Have you noticed? The world is changing. Not only can we communicate instantly and globally, but we have all kinds of new ways to connect and interact with one another as well. The way we compose is not just with words. It includes pictures, sounds, web sites, wikis, videos - the list goes on and on. In addition, we have compositions being collectively created and almost instantly revised.
This is exciting stuff. Stuff that will change how we view education and process ideas. In the video below, Richard E. Miller from Rutgers University talks about old versus new models of sharing information. Like many academic, literary sorts he grew up in a house full of books and when it came time wrote and published his own, which he says is now gathering dust and can be purchased used from Amazon for $.59 cents (lol).
Lika a growing number of edcuators, Miller has embraced the concept of ideas being collectively owned and shared, and urges us to reach out across disciplines to interact, exchange, and grow together. These are heady ideas. Ideas worth hearing, worth considering, worth taking to hear and implementing. Let's talk about what's holding us back and how we can tear down the walls.
Below are two videos shared with me by Marty Keltz. They are This is such exciting stuff. Idea driven documents that can show and share ideas. Ideas that do not belong to individuals, but all of us as people.
This is How We Dream: Part I
This is How We Dream: Part II
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KsEQnOkTZ0&feature=channel_page
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