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Staley's interesting article in Educause on the future of the university as a "wiki-university " is based on an incomplete understanding of the history of the university and incomplete vision of the current state of higher education. First, a bit of history.
Wiki University-- Maybe
It's time to pull the plug on PowerPoint - 06 Nov 2008 - Computing
PowerPoint has become synonymous with the slick technology salesman type, ratcheting up his acquisitive hard-sell spiel. Dressed like a modern-day mobster of the 1930s in his crisp Italian suit, peacocking around the stage.
Blogging, the nihilist impulse
Media theorist and Internet activist Geert Lovink formulates a theory of weblogs that goes beyond the usual rhetoric of citizens' journalism. Blogs lead to decay, he writes. What's declining is the "Belief in the Message". Instead of presenting blog entries as mere self-promotion, we should interpret them as decadent artefacts that remotely dismantle the broadcast model. "An der rationalen Tiefe erkennt man den Radikalen; im Verlust der rationalen Methode kündigt sich der Nihilismus an.
"Digital Maoism: The Hazards of the New Online Collectivism" By Jaron Lanier
(JARON LANIER:) My Wikipedia entry identifies me (at least this week) as a film director. It is true I made one experimental short film about a decade and a half ago. The concept was awful: I tried to imagine what Maya Deren would have done with morphing.Learning.now is a weblog that explores how new technology and Internet culture affect how educators teach and children learn.
PBS Teachers | learning.now . Has MySpace Contributed to Generation Me? | PBS
SecondLife Concerns | D'Arcy Norman dot net
I want to preface this post by saying I'm not trying to attack SecondLife, nor any of its supporters.