This thing (e-communications; call it what you will) is well underway and gaining momentum. Where will it go next? There is no way to know what lies in the creative mind. Just hang on and adjust as you go, hoping the useful can be separated from the trash. But, wouldn’t it be nice if capitalism were not part of the equation.
Jay
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Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2013 7:27 AM
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Well said Harry. The Internet of Things and what that might mean for Higher Ed. moving forward is hard to conceptualize. This does a nice job of it.
I find this useful in introducing this topic to students:
Kevin Kelly’s TED talk on the Semantic Web
http://www.ted.com/talks/kevin_kelly_on_the_next_5_000_days_of_the_web.html
Jimmy G.
From: Teaching Breakfast List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Pence, Harry
Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2013 3:19 PM
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Subject: Re: Open Educational Resources (OER)
Dear Fellow-TBers,
I am writing a book chapter on the semantic web, mobile, augmented learning, etc. etc. and I just wrote the following paragraph as a summary of where the material up tonow has led me.
"As Manovich has pointed out, teachers today have to deal with a new type of cognitive artifact that does not have physical reality, like a book or a movie, but exists only as a piece of software code1<https://vm-helios.oneonta.edu/owa/?ae=PreFormAction&a=Reply&t=IPM.Note&id=RgAAAADhOYBonv1GQ6XS6l%2bSksRQBwByB5kLJpVWRpqqiYFU24a7AAAAzO0WAADN5LQQgk6qTZLAHZFb9%2b0eAIUH8xqIAAAJ#_ENREF_1>. This creates unprecedented opportunities for linkages involving every aspect of modern life. The Social-Semantic Web is typical of this type of interaction, but it is symbolic of a more far-reaching reality. Everything and everyone is in the process of becoming connected to everyone and everything else. Thanks to their mobile devices, more and more students are carrying a virtual information commons in their pockets that is equivalent to a major research library, and the students are linked to other students all over the world, not just those in physical proximity. Augmented reality apps connect smart objects with the Web to provide an always available source of information and recommendations, and as the Internet of Things becomes an actuality physical objects will join this web of connectivity. Cloud computing represents a new set of linkages, which will probably manifest themselves through mobile devices. Chemical databases, like ChemSpider, are linked to other databases by means of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). The world is moving beyond the World Wide Web to the Web of Everything. This is not the ravings of some addled futurist; it is already happening."
1. Manovich, L., The Algorithms of Our Lives. The Chronicle of Higher Education Dec. 20,. 2013, 2013, pp B10-B13.
I will not clog up your mailboxes with all of what I have written, but on the basis of this one paragraph, I am curious what responce you might have. Is it a total yawner that everyone already recognizes, a reasonable evaluation of where we are now, or the ravings of a mildly (?) deranged mind.
And on that note, I'll wish you all aHappy Christmas and a Merry New Year (indicating that I am part of the war on Merry).
Cordially,
Harry
Harry E. Pence
SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus
SUNY Oneonta
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Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2013 2:18 PM
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Subject: Open Educational Resources (OER)
TBers,
You either have or soon will hear about OER – especially with the Open SUNY initiatives. Here is a short video about this:
http://youtu.be/qVbsZUN20Qk
Mr. James B. Greenberg
Director Teaching, Learning and Technology Center
Milne Library
SUNY College at Oneonta Oneonta, New York 13820
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"Ignorance is curable, stupidity lasts forever"
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