Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element: its presence in time and space, its unique existence at the place where it happens to be.

Man-made artifacts could always be imitated by men

introduced in these pages in 1995

In the era of the iPhone, Facebook, and Twitter, we’ve become enamored of ideas that spread as effortlessly as ether. We want frictionless, “turnkey” solutions to the major difficulties of the world—hunger, disease, poverty. We prefer instructional videos to teachers, drones to troops, incentives to institutions. People and institutions can feel messy and anachronistic. They introduce, as the engineers put it, uncontrolled variability.

“You must” rewards mere compliance

incentives

Punishment

You must do X

Please do X

only one made life better for doctors

First, one combatted a visible and immediate problem (pain); the other combatted an invisible problem (germs) whose effects wouldn’t be manifest until well after the operation

An imprecise dosage killed people

Joseph Lister

but it could not then come into use. The economics of the situation were against it:

as truly significant attainments become lost in the mass of the inconsequential.

They have improved his food, his clothing, his shelter; they have increased his security and released him partly from the bondage of bare existence.

Now, for many, this appears to be approaching an end.

Consider a future device …  in which an individual stores all his books, records, and communications, and which is mechanized so that it may be consulted with exceeding speed and flexibility. It is an enlarged intimate supplement to his memory

All she had now was an address, but she had been an investigative reporter. There really were facts, there really was a chain of truths, and she would follow that chain—Until it led her out of the antilibrary.

Internet of Things blockchain

You know what groupthink is? When a whole team shares a worldview so intensely that they literally can’t see things—obvious things to you or me—outside it?

“Even if we go online and wave our shorts at the world, they’ll claim we’re the fake news.”

Not just a library’s worth of bogus truth, but any amount, up to and including an internet’s worth. I’ve started calling it the antinet.

it does what politics is supposed to do: align everybody with collective decisions

your own personal diplomat

we had a tool that could produce a literal library’s worth of entirely bogus material: videos, articles, subtly nonsensical books cross-referenced and supported by other nonsensical books

I rode a wave of denial, the way I guess concentration camp guards did.

Cather rebranded us as Project Antilibrary

Navy had its own cyber-warfare unit

To them, there was no such thing as real news—never had been.

Fake news is designed to sow doubt.

acts like a translator, or mediator, that helps the other side hear what you mean rather than just what you say

people who think they share the same language are talking past one another, because in fact they don’t share an understanding of the part of the language that matters—the connotations of words.

political app

Augmented Manners

The same people who own the SWAT team,

antinet

anti­library

Statecraft X is a 24/7 persistent-world, multiplayer game for students to construct meaning and identities in the context of citizenship education and social studies.

Palmagotchi 

Premise: Customers want to buy beetles with certain traits, and it’s the players’ job to breed them. Players choose the contracts they want to work on, then mate the right beetles to produce the desired offspring. They use their knowledge of Mendelian genetics to work with increasingly difficult patterns of inheritance and to maximize profits!

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players can interact with and manipulate

inquiry-based play style

skills and practices

integrates STEM practices as core game mechanics and allows players to learn by doing in authentic contexts

open worlds that encourage exploration and experimentation

Designing systems for explorationMaking curricular connectionsCreating a culture of inquiryWorking within an educational systemProviding professional development

aking into consideration the larger ecosystem of schools and districts that the game would be functioning within

opportunities to probe complex systems

limited time, mismatched assessments, and unsupportive stakeholders

MMO-style game

Twenty-two teams presented

“As faculty, you notice that students come in with different levels of comfort when talking to you. But students who participated in the Futures Design Challenge will already have a topic to discuss with their professors.”

When it comes to teaching with technology, or even teaching in general, most faculty could use a little support. [...] attention is directed to helping faculty evolve their instructional practices for a technology-laden learning environment -whether for online or hybrid courses; as part of active learning programs; or to better exploit the benefits of technical resources such as learning management systems. (Schaffhauser, 2014, p. 1)

there is a need to bridge the gap in digital competencies

What do we know about the effective use of video in higher education?

Video is defined here as digitally recorded content that has sound and motion that can be stored or delivered live, and can be streamed to a variety of devices

distributed and digitally shaped technologies: adaptive learning, distributed infrastructures and competency models

upload it to YouTube

blockchain

Make certain that materials that you plan to distribute in your physical classroom are also available online and accessible by the students in the remote locations.

Recognize that you and your students are more or less on camera in a TV studio.

Never having side conversations with people in your room

Video Conferencing

The role of the CIO