Presentation for New River Community College, West Virginia.

1. Recognizing the Gift:
New Media & Learning for the 21st Century
Dr. Gardner Campbell
Baylor University
www.gardnercampbell.net

2. How long will it take before we see the
gift for what it is—a single new medium
of representation, the digital medium,
formed by the braided interplay of
technical invention and cultural
expression at the end of the 20th
century?
Janet Murray, “Inventing the Medium,”
The New Media Reader (MIT, 2003)

5. ON THE WAY:
1080p video playback
10 x today’s web surfing speed
20 megapixel camera
130 hours of audio playback
on a mobile device.
“Millicomputing,” Adrian Cockroft 5
http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail3871.html

11. The Nature of Technology

12. Technology:
Brian Arthur’s 3 Definitions
• A technology is “a means to fulfill a human
purpose.”
• A collection of technologies is also a
technology, a “body of technologies.”
• The “technium” (Kevin Kelly) is the ecology of
technologies in our world.

13. Sarah Groman | Staff Photographer
At Waco's Homestead Heritage, the residents are almost entirely self- sufficient. Here, a
local seamstress produces fresh yarn from real sheep's wool by hand.
http://www.baylor.edu/Lariat/news.php?action=story&story=63523

14. My large argument
• Technology uses natural phenomena “for
some purpose”—Arthur.
• School is a technology that uses our brain’s
natural phenomenon of wanting-to-learn.
• The purpose of school is faster and better
learning.
– Faster means one can learn more in one lifetime
– Better means that one can learn more effectively

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21. Other schooling technologies
• Credit hour
• GPA
• Course
• Semester
• Examination
• “Year” (freshman, sophomore, junior, senior)
• Transcript
• Faculty

25. The liberal arts / gen. ed. “hazing.” See T. Clydesdale,
The First Year Out (U. Chicago Press, 2007)

26. Our Shared Reality, 2010
“We are living in the middle of
the largest increase in
expressive capability in the
history of the human race.”
Clay Shirky, Here Comes Everybody
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27. Flickr Photo by David Anthony Porter
http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidaporter/
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29. Photo by Yoshi: http://www.flickr.com/photos/niwru/406431361/

31. From Steven Johnson, The Invention of Air

32. From Steven Johnson, The Invention of Air

33. http://bokardo.com/archives/how-social-is-amazon/

35. Game released end of October, 2008.
One million levels by end of July, 2009.
Two million levels by end of February 2010.
http://kotaku.com/5320365/littlebigplanet-hits-one-million-levels
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LittleBigPlanet

39. Hofstadter: Generalization involves the ability to
internally reconfigure an idea, by
• moving internal boundaries back and forth;
• swapping components or shifting substructures
from one level to another;
• merging two substructures into one or breaking
one substructure into two;
• lengthening or shortening a given component;
• adding new components or new levels of
structure;
• replacing one concept by a closely related one;
• trying out the effect of reversals on various
conceptual levels; and so on.

40. Discussion Forum, Web 1.0
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45. Photo by Jeff Steely: http://jeffsteely.blogspot.com/2009/09/layers-of-
learning.html

47. http://courseblogs.gardnercampbell.net/baylor_nms_f

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http://2008financialcrisis.umwblogs.org/

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53. “Roughly half the class continued
to work after the semester was
over, and roughly half of those
were seniors who had graduated. I
believe this is evidence of genuine
engagement.”
Dr. Steven Greenlaw, “Teaching as modeling
disciplinary practice”
http://pedablogy.stevegreenlaw.org/?p=703
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54. Modeling good practices
• Laptops are more than just electronic
notepads.
• Wireless is more than access to FB
• The class hashtag and its subtle benefits
• The model of “conference tweets” applied to
stream during mini-lectures, discussion,
student presentations
• Archives for further reflection

55. Toward Full Fluency
• Information Literacy
• Digital Fluency
• Meta-Medium Fluency
• A Personal Cyberinfrastructure
• Digital Citizenship

56. How do we get there?
• Heroic enthusiasm
• A strong network
• A continuum of innovation
• A renaissance of wonder

57. Marco Antonio Torres is a 10-year high school teacher, media coach, and
education technology director for San Fernando High School, one of the nation's
largest urban schools in Los Angeles. He is also a professional filmmaker and
photographer who uses these digital storytelling skills to add value to his
curriculum.

64. Two Kinds of Technology
“To have no technology is to be not-
human…. Technology is part of the
deeper order of things. But our
unconscious makes a distinction
between technology as enslaving our
nature versus technology as
extending our nature…. We should
not accept technology that deadens
us….”

66. A new way of knowing
“We do not speak of isolated clever tricks that
help in particular situations. We refer to a way
of life in an integrated domain where hunches,
cut-and-try, intangibles, and the human ‘feel for
a situation’ usefully co-exist with powerful
concepts, streamlined terminology and
notation, sophisticated methods, and high-
powered electronic aids.”
Douglas Engelbart, “Augmenting Human Intellect: A
Conceptual Framework,” 1962

67. If the doors of
perception were
cleansed everything
would appear to man
as it is, infinite.
--William Blake

68. The task is the same now as it ever has
been, familiar, thrilling, unavoidable: we
work with all our myriad talents to
expand our media of expression to the
full measure of our humanity.
Janet Murray, “Inventing the Medium”