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22 Juin 2007
David Smith
David Smith from Preoccupations.
Reiterating TBL goal of the web for collaboration, meeting, reading and writing. Focus on network and not hierarchy. Looks at Internet timeline form someone born in 1982. For them Internet is old.
Introducing Dopplr. 'the context of computing is vastly different from the west coast labs that windows, icons, menus and pointers originated in. It's mobile, urban, rural, outdoors, underground, personal, intimate, immediate (Matt Jones)'. He uses basecamp, typepad, Tells how the pupils use various tools, such as del.icio.us, youtube, last.fm, typepad, RSS-aggregators, web-mail. Great for collaboration, however we do not teach it on school.
Teenagers are much more in contact with each other than in pre-industrtal times (65 versus 4 hours per week).
He is very enthusiastic about Facebook. [still do not know why]
Advice for schools. You can't control, but can influence. Educate about ICT, don't drill. Recognise your medium is one of collaboration.
Politicians seem to be catching up.
Explains Ted Nelsons Intertwingularity. Conciliance.