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1、On Being Radical,Stephen DownesNational Research Council CanadaNovember 18,2005,Two paths meet,Two paths meet today my path,which has taken me from my home and your path,which has taken you from yoursHow did that happen?Do we even stop to ask the question?,What is Radical?,Tommy DouglasPublic Health
2、 CareRural ElectrificationMore,a rather dangerous radical in the community of Weyburn,stirring up the unemployed to ask for more money and sticking my nose into places where it was none of my business.http:/,The Subjection of Women,John Stuart Mill(1869)“The principle which regulates the existing so
3、cial relations between the two sexes the legal subordination of one sex to the other is wrong itself,and now one of the chief hindrances to human improvement“http:/www.constitution.org/jsm/women.htm,What is Radical?(2),WSIS in Tunisia global internet governance,access to all yetBloggers and journali
4、sts are arrestedPhotographs are bannedSoldiers on every street corner,http:/campaigns.ifex.org/tmg/,http:/,Technology Changes Everything,http:/,Technology Changes Everything,http:/club.guns.ru/images/convention/10.jpg,Technology Changes Everything,http:/,Technology Changes Everything,http:/ubiqcompu
5、ting.org/eval_materials.html,Yesterday,34,000 feet over Greenland,http:/www.downes.ca/photos/Palermo/22.htm,What I Can Do,I can,with a click of a button,reach out and touch a life half way around the worldThis is not theoretical I know I can do thisHow did this happen?And whats next?,http:/www.downe
6、s.ca/photos/Amsterdam/,What is Radical?(3),“a system of society and learning where each person is able to rise to his or her fullest potential without social or financial encumberance,where they may express themselves fully and without reservation through art,writing,athletics,invention,or even thro
7、ugh their avocations or lifestyle”,Education:A Radical Idea,Mill(Principles of Political Economy,1848)“An effective national education of the children of the labouring class,is the first thing needful”“Education is incompatible with poverty”“The grounds of hope are,that there has been no time in our
8、 history when mental progress has depended so little on governments,and so much on the general disposition of the people”http:/www.econlib.org/library/Mill/mlP26.html,Ivan Illich,“The current search for new educational funnels must be reversed into the search for their institutional inverse:educatio
9、nal webs which heighten the opportunity for each one to transform each moment of his living into one of learning,sharing,and caring.”,http:/,http:/www.tierversuchsgegner.org/Pharmakritik/ivan-illich-closeup.jpg,Seymour Papert,“What grade are you in?is a natural question you ask a kid,or What subject
10、 are you doing in third period?These are not intrinsic to the nature of creating a good learning environment.They are caused by a previous level of knowledge technology,where the only way we could give out knowledge was by a production-line method.”,http:/www.papert.org/articles/GhostInTheMachine.ht
11、ml,What is Radical?(4),When new technology the press,the gun,the computer empowers a previously disenfranchised population,the ideas brought forward by that population are universally condemned as radicalToday,the computer is empowering society as a whole,The New Empowerment,The millenials a generat
12、ion that has become empowered Cluetrain evolution from consumption to co-productionLearner centered design the interdependence between teacher and learner a sharing of power,http:/,Empowering Technology,The Interactive Web(Web 2.0)Blogs,CMSs,WikisPodcasts,screencasts,videoInstant messaging,SkypeWire
13、less access,the mobile webThis is how it happensWhere do we go next?,Radical Ideas,Connectivism-knowledge resides in a diversity of opinions http:/www.elearnspace.org/Articles/connectivism.htmOpen Access-file-sharing,open source,open content http:/creativecommons.org/http:/www.soros.org/openaccess/T
14、he Open Society transparency,accountability,partnerships http:/,Learning as a network phenomenonWeb of user-generated content(eg.Wikipedia)Social networks and communities(entails a genuinely portable(and owned)identity Networks of interactions(aggregate,remix,repurpose,feed forward)syndicationThe pe
15、rsonal learning centre,Learning,E-Learning 2.0,http:/elearnmag.org/subpage.cfm?section=articles&article=29-1,Radical Ideas,Three Principles of Effective E-Learning:Interaction participation in a learning community(aka a community of practice)Usability simplicity and consistencyRelevance aka salience
16、,that is,learning that is relevant to you,nowMore on these,Interaction,“the capacity to communicate with other people interested in the same topic or using the same online resource.“Why do we want it?Human contact talk to meHuman content teach me,Interaction Guerillas,Interaction:Guerilla TacticsIf
17、interaction isnt provided,create it,blog itIf your software doesnt support interaction,add it(Javascript,RSS)Use back-channels,route around blocking GMail,Flickr,IM,more,Usability,Usability:“probably the greatest usability experts are found in the design labs of Google and Yahoo!“Elements of Usabili
18、tyConsistency I know what to expectSimplicity I can understand how it works,Usability Guerillas,Important:your institutional CMS is almost certainly dysfunctional create your own distributed knowledge management systemCreate a blog on Blogger,just to take notesStore photos on FlickrCreate a GMail ac
19、count and forward important emails to yourself(and take advantage of Googles search)(Maybe)use Google desktop search,Google Base http:/,Relevance,Relevance:“learners should get what they want,when they want it,and where they want it“Generating RelevanceContent getting what you wantLocation,location,
20、location,Relevance Guerillas,Develop unofficial channels of information(and disregard most of the official ones)Create project pages on your wiki(you have a wiki,right?)with links to templates,forms,etc.Demand access,Properties of successful networksCharles Vest three key attributes:Diversity(many o
21、bjectives)Interwoven(many activities)Open(many minds)Charles M.Vest,SAC,August 8,2005http:/jade.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/cdb/2005/08/08/opencourseware-sac2005,Networks,Metaversity,Rethinking what is radical,Resource Profiles,Resource Production,Repositories,Rights,Resource Aggregation,Common Environme
22、nt,Personal Identity,Environment Interface,Syndication,Community,What is Radical?(5),To be radical is to grasp empowerment and define a vision based on that empowerment for a better,freer society“a society where knowledge and learning are public goods,freely created and shared,not hoarded or withhel
23、d in order to extract wealth or influence.”,Coda(Aerial:A Coral Room),Theres a city,draped in netFisherman netAnd in the half light,in the half lightIt looks like every towerIs covered in websMoving and glistening and rockingIts babies in rhythmAs the spider of time is climbingOver the ruinsThere were hundreds of people living hereSails at the windowsAnd the planes came crashing downAnd many a pilot drownedAnd the speed boats flying abovePut your hand over the side of the boatWhat do you feel?,http:/,http:/www.downes.ca,
