So, my computer just ate my update! Rather, WordPress did. It’s nowhere to be found!
So, what you find here is a much shorter, to the point, update than you would have gotten otherwise.
1. I’m not podcasting this week because I’m still getting my feet on the ground and it takes longer to do than a blog post– that is, unless your computer eats your blog post!!
2. My paper is now going to be a paper that will be up for consideration for a book chapter. The paper will be on educating millennials in libraries. I’ve spent a lot of time this week pulling together everything I’ve learned/thought about millennials and education in the course of this class, and today I’ve started gathering statistics from OCLC and the Pew Internet & American Life Project. My goal is to get a rough draft up by the end of the week and then spend the rest of this class on the electronic/web component.
3. I’ve finally spent some time with Turkle and Mazlish.
4. After reading Mazlish, I can see why you kept pointing out the coevolution of machines/humans, Sue! Very interesting stuff there!
5. I really enjoyed Turkle. My two favorites:
5a. I liked that she talked about computers as tools AND as new models of mind/mediums for ideas. I agree that when we think of teaching, it is useful to stick to the mantra “technology is just a tool” and not give in too much to technolust. However, I think that thinking of technology as just a tool is somewhat limited and leads people to ignore how technology really does affect the message. It is a new medium, and for me, it’s useful to think of that.
5b. I really thought the multiple windows, multiple selves discussion was interesting. At the time she wrote this (1995!) the anecdotal story was that one window of many was from “real life.” Today, when you look at student’s computer screens, there are 5-10 IM windows, the internet, Word (for a paper), iTunes, and who knows what else. Most of those windows are directly related to real life. To me, Turkle’s discussion of windows as a demonstration of postmodern ideas is more accurate today.
6. Okay, so hopefully this week you’ll mostly hear library, millennial, education related stuff from me. And (really) hopefully you’ll see a ROUGH draft this Friday!
[...] This classic is another book that I need to make time to read. I’m not sure it’ll directly relate to my project, but I plan on taking it on my vacation just-in-case. Lyotard argues that we are living in a postmodernist age. In this time, there is an “incredulity towards meta-narratives.” In postmodern though, these grand narratives are too broad to contain everyone, and lose the details. Postmodernists are aware of difference and diversity and realize that these cannot be contained in meta-narratives. What are the implications for online behavior? (Particularly given Turkle’s windows) Posted by lauren pressley Filed in postmodernism, Jean-Francois Lyotard, book summary [...]
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