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Nate Otto is a 2008 graduate of the University of Oregon, pursuing a future in political science research, education, and activism. "I believe the Internet has opened up the public sphere so broadly that we are hardly beginning to explore the potential for democratic participation in government. I want to use new tools to fight for true accountable democracy."
Hang your pitchforks on a nearby peg?
Big media tech journalist David Pogue posted about the enormous SOPA/PIPA protests that potentially killed the bills for now, but probably not forever — these bills themselves are the successors to the failed COICA legislation from 2010, and it may not be long before language like this shows up again… so keep those pitchforks handy [...]
For #SOPA Blackout day: a challenge to make things better
Today, many important websites are “going dark” to protest the anti-piracy bills working their way through the US Congress. I’m joining in this protest, because I think the bills would “break” the Internet as we know it, as the only medium known to humanity that could enable virtually anyone to access speech published by virtually [...]
Today is American Censorship Day
Proposed legislation in the US Congress (Called the PROTECT IP Act or short title Stop Online Piracy Act) would allow corporations to take down whole websites they deem are “dedicated to infringement” prior to any court order. Advertisers would be forced to cancel contracts in advance of any court hearing. I believe in free speech, [...]
The Lady, or the Tiger? Game Theory
Frank Stockton’s short story The Lady or the Tiger apparently is a classic for high school freshmen. Or so my mom told me. It came up because my little sister just read it for freshman literature. I had never heard of it. (see also Wikipedia link) It’s short. Go ahead and read it. You can [...]
#CSCLintro Case Study: Knowledge Building in Nunavut
Resources for this week in #CSCLintro include McAuley, A. and Walton, F. (2011). Decolonizing cyberspace: Online support for the Nunavut MEd. IRRODL, 12, 4. Sandy McAuley’s special presentation summarizing the paper above. We will talk about this case with McAuley in about half an hour apparently here: http://piratepad.net/cscl7 Some thoughts: I wonder about the different [...]
Scaffolding for learning on training wheels.
One point from Stian’s post got me thinking as I was reading the article: He suggested an important part of the ZPD scaffolding notion was that after a learner has learned the scaffolds and their affordances, the training wheels become unnecessary. Stian also mentioned how this training wheels metaphor was not operative in Knowledge Forum, [...]
#csclintro Quick notes on Suthers (2008)
I agree with Stian that Suthers makes a good counterpoint to the Knowledge Building crew, because it seems obvious to me that knowledge building is a concept that should be possible outside of the particular software of Knowledge Forum. I haven’t used collaborative representational environments outside of text. I’ve made mindmaps on my own in [...]
CSCL Intro Week 1 Questions
Here are some off-the-cuff thoughts in response to study questions posted by cscl-intro course co-organizer Monica: Some prompts/questions for Wk 1. Feel free to respond to these, or, better yet, post your own! To tie this into the assessment framework, we could create another “Questioner” Badge, for those who would like to pose general quesitons [...]
Welcome to Computer Supported Collaborative Learning Intro course at P2PU
This spring, I’m participating in a free course at P2PU that focuses on Computer Supported Collaborative Learning. I don’t study education formally in an institutionalized program, but I am really passionate about opening learning to people like myself outside the university context as part of my free culture advocacy. In the case of CSCL, the [...]
Attack and Release
Publishers have often used the word “release” to describe what they are doing when they begin selling copies of a work to the public. But I don’t think that publishers, authors, musicians or other content industry players treat this event as a release; as intellectual property owners or licensees, it’s more like an exercise of [...]
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