Velocity & Ubiquity?
About this time last year I delivered a talk to students on Plagiarism. This was the standard student orientation delivery, warning students of the evils of coveting someone else’s intellectual property. Now please remember that I am a novice to Web 2.0, and that I generally struggle to be bothered with a lot of technological tricks (that promise all sorts of nerdy fun then fail to deliver because of memory, or gremlins or some boring crash). Add to that my technologically-unlikely personality profile (self-centred extrovert who needs a real audience on a daily basis, and defensive, glory-hogging new PhD graduate who needs recognition for anything resembling original thought) and you may start to appreciate the perplexive nature of my encounter with Web 2. anonymity. Now, hear me me me ask – How do we reconcile the idea of shared intellectual property within a western academic environment wherein plagiarism is the ultimate misdemeanour? Does an embrace of Web 2.0 mean that that I am to be both intellectually and ethically challenged, to take on all this new information AND become more gracious to boot. I may as well turn Buddhist.
But when Stephen Downes talks about it, it doesn’t sound too bad. I wonder how he views Buddhism?
http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?post=21521
October 21st, 2008 at 10:30 pm
It is an interesting paradigm shift to move from peer reviewed presence to invisible connectedness. I wonder what assessment would look like looking back from some future time to the present. Perhaps with other global issues and the availability of sophisticated machine learning algorithms we could relax our status anxiety and celebrate togetherness … “usness”
Keith
October 21st, 2008 at 10:56 pm
I wish I was you, Keith.
Cheers,
Jocene.
October 21st, 2008 at 11:19 pm
Now that I have just viewed your weblog, Keith, and I am moved by that video you have posted in the “no man is an island” section, I feel that I should write something in an adult voice. But I’m lost for words.
Except perhaps to say that admidst the workplace politics and the scramble of restructure, it was nice to be reminded of what is important. Thank you.
Jocene.
October 23rd, 2008 at 1:15 am
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