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I was really interested in computer science because of the knowledge it gives us about the new technologies as well as ample opportunities and massive income. And I found programmers really cool while watching a drama.
https://upasanapaudel9.wordpress.com/2023/03/15/pursuing-bachelors-degree
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It’s like an obsession that I can not get anything out of my head when I see it! It’s insane! My latest purchase was a gold macbook that I wanted for a long time, purchased, returned, then purchased again. I am truly insane. I love to be surrounded by technology and stuff in general, but then at times I look around and see that I have SO MUCH stuff….more than the average person. I am terrible with money and love shopping. I am truly a consumer.
https://mylifeisdandy.wordpress.com/2023/02/27/consumer-life
I just realized that it’s Friday the 13th — what a fitting day for this post! 😀 [1]
While growing up, I learned some things that seem sort of out of vogue today. One such cornerstone of my learning experience was an opposition to anything that reeks of dictatorship or similar mob actions. Freedom was very much about intellectual freedom. I have written about this time and again (if you want to read more about this, check out some of the links on the homepage 😉 ).
In contrast, life today appears to me as if it were all about being in alignment with Big Brother. [2] Whether turning on the tube to watch, listen and follow the newspeak or turning to the Pope of the Internet [3] for guidance, or whatever, … it seems like everywhere modern men and women are in chains … chained to some sort of propaganda system or other that dictates their lives, right down to their thoughts. [4] The propaganda engines have been finely tuned and employ some of the most sophisticated technology available to mobsters everywhere all over the world (as we know it). [5]
The regular individual is a nobody.
In order to be a somebody, you need many millions of followers. VC money. Rapper jewels. A White House. Something with street cred.
Opinions don’t do shit. There ain’t no algorithms for ideas. Like Vinnie Barbarino used to say: “gimme clicks, gimme clicks, gimmie clicks, …”.
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I want you to blog.
https://ma.tt/2024/01/birthday-gift
This is not some scene from Monty Python’s “Holy Grail”. [1]
It’s a storytelling exercise posed by Josepha. [2]
Here are my answers (or at least some ideas about what I think might be appropriate answers at this time [of writing] ).
For the following answers, I will revise the questions somewhat. “WordPress” is a meaningless string to me (AFAIK, it is a registered trademark, and therefore can only be defined by the owner of those legally protected rights (which are often referred to as “intellectual property” and the corresponding rights are commonly referred to as “IP law”). In her presentation, Josepha referred to the WordPress mission as “democratize publishing”. I wish to do more than that: I want to democratize all communications. I actually feel that it is something like a natural law that all communications must be democratized (as communications require the open source technology of natural language). It is not even possible (IMHO) to communicate without involving the participation of this open-source community. So in the above questions #2 and #3, I will replace “WordPress” with “natural language (open-source communications)”.
The new-and-improved (revised) questions (and answers) are:
R-Q2. What is the story that you want to be able to tell about your time with us in natural language (open-source communications)?
Many stories can be told, heard, listened to, shared, understood, inspired and so on. One very significant story seems to be the story (or stories?) of evolution. When we realize that evolution is always happening, then we begin to become aware that the distinction between “natural” and “artificial” (or “non-natural”) is perhaps moot — because nature itself is also always changing and adapting. There is in fact (?) no such natural law written in stone which is always true.
Likewise, developments do not go from plain good to plain bad or vice versa. Good and bad may not even exist at all. Martin Luther King drew attention to such phenomena when he spoke about the merits of being “maladjusted” versus the apparent value of being “well-adjusted”. Since the world is so complex, the number of variables which might serve as guideposts are so vast, they might as well be considered innumerable or even infinite.
Languages which serve some purposes well may do a poor job of serving other purposes. Which language we choose to use in one circumstance might be quite obviously sub-optimal in different circumstances. Since languages also evolve over time, we can rest assured that we will always have a broad spectrum of options available.
All we have to do is to keep the wheels well greased by incessantly exchanging ideas and practicing our communications in a wide variety of languages — we do not need to invent them on our own, in labs, in isolation from their natural environments.
R-Q3. What is the story that you want natural language (open-source communications) to tell?
I am no longer very sure how I want to answer a question like this.
If human languages prove to be maladjusted to their natural environments, then evolution will probably lead to these languages (and perhaps also humans themselves) to go extinct. Whether human extinction would be a good thing or a bad thing, I don’t know.
It’s time for another installment in our “Golden Rule” series. Today I want to talk about sparring for literacy. You might also think of this as iteratively bouncing ideas off of each other, a sort of turn-taking approach to testing out hypotheses — which is not taking place in modern educational institutions and / or research settings:
These old-fashioned educational institutions mostly (nearly universally) still consider mere publication to be the end game rather as simply a starting point to get the ball rolling in endless and ongoing games of information and communication. These more and more ancient institutions are failing societies by allowing infantile (and incoherent or even completely meaningless) marketplaces to function as arbiters of success and / or failure.
https://socio.business.blog/2023/12/02/about-technological-limitations-of-the-publishing-model-as-an-information-and-communications-technology
As in Woody Allen’s “Vicky Christina Barcelona” (2008), so we too need to test out what we want, don’t want, which direction we turn toward or away from, and so on. The publishing model is inadequate to the task of figuring out answers to such questions on an ongoing basis. We need ongoing information and communication feedback loops, rather than a one-way publishing industry.
Therefore, the Golden Rule of sparring with one another applies — we ought to spar with one another the way we expect our partners to spar with us. Thereby we train each other as we also train ourselves to communicate and inform each other, with one another, for one another and also in order to continually further develop and improve our information and communications technologies.
Keywords: edtech , teaching
My approach begins with the Backwards Design approach by asking the question, “what will the students do to represent what they learned for the particular lesson?” In this case, I provide students with options to demonstrate their learning. I want to make sure that I can see learning progression for the instructional delivery component.
https://edtechingandthingsrelated.wordpress.com/2021/12/14/so-much-technology-so-little-time
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Hi! I’m Julia, this is my first year as a CTS student. This program discusses many intriguing topics and offers skills that will benefit me in the digital world! I recognize the impact of technology and want to use it to my benefit, therefore I am so excited to dig deeper into the content of the program.
https://cststudentsite.wordpress.com
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Today I want to test out a new type of post. Here, I want to feature someone’s writing that isn’t exactly about wanting per se … but which (I feel) is nonetheless relevant to our collective interest in wants.
Through their hobbies they became the first modern scientists
https://trust.science.blog/2023/03/03/through-their-hobbies-they-became-the-first-modern-scientists
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“I am bored” I remember saying these words as a child, having nothing to do. I don’t get as easily bored anymore, either because I don’t find the time, or the mental space to do so. When I say I am bored now, it’s usually followed by more. I am bored of scrolling through social media, I am bored of watching Netflix, I am bored of doing the same thing over and over again. Oh how much the world has changed, and how much have our minds.
https://jijithinks.wordpress.com/2021/08/31/i-want-to-be-bored-again
Wants 