MY TWO LEARNING WIKI EXAMPLES:
- Language Learning Wikis - Knowledge section
http://www.italki.com/knowledge/
- Permaculture
http://permaculture.wikia.com/wiki/Permaculture_Wiki
CLASS NOTES/REFLECTION:
- Blog lurkers (Hai)
- Information doesn't really belong to you, once it gets on the blogosphere (Hai)
- Blogs are very limited forms of communication (Various)
- The communication purpose of blogs depends on how you use them (Kim)
- Be careful what you share (David)
- Proliferation of tools, it's gradually simplifying (Kim)
- "Reduce the chain of pain" (Marc, Steve Jobs)
This class was good. I liked the presentation by the blog/wiki/twitter group. Had some good information that I didn't know. Also, what I realize is that the knowledge gained in this class comes through the unique/shared ideas of individuals who are questioning how ideas come about, processes work, etc. The thing I wonder though is how much of it is retained. Our human minds are so precarious I think. That's why something like wikipedia is great. Sometime in the future, people may still be editing wiks. Nice RSS presentation by Ethan. Love that Data + Lor page!
Blogs/Wiki/Twitter Review
- Uses: Journaling, expression
- How to use Twitter academically: academhack.outsidethetext.com/home/2008/twitter-for-academia/
- Blog/Wiki/Twitter mashups
COMMENTS ON "Emerging Technologies in E-learning":
I thought this was a great overview of Web2.0 and it's application in education and learning. An example of using cell-phones for learning was a game that was showcased at the 2008 NextFest. You would speak into your phone to make an avatar move on a screen, and you would fight/combat with ours. It was exhilirating yelling "walk, walk, walk" and "fire, fire, fire". Okay, that's actually not learning, but it has lots of potential for it. I could imagine people creating a list of brainstorming words, or sharing pictures of an assignment, etc. This is an example of just-in-time learning.
I think a big tool that will be used in the near future (next 2-10 years +) will be voice recogition. Voice to text will get a lot better, and also, computers will be able to recognize more complex voice commands. (Right now, help lines and car gps systems are the most popular utilizations). Ultimately, we'll be able to say something like: "Launch Google" "Search Web 2.0 + learning" and then "Find Instructional Design, and be able to find information quickly. We might even be able to say "Find users who play guitar, etc." I think the future of technnology is in video and audio.
Lastly, I loved the part where they draw from fiction: Star Trek, Star Wars, etc. I'd love to write more on that topic.
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I like your comment about the development of speech recognition. It think that it's closer than most people realize. My cellphone, which is by no means special (it's not an iPhone or anything near that hip) can recognize my speech already for voice dialing...without ever training it. It was that way out of the box, and performs quite well. It performs amazingly well actually, when you consider that it recognizes me saying names, which cannot be pre-programmed. It knows what the names should sound like simply by parsing the phonemes (bad pun, I know).
I don't think it will take 10 years for voice recognition, it will be much sooner, maybe in a year or two. I hope. You are smart to write your reflection post when you still remember what we talked about.
"Computer: on"
- nothing -
"Ahem. COMPUTER: ON"
"Wait. Hold on... COMPUTER! ON!"
- still nothing -
Don't we wish we could control our computers by voice! Unfortunately, secretaries and transcriptionists would be out of service because our computers wouldn't just turn on at our voice commands, but would transcribe letters and court proceedings.
This may sound like a luddite concern, but with the news about the increasingly more dismal economy in the background, I can't help but think about the Industrial Revolution.
There's a delightful yet unverified story about the Industrial Revolution that I think you might enjoy.
The story says that the word "sabotage" comes from workers striking during Industrial Revolution France. Well, "sabot" is the French word for clog. You know: the wooden shoes? Workers revolted against the potential loss of jobs from mechanisation, and they threw their sabot into the machines! Thus, they committed sabotage.
Well, verified or not, it's a fun story. Something to think about. Will transcriptionists and secretaries throw their pencils, steno pads, typwriters, or transcription machines into or onto the hard drive of the voice-recognition system? What would that word be?
Tapenade?
Makes me hungry.
Regarding your comment on voice recognition, it's a technology that has been around in constant evolution for at least the past ten years since I remember having a Samsung cell phone in 1998 that took voice commands. For some reason which I am not sure about is why it is not already a mainstream form of navigation / operation for our phones and personal computers.
Just based on my experience, I can only guess that the majority of technology users have not yet gotten used to talking to a machine.
I remember I used to feel a bit strange saying commands into my Samsung phone in public because people would look at me and it never responded to me like a human it would just give me a confirmation beep. My Blackberry takes voice commands and probably better than my old Samsung but I still have not adopted to telling it what to do with my voice just because it does not feel as natural as talking to another human being.
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