2. THEORIES ABOUT TECHNOLOGY
1. Technological determinism: technology is an external
agent that acts upon people and changes society.
2. Social construction of technology (SCOT): it is human
decisions and processes that create the technologies we
have, and that the prevailing social milieu has an
influential role in the decisions we make about how we
use that technology.
3. A middle ground between people and machine is the
theory of Social Shaping. Nancy Baym refers to
technologies having ‘logics’ that influence how we use
them. Nicholas Carr calls them ‘ethics’:
“the message that a tool or medium transmits into
the minds and culture of its users”
5. eLearning 2.0/Web 2.0
(Stephen Downes)
Elearning 1.0:
• static packaged content
• little true interactivity and learner input and
• very little contact with a teacher
• represented by Learner Management Systems. (eg Blackboard, Moodle, etc)
Elearning 2.0:
• more student-centred
• centred around a Personal Learning Environment using social software.
• students generate and share content.
• they interact not only with teachers and their peers, but with anyone in the
world they can learn from.
(this description courtesy of Sean Fitzgerald)
7. Facebook almost became THE Internet
• Estimated that Facebook is responsible for 80% of all Internet traffic
• Numbers of new users finally plateaued in 2012 at approx 800 million users
12. THE INTERNET OF THINGS
(a network of things)
• Tracking objects/monitoring information –
wildlife, consumables, health, inventory
management
Ubi - http://theubi.com/
http://www.liu.se/forskning/forskningsnyheter/1.428680?l=en
14. DEVICES that can be implanted in the brain are being trialled to treat seizures, pain, psychiatric
conditions and Parkinson's disease.New electrodes - half a millimetre thick - are being designed
to insert into the brain, detect abnormal brain activity and deliver instant treatment.
15. GOOGLE GLASS
"A study of over 4000 people carried out by
the Centre of Creative and Social Technologies
(CAST) at Goldsmiths University, revealed that
one in five Britons were uncomfortable with the
privacy implications surrounding the Google Glass
– and believe that it should be banned outright.
The research paper, The Human Cloud: Wearable
Technology from Novelty to Productivity, found that
around half of respondents expressed a general
mistrust about the invasive nature of wearable
technologies such as Google Glass
16. ETHICS OR LOGICS OF TECHNOLOGIES
“the message that a tool or medium transmits
into the minds and culture of its users”
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22. THE ROLE OF CREATIVE COMMONS
• Who owns materials? new systems of copyright
should be embraced eg Creative Commons licensing
- Federal Govt and Department of Health in SA are
already backing this approach
http://www.ausgoal.gov.au/creative-commons
23. How many people arrived in Adelaide by plane on June 23rd, 2004?
How many students passed 3rd Year Architecture at UniSA in 1987?
How many people bought a Toyota in Australia in August this year?
How many people had the flu in Adelaide in July, 2009?
etc
LA POLICE DEPARTMENT.....
30. IMPORTANT
QUESTIONS/PERSPECTIVES
• “In Net Smart, I show
how to use social media
intelligently, humanely,
and, above all,
mindfully.”
• INFOTENTION – surf
with purpose; know
why you’re there; have
a goal!
32. FUTURE OF THE INTERNET
The web evolved due to
an open and
transparent philosophy
and architecture that is
generative ie allows
others to build on and
expand >>>>
INNOVATION >>>>
33. IF WE CAN DO IT WE WILL.
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