I wish.
Back in the 80's we used to look forward to the day that we would have so much more leisure time because workplaces would bring in computers and take away people's jobs.
Today's lecture left me with hope. Hope that I will find the time to build up appropriate RSS feeds and explore some of the interesting things we were shown, and then I will be efficient. I will save time and have more leisure.
Damm, I have missed the news on TV yet again because I was embroiled with responding to class blogs. Like Meridith, who likes newspapers, I like TV for news and current affairs - it provides an avenue for converstation with the family. RSS feed and SNS, takes you away from family.
However, I can't help brag, my techno savy son and my equally brilliant "can fix anything" husband did not know about RSS feed or what it does. The downside of getting more techno savvy is there is no one in the house who can help me with my wiki pages.
I wouldn't say I have a passion for IT, but I can see its benefits in education, and will try and use it provided I don't get too disenfranchised from glitches.Unfortunately my hubby cannot fix my wiki page that won't save edits , no matter how many times I re log on and press "save". I hope it is the wiki site!
I found something that you should probably not write as a teacher when rejected for jobs
this teacher claims she was rejected because she is an ICT specialist in a private school. He is also damming of Teachers TV. The author has a website Box of Tricks and had a good posting on using Wordle in a class lesson. This site also featured domo animate which is a free site for making up animations.
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It is interesting what you say about the news on the television being a starting point of conversation for families, whereas internet news/RSS feeds take you away from the family. It brings up that issue that we talked about earlier in the term - does technology make us more anti social or does it encourage more social interactivity? I still side with the idea that it makes us more anti social. We get so consumed in our computers, I think it is important to make a distinction between computer time and family time.
ReplyDeleteInteresting point about about technology and social interaction. It's not so long ago we used to hear the argument that TV destroys social contact because whole families just sit, mostly silently, in front of it, not really engaging with each other.
ReplyDeleteThis is actually a complicated, grey area, of course, but I'm not sure we should dismiss the social possibilities of the internet. For example, some research which is about to be published shows that one of the reasons people seek out news online is so they can then engage in discussion (whether online or offline) with friends and acquaintances. What's more, people often forward articles, videos, jokes, whatever, that they've seen online, and invite comments from their social networks. Although you can be quite passive on the internet, its architecture is social by design, with users encouraged to be active - specifically, to interact with each other. Watching TV is largely passive (except for phone polling and, nowadays, Twitter commenting!) and, depending on the context, can be quite antisocial.
Perhaps the answer is that face-to-face socialisation requires us to switch off all the technology - TV and internet - for at least some of the time we're together with others? Beyond that, I'd say that TV and the internet CAN both lead to social engagement, but of different kinds. If there's social engagement around a TV, it's with a small group of individuals in the same location. If there's social engagement with the internet, it's with a dispersed social network.
Oh, and just to pick up on one other point: Averil, it definitely takes time to build up your RSS feeds (just as it takes time to build up your Twitter network, Facebook friends, etc, etc) but you're right that the effort can really pay off in the long run ...
I agree with what Averil and Jenny are saying, a family can watch a program and comment about it in the ad breaks or after the show and so on. Perhaps though with some of the technologies you were showing us Mark, early on in the semester (i.e. those interactive glass tables in the bar) the level of group interaction enable thorugh the internet will increase. I know I cannot bear Martin leaning over my shoulder to help me with something on the computer, so I look forward to having bigger touch screens on which everyone can participate. So instead of arguments about who as the remote control there will be arguments about who touched the back or forward icon.
ReplyDeleteHowever, despite what these improvements might bring, TV, as well as the radio and newspaper, are also mediums which older friends and family are familiar with. I can not connect with my 93 year old grandmother about the latest thing I contributed on a blog. However, we can have a long chat with her about what was said on Life Matters. The same goes for people who are not as exposed to the internet - my farming family in Manjimup who struggle to get a fast enough internet speed to do much at all, my tradie dog-walking friends who don't own a computer, and my mothering friends who are able to listen to the radio or watch TV while folding nappies - you can't multitask while absorbing information on the internet. So while the internet, TV, radio and so on may all equally inspire social engagement, the internet may still disconnect you from a number of people in particular socioeconomic groups compared to TV, radio or the newspaper.
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ReplyDeleteThat's a good point, Meredith, and an inevitable consequence of what Clay Shirky calls 'partial adoption'. In fact, TV spread much more slowly than the internet has, and while the kind of generational, geographic and socioeconomic divides you mention are very much a part of current reality (as they were with TV for decades) that will change fairly quickly over coming years. In the meantime, though, as you say, we do have to find ways to socialise which are accessible to other segments of our social networks.
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