Agency and Algorithms
Meaningful Online Learning
How is learning made different by new technologies?
Break out some simple characteristics by "then" and "now".
Disruption
Title
The web we lost
The web we fell in love with
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Murder_Madness_and_Mayhem
http://udg.theagoraonline.net/studios/open-educational-resources/
http://open.bccampus.ca/
Technology is not neutral
Systems
Silos
Missed opportunities
Costs
http://iy103-w14.hibbittsdesign.com/course/view.php?id=2
Trailing edge technologies
Title
http://udg.theagoraonline.net/
http://juanazeme.wordpress.com/
"...the perfect place to post my current thoughts"
Users drive innovation
Student-created environments
Can we do that?
Should we be doing that?
"reverse-engineered something beautiful
into a tool of mass surveillance and oppression"
"manipulate online discourse and
activism to generate desirable outcomes"
Acxiom, Corelogic, Datalogix, eBureau, ID Analytics, Intelius, PeekYou, Rapleaf, and Recorded Future.
Go mobile!
"They see everything, they’re aware of our position, our relationship to other human beings and other robots, they mediate an information stream around us."
“...they try to bring the online
rules into the offline world.”
"...like prey"
"The theme of the architecture
is nature versus technology
and bringing the outside in."
“One half is stupid, and
the other half is stupid.”
Security theatre
Student attitudes
The templated self
"seamlessly share infrastructure"
Containers and appliances
Our choice
Agency and Algorithms
By Brian Lamb
