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Well this sucks…. Part II. Ginsburg Stevens Breyer [via Lessig]
~Donna has Eldred covered! [Tech Law Advisor]

yes it does suck.

Bruce Schneier was asked by an Iranian newspaper if the Pentagon has a secret weapon that could disable the whole internet. He told them he didn't know, but he could certainly speculate. [[ t e c h n o \ c u l t u r e ]]

i talked about this with some people today, i think there are a few ways of disabling the internet. however, we'll see if anyone actually ever does..

Harvard's Critical Mass. Last fall, Harvard sophomore Aaron Greenspan was so disgusted by how poorly an economics course was being taught that he… [Critical Mass]

this is important, but we do have to remember that learning isn't consumption, it isn't entertainment, though it can be entertainment. there is though no excuse for inept teachers.

Innovative measures.

Just to make sure that this one is captured: Innovative Measures [via SynapShots]

[Mathemagenic]

spreading the goodness

Quaerere blog pilot.

I continue thinking how to get “Quaerere” guys into blogging. They say that they are interested, but I know that starting takes some effort, so I want to make it easier.

The plan I have so far:

• start a “Blogger” blog
• RSSify it at VoidStar
• add e-mail subscription with Bloglet
• invite people to join as a team members
• make sure that people start posting
• make sure that they subscribed by RSS or mail
• get them addicted
• provide info and support to start their own blogs
• make sure their blogs RSSfied too
• relax and enjoy reading

Actually, I have already started this blog, but I can't do all the settings as some scripts do not work at my home machine. Will have to wait for a day or so to see if it works

[Mathemagenic]

this is the sort of howto that can really make a difference.

Fast and unexpected.

Peter West [SynapShots] points to the Knowledge Board version of Personal Knowledge Publishing and Its Uses in Research, Part 1 and Part 2.

I posted it there* yesterday late in evening and received the announcement today in the morning. I wonder how Peter managed to be so fast in finding it

[Mathemagenic]

again, this is interesting stuff…

Work-Learning Research on e-learning and spiral curriculum.

What's elearning good for? [elearnspace blog] points to Elearning's Unique Capability:”cit”Article details four learning effects (spacing, delayed feedback, relearning, and reducing the retention interval)…and asserts the characteristics of elearning uniquely meets those effects. Particularly valuable statement: eleanring as means to extend the learning timeline through us of “pre” and “post” learning event activities…as well as the learning event itself. Simple concept, but like the author states, not really being explored.”citc”

Next to the fact that this article is worth reading, its author, Will Thalheimer from Work-Learning Research is the one who pointed me to matemagenic processing. I have to thank him for the name for my blog.

Back to the article. Will argues that four learning effects are best supported with spiral curiculum and doubts that learning objects and LMS will support it well:”cit”The learning-object concept seems to push the field backward toward isolated non-spaced bits of information. Learning objects could be designed to produce spaced e-learning, but their basic framework will make this difficult.

[...]Learning Management Systems apply the same constrains as learning objects. They push us toward a model of learning as a series of isolated topics, glued together through a system that manages incidents, not spaced flows of information and reinforcement. “citc”

I feel like thinking more about this article, but now I'm too sleepy

[Mathemagenic]

interesting stuff really, the relationship between work and learning is often underplayed in society

The iTrip for your iPod.

A new transmitter that'll let you listen to your iPod on any FM radio. The iTrip is powered by the iPod itself and comes out this Spring.
Read

[Gizmodo]

wow, this is neat….

Self-Archive Unto Others as Ye Would Have them Self-Archive Unto You

Stevan Harnad

Figure:
http://timbrody.dnsalias.com/downloads/self-archiving.pdf
Self-Archiving, Open Access, and the Research Impact Cycle

Scholars and scientists do research, to create new knowledge that can
then be applied to improve people's lives. They are paid to do research,
but not to report their research. That they do for free, because it is
not royalty-revenue from their research papers but their “research
impact” that pays their salaries, funds their further research, gets
them prizes, etc.

Infrastructures of Digital Design Graduate Conference

January 31 -Ð February 2, 20 at UCSD

“ÒInfrastructures of Digial Design” is a graduate conference that will
take place January 31 to February 2 at the University of California San Diego
Center for Research in Computing & the Arts as part of the UC Digital
Cultures Initiative. This conference will feature paper presentations and
new media works from 30 graduate students inside and outside the University
of California, and will be supported by distinguished faculty members and
invited guest speakers.

“Infrastructures of Digital Design” will commence with a keynote speech
by Howard Becker leading sociologist of art and professor emeritus at the
University of California, Santa Barbara to be followed by two days of
plenary presentations that will address the following issues: Enabling
Design – What strategies and models of cultural production can be developed
from the realization of new infrastructures? Health Information Systems -
What are the ethical and technical questions produced through the
representation and collection of patient data and the formulation of new
medical knowledge? Spatiality and Built Environments -Ê How does the
collection, mapping and visualization of data affect the understanding built
environments and the relationship between the local and the global? Digital
Environments for Learning/Community/Identity -Ê What types of models
facilitate and produce new forms of understanding between both oneself and
the group or others? Designing Regulation and Regulating Design -Ê How are
infrastructures developed and employed by both the private and public
sector, setting standards for new policy and invention?

Graduate projects will be showcased in a New Media Works Festival, held at
the Herbert Marcuse Gallery in the Visual Arts Department, concurrent to the
panel presentations. Between exhibition and presentation, a night of
emergent performance, real-time data-mixing and sonic intervention
will take place the evening of Saturday, February 1st as part of the
festival.

All panels and paper presentations will be held at the Center for Research
in Computing and the Arts (CRCA) located in building #408 University Center
on the campus of UCSD. Artist presentations and installations will take
place at the Marcuse Gallery in the UCSD Visual Arts Facility across from
CRCA on Russell Lane.

All panels and presentations will be streamed and available for viewing at http://crca.ucsd.edu/livemedia/. Since the facility has limited seating, virtual attendance is encouraged via the Live Media website, although art events will be free and open to the public.

Support for Infrastructures of Digital Design is being provided by the UC
Digital Cultures Project; UCSD Departments of Visual Arts, Communication,
and Sociology; the UCSD Divisions of Social Sciences, and Arts and
Humanities; the Center for Research in Computing & the Arts, and the Science
Studies Program of UCSD.

A full conference program can be found at http://infrastructures.ucsd.edu.
Questions and requests for more information may be sent to
infrastructures@ucsd.edu.

Maps and directions to CRCA and the UCSD Visual Arts Facility are available
at http://crca.ucsd.edu/information/map.html

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http://crca.ucsd.edu/information/map.html