Old English Poetry in Facsimile: Restorative Editions

Susanna Collet's Commonplace Book

We really need to get around to scheduling the second session of Gardens and Streams.

Important point: this is not the only version of digital culture that is possible.

In fact, HTML makes it very easy (true for the reasons that lead Mark to write that it can be copied and manipulated). It's contemporary authoring systems and the typical author-as-publisher and the choices they make that are what makes this difficult.

The future of rich media lies in striving to be more like dead media (or at least mining it for insights by better understanding it through thoughtful study), rather than the misguided attempts we've been living inside.

(This is something that I've done a 180 on in the last year or so.)

It is exactly that "timid" ("tepid"?) attempt at dynamism that has led to these circumstances.

This looks fascinating. I'm not so much interested in the coding/programming part as I am the actual "working in public" portions as they relate to writing, thinking, blogging in the open and sharing that as part of my own learning and growth as well as for sharing that with a broader personal learning network. I'm curious what lessons might be learned within this frame or how educators and journalists might benefit from it.

Sin duda esta brecha digital, es uno de los factores que aportan al analfabetismo digital, podría decir que son factores paralelos que a su vez están limitando el conocimiento y las capacidades que pueden llegar a recibir quienes si tienen acceso de calidad a estas herramientas

Esta idea de lo inevitable que carcteriza el discurso de las tecnologías en general, se supone que responde a un cambio cultural de la época y que toca a todas las personas, incluyendo a los niños; sin embargo tapa otras motivaciones, otras urgencias para esta innovación tecnológica que es bastante evidente; se relaciona con los planes de negocios y económicos, los planes de las empresas tecnológicas para las cuales la idea de este cambio inevitable, desde los cuales se presentan sus propuestas digitales, es funcional a sus estrategias de mercado. las empresas necesitan que se crea que se tiene que entrar en esos escenarios de cambios y de innovación para poder vender los productos que sacan al mercado.

La idea de una era digital se ha naturalizado, por tanto los niños acceden a su uso e interactúan en las redes con desconocimiento frente a los riesgos que estos medios pueden contener.

Preparar a los niños para enfrentar los nuevos tiempos, no es prepararlos para adaptarse sino para resistir la constante violencia a la que el mundo globalizado con su economía y sus relaciones de consumo somenten a las personas ( en especial a la infancia) en esta era (tecnológica). Demanda de la escuela y nosotros los maestros, la construcción de un espacio ético desde el cual podamos construir junto con los niños una mirada crítica sobre esas reaciones que se están dando y buscar formas de deconstrucción, de desingenuación de esas mismas relaciones tan perjudiciales, tan nocivas.

I've seen some people building digital commonplace books in real time, but I'm also curious to see more academics doing it and seeing what tools and platforms they're using to do it.

Given the prevalence for these in text, I'd be particularly curious to see them being done as .txt or .md files and then imported into platforms like Obsidian, Roam Research, Org Mode, TiddlyWiki, et al for cross linking and backlinking.

I've seen some evidence of people doing some of this with copies of the bible, but yet to see anyone digitize and cross link old notebooks or commonplace books.

The transformative role of mobile phones is primarily in how they are enabling the other half of the global population to access the internet via mobile networks.

It's already caused society a lot of harm to treat corporations as people. Turning digital assets into property seems like a similar mistake in the making.

Knowles, R., Mateen, B. A., & Yehudi, Y. (2021). We need to talk about the lack of investment in digital research infrastructure. Nature Computational Science, 1(3), 169–171. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43588-021-00048-5

Nsoesie, E. O., Oladeji, O., Abah, A. S. A., & Ndeffo-Mbah, M. L. (2021). Forecasting influenza-like illness trends in Cameroon using Google Search Data. Scientific Reports, 11(1), 6713. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-85987-9

López, J. A. M., Arregui-Garcĺa, B., Bentkowski, P., Bioglio, L., Pinotti, F., Boëlle, P.-Y., Barrat, A., Colizza, V., & Poletto, C. (2020). Anatomy of digital contact tracing: Role of age, transmission setting, adoption and case detection. MedRxiv, 2020.07.22.20158352. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.07.22.20158352

BDI-pathogens/covid-19_instant_tracing. (n.d.). GitHub. Retrieved 13 February 2021, from https://github.com/BDI-pathogens/covid-19_instant_tracing

Gupta, Prateek, Tegan Maharaj, Martin Weiss, Nasim Rahaman, Hannah Alsdurf, Abhinav Sharma, Nanor Minoyan, et al. ‘COVI-AgentSim: An Agent-Based Model for Evaluating Methods of Digital Contact Tracing’. ArXiv:2010.16004 [Cs], 29 October 2020. http://arxiv.org/abs/2010.16004.

Rodman, A. M., Rosen, M. L., Kasparek, S. W., Mayes, M., Lengua, L., McLaughlin, K. A., PhD, & Meltzoff, A. N. (2021, March 4). Social behavior and youth psychopathology during the COVID-19 pandemic: A longitudinal study. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/y8zvg

Een mooie analogie of het nu om notities gaat, je tuin, je werk of iets anders. Je moet durven weglaten. Durven verwijderen

In reflection, it’s astounding to have read how much we take for granted when it comes to digital access and privacy issues of this digital age. By taking a more proactive stance in the responsibility, continuous awareness and education of social, ethical laws and access related to digital use would ensure a continued lineage of digital citizens around the world in this era and beyond.

Learning to protect oneself and know the laws that govern internet activities because many laws and federal regulations apply to youth and online social technology which would require to explore approaches to teaching students about their role as responsible digital citizens. The past decade has seen an exponential increase in digital tools and opportunities, which carry the need for students to master a new set of life skills for behaving responsibly online.

Example.. students from low-income countries may not have reliable or affordable access to the internet in which the elements include digital access, digital commerce, digital communication, digital literacy, digital etiquette, digital law, digital rights and responsibilities, digital health and wellness, and digital security. Other examples like the prolific use of the internet in tertiary education advocates the responsible use of technology, in which practices and standards are essential informants on the importance of digital citizenship.

In my opinion, I would describe ‘digital citizenship’ as having best practices of using technology appropriately for the benefit of all digital citizens. Where this encompasses the participative quality of a member to engage ethically in a digital community which finds attributes such as digital literacy, communication, education, etiquette, online safety are crucial, the understanding of how information is produced and valued are also of great importance.

The report is titled Contribution of Smartphones to Digital Governance in India and the press release is at the link below :

https://icea.org.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Press-Release-ICEA-KPMG-Report_09072020_Contribution-of-Smartphones-to-Digital-Governance-in-Ind....pdf

Link to full Report

https://icea.org.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Contribution-of-Smartphones-to-Digital-Governance-in-India-09072020.pdf

ComputingCulturalHeritage. (n.d.). The British Library; The British Library. Retrieved 6 March 2021, from https://www.bl.uk/projects/computingculturalheritage

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: ‘Understanding Digital Racism After COVID-19’ with Professor Lisa Nakamura. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. (n.d.). Zoom Video. Retrieved 6 March 2021, from https://oii.zoom.us/webinar/register/2216016571338/WN_TrfmBBp-Rrm_ASHWL5e6nA

Is this not an ever present factor of life though? In the US, the media has controlled how the humanity of white people, black people, Arab people, and everyone else in the world is presented. In North Korea, Russia, and China, they've controlled how the humanity of Americans is presented. Africans certainly have zero control over how our humanity is presented to the rest of the world.

This technology is very useful in todays world

the Guardian. ‘Air New Zealand to Trial Covid Vaccine Passport on Sydney Flights’, 23 February 2021. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/23/air-new-zealand-to-trial-covid-vaccine-passport-on-sydney-flights.

Centre for Cognition, Computation, & Modelling on Twitter. (n.d.). Twitter. Retrieved 20 February 2021, from https://twitter.com/BBK_CCCM/status/1359132159953559557

Fukuyama, Barak Richman and Francis. “How to Quiet the Megaphones of Facebook, Google and Twitter.” Wall Street Journal, February 12, 2021, sec. Life. https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-to-quiet-the-megaphones-of-facebook-google-and-twitter-11613068856.

Mills, M. (2021). Online Academic Collaboratives, Part 1: Overview and Possibilities. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/azmu9

A fairly comprehensive list of problems and limitations that are often encountered with data as well as suggestions about who should be responsible for fixing them (from a journalistic perspective).

El Jardín de los Senderos que se Bifurcan.

After reading the short story once more, I can't see how it relates to this context beyond the title. Sure, it's a garden and has paths, but the ideas behind it have nothing to do with how we build knowledge, it is all about how we perceive time and potentially how we interpret the many-worlds theory.

This describes exactly what frustrates me the most about online discussions. Especially on Twitter, it is so hard to build coherence on previous (and future) insight.

This is really interesting. I think we have got used to the fact that the internet is mostly a passive space - where we search for things. Perhaps we sometime ask questions. And there are only some spaces, where we are actually creative ourselves.

Hypothes.is is the powerful idea that you can annotate the web.

Solid is a more radical solution. It is the idea that you can also control what data you share with other.

Spent some time browsing through the wealth of resources here. What a great site. Greg McVerry will appreciate it and many of the curated resources which he may be able to remix and reuse.

I'm curious how a model like Homebrew Website Club or regular DoOO meetups might be similar to or borrow from a teaching model like this class?

This seems like the sort of thing Greg McVerry would appreciate.

One of my early sessions on Open Education, with an emphasis on leveraging the material we create in the course of our work.

I'm reading this and can't help but think it's sort of what Jack Jamieson did in writing his recent thesis Independent Together: Building and Maintaining Values in a Distributed Web Infrastructure.

It's definitely the sort of thing that Maggie Appleton may appreciate.

Cardozo Law Review. „COVID-19 and Digital Contact Tracing: Regulating the Future of Public Health Surveillance“, 27. Januar 2021. https://cardozolawreview.com/covid-19-and-digital-contact-tracing-regulating-the-future-of-public-health-surveillance/.

some literature on organizations such as [[MyPsySpace]] and [[Virtual Reality Medical Center]]

Also seeing "access" repeated early in the letter. I count 51 matches for "access" in the letter. Now seems like a good time to raise how digital redlining affects students' access to high-speed internet.

Toff, B. J., Badrinathan, S., Mont’Alverne, C., Arguedas, A. R., Fletcher, R., & Nielsen, R. K. (2020). What we think we know and what we want to know: Perspectives on trust in news in a changing world. Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. https://experts.umn.edu/en/publications/what-we-think-we-know-and-what-we-want-to-know-perspectives-on-tr

Manual METS

Is this the origin of what people have recently started calling digital gardens?

I just include these initial thoughts / ideas in the same Obsidian vault as my permanent notes. I think of them as "permanent notes in training" or, as some people have started calling them, seedlings (in the language of the digital gardening crowd).

Very insightful and eerily in parallel to my own thoughts regarding my attempt at Digital Gardening with Notion.

The word “Instant” suggests immediate access for all students. However, digital redlining and a lack of high-speed internet means that, for many, “Instant” is not possible.

let's get rid of this term so those in power are no longer abe to shirk responsibility of teaching children and young people digital skills

Zeigt, wie wichtig es ist, dass Organisationen digital operieren können. Quellen für diese Zahlen?

particularly proctoring and "plagiarism detection" platforms that exacerbate the "patterns of systemic racism" mentioned above.

Der Guardian über das estnische Bildungssystem und den Covid-19-Lockdown. Rechtzeitige Digitalisierung hat dafür gesorgt, dass die Schulen so leistungsfähig geblieben sind wie davor.

Brous, P., & Janssen, M. (2020). Trusted Decision-Making: Data Governance for Creating Trust in Data Science Decision Outcomes. Administrative Sciences, 10(4), 81. https://doi.org/10.3390/admsci10040081

This is the very reason I selected this paper. Digital literacy is also a factor in determining one's technological acumen.

by @wendynorris

This comparison takes a narrow view of digital literacy. Often the term includes the ability to critically evaluate digital content and to create digital media (see e.g. Perspectives of digital literacies. However, the concept of digital fluency is also useful and this definition includes useful elements.

Positioning digital literacy as an entitlement is useful language to persuade individual educators and institutions that digital literacy is core to 21st century education, not just an optional add-on.

Ravenscroft, A., Schmidt, A., Cook, J., & Bradley, C. (2012). Designing Social Media for Informal Learning and Knowledge Maturing in the Digital Workplace. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 28(3), 235–249.

https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=shib&db=eric&AN=EJ966042&site=eds-live&scope=site&custid=uphoenix

This paper presents an original approach to designing social media that support informal learning in the digital workplace. It adapts design-based research to take into account the embeddedness of interactions within digitally mediated work-based contexts. The approach is demonstrated through the design, implementation, and evaluation of software tools supporting a particular type of informal learning called "knowledge maturing". The paper: introduces and presents the rationale for, and concept of, knowledge maturing; presents a new design methodology for developing social media that support informal learning and knowledge maturing; focuses on one prototype, for "people tagging for organisational development", that was produced by the methodology (and concisely describes two others); presents the formative evaluation of the highlighted prototype; and finally, discusses the implications and insights arising from this work.

8/10

Interesting section - one sided and lacking in nuance, but not untrue.

Como personas dotadas de razón debemos de analizar seriamente las implicaciones de permitir un tipo de "panóptico digital", aún más si se pretende utilizar con fines de gobernanza. El capitalismo se ha acentuado y ha mostrado su efectividad para lograr dar accesibilidad mundial a recursos, productos y/o servicios. La mal llamada soberanía , sólo por ser ejercida por el soberano, ha de ser cuestionada y hemos de analizar más allá del modelo económico político a los actores implicados y si realmente han sido fieles a los principios proclamados, tanto en aquellos modelos capitalistas como en aquellos con tendencia comunista. Dejemos de atacar al capitalismo como un ente perverso, los gobernantes pueden ser perversos, los modelos pueden ser mal aplicados. "Seguridad digital", "capitalismo", "liberalismo", "esfera privada", todos éstos términos se ven reducidos a la manera en la que se implementan.

There's a nice kernel of an idea here that one's website should be built and made (useful) for ones self first and only secondarily for others. This is what makes it a "personal" website.

This is an interesting idea and too many CMSes are missing this sort of UI baked into them as a core idea. CMSes could do a better job of doing both: the garden AND the stream

WordPress has done a lot to democratize publishing and make portions of it easier, but has it gone too far in crystalizing the form of things by not having more wiki-like or curation-based features?

an apropos criticsm

This idea underlies the reason why one might want to have a public online commonplace book or digital garden.

Wait?! What?!! There's a telegram group for this? Let me in!

(just found details here: https://nesslabs.com/digital-gardeners)

This is one of my favorite parts about my website and others supporting Webmention: the conversation is aggregated onto or more closely adjacent to the source. This helps prevent context collapse.

Has anyone made a browser tool for encouraging lateral reading? I'd love a bookmarklet that I could click to provide some highly relevant lateral reading resources for any particular page I'm on.

I'm gearing up my reading list for the holidays. I wanted to add An Urgency of Teachers: the Work of Critical Digital Pedagogy by Jesse Stommel and Sean Michael Morris. Seemingly I can only find .html, .azw3, and .pdf copies of the book, and I'd far prefer an .epub version. Fortunately the book has a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC 4.0), so I've spent some time this morning to convert an original and made myself an .epub version for my Android devices.

I'm happy to share it if others are looking for the same and don't have the ability (or frankly the time) to make the conversion. I also have a .mobi version (for Kindle) of the text as well since it didn't require much additional work. These are exact replicas with no changes and come with the same CC BY-NC 4.0 license. If Jesse or Sean want copies to make available on their site, I'm happy to send them along. 

If you have the means, please be sure to make a donation to help support the book and Sean and Jesse's work.

Originally posted at https://boffosocko.com/2019/12/19/alternate-formats-of-an-urgency-of-teachers-by-jesse-stommel-and-sean-michael-morris/

I want to get a copy of this book.

an example

I love the general idea of where he's going here and definitively want something exactly like this.

The closest thing I've been able to find in near-finished form is having a public TiddlyWiki with some IndieWeb features. Naturally there's a lot I would change, but for the near term a mixture of a blog and a wiki is what more of us need.

I love the recontextualization of the swale that he proposes here to fit into the extended metaphor of the garden and the stream.

Ian, I am interested in your point about the 'canonical' link? Is your concern that it is a good ideal, but not realistic to expect of all people?

Het is inderdaad het dilemma waar ik mee worstel. Enerzijds wil ik het liefste een Frankopedia maken van mijn site. Iets waar ik losse notities op post, waar ik bookmarks kwijt kan en ik zelf een grootverbruiker ben van de zoekbalk. Maar anderzijds vind ik het lastig te combineren met de meer gepolijste artikelen die ik er wil publiceren. Die meer gericht zijn op het publiek en minder voor mijn eigen second brain

Mooie quote. "a touch of chaos around the edges"

Digital Gardens, Commonplace books. Ik blijf het een fascinerend concept vinden. Het vereist aandacht en langdurig bijhouden om de waarde te vinden. Dat is wat mij persoonlijk nog tegenhoudt.

I find this quite interesting because of the analogies that are given. Many people find it hard or make it seem hard to investigate what is presented on the internet when in all honesty, the process will get easier to the point that it is considered a mirror check, something we humans do constantly.

Shur, L. (2020, April28). What's Powering Digital Transformation?https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesbusinessdevelopmentcouncil/2020/04/28/whats-powering-digital-transformation/#7df3dc2b616f

Knawy, B. A., Adil, M., Crooks, G., Rhee, K., Bates, D., Jokhdar, H., Klag, M., Lee, U., Mokdad, A. H., Schaper, L., Hazme, R. A., Khathaami, A. M. A., & Abduljawad, J. (2020). The Riyadh Declaration: The role of digital health in fighting pandemics. The Lancet, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(20)31978-4