The Digital Media Transition: Redefining The American Media Landscape

twenty years of edtech

Bharara, Teachout, Lessig are all going to be here... and it's free and open to the public...

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Cuomo vs Bharara

Cuomo's Office Hobbled Ethics Inquiries by Moreland Commission

Visit to the MET 12/27/18

Going to the MET with a friend tomorrow, my list of things to check out...

SPECIFIC ITEMS

Bacchanal: A Faun Teased by Children by Bernini (sculpture)

Viewpoint:  “The action unfolds as you encircle the piece.”  Very cool, one of the things that I like about his sculpture of Daphne and Apollo is that as you walk around the sculpture story is brought to life, action is given form.  

I’m excited that I’m going to get a chance to see one of his works in NYC. 

Aside from Daphne and Apollo at Villa Borghese, my other favorite Bernini pieces I saw in Rome:  Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi nella Piazza Navona, St. Peter's colonade, the angels on the Ponte Sant'Angelo, Ecstasy of St Teresa in the church of Santa Maria della Vittoria

The Denial of Saint Peter by Caravaggio (painting)

I am also excited that I will be able to see one of Caravaggio’s works at the Met.  Caravaggio is best known for his technique of chiaroscuro.  I saw many of his paintings in Italy:  the works in Cappella Contarelli in the church San Luigi dei Francesi on the theme of St. Matthew, David with the Head of Goliath and Saint Jerome Writing in Villa Borghese

If there’s time, I’d like to see paintings by Velázquez, Goya (or this one) and El Greco and some works by Rodin (or the Hand of Rodin, Study for Obsession, Pygmalion and Galatea or The Hand of God)

EXHIBITS

Dutch Masterpieces

- The Disillusioned Medea - Curiosity - Young Woman with a Water Pitcher

Everything is Connected:  Art and Conspiracy

And then depending on what my guide is interested in viewing, perhaps something from one of these exhibits?

Dangerous Beauty:  Medusa in Classical Art Relative Values:  The Cost of Art in the Northern Renaissance Celebrating Tintoretto:  Portrait Paintings and Studio Drawings The Poetry of Nature:  Edo Paintings from the Fishbein-Bender Collection Children to Immortals:  Figural Representations in Chinese Art Streams and Mountains without End:  Landscape Traditions of China Epic Abstraction

Links to exhibits on the Met website with information and digital resources

The Death of Delicious

I just found out that Delicious has been sold and shuttered.

I saved my first bookmark on July 29th, 2005 and social bookmarking ultimately led to my career in Instructional Technology.  I talk about social bookmarking in my book, The EdTech Bible, in fact it's the first chapter*.  At last count, I have over 13,000 links.  I customized my Delicious avatar.  I used my Delicious bookmarks constantly and shared them with all of my teacher friends.  My Twitter header is made of a word cloud of my Delicious links and I even designed a tote bag based on them.  Basically I am one of those die hard Delicious fans...

Even though the last couple of years Delicious has been bought over and over again....   even with the numerous problems and downtime of the site....  I still believed....  And even though I was temporarily using another service these past couple of months because bookmarks must be saved...  I still had hope.... I waited and waited, hoping for the day that I could return. 

And now...  now, it's over....  

The hope is gone.

Delicious is done.  

It's the end of an era.   Delicious represented not only my first Web 2.0 experience, it was an essential tool I used almost every single day for the past 17 years.  I'm thankful that Pinboard's Maciej Cegłowski bought Delicious to save it (read only) from disappearing but so, so sad to see it go.

Related links

History of Delicious- since these links are all on Delicious I'll make an update once their available

Pinboard acquired Delicious- Pinboard blog post 6/1/2017

My Delicious Avatar- flickr blog post 4/5/2016

My Old Delicious Avatar- flickr blog post 12/21/2010

My Old Delicious Avatar take2- flickr blog post 12/21/2010

My Delicious account

*Resources from the first chapter of my book, The EdTech Bible, on social bookmarking (which I will need to make an urgent update to now!):

Tips

Top 10 Ways to Use de.icio.us via @lifehack Del.icio.us Tips via @suewaters 7 Things You Should Know About Social Bookmarking via @EDUCAUSE 10 ways you can tap the value of the Delicious community via @awsamuel

Articles

Why Delicious is an effective teaching tool for journalism educators Culver, Katy. "Why Delicious Is an Effective Teaching Tool for Journalism Educators." Poynter@40. N.p., 25 Nov. 2014. Web. 03 Dec. 2015.

Exploring the Use of Social Bookmarking Technology in Education: An Analysis of Students’ Experiences using a Course-specific Delicious.com Account Farwell, Tricia M., and Richard D. Waters. "Exploring the Use of Social Bookmarking Technology in Education: An Analysis of Students’ Experiences Using a Course-specific Delicious.com Account." MERLOT Journal of Online Learning and Teaching June 6.2 (2010): n. pag. Merlot. Web. Tools Packrati.us Bookmark your Twitter links Delicious extension for Chrome Browser Delicious phone apps and native support for Firefox IFTTT Recipes Delicious Toolbox: 80+ Updated Tools and Resources About Del.icio.us YouTube Founders Revamping a Site for Link Sharing Innovators Under 35 (2006): Joshua Schachter Other Social Bookmarking Sites Diigo Pinterest Bibsonomy Alternatives to Delicious 50+ Social Bookmarking (and News) Sites : Importance of User Generated Tags, Votes and Links For Additional Information and Resources:  the Fordham EdTech Resource Site

Some good suggestions...

Lots of great advice and links in this post!  

Gen Z

 I've started seeing a lot of buzz about Gen Z... 

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That's quite a lot of hype!!  Here are the links to the other info on Gen Z that I've come across:

Millennials Are Old News — Here’s Everything You Should Know About Generation Z

Gen Z wants to change the world. 60% of them want to have an impact on the world, compared to 39% of millennials, according to a study by Sparks & Honey, a New York-based marketing agency. Roughly one in four Generation Z-ers are involved in volunteering. Advanced college degrees are less important to them. 64% of Gen Z-ers are considering an advanced college degree, compared to 71% of millennials. 

    Generations Z

Born: 1995-2012 Coming of Age: 2013-2020 Age in 2004: 0-9 Current Population: 23 million and growing rapidly ** college age 2013-2030** **Have always known the internet**

Meet Generation Z  the first 10 slides are mostly for marketers, you'll find the rest of the slidedeck to be of interest (**p52)...  this was prepared by Sparks & Honey (the ones that did that study I linked to above)

8 Important Education Trends in Generation Z

Generation Z will Revolutionize Education

In response to an email about someone taking a social media hiatus

to make more time for living their own life as opposed to being just a spectator in others' lives:

As y'all know, I'm a big fan of social media ;)  But I completely agree that as with every tool, there's pros and cons.  However; there are just too many benefits of social media for it to decline all together...  instead we'll see a plateau, as with most hype cycles, where social media will be treated as any other mode of communication (such as email, texting, phone etc).  *Filters* and productivity tips are key in helping people manage the information deluge.  If anything, I hope email is going to decline faster than social media because in general it is much less cost effective both in terms of time and effort.

This is an excellent article that articulates those pros and cons of social media

; you can see from the list the numerous benefits social media has over more 'traditional' methods of communication-- both in terms of scale, timeliness, and also content....  I believe that teaching people how to use these tools effectively can help keep them from feeling overwhelmed and cutting themselves off from taking advantage of being a member of various s.m. communities. Personally, I've cut back on the amount of time I spend on FB for the same reason as your friend.  For me the only reason why I haven't completely deleted my account is because it lets me check in with my family/friends in a way that is more enriching than an occasional phone call or visit...

Down the rabbit hole

A friend sent me a link to this article today: IBM Unveils a Computer that Can Argue

I don't know that I'd agree this computer is "thinking" and "learning" but it is impressive...  scary and impressive... personally though, while some scientists are trying to create artificial intelligence (did they not watch Terminator?!?!?!?!?!?), I think there's a good chance that the first true AI or AIs will actually come from the Internet.... 

Some food for thought:

Minding the Planet: From Semantic Web to Global Mind

some of the other places (in no particular order) that I wandered after visiting that article....

http://stko.geog.ucsb.edu/sw2022/sw2022_paper1.pdf

http://keet.wordpress.com/2012/09/25/some-ideas-about-what-the-semantic-web-will-look-like-in-2022/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linked_Data

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DBpedia

http://mmt.me.uk/slides/iam121009/#(1)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_mind

http://longbets.org/1/

http://singularityhub.com/2011/04/04/kurzweil-is-confident-machines-will-pass-turing-test-by-2029-video-2/

Welcome to Narco World

I ride the subway a lot. It’s how I get from the East Side to the West Side and all around the town. Lately, I’ve noticed ads promoting “Narcan” (naloxone hydrochloride). At…

Another fantastic post by my friend Rob... 

Emerging ethical dilemmas in science and technology

As a new year approaches, the University of Notre Dame's John J. Reilly Center for Science, Technology and Values has released its annual list of emerging ethical dilemmas and policy issues in science and technology for 2014.