A presentation for the CATS 2010 Conference (http://cats.cdl.edu/online_2010/)
How do we deal with the never ending onslaught of new technologies, resources, and media? How can we face this brave new world without a sense of dread? Is there an app for that? "Keeping up" is a myth, and the way of dealing with this is creating, sustaining, and being in your extended networks of friends, colleagues, and even people you don't know. Likewise, one cannot readily assess the value of new technology from the outside "looking in." This presentation will lead you through a range of examples of ways to practice more "being there-ness" so you can face the technology fire hose with a child-like sense of wonder.
http://cogdogblog.com/stuff/beingthere
4. Facing the Future... cc licensed flickr photo by
Eisenvater
http://flickr.com/photos/sabineschmidt/2507284/
5. Or, Facing the Future... flickr photo by Jon Pawley
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jon_pawley/8697122/
6. How Are You Managing the Flow of Info?
cc licensed flickr photos by dogfaceboy and gennie catastrophe
7. You Know More than Me
cc licensed flickr photos by paul goyette: http://flickr.com/photos/pgoyette/241716751/ and Matthew
Field: http://flickr.com/photos/matthewfield/2306001896/
8. What I Don’t Have
• magic tools
• how to “fix” education
• machine to slow time
• cures for financial crisis
cc licensed flickr photo by JoshWellington.com
http://flickr.com/photos/joshwellington/3929748847/
9. Let’s Start with a
Dumb Statement
Strawberry School House, Arizona
29. How twitter creates a
social sixth sense
“Twitter and other constant-
contact media create social
proprioception. They give a
group of people a sense of
itself, making possible weird,
fascinating feats of
coordination.”
-- Clive Thomson, Wired June 2007
flickr photo by smallandround