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recent bookmarks from robertogrecoEmergent Strategy, by adrienne maree brown | AK Press2018-10-21T00:22:57+00:00
https://www.akpress.org/emergentstrategy.html
robertogrecobooks toread adriennemareebrown via:pauisanoun emergent octaviabutler self-help change flux morethanhuman forests sciencefiction scifi ancestors futures futurehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:094ceea1f428/David Adjaye on Instagram and Good Design - WSJ2015-06-19T21:28:08+00:00
http://www.wsj.com/articles/architect-david-adjaye-on-instagram-and-good-design-1434044624
robertogrecodavidadjaye architecture instagram 2015 design artepovera flux mundanity routine hassanfathyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:ea0c303b6b0c/How do Smartphones Affect Human Thought? » Cyborgology2015-03-12T20:51:01+00:00
http://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/2015/03/12/how-do-smartphones-affect-human-thought/
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http://monoskop.org/log/?p=10222
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http://snarkmarket.com/2013/8153
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http://snarkmarket.com/2013/8137
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http://text-patterns.thenewatlantis.com/2013/11/on-reading-and-flux.html
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http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/edtechresearcher/2013/11/in_defense_of_messiness_david_weinberger_and_the_ipad_summit.html?cmp=SOC-SHR-FB
robertogrecoI gave a talk at the EdTechTeacher iPad Summit this morning, and felt compelled to throw in an Angry Old Man slide about why iPads annoy me, especially as education devices. Here's my List of Grievances:
• Apple censors apps
• iPads are designed for consumers. [This is false for these educators, however. They are using iPad apps to enable creativity.]
• They are closed systems and thus lock users in
• Apps generally don't link out
That last point was the one that meant the most in the context of the talk, since I was stressing the social obligation we all have to add to the Commons of ideas, data, knowledge, arguments, discussion, etc.
I was sorry I brought the whole thing up, though. None of the points I raised is new, and this particular audience is using iPads in creative ways, to engage students, to let them explore in depth, to create, and to make learning mobile.
I, for one, was not sorry that Dave brought these issues up. There are real issues with our ability as educators to add to the Commons through iPads. It's hard to share what you are doing inside a walled garden. In fact, one of the central motivations for the iPad Summit is to bring educators together to share their ideas and to encourage them to take that extra step to share their practice with the wider world; it pains me to think of all of the wheels being reinvented in the zillions of schools that have bought iPads. We're going to have to hack the garden walls of the iPad to bring our ideas together to the Common.
The issue of the "closedness" of iPads is also critical. Dave went on to say that one limitation of the iPad is that you can't view source from a browser. (It's not strictly true, but it's a nuisance of a hack--see here or here.) From Dave again:
"Even though very few of us ever do peek beneath the hood -- why would we? -- the fact that we know there's an openable hood changes things. It tells us that what we see on screen, no matter how slick, is the product of human hands. And that is the first lesson I'd like students to learn about knowledge: it often looks like something that's handed to us finished and perfect, but it's always something that we built together. And it's all the cooler because of that."
I'd go further than you can't view source: there is no command line. You can't get under the hood of the operating system, either. You can't unscrew the back. Now don't get wrong, when you want to make a video, I'm very happy to declare that you won't need to update your codecs in order to get things to compress properly. Simplicity is good in some circumstances. But we are captive to the slickness that Dave describes. Let's talk about that.
A quick tangent: Educators come up to me all the time with concerns that students can't word process on an iPad--I have pretty much zero concern about this. Kids can write papers using Swype on a smartphone with a cracked glass. Just because old people can't type on digitized keyboards doesn't mean kids can't (and you probably haven't been teaching them touch-typing anyway).
I'm not concerned that kids can't learn to write English on an iPad, I'm concerned they can't learn to write Python. If you believe that learning to code is a vital skill for young people, then the iPad is not the device for you. The block programming languages basically don't work. There is no Terminal or Putty or iPython Notebook. To teach kids to code, they need a real computer. (If someone has a robust counter-argument to that assertion, I'm all ears.) We should be very, very clear that if we are putting all of our financial eggs in the iPad basket, there are real opportunities that we are foreclosing.
Some of the issues that Dave raises we can hack around. Some we can't. The iPad Summit, all technology-based professional development, needs to be a place where we talk about what technology can't do, along with what it can.
Dave's keynote about the power of open systems reminds us that knowledge is networked and messy. Our classrooms, and the technologies we use to support learning in our classrooms, should be the same. To the extent that the technologies we choose are closed and overly-neat, we should be talking about that.
Many thanks again to Dave for a provocative morning, and many thanks to the attendees of the iPad Summit for joining in and enriching the conversation."]]>justinreich ipad 2013 ipadsummit davidweinberger messiness learning contructionism howthingswork edtech computers computing coding python scratch knowledge fluidity flux tools open closed walledgardens cv teaching pedagogy curriculum tomdaccord apple ios closedness viewsource web internet commons paulfacteau schools education mutability plasticityhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:bd7aece36bea/What Screens Want by Frank Chimero2013-11-20T14:55:53+00:00
http://frankchimero.com/what-screens-want/
robertogrecoThe world is not yet finished, but everyone is behaving as if everything was known. This is not true. In fact, the computer world as we know it is based upon one tradition that has been waddling along for the last fifty years, growing in size and ungainliness, and is essentially defining the way we do everything. My view is that today’s computer world is based on techie misunderstandings of human thought and human life. And the imposition of inappropriate structures throughout the computer is the imposition of inappropriate structures on the things we want to do in the human world.
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We can produce a vision of the web that isn’t based on:
consolidation
privatization
power
hierarchies
surveillance
We can make a new map. Or maybe reclaim a map we misplaced a long time ago. One built on:
extensibility
openness
communication
community
wildness
We can use the efficiency and power of interfaces to help people do what they already wish more quickly or enjoyably, and we can build up business structures so that it’s okay for people to put down technology and get on with their life once their job is done. We can rearrange how we think about the tools we build, so that someone putting down your tool doesn’t disprove its utility, but validates its usefulness.
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Let me leave you with this: the point of my writing was to ask what screens want. I think that’s a great question, but it is a secondary concern. What screens want needs to match up with what we want.
People believe there’s an essence to the computer, that there’s something true and real and a correct way to do things. But—there is no right way. We get to choose how to aim the technology we build. At least for now, because increasingly, technology feels like something that happens to you instead of something you use. We need to figure out how to stop that, for all of our sakes, before we’re locked in, on rails, and headed toward who knows what.
One of the reasons that I’m so fascinated by screens is because their story is our story. First there was darkness, and then there was light. And then we figured out how to make that light dance. Both stories are about transformations, about change. Screens have flux, and so do we."]]>frankchimero 2013 screens flux build2013 plasticity jamesburke plastic skeoumorphs containers materials change transitions perception flatdesign windowsphonemetro ios7 software replacement shape affordances grain design paper print movement motion animation customization responsivewebdesign responsiveness variability mutability mutations ux interactiondesign interfaces language ethanmarcotte maps mapping representation cartography embodiedmeaning respresentation tednelson computersareforpeople softwareisforpeople unfinished responsivedesign windowsphone eadweardmuybridgehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:553ebe1625c2/Visualizing Variation: Animated Variants2013-11-13T03:03:41+00:00
http://individual.utoronto.ca/alangaley/visualizingvariation/animated.html
robertogrecotext variations language xml webdev css javascript change flux plasticity translation expandingtext digitalsertão animatedvariants stackingwords auditiontext alangaley webdesignhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:9a004e234095/Lighthouse: IMPROVING REALITY 2013 - FILMS2013-10-31T21:02:56+00:00
http://lighthouse.org.uk/programme/improving-reality-2013-films
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http://guru.bafta.org/charlie-kaufman-screenwriters-lecture-video
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http://www.ablersite.org/2012/03/recognizing-openness/
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https://vimeo.com/37857533
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http://tobia.tumblr.com/post/9364550274/gpoyw-the-outsider-will-say-in-fact-as-a
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http://www.thersa.org/events/audio-and-past-events/2011/education-for-uncertain-futures
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http://www.amazon.com/No-More-Play-Conversations-Speculation/dp/3775728465
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http://vimeo.com/22591307
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http://www.we-magazine.net/2011/04/06/we_leadership-volume-5/
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http://joi.ito.com/weblog/2011/03/06/the-new-culture.html
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http://al3x.net/2008/01/02/dont-believe.html
robertogreco
I try to approach science with the same incredulity that those in the sciences apply to matters of faith and intuition. My reasoning for this is simple: what science “knows” tends to be in constant flux. We look back at the science and medicine of previous generations and laugh, but we treat our current “state of the art” with reverence.
That attitude is a large part of why I sometimes feel that I’m living in the past. It’s also why I put ever less stock in arguments made from a rigid position of “hard scientific fact”. It’s nice to have data, but it’s probably only useful when arguing about the particulars of small, closed systems."]]>alexpayne flux science criticalthinking popscience skepticism cvhttps://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:b150b81bae44/Semicolon squalls - Bobulate2010-11-22T05:41:39+00:00
http://bobulate.com/post/1603509533/semicolon-squalls
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http://lebbeuswoods.wordpress.com/2010/05/16/just-change/
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http://www.stereopsis.com/flux/
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http://www.raphkoster.com/2009/05/14/the-perfect-geek-age/
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http://subtopia.blogspot.com/2009/01/towards-nomadic-fortress-refugerefugee.html
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http://www.experientia.com/blog/the-fifth-screen-of-tomorrow/
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