Rudy Rucker says, in passing,
at this point, Ive somewhat lost interest in promulgating the Wolframite belief that reality is made of gnarly computations. I still think its true, but Im tired of pointing it out.The resonance for me is with the "tired of pointing it out", not the Wolfram connection.
See also a wonderful followup in the Australian Wisebytes (Lisa Wise). Posted by oook at April 22, 2006 09:27 PM
Where we're headed: Learning Networks *not institution-based (0:34)
*not product-based educators... focused on enabling people to provide service for themselves (1:00)
we're locked into this idea that this is a service we give them... (0:25)
*education isn't about the content ...it's about engagement, about practise, about reflection (0:39)
Web 2.0 isn't a fad (0:17)
'quality in education' (0:58)
Richard Nixon (2:36)
information about a resource is scattered across the Web (1:26)
learning becomes a network phenomenon (0:35)
content mashes: aggregated, remixed, edited, distributed (0:45)
APIs allow distributed things to talk to each other (0:18)
standards vs protocols: RSS as example (1:47)
produce knowledge by interaction: markets (0:32)
if you're looking for the elements of e-learning 2.0... (1:35)
from text-based to full multimedia content (0:45)
producing educational resources (0:41)
MyGlu (see freebie code link) (1:31)
RSSWriter, and comparison to Learning Management Systems (see documentation) (1:20)
what's the future of learning resources... why can't our students do this? (0:39)
Four Basic Principles: is it Open Source? (1) autonomy (2) diversity (3) openness (4) interaction (2:15)