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Learning as productive narcissism?

In a conversation the other day someone asked whether the fundamental way people learn has changed. The idea was that constant exposure to multi-tasking, new child rearing philosophies, and the rapid emergence of new technologies … Continue reading →

Posted on November 20, 2013 by Claire · Leave a comment

The good, the bad, and the perplexing

First, a couple of notes from our discussion last week on customize-ability in devices: Motorola is working on producing a modular phone with parts that users can swap out/upgrade themselves depending on what they want … Continue reading →

Posted on October 31, 2013 by Claire · 2 Comments

Outpacing our imaginations…in our lifetime

Alan Kay and Adele Goldberg’s piece “Personal Dynamic Media” was, in many ways, a demonstration of how completely visionary ambitions for technology can and have been surpassed by the explosion of technological capabilities in the … Continue reading →

Posted on October 23, 2013 by Claire · Leave a comment

Dashboard knives and Procrustean beds

To create my blog entries my typical MO to date has been to cull phrases I found provoking, intriguing, or delicious from the reading into a post draft and craft a narrative based on the … Continue reading →

Posted on October 16, 2013 by Claire · 1 Comment

Bridging the gap between “training” aspirations and outcomes

Douglas Englebart began his essay “Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework” (1962) with an explanation of what he meant by the first phrase: By “augmenting human intellect” we mean increasing the capability of a man … Continue reading →

Posted on October 10, 2013 by Claire · 1 Comment

Symbiosis and Janusian Thinking

I left a long comment over at Lauren’s blog  last week on some excellent points she made re: Vannevar Bush. As she observes, his vision in many ways surpasses where we are today…though at least some … Continue reading →

Posted on October 3, 2013 by Claire · 1 Comment

An introduction to New Media Musings

This blog is an extension of my participation in the New Media Faculty Seminar (NMFS henceforth) at Virginia Tech where we’ll spend the semester thinking about and discussing, broadly, “Awakening the Digital Imagination”. This seminar … Continue reading →

Posted on September 26, 2013 by Claire · 1 Comment
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