invited keynote for the 2012 Flat Classroom Project (WayBack link)
Our language of saying “going online” carries the connotation that we go to a different place, and with that, who we are in these places has a different identity. With the ubiquity of mobile devices, we effectively carrying the internet in our pockets, and for me, carries questions about the blurred boundary of “online” versus “offline”. In this video, I would like to explore these questions, share some stories, and make some suggestions about managing our own identities versus having it managed for us.
Links Mentioned
- The Vague Line (Alan Levine) http://cogdogblog.com/2011/09/05/the-vague-line/
- A Day in the Life The Making of Time (Jabiz Raisdana)
http://www.jabizraisdana.com/blog/2012/03/a-day-in-the-life-the-making-of-time/ - Static Smiling Avatar (Jabiz Raisdana) http://www.jabizraisdana.com/blog/2012/03/static-smiling-avatar/
- Digital Identity versus Digital Self (Dean Groom)
http://deangroom.wordpress.com/2012/02/11/digital-identity-vs-digital-self/ - Ray Oldenburg and the Third Place http://www.pps.org/articles/roldenburg/
- Which Connections Matter the Most (Rod Lucier)
http://thecleversheep.blogspot.in/2012/03/which-connections-matter-most.html - We The Web Kids (The Atlantic)
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/02/we-the-web-kids/253382/ - What is Character? (Brainpickings) http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/03/02/character-personality/
- Identity and Citizenship in a Digital Age (University of Mary Washington, 2012) http://di202.umwblogs.org/
- Some Thoughts in Identity- Particularly Mine (Claudia Ceraso) http://eltnotes.blogspot.com/2011/09/some-thoughts-on-identity-particularly.html
Like father, like son flickr photo by DocChewbacca shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license
"’I am acquainted with many people (because I have met them in thought or in dreams) whom I do not know (have never met in the flesh, nor heard of).’ Having met other souls while wandering in dreams (line 8) or in some way equally difficult of rational explanation, I have a circle of acquaintances that transcends the list of those of whom I have knowledge in any recognized way."
Gustavo Adolfo Bécquerhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustavo_Adolfo_B%C3%A9cquer see footnote 5 in LXXV[1] in Legends, Tales, and Poems
Extra Video from Student Conversations
Followup Talk
- Blackboard Collaborate archive http://tinyurl.com/FlatActionTalk
- Stalking in English Class http://www.evenfromhere.org/?p=1611
- Bonnie Stewart http://theory.cribchronicles.com/2012/04/26/the-unbearable-lightness-of-being-digital/
See summary of session comments from students as well as the word cloud of comment word pairs:
Many Eyes generated cloud of word pairs from student comments
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