The Unfinished Project: Exploration, Learning and Networks
I: The Educational Field We live today in the age of networks. Having grown from nothing just fifteen years ago, the network has become one of the principal influences in our lives. We trust the...
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For Ted Nelson I: Centrifugal Force We live in the age of networks. Wherever we are, five billion of us are continuously and ubiquitously connected. That’s everyone over the age of twelve who earns...
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I: Baby Books Forty-eight years ago, when my mother was pregnant with me, her friends and family threw her a baby shower. Among the gifts, she received a satin-covered ‘Baby Book’, with spaces to...
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I: My Cloud This is the age of networks, and we are always connected. If that seems fanciful, ask yourself how often you are parted from your mobile, and for how long? All of our hours – even as we...
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I: The Drive to Connect Recently I spent a weekend in Melbourne visiting my good friends Darren and Leah, whom I’ve known since I first moved to Australia. Last December they conceived, and in early...
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I: The Comfy Chair Back in 1978 – when I was just fifteen – I begged my parents to let me enroll in a course at the local community college (the equivalent of TAFE) so that I could take ‘Data...
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I: Paper, works At the end of May I received an email from a senior official at the Victorian Department of Education and Early Childhood Development. DEECD was in the midst of issuing an RFP, looking...
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Introduction: Olden Days In February 1984, seeking a reprieve from the very cold and windy streets of Boston, Massachusetts, I ducked inside of a computer store. I spied the normal array of IBM PCs...
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Introduction: In The Beginning Back in the 1980s, when personal computers mostly meant IBM PCs running Lotus 1*2*3 and, perhaps, if you were a bit off-center, an Apple Macintosh running Aldus...
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The Social Sense
I: On Top of the World I’ve always wanted to save the world. When I was younger, and more messianic, I thought I might have to do it all myself. As the world knocked sense into me, I began to see...
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