Originally run at University of Tartu for Undergraduates and up.
Audience: anyone with an interest in the meaning and philosophy behind our interaction with the technological world around us.
Notational systems and cognitive evolutionJeff Long
October 29, 2005: “Notational Systems and Cognitive Evolution”. Presented at the 2005
Annual Conference of the American Society for Cybernetics. Paper published in conference proceedings.
Originally run at University of Tartu for Undergraduates and up.
Audience: anyone with an interest in the meaning and philosophy behind our interaction with the technological world around us.
Notational systems and cognitive evolutionJeff Long
October 29, 2005: “Notational Systems and Cognitive Evolution”. Presented at the 2005
Annual Conference of the American Society for Cybernetics. Paper published in conference proceedings.
...A SIMPLE CHART WE USE TO BRAINSTORM THE USE OF HUMAN/COMPUTER INTERFACES WITH THE PERFORMING BODY. THIS INVOLVES THE CONFLUENCE OF THE 'NOOSPHERE' WITH THE HUMAN BODY IN ART AND TECHNOLOGY....A DOSE OF HISTORY AND NARRATOLOGY.
Discussion on Sherry Turkle and her ideas about self, identity and technologyNick Reynolds
Some notes from two of Sherry Turkle's works:
Turkle, S. (1994) Constructions and Reconstructions of Self in Virtual Reality: Playing in the MUDS.
Mind, Culture, and Activity. Vol. 1, No. 3 summer.
and
Turkle, S. (2008) Always on/always on you: The tethered self. In Handbook of Mobile Communication Studies, James E. Katz (ed.) Cambridge, MA: MIT Press
These works are well worth reading in full.
This is just some points taken from those readings to be used in my class
(DIGITAL) HUMANITIES REVISITED –
Challenges and Opportunities in the Digital Age; CONFERENCE SUMMARY on the Herrenhäuser Konferenz organized by the VolkswagenStiftung
Slides from a series of talks for the IET's IoT India Congress and some associated events - SRM Chennai, PES Bengaluru, Srishti Bengaluru. I used different subsets of the slides in each talk - this is the whole deck.
Technological determinism, media ecology and medium theory are all interrelated and make sense together. This paper will define those three terms and explain their purposes, as well as their relation to each other. Understanding technological determinism, media ecology, as well as medium theory is particularly crucial today in our modernized society. It allows one to better perceive the evolution of technologies and its impacts on societies and on people.
...A SIMPLE CHART WE USE TO BRAINSTORM THE USE OF HUMAN/COMPUTER INTERFACES WITH THE PERFORMING BODY. THIS INVOLVES THE CONFLUENCE OF THE 'NOOSPHERE' WITH THE HUMAN BODY IN ART AND TECHNOLOGY....A DOSE OF HISTORY AND NARRATOLOGY.
Discussion on Sherry Turkle and her ideas about self, identity and technologyNick Reynolds
Some notes from two of Sherry Turkle's works:
Turkle, S. (1994) Constructions and Reconstructions of Self in Virtual Reality: Playing in the MUDS.
Mind, Culture, and Activity. Vol. 1, No. 3 summer.
and
Turkle, S. (2008) Always on/always on you: The tethered self. In Handbook of Mobile Communication Studies, James E. Katz (ed.) Cambridge, MA: MIT Press
These works are well worth reading in full.
This is just some points taken from those readings to be used in my class
(DIGITAL) HUMANITIES REVISITED –
Challenges and Opportunities in the Digital Age; CONFERENCE SUMMARY on the Herrenhäuser Konferenz organized by the VolkswagenStiftung
Slides from a series of talks for the IET's IoT India Congress and some associated events - SRM Chennai, PES Bengaluru, Srishti Bengaluru. I used different subsets of the slides in each talk - this is the whole deck.
Technological determinism, media ecology and medium theory are all interrelated and make sense together. This paper will define those three terms and explain their purposes, as well as their relation to each other. Understanding technological determinism, media ecology, as well as medium theory is particularly crucial today in our modernized society. It allows one to better perceive the evolution of technologies and its impacts on societies and on people.
On information storage and retrieval in the age of electracy. Includes a brief history of rhetoric and application of the memory palace to issues of 3-D game and virtual world design
Kim Solez Singularity explained and promoted winter 2014Kim Solez ,
Dr. Kim Solez presents "The technological Singularity explained and promoted" in the Technology and Future of Medicine course on January 16, 2014, at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. Copyright (c) 2014 JustMachines Inc.
Kim Solez Singularity explained promoted winter 2015Kim Solez ,
Dr. Kim Solez presents "The Technological Singularity Explained and Promoted" on January 13th, 2015 in the course on Technology and the Future of Medicine LABMP 590 http://www.singularitycourse.com at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. Copyright (c) 2015, JustMachines Inc.
Humanity Vs Technology - A "Quote-Unquote" Debate #edcmoocRajiv Bajaj
This is my digital artefact submission for the E-Learning & Digital Cultures MOOC (EDCMOOC 3 : Nov-Dec14). The quotes I have used in the presentation bring out beautifully the debate on technology vs humanity and utopia vs dystopia - a debate that is as old as recorded history itself.
as mankind has evolved, so has technology. From the day and age of the wheel to the age of space travel, we certainly have come a long way. Yet, the viewpoints on technology differ. The dystopian view would be that technology tends to make slaves of us humans, rather than being masters of the technology created by us. The opposite view would perhaps be that we owe our very progress and existence to technology. Are either of the views wrong ?
Not in my view. Both are equally valid. Too much of a good thing can be bad. But then, when we speak of humanity falling prey to technology, we really cannot generalise. In my view, technology is there to make life simpler and more advanced. It all depends on how we use it. Becoming a slave to technology is also a choice, as is using it judiciously. That's my view, and you, the reader, are welcome to yours. Neither of us would be wrong. The debates on Humanity vs technology have always been there and will continue to rage long after you and I are gone.
These quotes, however, bring out the essence of the debate, and I will let the slides speak for themselves.
Reading on the Holodeck: Ray Bradbury, Ivan Sutherland, and the Future of Books. An exploration of the consequences of immersive media environments on IP policy, libraries, and creative arts.
Kim Solez Singularity explained and promoted fall 2016Kim Solez ,
Dr. Kim Solez presents "The Singularity Explained and Promoted" September 6, 2016 in the Technology and Future of Medicine course LABMP 590 at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Copyright (c) 2016, JustMachines Inc.
Carr Is Google Making Us StupidBrainstormingPersonal Quo.docxannandleola
Carr: Is Google Making Us Stupid?
Brainstorming:
Personal Quotes and ideas
· I’ve had an uncomfortable sense that someone, or something, has been tinkering with my brain, remapping the neural circuitry, reprogramming the memory. My mind isn’t going—so far as I can tell—but it’s changing. (2)
· Now my concentration often starts to drift after two or three pages. I get fidgety, lose the thread, begin looking for something else to do. (2)
· The Web has been a godsend to me as a writer. (3)
· The advantages of having immediate access to such an incredibly rich store of information are many, and they’ve been widely described and duly applauded.(4)
· And what the Net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation. (4)
· Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski. (4)
· I’m not the only one. When I mention my troubles with reading to friends and acquaintances—literary types, most of them—many say they’re having similar experiences. (5)
Other well-known individuals have had their reading and thinking changed as a result of continued use (Karp, Friedman- “staccato effect”, quick scans) loss of concentration.
Is the skill/act of reading connected to thinking? Carr wonders if they are related. (6)
Cognition and Reading Research and Effect on the Mind
· Scholars from University College London examine Internet and thinking (cognition) and discovered “skimming activity” by Internet users which researchers’ label “power browse”, a new form of reading/thinking. (7)
· People are more today than in the past three to four decades, but doing so in a different way (method). (8)
· Psychologist Wolf describes the Internet reading as “immediate” and “efficient” but sacrifices deep reading and thinking. We become, in her words, “decoders of information” disengaged from the interpretation needed for better understanding of the idea presented to us. (8)
· Wolf claims that reading places a challenge to the cognitive area of the mind since it is such an unnatural process, filled with symbols, directions and other affects. (8)
Intellectual Technologies and Influence on Human Behavior through the Ages
Carr suggests that technologies such as a typewriter place an unusual effect on our mind and our behavior. He explains using an example from Nietzsche and his use of the typewriter (10, 11, 12).
· People used to think that our mental meshwork, the dense connections formed among the 100 billion or so neurons inside our skulls, was largely fixed by the time we reached adulthood. (14) Olds, a professor of neuroscience, claims that research shows that the brain is capable of forming new neural connections based on the type of activity one does (14). He states, “The brain has the ability to reprogram itself.”
Carr introduces sociologist Daniel Bell, Lewis Mumford, Joseph Weizenbaum, Alan Turing to further this idea he labels “intellectual technologies”.
· Human.
Model Attribute Check Company Auto PropertyCeline George
In Odoo, the multi-company feature allows you to manage multiple companies within a single Odoo database instance. Each company can have its own configurations while still sharing common resources such as products, customers, and suppliers.
Introduction to AI for Nonprofits with Tapp NetworkTechSoup
Dive into the world of AI! Experts Jon Hill and Tareq Monaur will guide you through AI's role in enhancing nonprofit websites and basic marketing strategies, making it easy to understand and apply.
Welcome to TechSoup New Member Orientation and Q&A (May 2024).pdfTechSoup
In this webinar you will learn how your organization can access TechSoup's wide variety of product discount and donation programs. From hardware to software, we'll give you a tour of the tools available to help your nonprofit with productivity, collaboration, financial management, donor tracking, security, and more.
2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...Sandy Millin
http://sandymillin.wordpress.com/iateflwebinar2024
Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
Unit 8 - Information and Communication Technology (Paper I).pdfThiyagu K
This slides describes the basic concepts of ICT, basics of Email, Emerging Technology and Digital Initiatives in Education. This presentations aligns with the UGC Paper I syllabus.
A Strategic Approach: GenAI in EducationPeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
Acetabularia Information For Class 9 .docxvaibhavrinwa19
Acetabularia acetabulum is a single-celled green alga that in its vegetative state is morphologically differentiated into a basal rhizoid and an axially elongated stalk, which bears whorls of branching hairs. The single diploid nucleus resides in the rhizoid.
17. Thinking-Fractal? Then infinition is the creation of unclear or “fuzzy” boundaries If definition is the creation of clear boundaries. . . animated gif from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koch_snowflake