As promised, here are your next readings. I am realizing now that I should have required Wenger as a text, but here we are. If you don't own a copy, I would suggest it, especially for those of you in the Doctoral program.
Anyway, here is what we have on tap for this week:
Wenger Ch. 5 and Coda I. After all this why not finish the section on Practice. Locality is an obvious thing for us to consider as part of our community conversation around Web 2.0 tools. Enough said. I would pay particular attention to the Coda. While it sounds like a little piece added at the end, Wenger lets himself go a little and there are some interesting wonderings and wanderings in this section. Very Zen.
In response to the dystopian / utopian conversation from last week I have included a piece by Bonni Nardi and Vicki O'Day that goes straight at that issue. They propose what they call an information ecology as a different type of metaphor for technology (it is all metaphors after all). I think it provides a new point of view, but with some real connections to both Wenger and Pea. It also starts with a nice connection to the classic silent film "Metropolis", so those of you who have seen it can appreciate that, and those of you that haven't can run out and rent it. Maybe we can even arrange a special screening.
See you on Thursday.
Anyway, here is what we have on tap for this week:
Wenger Ch. 5 and Coda I. After all this why not finish the section on Practice. Locality is an obvious thing for us to consider as part of our community conversation around Web 2.0 tools. Enough said. I would pay particular attention to the Coda. While it sounds like a little piece added at the end, Wenger lets himself go a little and there are some interesting wonderings and wanderings in this section. Very Zen.
In response to the dystopian / utopian conversation from last week I have included a piece by Bonni Nardi and Vicki O'Day that goes straight at that issue. They propose what they call an information ecology as a different type of metaphor for technology (it is all metaphors after all). I think it provides a new point of view, but with some real connections to both Wenger and Pea. It also starts with a nice connection to the classic silent film "Metropolis", so those of you who have seen it can appreciate that, and those of you that haven't can run out and rent it. Maybe we can even arrange a special screening.
See you on Thursday.
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