aMetopia
我的blog转移了
randomor 发表于 2007-12-05 12:03:48
由于blogger可以用本地程序编辑发布日志，虽然被河蟹了，但是我还是决定用它管理我的英文日志，所以，我的新英文blog是：ametopia.blogspot.com 我将继续在那里用英文胡乱地思考。我的新中文blog将在：learner.yo2.cn 我将在此发布我认为有价值的有关学习的信息。由于我个人的原因，这个博客在这里竟然忘记了，以致产生了身份混乱问题。。。暂时就这样了。
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Twitter my thought flow
randomor 发表于 2007-10-19 21:03:51
randomor Digital divide is not only about education. It's even not about mass communication. It's about information, any information. take pleasure in solitary activities such as reading, writing, drawing, watching movies, listening to music, inventing, and designing. An introverted person is likely to enjoy time spent alone and find less reward in time spent with large groups of people (although they may enjoy one-to-one or one-to-few interactions with close friends). They prefer to concentrate on a single activity at a time and like to observe situations before they participate..
I may consider read a book about personality psychology and research about the relation between personality and autonomy (self-directed learning). Maybe somebody else already done this.
Sorry for the self-centricity and verbosity. My reflection is that a lot of educational decisions I take in the past are influenced by my personality, e.g. choosing to skip most of my courses in college and study by myself, choosing not promote or even act like I have this blog...
By doing all that, I've avoided be influenced by the fickleness environment and kept on track during my college life. But I also isolated myself in my small ivory tower, and even cut myself from many learning opportunities that I could have benifited. I've been reading some papers about connectivism, which also spur me to think about the might-bes if I have connected myself with a larger network.
After realizing this, the logic notes of connecting to others have activated; the emotional notes of this network is swinging. And someday would come with my behavior change. Watch out!
Introversion is not the same as shyness, though introverts may also be shy. Introverts choose solitary over social activities by preference, whereas shy people avoid social encounters out of fear. [5]
An introvert is energized when alone. Introverts tend to "fade" when with people and can easily become overstimulated with too many others around. Introverts tend to think before speaking. When given the chance, an introvert will sit alone and think rather than talk with someone else.
Ok, I admit I basically have all the attributes and tendencies decribed above. Watch out! :-PI may consider read a book about personality psychology and research about the relation between personality and autonomy (self-directed learning). Maybe somebody else already done this.
Sorry for the self-centricity and verbosity. My reflection is that a lot of educational decisions I take in the past are influenced by my personality, e.g. choosing to skip most of my courses in college and study by myself, choosing not promote or even act like I have this blog...
By doing all that, I've avoided be influenced by the fickleness environment and kept on track during my college life. But I also isolated myself in my small ivory tower, and even cut myself from many learning opportunities that I could have benifited. I've been reading some papers about connectivism, which also spur me to think about the might-bes if I have connected myself with a larger network.
After realizing this, the logic notes of connecting to others have activated; the emotional notes of this network is swinging. And someday would come with my behavior change. Watch out!
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Edu2.0 for the people in the corner?
randomor 发表于 2007-10-19 17:20:50
OpenEd Class Comments at iterating toward openness Annotated
Existing education is so often biased, so often conceived for passive being instead of human beings, that I’m quite afraid to make it compulsory. Let us make education available everywhere first, and let us improve the quality of education all over the world. Instead of making education mandatory I would make it available, free and accurately fitted to local social realities.
The above quotations prompts me to think about the realities of China, and the gap between the educational technologists's inspiration and the reality of the less-developed area of China. I've been living in a small county and my parents are raised up in the country area. The word 'country' in my conception must be way different from westerner's. The country where my parents grown up are where people grow rice manually, yes, not automatically or mechanically, only a narrow muddy road leads there, where every morning there would be a shabby noisy bus run down that road to transport people out to the town where people trade. There is aboslutely no Internet access, except for in the town where younger people always addicted to online games or chatting in the net cafe. But unlike the county dweller, where satellite TV is prohibited, all my uncles who resides in the country where cable aren't available, have satellite TVs. Because the underdevelopment of the mass media in China, the satellite TV basically broadcast much more better programs than cable TV. TV is the greatest entertainment for the peasants. Imagining the contrast when children enjoy the Phoenix TV's show about bourgeois lifestyles of Hongkong and walk to their dilapidated school the next morning. Most of the adolescents did not continue their studies for various reasons and went to the more developed areas to sell their labors with the parents, leaving the houses with the old and the young. Despite the goverment obviously want us to forget or to thank them for stopping taxing those peasants only a few years ago, it's not hard to imagine what the situation before that and understand why the tolerant peasants would sometimes assemble in front of the government institutions.
So, speaking of education2.0, while taking those people into account? Can edu2.0 really provide some immediate benifits for those people? Maybe. What a dream to make education available everywhere. What does the edu2.0 provided us to change all this maybe that it empoweres everyone of us who are ready to take action to make a greater move. To educate oneself while making the resources more accessible and effective to those who can't educate themselves as we could. Deschool in China? That's sometimes the only information source for them.
Why? Do the elites of this society care more about the latest development in technology in the world than the remotest area in this country? Of course, it can cause many misunderstandings by only raising those questions. My point is that I used to think that the small county where I lived is definitely not the center of the world, but now, I'd rather say, she is also definitely not in another world. And why not make she closer to the center of the world?
Of course, they are not the most profitable market, but who knows, they are in the long tail of education. Let's do it. Let's make education available everywhere, and fitted to every reality.
The above quotations prompts me to think about the realities of China, and the gap between the educational technologists's inspiration and the reality of the less-developed area of China. I've been living in a small county and my parents are raised up in the country area. The word 'country' in my conception must be way different from westerner's. The country where my parents grown up are where people grow rice manually, yes, not automatically or mechanically, only a narrow muddy road leads there, where every morning there would be a shabby noisy bus run down that road to transport people out to the town where people trade. There is aboslutely no Internet access, except for in the town where younger people always addicted to online games or chatting in the net cafe. But unlike the county dweller, where satellite TV is prohibited, all my uncles who resides in the country where cable aren't available, have satellite TVs. Because the underdevelopment of the mass media in China, the satellite TV basically broadcast much more better programs than cable TV. TV is the greatest entertainment for the peasants. Imagining the contrast when children enjoy the Phoenix TV's show about bourgeois lifestyles of Hongkong and walk to their dilapidated school the next morning. Most of the adolescents did not continue their studies for various reasons and went to the more developed areas to sell their labors with the parents, leaving the houses with the old and the young. Despite the goverment obviously want us to forget or to thank them for stopping taxing those peasants only a few years ago, it's not hard to imagine what the situation before that and understand why the tolerant peasants would sometimes assemble in front of the government institutions.
So, speaking of education2.0, while taking those people into account? Can edu2.0 really provide some immediate benifits for those people? Maybe. What a dream to make education available everywhere. What does the edu2.0 provided us to change all this maybe that it empoweres everyone of us who are ready to take action to make a greater move. To educate oneself while making the resources more accessible and effective to those who can't educate themselves as we could. Deschool in China? That's sometimes the only information source for them.
Why? Do the elites of this society care more about the latest development in technology in the world than the remotest area in this country? Of course, it can cause many misunderstandings by only raising those questions. My point is that I used to think that the small county where I lived is definitely not the center of the world, but now, I'd rather say, she is also definitely not in another world. And why not make she closer to the center of the world?
Of course, they are not the most profitable market, but who knows, they are in the long tail of education. Let's do it. Let's make education available everywhere, and fitted to every reality.
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Ideas 0.1 part 1
randomor 发表于 2007-10-17 22:41:27
Browsing through the unreaded seeds in my Google Reader, many thoughts came up and was saved to my twitter. This is a great example of how computeres could serve as our external memory to store any information specifically. The only problem with this memory is that we can only access it when we are in front of our computer and hooked up to the net. It would be amazing if we could access all those information whenever wherever we wanted. It's just few easy technical tricks away. Imagining one day everyone is embeded with this kind of external memory, try not to imagine it ugly, imagine it elegently, of course you can't see this device with your naked eye(unless you also installed the x-ray eyes. : ) Imagine if we want to look up some legal codes about some consumer issues, it's just a few mind-type away: you enter with your brainwave about the keywords, depending on the accuracy of the database, you come up with the results. Come on, don't say I am dreaming. Don't your agree that human evolve? Even you got problem agreeing with that. You have witnessed the evolution of technology, right?
Ok, I will sum up my thoughts and try to expand upon each of them like I did in the above verbose paragraph.
It's getting late, I will continue tomorrow.
Ok, I will sum up my thoughts and try to expand upon each of them like I did in the above verbose paragraph.
- The cult of educational technology will evolve to an religion? When I was reading about sociology, there are some interesting terms about how religion evolves, first it's a small cult and then bigger sect and then denomination which have much more influence on society and then to established religion or even state religion. The status of educational technology could at best be described as a sect. It's a long way from developing to a universal religion, where everyone need technology help themselves learn better. Everyone who is passionate about educational technology should be evangelic like a piety believer and practitioner. The lord is coming! Until that day, technocrats rule the world! : P
- It seems a good idea to create a diigo group. Because most us share lots of interests in viewing blogs, with diigo groups, we could share our comments about some specific sentences that we stumble upon.
- Education is now still state-run and state-control like the mass media of the past. When will education becoming democrtized as personal media do?Of course, personal media is far from democratized as we think was, the vast digital divide between the so-called native and the disenfranchised, which can't been seen by us or even ignored by the radical advocates of technology, is growing wider. But, when the marginal cost of applying technology to all citizens of this country would drop to a economically low, the day would eventually come. What's best is that it's like a compond interest, those with the resourses would accelerate the process. Schools wouldn't be needed, just like most of us don't even watch TV now. But we can still choose to take advantage of school and learn in a physical, sense-rich(self invented word meaning: rich in audio-visual and other cues) learning environment, just like we could choose to watch a good show on TV when ever we want.
- The evolution of facebook testifies the fact that whoever opens up wins. Maybe a little biased, but I take it as a golden rule that if you want to sucess in this web2.0 era, you have to open up. One reason that ebay china is defeated by taobao is because the want money even before users open their store. Alibaba is doing the same thing, however, there are still other rules guarding the position of alibaba, like the first arriver's rule. Qzone is also building all the things by themselves, they are earning big money, so, it's a counter example of my argument. Oh, how I wish they fail and open up. : ) Facebook has been growing with its two openning up: first, open to the world, in contrast to only accessed by a few students; then open the platform, so anyone could write programs and extend the functions. Brilliant.
It's getting late, I will continue tomorrow.
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How to prove it's an information overload era?
randomor 发表于 2007-10-16 14:01:20
I will begin with the retrospection of my whole yesterday.
Then, I will start with an examination of what would I want to do in a perfect timeless world.
What am I? Monster?
or
Information consuming machine?
I will try to not use this text presentation style, which also used so much of my precious time.
But you can't deny, It's emotion-arousing. You should really try.
- I browsed one website and ended up hooked to the ideas or shall I say inspirations of the bloggers of the website. During the time I was using my computer, I opened up about 100 webpages, through their blogs, I discovered the term bookcrossing and then opened 3 websites about this new concept, including one wikipedia page about this term, one chinese bookcrossing site and one English bookcrossing site. I bookmarked all those sites into de.lici.us and thought that it sounds like a fairy story about books, after about half an hour's reading, I concluded that the books in the Chinese bookcrossing site are too few and the books in the English site are too hard to reach. So I then tried to go back to the original blog site which is edu2do. And discovered another interesting site which is 1idea1day, it's an amazing site, but then I realized its basicly about art and handwork. Although ideas always come up to me whenever I am reading, sleeping or walking, few of them is about arts or handwork. So I stopped and went back to the edu2do site. They have this amazing though a little idealistic project of translating several major educational blogs to Chinese, I figure that maybe I will join them by translate some articles, hopefully I will learn something during the process, and I'll definitely benifit communicating with those aspiring people. But first I'll have to translate one article to prove that I am capable of be a good translator. I'll do that today. But first, I'll have to find a new blog service to be my future academic base, that's where all gets complicated. I starts to find which service best suit my purpose and looks good. After tons of searching using baidu answers and registered two services, 1 hour later, I decided to use yculblog. I definitely should reflect on whyand how I am doing all those things without ever learn any true knowledge. How many percentage of my time has been wasted on doing those "reasonable" things?
Then, I will start with an examination of what would I want to do in a perfect timeless world.
- I will read all the books (about 2000+ pages in English) that I bought last month when I was back in school.
- I will read all the academic papers (about 400+ pages in English) that I downloaded in batches illegally from the school paper databases.
- I will search through the website and keep up with all the interesting blogs that I like. I am not comfortable to open up my Google Reader any more, which now contained about 710+ updated seeds that I did not even know the title of. And I even shamelessly pride of my pond of de.lici.us bookmarks, which contain 700 bookmarks all together.
- I will write about all the thoughts that I have during those process.
- I will finish listening all the podcasts that I have subscribed to. Now, in my itunes, lots of my subscribed and beloved podcast have stopped to update automatically because I just do not have the time to listen to them even in an 2x speed with the Windows Media Player.
- I will listen every song that reside in my library at least 1 time. Although that would take about 10.8 days according to my iTunes. Hopefully, I won't loathe music after I listened all those music and even interested in finding new ones.
- All those things would not oblige me to go outside door, even I want to talk to or IM with all my dear friends on the net.
- Help my mom to make money with funds, and help her and my dad to use computer, so I don't have to be there every time they try to do something on the computer.
- ......
What am I? Monster?
or
Information consuming machine?
I will try to not use this text presentation style, which also used so much of my precious time.
But you can't deny, It's emotion-arousing. You should really try.
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Experiment
randomor 发表于 2007-10-16 13:49:44
Trying to discover the functions of this blog service....
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Genesis
randomor 发表于 2007-10-16 10:31:09
After being through several hours of intense searching, filtering, and tweaking, I decided to settle down here at yculblog. Of course, I did not find the ideal blog service, but I tried. Yculblog is the only blog service where you don't find them mentioning money or so-called "VIP service". I am not a miser, but I just do not want blogging to be a complex process. Besides, yculblog has some decent functions and can add my own javascripts, which is an common yet amazing service for me, who just migrated from the Qzone.
I have added my long registered yet never used last.fm, twitter, and douban widgets on this blog. It does take me a lot of time. As a perfectionist, I find after several hours of searching for the best service has resulted the marginal benifits dropped to an unacceptable low. So I stopped and settled.
Because the senseless of writing the whole process down if no one ever want to know the process, I'll just list what I've been through. If there really are someone interested in consulting me about any of those process, I am here to help.
These are what I have choosed:
Twitter
Last.fm
douban.com
Creative Commons
As you could see on the border of this blog, I have already integrated all those widgets. It's a way of organizing all the information that I have consumed, and, of course, a way of communicating with people that may share some likeness with me. Even a way of communicating with my future self.
So, the genesis of all those is just pragmatic. I want to keep track of my thoughts and discoveries in this blog. What I am currently interested in is all about learning, education, technology, communication, media and etc. Hopefully I can organize all the serendipities and revelations, and practise my English the same time. Yes, I'll try to write in English. Yesterday, I also discovered one website about translating education articles to Chinese. As i used to learn all by myself, maybe I'll try to participate in their project and make some friends.
After all, blogging should not be this pragmatic. I'll try to make this a personal enjoyment.
I have added my long registered yet never used last.fm, twitter, and douban widgets on this blog. It does take me a lot of time. As a perfectionist, I find after several hours of searching for the best service has resulted the marginal benifits dropped to an unacceptable low. So I stopped and settled.
Because the senseless of writing the whole process down if no one ever want to know the process, I'll just list what I've been through. If there really are someone interested in consulting me about any of those process, I am here to help.
These are what I have choosed:
Last.fm
douban.com
Creative Commons
As you could see on the border of this blog, I have already integrated all those widgets. It's a way of organizing all the information that I have consumed, and, of course, a way of communicating with people that may share some likeness with me. Even a way of communicating with my future self.
So, the genesis of all those is just pragmatic. I want to keep track of my thoughts and discoveries in this blog. What I am currently interested in is all about learning, education, technology, communication, media and etc. Hopefully I can organize all the serendipities and revelations, and practise my English the same time. Yes, I'll try to write in English. Yesterday, I also discovered one website about translating education articles to Chinese. As i used to learn all by myself, maybe I'll try to participate in their project and make some friends.
After all, blogging should not be this pragmatic. I'll try to make this a personal enjoyment.
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