Velocity & Ubiquity? – thanks Stephen
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?
