Comments on: Shirky Remixed http://www.thethinkingstick.com/shirky-remixed/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=shirky-remixed Educator Consultant Author Sun, 12 Feb 2012 01:10:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jenifer Olson http://www.thethinkingstick.com/shirky-remixed/#comment-4225 Jenifer Olson Sat, 25 Apr 2009 10:34:35 +0000 http://www.thethinkingstick.com/?p=948#comment-4225 <span class="topsy_trackback_comment"><span class="topsy_twitter_username"><span class="topsy_trackback_content">Shirky Remixed - Education and Thinking the Unthinkable http://www.thethinkingstick.com/?p=948 (via The thinking Stick Blog)</span></span> Shirky Remixed – Education and Thinking the Unthinkable http://www.thethinkingstick.com/?p=948 (via The thinking Stick Blog)

]]> By: コルズー・マシュー　（真秀） http://www.thethinkingstick.com/shirky-remixed/#comment-4224 コルズー・マシュー　（真秀） Thu, 23 Apr 2009 01:31:58 +0000 http://www.thethinkingstick.com/?p=948#comment-4224 The good news is that kids rarely need to be 'taught' how to use the computer. Give them access to one and they soon outpace their parents (especially with me). When I give them access to the computer is when it gets old enough that I don't care if she breaks it or when I trust her not to break it (which wont be long). Besides, a godfather has to be good for something right? As for a cell phone....I bet that by the time I cave in to that, cell phones will be long gone. The good news is that kids rarely need to be ‘taught’ how to use the computer. Give them access to one and they soon outpace their parents (especially with me). When I give them access to the computer is when it gets old enough that I don’t care if she breaks it or when I trust her not to break it (which wont be long). Besides, a godfather has to be good for something right?

As for a cell phone….I bet that by the time I cave in to that, cell phones will be long gone.

]]> By: Joe M. http://www.thethinkingstick.com/shirky-remixed/#comment-4223 Joe M. Tue, 21 Apr 2009 19:33:07 +0000 http://www.thethinkingstick.com/?p=948#comment-4223 you wrote: It makes increasingly less sense even to talk about a content system, because the core problem of “learning just in case” solves — the incredible difficulty, complexity, and expense of learning just in case — has stopped being a problem. Is this quote correct? I can't decide if I think you really meant to say "...the core problem <b>THAT</B> "learning just in "<B>TIME</B>" solves ... has stopped being a problem." you wrote:
It makes increasingly less sense even to talk about a content system, because the core problem of “learning just in case” solves — the incredible difficulty, complexity, and expense of learning just in case — has stopped being a problem.

Is this quote correct? I can’t decide if I think you really meant to say “…the core problem THAT “learning just in “TIME” solves … has stopped being a problem.”

]]> By: Jeff Utecht http://www.thethinkingstick.com/shirky-remixed/#comment-4222 Jeff Utecht Tue, 21 Apr 2009 01:49:24 +0000 http://www.thethinkingstick.com/?p=948#comment-4222 So as you think of your own children....when do they get their first cell phones? When do you start teaching them on the computer, showing them how to search and where to search for information? So as you think of your own children….when do they get their first cell phones? When do you start teaching them on the computer, showing them how to search and where to search for information?

]]> By: コルズー・マシュー　（真秀） http://www.thethinkingstick.com/shirky-remixed/#comment-4221 コルズー・マシュー　（真秀） Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:12:35 +0000 http://www.thethinkingstick.com/?p=948#comment-4221 Hi Jeff, I just read your last two blogs and love them!! They both have really made me think. As someone who doesn't like technology to begin with and is very sensitive to technology 'interrupting' interpersonal communication (I know I'm way old school), I see the change in the generation after us. I am constantly amazed (dismayed?) how they are carrying on multiple conversations via text message while they are talking to me. What is amazing about it, is how good they are at going back and forth while still being polite (for a teenager) and of course, how fast they are. I know I will be left in the dust (who am I kidding, I already am), but like every 'older' generation, it is something I have to get used to. This blog is great too! It makes me think that eventually, children will be in charge of their own learning and education, choosing what they will study and how. The possibilities for highly motivated students are endless. This is very exciting. I am just sad that I will be sending my five-year-old into a school with six textbooks she has to march through in ten months. I totally agree with the unhappy alliance between textbooks and education. But I have always thought that. In fact I have been deleting sentences as I am still thinking about this post. Let's just leave it at that and to say, awesome post!!! Heather Hi Jeff,

I just read your last two blogs and love them!! They both have really made me think. As someone who doesn’t like technology to begin with and is very sensitive to technology ‘interrupting’ interpersonal communication (I know I’m way old school), I see the change in the generation after us. I am constantly amazed (dismayed?) how they are carrying on multiple conversations via text message while they are talking to me. What is amazing about it, is how good they are at going back and forth while still being polite (for a teenager) and of course, how fast they are. I know I will be left in the dust (who am I kidding, I already am), but like every ‘older’ generation, it is something I have to get used to.

This blog is great too! It makes me think that eventually, children will be in charge of their own learning and education, choosing what they will study and how. The possibilities for highly motivated students are endless. This is very exciting. I am just sad that I will be sending my five-year-old into a school with six textbooks she has to march through in ten months. I totally agree with the unhappy alliance between textbooks and education. But I have always thought that. In fact I have been deleting sentences as I am still thinking about this post. Let’s just leave it at that and to say, awesome post!!!

Heather

]]> By: Ian Stuart http://www.thethinkingstick.com/shirky-remixed/#comment-4220 Ian Stuart Sun, 19 Apr 2009 10:55:20 +0000 http://www.thethinkingstick.com/?p=948#comment-4220 I would say this not so much a Revolution as Reformation. The removal of power from the old Orthodoxies by the masses. The 'High Priest's' are still standing at the front talking in a language that new one in the congregation understands any more. More and more of the congregation are learning to 'Read' and are starting to interprate the world for themselves. The old orthodoxies will try as hard as possible to hold onto their power (No one expects the Spanish Inquizition). Therefore its not so much Aldus Manutius as Martin Luther and where will the 95 Thesis will hung. I would say this not so much a Revolution as Reformation.
The removal of power from the old Orthodoxies by the masses.
The ‘High Priest’s’ are still standing at the front talking in a language that new one in the congregation understands any more. More and more of the congregation are learning to ‘Read’ and are starting to interprate the world for themselves.
The old orthodoxies will try as hard as possible to hold onto their power (No one expects the Spanish Inquizition).
Therefore its not so much Aldus Manutius as Martin Luther and where will the 95 Thesis will hung.

]]> By: amrowley http://www.thethinkingstick.com/shirky-remixed/#comment-4226 amrowley Fri, 17 Apr 2009 00:28:31 +0000 http://www.thethinkingstick.com/?p=948#comment-4226 <span class="topsy_trackback_comment"><span class="topsy_twitter_username"><span class="topsy_trackback_content">Just finished reading Shirky Remixed: http://bit.ly/JZjRU Uchecht exchanged newspapers w/ word schools. Totally enjoyed.</span></span> Just finished reading Shirky Remixed: http://bit.ly/JZjRU Uchecht exchanged newspapers w/ word schools. Totally enjoyed.

]]> By: John Heffernan http://www.thethinkingstick.com/shirky-remixed/#comment-4227 John Heffernan Thu, 16 Apr 2009 19:42:50 +0000 http://www.thethinkingstick.com/?p=948#comment-4227 <span class="topsy_trackback_comment"><span class="topsy_twitter_username"><span class="topsy_trackback_content">Shirky Remixed http://tinyurl.com/c8tv4y from: @jutecht Excellent post by Jeff Utrect</span></span> Shirky Remixed http://tinyurl.com/c8tv4y from: @jutecht Excellent post by Jeff Utrect

]]> By: Elaine Ong http://www.thethinkingstick.com/shirky-remixed/#comment-4228 Elaine Ong Thu, 16 Apr 2009 08:38:21 +0000 http://www.thethinkingstick.com/?p=948#comment-4228 <span class="topsy_trackback_comment"><span class="topsy_twitter_username"><span class="topsy_trackback_content">Shirky Remixed « The Thinking Stick http://bit.ly/yXNgN</span></span> Shirky Remixed « The Thinking Stick http://bit.ly/yXNgN

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