:58.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when do we get to the place Dialogue: 0,0:01:58.46,0:01:59.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where we can say Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.46,0:02:05.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yeah, we're on the upswing Dialogue: 0,0:02:05.41,0:02:09.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Clay Shirky in 2008 wrote: Dialogue: 0,0:02:09.01,0:02:10.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,," We are living in the middle of Dialogue: 0,0:02:10.03,0:02:12.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the largest increase in expressive capability Dialogue: 0,0:02:12.60,0:02:15.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the history of the human race." Dialogue: 0,0:02:15.48,0:02:18.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think that's true Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.22,0:02:19.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,except that probably we're at the beginning Dialogue: 0,0:02:19.99,0:02:23.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and not the middle. Dialogue: 0,0:02:23.40,0:02:25.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But this increase in expressive capability Dialogue: 0,0:02:25.12,0:02:26.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the history of the human race Dialogue: 0,0:02:26.91,0:02:28.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ought to be the abiding Dialogue: 0,0:02:28.54,0:02:34.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,transforming concern of all education. Dialogue: 0,0:02:34.90,0:02:37.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Higher Education is the place Dialogue: 0,0:02:37.03,0:02:40.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where we train people to be able Dialogue: 0,0:02:40.41,0:02:42.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to take advantage of this to the fullest Dialogue: 0,0:02:42.05,0:02:43.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and surprise us with things we have not discovered Dialogue: 0,0:02:43.82,0:02:46.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about what this can mean Dialogue: 0,0:02:46.49,0:02:48.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but whatever it means Dialogue: 0,0:02:48.20,0:02:49.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we may disagree about what it means Dialogue: 0,0:02:49.54,0:02:51.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Look at that! Dialogue: 0,0:02:51.07,0:02:53.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I believe that that is true Dialogue: 0,0:02:53.25,0:02:55.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It makes me do what I do Dialogue: 0,0:02:55.96,0:02:57.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and yet it is as if Dialogue: 0,0:02:57.93,0:02:59.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,day after day Dialogue: 0,0:02:59.10,0:03:01.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I sa: " I have a bag of gold. Dialogue: 0,0:03:01.67,0:03:02.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Would you like a bag of gold?" Dialogue: 0,0:03:02.97,0:03:04.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and people say: Dialogue: 0,0:03:04.31,0:03:08.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Where do you find time for bags of gold?" Dialogue: 0,0:03:08.59,0:03:13.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Oh, no ..another currency to master." Dialogue: 0,0:03:13.24,0:03:16.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Gold, is that sustainable?" Dialogue: 0,0:03:16.58,0:03:17.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like: "No, you spend it..." Dialogue: 0,0:03:17.88,0:03:19.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well..."What would you spend it on?" Dialogue: 0,0:03:19.02,0:03:20.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"What would you like to spend it on?" Dialogue: 0,0:03:20.34,0:03:26.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I don't have time for your philosophical questions, Gardner". Dialogue: 0,0:03:26.04,0:03:27.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a bag of gold Dialogue: 0,0:03:27.24,0:03:29.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What part of that do you not understand? Dialogue: 0,0:03:29.04,0:03:31.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I love this Dialogue: 0,0:03:31.48,0:03:35.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is the Cortex A9, Dialogue: 0,0:03:35.03,0:03:36.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a chip that is in production, Dialogue: 0,0:03:36.87,0:03:38.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I'm afraid that the audio here Dialogue: 0,0:03:38.57,0:03:39.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is not going to be sufficiently loud Dialogue: 0,0:03:39.94,0:03:42.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so I'll just tell you what Adrian Cockcroft says Dialogue: 0,0:03:42.38,0:03:44.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but if you really wanna to get the full spooky ride Dialogue: 0,0:03:44.45,0:03:46.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,go to the IT conversations podcast. Dialogue: 0,0:03:46.93,0:03:50.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Have any of you heard him talk about Millicomputing? Dialogue: 0,0:03:50.16,0:03:52.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He defines millicomputing as a computer Dialogue: 0,0:03:52.21,0:03:53.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that consumes less than one watt Dialogue: 0,0:03:53.98,0:03:54.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it'll fit in your pocket Dialogue: 0,0:03:54.85,0:03:58.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it will not burn your leg Dialogue: 0,0:03:58.43,0:04:00.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This chip is in production Dialogue: 0,0:04:00.56,0:04:02.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It will appear in devices probably the next year or so. Dialogue: 0,0:04:02.27,0:04:05.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It has four graphical processing units Dialogue: 0,0:04:05.14,0:04:07.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,each of which independently can process Dialogue: 0,0:04:07.62,0:04:11.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a full H.264 high definition stream Dialogue: 0,0:04:11.30,0:04:13.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and coding, decoding Dialogue: 0,0:04:13.30,0:04:15.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He talks about the way we're not going to carry Dialogue: 0,0:04:15.67,0:04:17.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,computers in our pockets. Dialogue: 0,0:04:17.08,0:04:19.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're going to carry web servers Dialogue: 0,0:04:19.48,0:04:22.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in our pockets Dialogue: 0,0:04:22.22,0:04:24.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we're going to walk in to a context Dialogue: 0,0:04:24.16,0:04:25.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and wirelessly link-up Dialogue: 0,0:04:25.97,0:04:28.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with the things we want to do in that context. Dialogue: 0,0:04:28.28,0:04:30.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's usually where I stop Dialogue: 0,0:04:30.11,0:04:32.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when I play this for faculty Dialogue: 0,0:04:32.29,0:04:34.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because the next part is even spookier Dialogue: 0,0:04:34.83,0:04:37.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in which he talks about the way these milling computers Dialogue: 0,0:04:37.40,0:04:39.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,will allow us to be in constant contact Dialogue: 0,0:04:39.80,0:04:43.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with a society of avatars and a virtual world Dialogue: 0,0:04:43.55,0:04:45.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who will be able to, Dialogue: 0,0:04:45.29,0:04:46.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because of our wearable computing, Dialogue: 0,0:04:46.69,0:04:47.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to tap us on the shoulder Dialogue: 0,0:04:47.83,0:04:49.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and have a conversation with us Dialogue: 0,0:04:49.94,0:04:51.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,while we are here in real space as well. Dialogue: 0,0:04:51.34,0:04:56.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now to me that can be a real bag of gold Dialogue: 0,0:04:56.12,0:04:57.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or maybe we don't have time to Dialogue: 0,0:04:57.79,0:04:59.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,amplify our beings that way Dialogue: 0,0:04:59.40,0:05:01.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm not going to say this is going to be easy Dialogue: 0,0:05:01.87,0:05:03.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or that's not going to have problems Dialogue: 0,0:05:03.54,0:05:06.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or be fraught or spun a whole new wave of Dialogue: 0,0:05:06.05,0:05:13.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,milling cyber computing crime. Dialogue: 0,0:05:13.33,0:05:14.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But if it's going to happen Dialogue: 0,0:05:14.80,0:05:16.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and there are great possibilities it will Dialogue: 0,0:05:16.48,0:05:18.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,why doesn't it make a difference? Dialogue: 0,0:05:18.21,0:05:20.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,why hasn't that made people Dialogue: 0,0:05:20.29,0:05:21.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,stop and say Dialogue: 0,0:05:21.56,0:05:23.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I guess I could recapture a sense of wonder Dialogue: 0,0:05:23.50,0:05:29.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,under these circumstances Dialogue: 0,0:05:29.34,0:05:31.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What do we believe? Dialogue: 0,0:05:31.45,0:05:33.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Today's technologies and their consequent environments Dialogue: 0,0:05:33.69,0:05:35.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,succeed each other so rapidly Dialogue: 0,0:05:35.29,0:05:38.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that one environment makes us aware of the next. Dialogue: 0,0:05:38.37,0:05:41.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Technologies begin to perform the function of art Dialogue: 0,0:05:41.51,0:05:43.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in making us aware of the psychic Dialogue: 0,0:05:43.68,0:05:46.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and social consequences of technology... Dialogue: 0,0:05:46.02,0:05:48.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are entering the new age of education Dialogue: 0,0:05:48.56,0:05:50.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that is programmed for discovery Dialogue: 0,0:05:50.54,0:05:52.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,rather than instruction." Dialogue: 0,0:05:52.76,0:05:57.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We could, especially if we were an English faculty, Dialogue: 0,0:05:57.32,0:05:59.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,wordsmith this Dialogue: 0,0:05:59.86,0:06:01.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,tinker with it Dialogue: 0,0:06:01.40,0:06:03.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if this were a faculty senate, it would not get out of committee. Dialogue: 0,0:06:03.71,0:06:08.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Probably we all believe some variety of that Dialogue: 0,0:06:08.02,0:06:12.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,some version of that Dialogue: 0,0:06:12.56,0:06:14.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or to put it another way from the Renaissance, Dialogue: 0,0:06:14.40,0:06:16.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is my favourite place to hang out Dialogue: 0,0:06:16.41,0:06:18.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the virtual space in my head Dialogue: 0,0:06:18.05,0:06:21.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's like the Music of the Spheres Dialogue: 0,0:06:21.26,0:06:23.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice Dialogue: 0,0:06:23.33,0:06:25.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the young Lorenzo woos his sweetheart Dialogue: 0,0:06:25.20,0:06:27.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with talk of the stars Dialogue: 0,0:06:27.71,0:06:31.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Is that scalable? Dialogue: 0,0:06:31.02,0:06:33.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, never mind. Dialogue: 0,0:06:33.52,0:06:35.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st Dialogue: 0,0:06:35.66,0:06:39.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But in his motion like an angel sings, Dialogue: 0,0:06:39.07,0:06:41.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubins; Dialogue: 0,0:06:41.58,0:06:44.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Such harmony is in immortal souls, Dialogue: 0,0:06:44.45,0:06:47.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But whilst this muddy vesture of decay Dialogue: 0,0:06:47.53,0:06:51.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it." Dialogue: 0,0:06:51.04,0:06:53.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Melvyn Bragg , In Our Time, Dialogue: 0,0:06:53.68,0:06:55.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the episode of Music of the Spheres Dialogue: 0,0:06:55.27,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"This is the music of the spheres Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the idea that the stars and planets Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as they travel through space Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,make beautiful music together Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Music of the Spheres Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,played out of the classical world Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the Medieval period Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and into the Renaissance Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it affords us a glimpse into minds Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for whom the Universe Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was full of meaning Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of strange correspondences Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and grand harmonies Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I would like to graduate Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a generation of students Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who will help ME here Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to strange correspondences and grand harmonies Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I have not yet imagined Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's what I'm in it for Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But oh well, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how you are going to protect privacy? Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is a time of wonders Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Usually the printing press is introduced as an example Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of a disruptive technology Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on the order of what we're seeing now. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No small disruption Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The printing press started wars Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,overturned religious orthodoxy Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The printing press meant that any fool Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with a piece of machinery Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,could say anything Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and how would you know? Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, I think that the disruption is on a bigger scale Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think that the disruption we're witnessing today Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is the disruption on the scale Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the development of the written alphabet Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the phonetic alphabet Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This was a huge deal Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This was a technology invented to communicate Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with the Dead Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so it's not like a tool Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's a meta tool Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's an alphabet Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What will I say with that? Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What do you want to say? Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't know... Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just tell me what you want me to write Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a great book Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Marianne Wolf, Proust and the Squid. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She talks about the science of the reading brain. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the fact that learning to read Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is something we do deliberately Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to re-arrange our minds Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We make new connections Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,among the various perceptual centers in our brains Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that are not programmed in there Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we seem to have a speech center Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as part of our revolved neuro anathomy Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but not a reading center Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we have to do things that do not happen naturally Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but once we do those things Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we find... Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a bag of gold Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Clay Shirky wrote a blog post Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that really rocked me back on my heels Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,back in March, on Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,did anyone of you see that blog post? Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yeah..he talks about the ways in which newspapers Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,essentially played Nearer my God to thee in the Titanic Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they thought they could nibble at the edges Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because nibbling at the edges Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,well, you know you don't have to take a big bite Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you don't have to worry of indigestion Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you don't have to worry about anything Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you just take a little nibble Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,well, newspapers were nibbling at the edges Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the 1990's Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they stopped being a viable business model Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this is Shirky's argument Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,his argument is not that journalism will go away Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but that the coincidence of journalism and newspapers Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was historically conditioned Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and can go away historically Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but the newspaper folks Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like the professors, maybe like the edtech folks Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,maybe like any of us in the room Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,tend to believe that we're in the domain Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because we're in the best of all possible domains Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this is the way it has to be Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not so much Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Shirky coined the term Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which really scared me to death Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"the digital facelift" Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for what newspapers try to do Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we'll just do what we did before Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but we'll put it on the web Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it'll be what we had before Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we'll have some hyperlinks Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it'll be what we did before, etc... Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"The Digital Facelift" Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Can that stand up against Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,these items of belief? Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"As the means of input increase, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so does the need for insight or pattern recognition Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,your mileage may vary Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think that's true Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The school drop-out situation Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,will get very much worse Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because of the frustration Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the student need for participation Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the learning process Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is not a new need Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it's a need Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that had to take some pretty distorted forms Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,during the industrial age Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as we tried to figure out scaling Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and sustainability Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we did the best we could Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but if we find that maybe Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's not the way to go forward Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,change has to happen Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it's not happening yet Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,instead we're getting the digital facelift Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, I have to tell you first of all Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this is from Brazil, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a film by Terry Gillian, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which I saw for the first time Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when it came out Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I saw again it Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's probably ten or so years since I've seen it Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but under the intoxicating effect Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the Reverend Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I knew I would have to make a pilgrimage to see Brazil again. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I found that it told the story Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of my life today, maybe yours Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here's the thing that I didn't remember Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about this scene Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She is loving this experience Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To us it looks grotesque Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to her...well..she's getting off Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She has multiple opportunities Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to continue to examine Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,her increasingly grotesque self Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the pursuit of an illusion Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and she's deriving intense pleasure from it Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because see how it's framed Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this is great! Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What I'm doing to you is Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I stretch your features out of recognition is great Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in this digital facelift you look marvelous Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can't see it because of the light Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but he's got these clips Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he's holding her face back with Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this is where she really gets excited Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and finally to make sure it stays the way it should Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he puts surround wrap around it. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I assure you there are no further problems Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that digital facelift. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Problem solved Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or perhaps the digital facelift Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is like this poor lady in Brazil Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who has immense faith in her doctor Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who is a maverick Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's an innovator Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He doesn't go along with the flow Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He has a special chemical process. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now it's taking a little while Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as she is very delicately skinned Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so her results are not coming out exactly Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the way she had imagined Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Notice the lovely seepage Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,around the bandages Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the eye V Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the fact that she is now in a wheel chair Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and blind apparently Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,some kind of support for her chin Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she's not in very good shape Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but she's hanging in Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she's a believer Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,maybe she's got the wrong guru Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because eventually this is what happens Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with her digital facelift Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they have a memorial service for her Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's a relatively gruesome affair Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because that's what's happened Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the end Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's just coming apart Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's a nightmare Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm not saying that the LMS will necessarily Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,get us to this Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm just saying Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So what do we do instead of having digital facelifts? Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I propose three recursive practices Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These practices feed on each other Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're what we do in education anyway Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but they can amplified Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by information and communication technologies. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One is narrating Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,having the students Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,having the teachers Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's the real trouble Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,thinking aloud Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,willing to tell the story Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the process of the learning Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the investigation Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you could call it blogging Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Curating Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how do you take care of your stuff Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not to protect it Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not to even make sure you can transcode it Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,those things are important Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but how do you arrange it Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for the people who will come to see it? Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for yourself as you contemplate it Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now as scholars Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we're pretty used to the idea of curation Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and this has to do with dissertations Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and scholarly articles and so forth Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Many students in my opinion come to college Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,believing they have nothing to curate Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they will generate nothing to curate Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,during their time in school. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They'll have transactional exchanges Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with professors who mark their work Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and those pieces of paper get put in a box Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'd like students to think Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that they began their life's work Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when they come to school Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and finally sharing Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now that I have done it Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now that I've arranged it Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now that I've thought about it Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm going to put it out there Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because it may be valuable to someone Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I may find the unmet friend Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because as it was said Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so memorably by John Todd in his presentation Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Meaning happens when the two people connect" Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Very important Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Much of the way education is set up Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,militates against each of these Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,let alone all of them together Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and yet we all know Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that one of the great things Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about the technologies that we use Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,these information and communication technologies Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is that they not only allow these things Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they amplify them, they augment them Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they turn them up to eleven Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they make that feedback happen Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and when I try to explain this to my students Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I inevitably go to Jimmy Hendrix Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,playing the Star Spangled Banner Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at Woodstock Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they say: "Why are you showing us this?" Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I say: Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because he knows how to control feedback Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He knows how to play feedback Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that's what you need to know Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The effects that get unleashed Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in this recursive practice Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think are most powerful Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on the open web Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,using Web 2.0 affordances Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or whatever the web is going to be Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as it goes forward Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because the Web is not just a platform Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for these things Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it is the natural outgrowth of our desire Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for these things Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That makes the web itself recursive Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And students have an intimation of that Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you know, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they have a feeling about that Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from their own use of social media Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but they think that's somehow Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't know Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that couldn't be right Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they get to college and they find Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that no, that really isn't right Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we have a template for you, young man Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I think their intimations are correct Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so what's the answer Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't have it Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,however, here's a framework Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for thinking about what... Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this is what I use when I try to dream Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as big as I can Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I try to think about Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,helping students understand cyberinfrastructure Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and how to build one for themselves Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to be able to be architects of their own digital lives Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which will mean as we go forward Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that they need to be worrying about Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the things we worry about Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but productively together Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,narrating, curating, sharing Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is a definition of cyberinfrastructure Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from the American Council of Learned Societies Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in their report on cyberinfrastructure Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,called "Our Cultural Commonwealth" Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Cyberinfrastructure is something more specific Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,than the network itself, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it is something more general than a tool Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or a resource developed for a particular project, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a range of projects, or, even more broadly, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for a particular discipline." Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's the sweet spot Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not just the network Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's more specific than that Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,yet it's not so specific Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that it's simply the tool you use Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for a particular project or a domain Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Something like an alphabet Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anybody here play Little Big Planet? Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Little Big Planet people raise your hands. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,OK, good Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Little Big Planet people grab into the little sponge Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Little Big Planet is a game done Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by a company called Mollecule Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for the Sony Playstation 3 Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So it's commercial Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's proprietary, etc... Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That said, Little Big Planet is not the only game Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to build authoring tools into the game Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it's one of the most conspicuously successful Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at doing this Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so when you buy Little Big Planet Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you buy the game Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and within the game Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the tools to make more levels for that game Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in other words Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you're able to be within that environment Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and be both a participant Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and a producer if you choose to be Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when you make the new levels Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you can upload them Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the media Mollecule server Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh yes, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they're getting great business advantage from this Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but look at the way they're framing it. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You upload it to the server Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then people can find you by author's name Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they can find you by ranking Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you can tag them Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ingenious, fun, creepy, boring, brilliant, wow Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,right? Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you can favourite the ones you like best Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in about a year and a half Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,one million levels Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have been uploaded Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the Little Big Planet server Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at Media Mollecule Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,one million Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,let's say that the Theodore Sturgeon's Law is true Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,90%of them are piffle Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there are still 100.000 Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and because my son is very patient with me Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as a learner Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,though I am slow Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the bonds of love mean that Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he's going to be there for me Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he has taken me through Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,some of these user-generated levels Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you know Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they're really diverse Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they're really cool Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they're really interesting Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they're examples of an outpouring of creativity Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in what James Gee calls "the producerly mode" Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in a subdomain of a larger domain Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you could call it undergraduate research Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you could call it service learning Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you could call it situated cognition Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you can call it any number of things Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's cool Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's fun Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's work Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it involves the whole person Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there's gotta be a way Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we can make it happen in education Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,more consistently than it does Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or at least to think about it in these terms Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so kids don't lose hope Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here's a Little Big Planet Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's the graphical user interface Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,called cPannel Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for the hosting service Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at Bluehost Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is where I've got my stuff Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and my stuff is there Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have backups of my stuff Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you know, I trust no-one Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,be a little skeptical Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and yet I'm committed Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here are the things I can do with Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the graphical user interface Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at the level of systems administrator Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or someone who plays one Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,through a GUI Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here are the things that I need to think about Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now look at this Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this allows me to be producerly at the level of the server Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for my own digital life. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's a getting started wizard Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,okay that's fine Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I need to know about changing passwords Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I know sometimes my students think about Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,changing languages Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that would be really cool, etcetera Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,email, managing your own email Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you can have a thousand, two thousand email boxes in here Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,your file system Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they've got to know about that Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,these are not terribly difficult things Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but they are important Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and taken as a system Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they become more important Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I like my students to have a digital presence Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where they can track who comes to see them Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's an important part of the narrating, curating and sharing Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it can all be automated of course Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you've got a choice among several Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,security - we'd want our students to think about that, right? Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I'd want them to think about it as digital citizens Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,architects of their own cyberspace Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not as people who have to find the website Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that tells them what safe computing is all about Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at our school Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That should go without saying Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because they're thinking about this already Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're going to have multiple domains Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or they should. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Data? Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Data Literacy is vital Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Can they have a nodding acquaintance with databases? Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sure Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then the software down here Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this is kind of interesting Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,software and services Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,one click: which blogging platform would you like? Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,try out several Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,groupware, livechat, utilities, content management, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,client management Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,do we have to do all of those? Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do they have to read all the books in the library? Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do they have to take all the courses in the catalogue? Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why do we have more there? Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To amplify the possibilities Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To give them some room to roam Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some room for discovery Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A place to play Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, those of you who've heard Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,either Jim or me or Martha Burgess talk about Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Bluehost Experiment Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in Washington Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where we essentially let the staff loose in this environment Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is the next step for that Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in my Little Big Planet Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,put the students in this kind of sandbox Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,let them play, let them innovate, let them discover Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what if you give it to 4000 students Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and there are only 100 works of staggering genius emerging Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,oh well, that would be ok Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,more scripts, e-commerce Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,marketing, photo galleries Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,webmails, website builders Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a couple of wikis Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you can get in there and install your own Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they don't have a one click install for me wiki Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is a regrettable omission but Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you can get in there Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's pretty outlandish Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when we were South by Southwest Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,somebody very some high I'd say Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at the end of the presentation said: Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Are you saying that our students Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,need to be system administrators? Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I thought about it Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and my first impulse was: Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh No, not at all..that would be extreme Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and than I thought twice and said Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yes, actually that is what I want them to be Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,system administrators Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if it is easy enough to do Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which the graphical front makes it Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and if system is understood Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not just as a particular installation Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but as a metaphor for their digital lives Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they'll have to be system administrators Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for their digital lives Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what are they going to do when they graduate? Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what are they going to do when Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they're raising children? Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,None of this is going to roll back as we move forward Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Every book will be digitized Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Every journal will be digitized Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's a good thing potentially Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but only if people are able to think about this Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in this personal way Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"When radar was new it was found necessary Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to eliminate the balloon system for city protection Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that had preceded the radar. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The balloons got in the way of the electric feedback Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the new radar information. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you get that? Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The advanced defensive capability Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was stymied by the old defensive capability Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Such may well prove to be the case with much Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of our existing school curriculum... Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think that's true Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let's talk about openess a little bit Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What does it mean to be open? Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When we talk about openess we usually think Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to be open to the world Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everyboy can see it Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's where you're going to be exposed to Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the most massive network effects Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I like this, obviously Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think a lot of us here do Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,although there have been Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,some really good interrogations of the idea Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but there are other levels of openness as well Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or to put it another way Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,places that are closed where we can't see Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the things are closed Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What about being open to each other in a learning community? Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What about the teacher to the learner? Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the learners open to each other? Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To what extent does the Blackboard discussion forum Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,make the participants actually open to each other Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To what extent are learners Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ready to talk about their vulnerabilities to the teacher Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and oh, maybe they're not willing to do that Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because the teacher is not willing Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to talk about his or her vulnerabilities to the learner Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Vulnerabilities are fine Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's actually where the learning happens Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To know as we are known requires identity markers Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this is a non-trivial factor Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Any adult that says this is a trivial factor Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has forgotten what is was like to decorate a locker Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or is denying the fact that they actually agonized Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,over the choice of the Welcome mat for their front door Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These are non-trivial factors Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and finally open to ourselves Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To what extent do the learning experiences Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we co-create or impose Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,open us up to self-awareness or meta-cognition Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The thing about the personal cyberinfrastructure Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is that once the students have begun to build it Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it can then be the object of Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,narration, curation and sharing itself Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at a meta level Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,let's get together and talk about Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the cyberinfrastructure you built Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,why did you build it that way? Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what does that represent about you as a learner? Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or as an architect? Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what the one I built? Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what if we modularize Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and start swapping it among ourselves? Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like levels of a game. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where we can rank the efficacy of the various modules Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we built on our own and together Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then you learn something about yourself Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that would be ok Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is a discussion forum in Blackboard Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it looks like email Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why does it look like email? Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's a rethorical question. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's perfectly transactional Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It moves data from one point to another Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The trouble is that's not a learning community Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Where's the decorated locker? Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Where's the doodle on the notebook? Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Where's the marker of identity? Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, it's here. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,phpbb Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,one click install Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from cPannel Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh, you can have an avatar Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh, you can choose a username Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh you can have a SIG file Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a non-trivial marker of identity Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it looks nicer Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,oh yeah, this post was Wednesday January 16th 2008 Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,January 18th 2008 while the class was going on Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that forum kept active for about 6 months Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,after the class was over Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why? Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I set it up but I did not choose the templates Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for their expressions of themselves Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and their identity in that space Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there was enough openness Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that they could decorate their lockers Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,some of the forum belonged to them Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, that was kind of interesting Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This thread belonged to them too, BTW Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but that's another story Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What do we believe? Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"The aspiration of our times for Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,wholeness, empathy and depth of awareness Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is a natural adjunct of electric technology... Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The mark of our time is its revulsion Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,against imposed patterns. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are suddenly eager to have things Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and people declare their beings totally. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is a deep faith to be found Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in this new attitude Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- a faith that concerns Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the ultimate harmony of all being." Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Strikes you as Utopian? Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Strikes you as over-stated? Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Is it the Music of the Spheres? Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think some kind of faith Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Something like this underlies education Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Unless we think we are just training Pavlov's dogs Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We want people Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who will find those strange correspondences Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and make them audible Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to each other and to us Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Can a personal cyberinfrastructure do it? Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't know Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've never got any chance to try that out Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I know what happened Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when the staff did it at Mary Washington Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was not uniform Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the story that doesn't usually get told Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is that it took 2 1/2 years Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of kicking, screaming, biting (that's a metaphor) Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There was actually some screaming Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of people saying: Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How many minutes a day Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,do you want me to blog, Gardner?" Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I got that, absolutely Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had to bite my tongue because Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was about to say Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, I get that questions from my students a lot Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but that would've been bad Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that would've been very, very bad Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it's the same idea, it's like Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Can I turn this into a transaction yet? Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Can I make this job into just a job of work? Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you know, beneath all of that Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there are all sorts of anxieties Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they may be principle resistances Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there could be a lot of things Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so there was a long way to get there Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but when we got there Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,well, we got there Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and there are five more Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sent back Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who got there too Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Perfect? No Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Decisively different? Yeah Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So is this our default? Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Is this critical thinking? Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't know Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We live in a risky, dangerous environment Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,full of people who are trying to manipulate us Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and pick our pockets Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's undeniably true Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is true that people acting in what they will say Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,will be your best interest. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so hoping that at some point Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Stockholm syndrome kicks in Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you identify with your capturers and go willingly Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,enjoying the digital facelift or whatever it is Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but this for me can't be the default Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and part of why it's so exciting Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for me to be at this conference Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is that there is another way to think about this Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there's another way to think about confidence Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Maybe narrating, curating and sharing Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,breeds confidence Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Western man acquired from the technology of literacy Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the power to act without reacting... Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not a bad thing Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as the write points out Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's important that the surgeon Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not be overwhelmed when performing the surgery Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the electric age Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when our central nervous system Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is technologically extended to involve us Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the whole of mankind Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and to incorporate the whole mankind in us, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(and make that human kind) Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we necessarily participate, in depth, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the consequences of our every action Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's what we all fear, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,its what we all long for, I think. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's somehow even the small things Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,can be meaningful Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anybody who watches a Twitter stream Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in, during and on election, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,wants to feel this way Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is no longer possible to adopt the aloof Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and dissociated role of the literate Westerner Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Overstated? Sure Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Extreme? Maybe. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Aloof and dissociated role of the literate professor Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Westerner? Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Such is the faith in which this book was written Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It explores the contours of our own extended beings Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and our tecnologies Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,seeking the principle of intelligibility in each of them. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For me the idea of the personal cyberinfrastructure Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is about the search of the principle of intelligibility Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in our technologies Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What the personal infrastructure would be Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is a representation. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A creative representation Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of that intelligibility Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,maybe of that search as well Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the full confidence that it is possible Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to win an understanding of these forms Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that will bring them into orderly service Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've looked at them anew Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,accepting very little of the conventional wisdom Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,concerning them." Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm glad that a Canadian did that. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Aside from Clay Shirky, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the quotations I read Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were from Marshall Mc Luhan Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in Understanding Media, 1964. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't know what you knew about Marshall Mc Luhan Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when you were going through school Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what I knew about him was Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how he had a cameo in any hall. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was cheated in my education Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Along with some genuinely bizarre things Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there were genuinelly prophetic things Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in this book Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I think they aligned very well Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with some of the sense of urgency Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and some of the scope of ambition Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we all feel, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we all share Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at a conference like this Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The personal cyberinfrastructure Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,may not be the only way to learn this alphabet Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I'd like to try sometime. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Jim? Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Rather than bore you with any of my details Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,let's not lose some of this thread to this Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,does anyone have any questions for Gardner? Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yes, please Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I was wondering Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,some of the examples of software that you Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's easily installed that you provided Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are forums and things like that Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if everybody has their own Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,some of these become more useful in agreggate, right? Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so, have you thought about sort of Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,certain things being sort of you know, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,individual elements of a presence in cyber insfrastructure Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,others aggregating or working across federation Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Excellent question Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In my dream world the student... Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bryan Alexander is a champion Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I do not want your bread right now Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but when you are well again, I'd like it Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So the idea would be Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the student's Baker Club gets together Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they talk about how they're going to organize Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and of course something is going to be online Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because it needs to be Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because of these affordances Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One student says: Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I could put a phpbb forum Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Another student says Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yeah, and actually did you know Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there was this add on? Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then as a group they agree Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,1) it would be better to have one forum Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,rather than multiple forums Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,2) they aggregate their knowledge about Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what would be the best instance of that Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,3) they put it together Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and by doing that Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the lights will go out, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the tables will rise Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we will join hands and sing Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In doing that Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what they will be doing is discussing Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a particular scripting affordance on a server Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but they will be doing it strategically, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in terms of communication needs Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and organizational excellence Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Doing something other than on a surface level Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's the one of the way I imagine it , yeah Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to a certain degree, yeah Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in my experience IT departments Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,will not have thought in a sophisticated way Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about how a blog or a discussion forum differ Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,rhetorically Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or how they may be able to shape Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,student communication Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that's okay in a way Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as long as they don't prescribe the tools Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or limit the tools Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have an IT department at bluehost.com Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they're very good at keeping, you know, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,things up to date and the backups Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they're usually very good at that Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and so forth Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's their work Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but what they have done is to provide me affordances Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I can explore Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so, yeah, I mean I think there is Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ideally there would be some interest Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the rhetorical questions in the IT shop Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and by building a cyber infrastructure Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the students would begin to understand Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,something of what goes on mechanically as well Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there would be a greater opportunity for conversation Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you know, I think it would be ok Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if the students made something that broke Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They would learn from that, I think Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I also think that Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,building on what Gardner said Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as a response to your question Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that the actual cyber infrastructure Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as posed by an individual, a domain and a space Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,allows IT departments Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to re-imagine this question Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of aggregating, syndicating information Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as it is happening Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,around space Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so it does not mean like Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the IT department disappears, or somehow the enemy Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it allows them to re-imagine this notion of flow Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and this kind of property of electricity Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that McLuhan is talking about so beautifully Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and if we are talking about electricity and flow Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we're talking about a new property Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by which we can start to imagine space Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,through the students having their own Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and so IT departments Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,should be as much excited about Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the possibilities for this Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,rather than ....ing an age old against them Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's not, I mean Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's a kind of matter of us working together Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to re-imagine the space Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I think that's why the immediate call back to that Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,doesn't capture, I think Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what that model sets up Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as a notion and a mode of aggregation Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to kind of build into the syndication Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You have your own cyber infrastructure Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then you re-imagine it Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then IT department think about Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what that means Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,right, and Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,okay..how much time do we have? Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,okay Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Great talk. I'm reminded of Larry Cuban's book Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Teachers and Machines Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which sort of talks about resistance Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that the educational system has Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to introductions of technology Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and changing actual educational practice Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,wondering if you might comment on Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,your thoughts about how Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the open educational resources movement Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,might make a difference Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in overcoming that structural resistance Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and well, this kind of loops into the IT question as well Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's very easy to paint faculty as stodgy Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,faculty as vilains Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and sometimes it's true Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you know it's easy to say that IT is Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the enemy because they can't think outside the box Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sometimes it's true, you know Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but there are plenty of people in both domains Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who, if they are able to see compelling examples Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of fresh thinking Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,will say wow..that's cool Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'd like to do that Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think that would have addressed Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what I was thinking about with my students Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just last semester Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that would have gotten me past this point Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where I wasn't able to get them Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to read carefully Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,before they come to class Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but that Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and this is one of the great sorrows for me Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as a faculty member Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with regard to Learning Management Systems Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,aside from all the other sorrows Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I can't see what my colleagues are doing Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I mean seeing it on the Web Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so I can look at it carefully Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and speak to them intelligently about it Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why did you design it that way? Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What did you learn from it? Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I think the same thing is true for IT folks Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when they go to..I've been to some IT conferences Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and , you know, a lot of times Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what they are hearing about Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are anecdotes of spectacular catastrophes Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or whatever Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but you're not able to actually... Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and there may be some good reasons for this Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to some extent Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but they're not able to see Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,dazzling examples of innovation Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in a very easy and accessible way Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so I think that open educational resources Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is a lot more than about exposing content Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's about exposing these compelling examples Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of other ways to do it Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's like being able to see multiple Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,performances of Shakespeare Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh..never thought of reading the line that way Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so the play transforms Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't know if that answers your question Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but, yeah...ok Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So Gardner, is it too late for them to become curators Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,once they get into Higher Education Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, you know, cPannel for me Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I could do that..I'm an IT guy Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think I think critically about affordances Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but at the same time Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is it too late? Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean..my daughter's eight Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she has a blog, domain of her own Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,shouldn't be starting there? Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we get them for four years here, right? Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,maybe seven Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how do we drop down? Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,somebody said it's too late...too late Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean I don't know what that idea Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of what too late means Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean we're always in midias res with this stuff Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we're always coming into it and imagining it Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Gardner, to refine Gardner, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in that whole of the IT is like Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so many people that I have talked about it Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and inspired back are right here at UBC Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Andrew who is coming from an IT perspective Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was just blowing my mind again and again Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Scott Mc Millan, I mean Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These are people who are in that space Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who are seeing these examples Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you're kind of rip and remixing it Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from this space to kind of think about Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,wow, we can actually play with these modes Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and re-imagine them Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I think, wouldn't students also experience that? Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at any given point in that kind of narrative? Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,excuse me, how much further we would be pushed, right Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the academy, if our students were coming to us Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,thinking critically about it? Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yeah, that's right Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so there are a couple of things I want to say Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in response to that Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One is that there is Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a developmental aspect in education, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is fine with me Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What it means is that Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at every point along the learning continuum Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it will be advantageous for Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a mentor, a guide, an expert, a teacher Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to be there to coach the student Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to their zone of proximal development Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's fine Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,another way to say that is Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I do not believe that students will make Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,automatically on their own Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to their own innate drive for self-improvement Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all the best, you know, choices Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think there is a role for teaching Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, there's also the developmental capacity Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the human mind, you know Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,kids at a certain age are able to distinguish Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like varying levels of volume Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and different sizes of containers Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and at an earlier age, they're not able to Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so something actually happens in the brain Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that makes that next thing kick in Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ahm, so there's always going to be Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it seems to me Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,some way in which Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the particular developmental moment Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,will impose certain kinds of constraints Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That said and if anybody knows about Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Jerome Bruner's idea of the spiral curriculum Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's where it comes from Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there's an authentic version of any concept Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that can be taught to any child Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who can read and write Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you pitch it to the appropriate level of development Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you keep coming back to it Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,spiralling upward and upward and upward Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,until that magic hand off moment Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which I think often happens and should happen Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the upper grades of high school Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if it doesn't happen till college Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's still not too late Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's part of the great jolt I got when I got to college Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I felt like they had handed the spiral to me Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's like okay - we've brought you around Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we've brought you around, we've brought you around Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's your spiral now, you know, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,keep finding the level of the concept Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that gets you to the next spot Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Be your own coach to your own zone Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of proximal development Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and this is something I left out Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I should put before you before we're done Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This won't work until it's built into the curriculum Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't want you to think that what I'm proposing Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is that kids just get assigned these web spaces Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that's it and that they will magically Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,through tinkering come up with good stuff Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This would be an amazing meeting ground Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for digital experts in the discipline Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,librarians, advisors, student life people, edtech folks Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,instructional designers Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Can you imagine? Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My feeling is students would come in Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and their whole first year experience Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,would be digital fluency Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by means of building out Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this personal cyber infrastructure Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the first iteration of it Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then at the end of your first year Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,let's have a ceremony Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,let's have a party Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,pick the domain that's going to be your domain Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for the next three years Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and make a decision there Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's all coming of age Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's an occasion Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you have to have these rites of passage Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but for that whole first year Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they're thinking about narrating, curating and sharing Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for the rest of their lives as learners Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I think it could be pretty neat Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you know, a pretty interesting thing to do Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want to be on that team Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that works with students Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to say, hey..you're about to do work Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that you ought to be able to care about Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for the rest of your life Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if you haven't done it already Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and, I, to get back to your original question Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,one of the most gifted students that I've run across Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in my career is a fellow Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I just taught at Baylor last spring Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he's got his own YouTube channel Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you know, Stop Motion Lego Animation Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,its most popular stuff gets 40 - 50.000 views Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's been going on since he was 13 or 14 Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so yeah, what if that was baked into the curriculum? Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in high school? Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then they would push us, absolutely Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yeah, ok thanks