We must be on the front lines of culture?
What are the two main issues in teaching and learning, what might digital education look like in the future, University in the digital age?
Richard Miller a digital evangelist who is very excited about the potential of the digital world, states in his article the coming apocalypse that we are living through the greatest change in human communication in human history.
“This Is How We Dream” was about the surge of technology and how it is changing our dreams because of advancements. “This Is How We Think” provided information about how different industries are being transformed through technology.
Universities in the digital age, well personally I have experienced less time on campus, less time in library. The advanced technological infrastructure of university of Wollongong is itself probably a good indicator of a certain pressure from individual and institutional reactions as any to the digital age. New areas around campus are WIFI friendly we can log onto the network and use our network through our own devices such as laptops, tablets or smart phones or rent a laptop or use the library desktops.
The classrooms in the uni are fitted out with smart projectors and the technology allows presentations in tutorial class to aid contribution. Technologies are not being used to full advantage, for example Edu-stream have the ability to record lectures to download onto your device later. Low attendance was then highlighted as an issue, less personal mentoring from staff was also another fallback.
Miller also discussed the collaboration of documents that can be communicated in many more ways than ever imaginable, this looked into communication via mobile communication, text Picture message, hyperlinked email, picture video services such as YouTube, social media, web 2.0.
Miller believes that this will continue to evolve, he foresees a time when people will compose using a new composition technique using the web itself. This is a cutting edge idea that he doesn’t really explain too well, but using a project created by new digital artist Jonathan Harris called ‘We feel fine’, an exploration of human emotion, this digital project algorithm continually harvests sentences containing emotional phrases around 15,000 new feelings per day, and has saved over 13 million feelings since 2005, forming a constantly evolving portrait of human emotion, through visual representations (infographics) that are graphic visual representations of information, data or knowledge intended to present complex information quickly.
Miller discusses in his article, that everything is on such a global scale and how do we prepare students to think on such a scale? Making international collaboration – via Skype and other technologies available was an interesting argument and shows the potential technology can play in creating research communities online. Distractions in the digital age can lead to procrastinating, impersonal group work collaboration. Social networking in education is being used via Facebook or Google to complete group work in your own time in real time.
Richard Miller and Paul Hammond gave a very intriguing presentation on the changing technology and its’ affects on the way we interact with the world around us. Continuing with their theme
Richard Miller and Paul Hammond’s Presentation “This Is How We Write” A focus on how education is turning from textbooks to devices that hold textbooks.
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Richard Miller and Paul Hammond’s Presentation “This Is How We Write” 11/17
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