ten years after
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Stephen Downes presentation to NAWeb 2004, Fredericton, New Brunswick, October, 2004TRANSCRIPT
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Ten Years After
Stephen Downes
NAWeb
October, 2004
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It was a time of revolution…
Galileo
1620…
Bacon, Descartes, Boyle, Cassini…
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New tools to look at the world…
1643
1592
1609
1609
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Mathematics
Slide Rule (William Oughtred, 1622)
Calculating Machine
(William Schickard,
1623)
… a new way of looking at the world
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The idea that the world could be measured
… as though it were a series of points…
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It was all based on one idea, simple, really: that the world should be viewed as parts, which
could be exchanged and interchanged.
Understand those parts, and you could understand the world.
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Ten Years After
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1959
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1969
Earthrise
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1995
The Emergence of
the World Wide Web
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Something wonderful is going to happen…
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A New Way of Looking at the World
http://research.lumeta.com/ches/map/
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Networkshttp://www.alanturing.net/turing_archive/pages/Reference%20Articles/what_is_AI/What%20is%20AI10.html
http://www.statsoftinc.com/textbook/glosn.html
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the content of the information being
transmitted is no more important - and possibly less important - than the
means by which the information was
transmitted
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It is not only the parts which are important, but also, how those parts interact. Or: it is not only data which matters, but how data is processed. Or: it is not only
individuals that matter, but how those individuals form communities.
When reality is composed both of parts and their interactions, then, when you change the interactions,
you change reality
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The Semantics of Networks
Meaning is not determined externally…
It is created by the actions of individuals working in the network
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The New Pedagogy
Or: a guide to picking the winners…
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Linear Multi-threaded
The idea of a web rather than a (causal) chain
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Static Dynamic
Learning not as books and (objects)
Learning as a resourceFlowing, like water, electrictity
Always available, always on
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Content Experience
Moving away from the idea of ‘delivery’
Moving toward the idea of immersion, interaction
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Demonstration Inference
Learning as what people do rather than
what people
are told…
Austhink
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Objectives GoalsThe locus of control is changing…Learning ‘objectives’ are not set by a designer
It’s what people do to reach their goals
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Uniformity Diversity
From standardization to personalization
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The Writing on the Wall
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