1) The document discusses the shift from participatory web communities in the 2000s to today's algorithmically driven, monetized systems that prioritize extraction of user data and polarization over participation.
2) It argues that digital pedagogy needs to account for the complexity of socio-technical systems and promote cooperation between people and technology through contributions to a more pro-social, participatory web.
3) The key steps are understanding problems as complex rather than having single solutions, collaborating across boundaries between people and machines, and rebuilding spaces for open sharing, teaching and learning online.
15. Information organizations, from libraries to schools and
universities to governmental agencies, are increasingly being
displaced by a variety of web-based "tools" as if there are
no political, social, or economic
consequences of doing so.
- Noble (2018)
https://nyupress.org/9781479837243/algorithms-of-oppression/
26. the platforms &
systems we use
in digital pedagogy
are increasingly less
PARTICIPATORY
& more technocratic
L
Stanford dSchool Liberatory Design Cards
https://dschool.stanford.edu/resources/liberatory-design-cards
29. The new Silicon Valley venture philanthropists are seeking
more overtly computational models of education reform…
to design new software systems and
technological fixes for insertion into the
institutions of education.
- Williamson (2017)
Williamson, B. (2017). Educating Silicon Valley: Corporate education reform and the reproduction of the techno-economic revolution. Review of
Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies, 39(3), 265–288. doi:10.1080/10714413.2017.1326274
30. • Next-gen security &
risk management
• AI conversation interface
• Smart campus
• Predictive analytics
• Nudge tech
• Digital credentialling tech
• Hybrid integration
platforms
• Career software
• Cross-life cycle CRM
• Wireless presentation technologies
https://www.techrepublic.com/article/10-technologies-that-will-impact-higher-education-the-most-this-year/
TOP TEN
31. DATA & AI SYSTEMS =
THE NEW COMPANY STORE
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Caples-company-store-wv1.jpg
36. Something is rotten in democracy when huge numbers of those
participating in its debates are unaccountable and
untraceable, when we cannot know who or even
what they are…the bots are everywhere now.
-Bridle (2018)
https://www.versobooks.com/books/2698-new-dark-age
37.
38.
39. ALERT ALERT ALERT ALERT ALERT ALERT ALERT ALERT ALERT ALERT ALERT
We’ve handed over control of our data,
our identities, & our shared
public infrastructures, including democracy.
We are outsourcing
knowledge-making & governance to AI.
43. WE NEED TO BRING BACK THE WEB.
Or rather, rebuild the participatory web.
A pro-social, pro-societal web.
44. • NOT anti-technology
• Threatened by the effects of
encroaching industrial systems
• No vote to change their
systems
• Organized “friendly societies”
• Broke machines
• 14 executed in 1813
• When YOU don’t tell your
story, it becomes another story
THE LUDDITES?
47. And we need to understand and USE
the participatory, collective structures
of the system we are IN.
48. A CRITICAL DIGITAL PEDAGOGY
Nothing will change until WE change – until we
throw off our dependence and
act for ourselves.
- Horton (1997)
https://www.amazon.ca/Long-Haul-Autobiography-Myles-Horton/dp/0807737003
52. CYNEFIN
Snowden &
Boone (2007)
To know how
to address a
problem, you
need to know
what kind of
problem you
HAVE.
https://hbr.org/2007/11/a-leaders-framework-for-decision-making
56. 1. Sometimes more than one solution is possible
2. A solution is possible
3. Requires subject matter expertise
4. Usually a lot of work
COMPLICATED PROBLEMS
65. COMPLICATED SYSTEMS OF THOUGHT
CANNOT SOLVE COMPLEX PROBLEMS
While machine intelligence
is rapidly outstripping human performance in
many disciplines, it is not the only way of thinking,
and it is in many fields catastrophically destructive.
- Bridle (2018)
https://www.versobooks.com/books/2698-new-dark-age
69. WE NEED PEDAGOGIES –
& PRACTICES – THAT FOREGROUND COMPLEXITY
http://andrewcerniglia.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Cynefin_Framework.pdf
STRATEGY:
probe
rense
respond
• no single right answer• system in constant flux• patterns emerge over
time
70. COOPERATION
How might technoscience be appropriated and
reimagined for more liberatory ends? How, in short, can
we design our sociotechnical systems differently?
- Benjamin (2018)
https://www.princeton.edu/news/2018/03/29/what-i-think-ruha-benjamin
71. “If you want to travel fast, travel alone.
If you want to travel far, travel together.”
- probably NOT actually a proverb
72. THE WEB IS A COMPLEX SYSTEM OF
COLLABORATION & COOPERATION.
LIKE SCHOLARSHIP.
73. Collaboration is a coordinated, synchronous activity that is the
result of an ongoing effort to construct and maintain a shared
idea of a problem.
74. Cooperation divides labor among participants, so
each unit is responsible for solving a
portion of the problem.
76. WE CANNOT FIX THE WEB WITHOUT
THE MACHINES.
Any strategy other than mindful, thoughtful cooperation is a
form of disengagement: a retreat that cannot hold. We
cannot reject technology any more than we can ultimately
and utterly reject our neighbours in society & the world; we
are all entangled.
- Bridle (2018)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/13521837@N00/2577665727https://www.versobooks.com/books/2698-new-dark-age
77. The main trouble with cyborgs,
of course, is that they are the
illegitimate offspring of
militarism and patriarchal
capitalism, not to mention state
socialism. But illegitimate
offspring are often exceedingly
unfaithful to their origins.
- Haraway (1991)
So my cyborg myth is
about transgressed
boundaries, potent fusions,
and dangerous possibilities
which progressive people
might explore as one part
of needed political work…
The cyborg incarnation is
outside salvation history.
HYBRID
https://www.sfu.ca/~decaste/OISE/page2/files/HarawayCyborg.pdf
78. RESISTANCE AS PRESENCE & PARTICIPATION
https://plus.google.com/+DaveGray/posts/CQRVeKEsUvFpid=5751686447270321954&oid=117373186752666867801
97. TEACHING.
The classroom, with all its
limitations, remains a
location of possibility. We
have the opportunity to
labor for freedom…even
as we collectively imagine
ways to move beyond
boundaries, to transgress.
This is education as the
practice of freedom.
– hooks (1994)
https://www.amazon.com/Teaching-Transgress-Education-Practice-
Translation/dp/0415908086
http://uwindsor.icampus21.com/wordpress/uwindig/2018/10/03/
pushing-the-pendulum-back/
98. SO. NEXT STEPS FOR #ANTIGONISH2?
• educators’ data literacies research
• #ProsocialWeb (at #OER19 this week)
• ??
99. WE CAN DO BETTER. TOGETHER.
WE GET TO WORK TOWARDS BETTER SYSTEMS.