Building Your Digital Identity, Literacy, and Network
“The foundational commitment in both the Internet and the World Wide Web is the same: both are built as “open, permissive” structures (to use Naughton’s words). These structures are not unlike the distributed (neuroplastic) design of the brain itself, one that, as it happens, permits all the higher orders of cognition to emerge, higher orders […]
I value traditions so new technologies always concern me as they are replacing all of the “old-fashioned” values. Kids no longer go out and play around with their peers as they have their own tablets, ipads… what-so-ever, you name it! Friends, sitting at the same table, do not talk to each other because they are busy with commenting and liking…
While reading the first assigned article “Why Mozilla cares about Web Literacy“, I came across a nugget I couldn’t stop thinking about as I continued reading: “Learning by making is not a new idea. This concept is fundamental to the work of foundational thinkers such as Froebel, Dewey, and Papert (amongst many others). For example, […]
My little nugget that I have chosen is from an article called Digital Skills and Digital Literacy,…
Sherry Turkle famously argues technology has begun to overtake our attention and time, which has led to increased physical isolation and shallow online interaction. She contends, in a community-starved world, we need to disconnect from our smartphones and other Information and Communications Technology (ICT)-enabling devices in order to create greater balance: “We think constant connection will make us
Now when you first read the title, you might assume that my professor asked me write a post on these kinds of nuggets: Fortunately (or unfortunately depending on your love of chicken nuggets) that is not what the assignment entails….
Iran’s blogfather: Facebook, Instagram and Twitter are killing the web “Hossein Derakhshan was imprisoned by the regime for his blogging. On his release, he found the internet stripped of its power to change the world and instead serving up a…
Perhaps my mistake lay in picking something too concrete–not really “an idea or a theme”–but I decided to read about sonnets. I am an English major; I write poetry sometimes. Starting on Wikipedia was the obvious thing, but it sounded like an equally obvious dead-end. A simple Google search led me to a collection of … Continue reading ““Associative Trails” Post: Found Poetry”
The quest: to spend an hour clicking on links and letting the internet take me on a journey. Here were the stops along the way: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/spring-fever/ http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/obama-to-talk-up-gun-measures-at-town-hall-tonight/ http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/in-2016-clinton-and-sanders-turn-to-gop-rivals-to-woo-democrats/ http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/whats-ahead-in-the-long-long-road-to-the-2016-presidential-election/ http://www.pbs.org/newshour/making-sense/16-global-developments-you-should-be-on-the-look-out-for-in-2016/ http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/oregon-residents-in-packed-town-hall-want-armed-militia-to-leave/ http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/for-disabled-children-making-the-world-a-custom-fit-out-of-cardboard/ I think the biggest thing that I learned from this exercise was how it’s difficult to leave a website once you’ve entered it. […]
There is a type of writing called “stream of consciousness” where the author records any and all thoughts that come to his head; it is effective in developing what the priorities are in a writer. Our latest project in “how the web works” was to translate this into the web and follow any links and […]
