First keynote - apparently we are currently waiting for some guy called "Mike Check" ;-)
Diana and Julie are running the ELI/Educause adverts ahead of the feature presentation, most people are killing time twittering - the latest and greatest CPA online space.
Extra bits for this year - Student Showcase (apple sponsored), the ELI twitter-camp, and also during the conference the roving citizen journalists called twitterati will be around to capture the out of session stuff. I love this conference - it is always so positive, and prepared to be fun!! - they have a short poll online that they would "enjoy" us filling out!
OK - keynote kicks off:
New Media Literacies project at MIT
Ref the History Dept at Middlebury College stuff from 06. It isn't as simple as wikipedia bad, books good, which is how it was reported in the media. Inaccuracies kept occuring on a particular paper where the primary source was wikipedia, nothing new really, can still have inaccuracies too. What they actually said is endorsed by Jimmy Wales (co-founder Wikipedia) - ie an encyclopedia (any encyclopedia) is not a primary research source. However we should be talking to students about Wikipedia and helping them understand its purpose and its relationship to higher education learning.
Check out the McArthur series - a range of resources by the McArthur Foundation "that explore core issues facing young people in the digital world" (eg civic engagement, credibility, identity, race & ethnicity etc) - http://digitallearning.macfound.org/site/c.enJLKQNlFiG/b.2029271/
what do we mean by New Media Literacies:
Participatory culture -> low barriers to artisitc expression and civic engagement, strong support for creating and sharing what you create with others, some kind of informal mentoring, members feel their contribution matters, some degree of social connection between members.
NMLs are social skills and cultural competencies not individual skills, are skills for participation, emerge from taking seriously children/young own cultural lives, not products of media technologies, are unevenly distributed, shaped through interactions across generations, shift from focus on media effects to media ethics, offline as well as online, build on existing framework of literacy and research skills, , importance of integrating across curriculum, need to be fostered in and out of formal learning spaces.
Three core challenges:
The Participation Gap - unequal access to opportunities, experiences, skills and knowledge that will prepare them for full participation in the world of tomorrow.
The Transparency Problem - young people swim in technology but aren't aware of the ways media shapes the way we see the world
The Ethics Challenge - breakdown of traditional forms of professional training and socialisation.
reference: the "Protecting Children in the 21st Century" Act - be afraid, be very afraid
Wikipedia isn't something we use, it is something we participate in. Perspective that Wikipedia isn't a collection of articles but a collection of people.
Check out Henry's ecclectic blog www.henryjenkins.org, particularly of interest is his entry: "reconsidering digital immigrants" (scarily a bit like the stuff I wrote for the Uni Exec workshop)
http://henryjenkins.org/2007/12/reconsidering_digital_immigran.html
Manteau alert ** Wikiality **
"Like journalism, wikipedia offers a first draft of history, but unlike journalisms draft, that history is subject to continuous revision"
Roy Rosenzweig "Can History be Open Source? Wikipedia and the Future of the Past"
http://chnm.gmu.edu/resources/essays/d/42
ggrrrr, i hate it when this happens - just found full transcript of this keynote on Henry's blog from an earlier conference - I could have sat back and listened and save my battery:
http://www.henryjenkins.org/2007/06/what_wikipedia_can_teach_us_ab.html
btw - he's just given an example of using wikipedia in schools which seems to be based on the 7 degrees of seperation on wikipedia game we almost played at Educause, but I found too hard to manage so went for the click sequence mystery tour version instead - "5 clicks or less from William Shakespeare to the Apollo Space Program" - if you want to answer.... it is on Henry's blog above.
Writing as collaboration rather than as personal expression
What knowledge counts? - word count does not measure importance in wikipedia as it might in a traditional encyclopedia - not a finite resource.
"Report from Wikimania" documentary - anyone know the source?
Qus
What knowledge matters to whom and in what context?
What is missing from Wikipedia? (who has access, choses to participate, maximum diversity of input)
Collective intelligence, judgement, networking, negotiation
six questions to ask about any media message - consider these in a Wikipedia context:
Who made it
Who is the target audience
What are the different techniques used to inform, persuade etc
What messages are communicated
How current, accurate and credible is the information
What is left out
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
9 comments:
**gulp**
live blogging is making my posts way too long, may have to go back to the catch up homework approach!
Ok - this is great - coming from the Q&A session:
"moby dick's a mash up"
er.. dude ?!?!
*loving* the phrases twitterati and wikiality.
but please please please stop posting obscure references that prey on my cpa and ocd deficiencies - it's just not cricket :(
moby dick as a mashup? henry jenkins has said elsewhere that "moby dick might be understood as a kind of 'mashup' of the bible, homer, and 19th century american culture more generally". no, really: moby dick
and while i'm busy proving just how sad i am: wikimania is the name for the wikimedia international conference, and there are references to a wikimentary - not sure if that's what was referred to, but it's kept me occupied for a bit!
OT but you metioned the fact Mike Check was at ELI. Has anyone come across M Leaning? I noticed a post by him (really) on a JISC mailing list last week - first name Michael (apologies if I'm the only person amused by this).
Sorry Andrew - not quite a real person, it was just that the guy on the stage kept saying "Mike Check, Mike Check" but no one came ;-)
OMW I am in the process of re-reading Moby Dick and it has been doing my head in. As it did the first time. I used to go and smoke cigars in the sand dunes at Southport as Melville and Hawthorne did when Hawthorne worked for at the US consulate in Liverpool...
I still prefer Melville's Bartleby: from wikipedia, nothing, nothing like the LTI:
"The narrator, an elderly lawyer who has a comfortable business helping wealthy men deal with mortgages, title deeds, and bonds, relates the story of the strangest man he has ever known. Bartleby is a new addition to the narrator's staff. The narrator already employs two scriveners, Nippers and Turkey. Nippers suffers from indigestion, and Turkey is a drunk, but the office survives because in the mornings Turkey is sober even though Nippers is irritable, and in the afternoon Nippers has calmed down even though Turkey is drunk. Ginger Nut, the office boy, gets his name from the little cakes he brings the men. Bartleby comes in answer to an ad, and the narrator hires the forlorn looking young man in hopes that his calmness will soothe the temperaments of the other scriveners."
go on and read it, you know you want to. And can we stage a debate about wikipedia being not the worst thing ever...
I know about the elusive Mike Check - it was just a strange coonection I made
The podcast recording of this was excellent - he really explains why people are totally missing the point by comparing Wikipedia to an old skool encyclopedia and why this is so much more functional.
glad you enjoyed the cast Andrew - it really was a very, very good (well-informed and common sense) keynote - it can be easy to present in 2D in large set pieces but I felt that Henry captured the complexity well.
Post a Comment