BattleofFBGP.jpg (850×2591) John Rothfork: Review of Dreyfus's On the Internet. On the Internet by Hubert L. Dreyfus Routledge, 2001 John Rothfork 1. The rush by American universities to offer online classes raises questions about the nature of higher education—specifically, about its pedagogical methods, commitments, and priorities. Philosopher Hubert Dreyfus considers these questions by focusing on community. He asks if distance education, using the Internet, can foster anything resembling a real community.
Community dedicated to shared values. 2. 4. 6. 7. 8. 9. [w]e might well end up with a two-tiered educational system where those who can afford it will pay five times as much as the distance learning students pay, in order to be in the presence of their professors. Even so, I doubt that the situation is as bad as Dreyfus implies. 10. 11. Or ten interested students were often so intimidated that they spoke to me only after class or during office hours. 13. 14. 15. Social Networking and Ethics. First published Fri Aug 3, 2012 In the first decade of the 21st century, new media technologies for social networking such as Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and YouTube began to transform the social, political and informational practices of individuals and institutions across the globe, inviting a philosophical response from the community of applied ethicists and philosophers of technology.
While this scholarly response continues to be challenged by the rapidly evolving nature of social networking technologies, the urgent need for attention to this phenomenon is underscored by the fact that it is reshaping how human beings initiate and/or maintain virtually every type of ethically significant social bond or role: friend-to-friend, parent-to-child, co-worker-to co-worker, employer-to-employee, teacher-to-student, neighbor-to-neighbor, seller-to-buyer, and doctor-to-patient, to offer just a partial list. Nor are the ethical implications of these technologies strictly interpersonal. 1. 2. 3. Navigating a Sea of Information: Considerations and Tools | GoodinHere. All, I hope the new year has been welcoming thus far.
As promised, here are some of the considerations, processes and tools I use when navigating the daily seas of information. Keep in mind, this is merely the process that works for me and, therefore, it may not work as well for you as individualized processes can. I hope it can inspire some new perspectives, at least. Clearly, I’m a 21st century over-thinker.
I employ a four-step process for transforming information into action: Collecting, sorting, learning and implementing. Collecting Information:Considerations: Why do I seek information? As you can surmise, this process does take time. Do you have a great tool you use? Like this: Like Loading... How the World Consumes Social Media. If Pinky and the Brain taught us one thing, it's that taking over the world is difficult. But then again, social media makes it look pretty easy. Over the past decade social media usage has been one of the most rapidly and universally adopted activities since the invention of breathing. More than half of the world's 2.4 billion Internet users sign in to a social network regularly — a figure that is rapidly increasing. Even without China, the world's largest Internet population, Facebook boasts more than 1 billion active users.
Check out the following infographic, made by Social Jumpstart and hasai, for more information about global social media usage. Click to expand. Thumbnail image courtesy of Flickr, Judy ** Sick & Tired? Take this Sleep Quiz. Sleep research has been around for more than 90 years. In the last 15 years, though, researchers have been focusing on partial, or short, sleep rather than total sleep deprivation. Such research looks at the way sleep affects cardiometobolic disease, the name given to disruption of a variety of physical and cognitive functions. These disruptions can affect basic skills such as appetite regulation and mood. Sleep researchers apparently are issuing the rest of us a wake-up call. Each of us has an internal clock, a circadian rhythm that regulates our sleep needs.
This is synchronized by the amount of sunlight we are exposed to. But when we are tempted by the demands of our social clock — such as reading that last email, staying up for late-night TV, or going out and staying out late with our friends — we fall out of sync and the effects can take their toll. The problems with sleep may not just be limited to this earthly world. Sleep Quiz 1. Answer? 2. Answer? 3. Answer: C. 4. Answer: A. 5. Online Personality Influences Real-Life Identity. By Rick Nauert PhD Senior News Editor Reviewed by John M. Grohol, Psy.D. on January 21, 2013 One rapidly expanding area of psychological research is the study of how participation in social media affects everyday relationships and behavior. Contrary to the perception that online roles can be anonymous or present little carry-over to the real world, scientists are discovering that what an individual says and does online influences everyday relationships and behavior.
In one example, when we typically think of kids who are the victims of school bullying what comes to mind are isolated youth who do not fit in. A new study, however, shows that when that harassment occurs online, the victims tend to be in mainstream social groups at the school — and they are often friends or former friends, not strangers. “Researchers have known for a while that individuals give unique cues about who they are with the things they own, clothes they wear, things they say and do. APA Reference Nauert, R. (2013). Overcoming Information Overload. As a writer for the web, I’m well acquainted with information overload.
One bit of information leads to five facts, which leads to three articles, which leads to an interesting interview you must listen to right now, which leads to 10 pages in your browser. I’ve always loved the scavenger hunt research requires. Every clue leads to another. Every clue uncovered is a prize in itself: learning something new and interesting and getting one step closer to the carrot (such as the answer to your original question). But there’s always one more thing to look up, learn and digest. Whether your livelihood lives online — like mine — or not, you probably use the Web quite a bit. Information is merely a click — or, more accurately, a Google search — away. This is a good thing, but it also can overburden our brains. Alvin Toffler actually coined the term in 1970 in his book Future Shock. According to neuroscientists, the more accurate term is “cognitive overload,” she said. 1. 2. 3.