12/2/15 Technology
- definition: how do we use technology
- more social platforms
- student conversations online
- sharing content w varying degrees of credibility (scholars and ppl who aren’t students)
- inter-collegiate consortium
- Falk reading quotes reflections:
- **what do we learn from inter-personal relationships?**
- short attention spans vs sitting and thinking: we get distracted by what’s in front of us or what’s on the screen
- “there’s no unit of time small enough that is made to just sit and think; there is always something you could be doing to fill that time”
- expectations of quick turn around (email)
- emergence of captivating forms of play (games) - engage wonder, creativity and skill
- a new way of absorbing information for a long time instead of just reading a book
- adapting to new learning styles - learning curve is so steep
- what could we fill up our minds with if we didn’t have to learn things that we didn’t have to know?
- we are trying to make technology better for people who already have it but there are people who don’t even have it
- natalia’s mom has a tv in her classroom and covers it up with a blanket
- free information on the internet should not be dismissed
- access doesn’t mean immediate learning - how much does open content actually do?
- 90% of wikipedia contributors are men - why is this information there, what privileges does the information carry
- digital divide - people working for it aren’t in higher education
- printing press has privileged the written word over oral
- wikipedia is just a long list, design is extremely important but is based on patriarchal coding standard - would a more pedagogical design make it more accessible?
- information isn’t education - content vs skills - expertise is now in the information
- The Art of Memory: middle aged universities are the highest art, memorization
- collective consciousness - access to each other’s minds, ethical modes and pasts
- things that could or could not change
- class/race power dynamics
- student/teacher power dynamics
- epistemological changes
- curriculum changes
- institutional organizational changes
- How will the role of college shift given that there is no technology present?
- whatever we’re doing right now in terms of technology isn’t working - we’re finding ways it can work within systems we already have in place
- technology (social media) may be contributing to the ability to organize, challenge
- it’s not enough especially when other voices get silenced - needs to be dismantled
- potential to be very destructive and violent - what are security cameras actually used for?
- the technology is available but why isn’t it being used for the people who need it when they need it
- people are talking more about an injured raccoon more than they are talking about when a racial slur was yelled in lord lounge
- what goes viral is dependent on the cultural imagination the media presents
- internet anonymity allows for escape from accountability
- anonymity can be used constructively if monitored by someone in a controlled environment
- office hours are wiped away over the internet, you don’t know who you’re dealing with sometimes
- connection through technology allows you to deal with space and time
- it can become incumbent on students to become to interrogators of technology
- iMovie - comes with tools and media that is in part yours but not entirely yours
- technology is building some of our work for us (a lot less is coming from scratch)
- iMovie - comes with tools and media that is in part yours but not entirely yours
- logical thinking should become a K-12 function - ability to build tools together
- neopets was a boys club
- what’s important is the method of delivery and not the content
- what’s important is the method of delivery and not the content