KEMBAR78
Plotting Paths Through Digital Minefields | PPTX
plotting paths through digital minefields
#CityLIS after hours seminar
@dompates, senior educational technologist
mon oct 7th, 2019
activity 1: how do you feel about the future?
with a partner, try to think of an area of
the human experience that remains
completely untouched by digital
technologies

activity 2: paired discussion
contents
presentation:
on the information society and digitised educational environments
activity 3 closing
activity
on the information society

on the information society


a society where the creation, distribution, use,
integration and manipulation of information is a
significant economic, political, and cultural
activity. its main drivers are digital information
and communication technologies

wikipedia, oct 7th 2019
on the information society

on the information society

1936
1962
1945
allimagescourtesyofwikipedia

the next medium,
whatever it is—it may be the
extension of
consciousness—will include
television as its content, not
as its environment, and will
transform television into an
art form.
a computer as a research
and communication
instrument could enhance
retrieval, obsolesce mass
library organization, retrieve
the individual's encyclopedic
function and flip into a
private line to speedily
tailored data of a saleable
kind.
manuel castells: the information age
‱ the rise of the network society (1996)
‱ the power of identity (1997)
‱ end of millennium (1998)
on the information society

By Jorge Gonzales - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0,
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=57197678
...describes the shift from an industrial
society to an informational society, which
started in the 1970s. this network society is
structured around networks instead of
individual actors, and works through a
constant flow of information through
technology...argues that the 'network' is the
defining feature that marks our current
epoch.
on the information society

By Jorge Gonzales - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0,
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=57197678
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Information_Age:_Economy,_Society_and_Culture
...maintains that the information age can
"unleash the power of the mind", which would
dramatically increase the productivity of
individuals and lead to greater leisure,
allowing individuals to achieve "greater
spiritual depth and more environmental
consciousness". such change would be
positive, he argues, in that it would cause
resource consumption to decrease.
on the information society

By Jorge Gonzales - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0,
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=57197678
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Castells
on the information society

agricultural industrial digital
industry
4.0
on the information society

1989 1994 1995 1998 1999 2000 2001 2003 2006 2007 2010 2011 2013 2016 2018
Tim Berners-
Lee invents
World Wide
Web
Saw
Timothy
Leary speak
on
‘cyberspace’
at USF
Google
formed
Sent first
email
Bought
first PC
Napster
launch
Dotcom
bubble
First
mobile
phone
First social
network
(‘Friends
Reunited’)
SQL
Slammer
Worm;
coining of
‘Net
Neutrality’
Started
own
blog
First
iPhone
Started
own
YouTube
channel
Started
on
Twitter
Arab
Spring
Launch of
Wikileaks
Started
MA in
Digital
Media
Edward
Snowden
revelations
Finished MA;
wrote
dissertation
on Internet
openness
Yahoo! hacks
(1bn accounts);
Brexit/Trump
(Cambridge
Analytica)
China’s
social
credit
system
on the information society

three major areas of study within
ethics:
‱ meta-ethics concerning the theoretical
meaning and reference of moral propositions,
and how their truth values (if any) can be
determined
‱ normative ethics concerning the practical
means of determining a moral course of
action
‱ applied ethics concerning what a person is
obligated (or permitted) to do in a specific
situation or a particular domain of action
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethics
on the information society

‘Socrates’ by Marie-Lan Nguyen (via Wikimedia, CC-
BY)
on digitised educational environments

learning analytics
on digitised educational environments

intelligent campus
on digitised educational environments

holographic projection
on digitised educational environments

artificial intelligence
(mozfest, oct 26, 27)
activity 3
1. group discussion
2. (if time) find your own ethical conundrum and write a
scenario to share with the room
http://bit.ly/DP-DigitalEthics
Plotting Paths Through Digital Minefields

Plotting Paths Through Digital Minefields

  • 1.
    plotting paths throughdigital minefields #CityLIS after hours seminar @dompates, senior educational technologist mon oct 7th, 2019
  • 2.
    activity 1: howdo you feel about the future?
  • 3.
    with a partner,try to think of an area of the human experience that remains completely untouched by digital technologies
 activity 2: paired discussion
  • 4.
    contents presentation: on the informationsociety and digitised educational environments activity 3 closing activity
  • 5.
    on the informationsociety

  • 6.
    on the informationsociety

  • 7.
    
a society wherethe creation, distribution, use, integration and manipulation of information is a significant economic, political, and cultural activity. its main drivers are digital information and communication technologies
 wikipedia, oct 7th 2019 on the information society

  • 8.
    on the informationsociety
 1936 1962 1945 allimagescourtesyofwikipedia 
the next medium, whatever it is—it may be the extension of consciousness—will include television as its content, not as its environment, and will transform television into an art form. a computer as a research and communication instrument could enhance retrieval, obsolesce mass library organization, retrieve the individual's encyclopedic function and flip into a private line to speedily tailored data of a saleable kind.
  • 9.
    manuel castells: theinformation age ‱ the rise of the network society (1996) ‱ the power of identity (1997) ‱ end of millennium (1998) on the information society
 By Jorge Gonzales - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=57197678
  • 10.
    ...describes the shiftfrom an industrial society to an informational society, which started in the 1970s. this network society is structured around networks instead of individual actors, and works through a constant flow of information through technology...argues that the 'network' is the defining feature that marks our current epoch. on the information society
 By Jorge Gonzales - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=57197678 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Information_Age:_Economy,_Society_and_Culture
  • 11.
    ...maintains that theinformation age can "unleash the power of the mind", which would dramatically increase the productivity of individuals and lead to greater leisure, allowing individuals to achieve "greater spiritual depth and more environmental consciousness". such change would be positive, he argues, in that it would cause resource consumption to decrease. on the information society
 By Jorge Gonzales - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=57197678 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Castells
  • 12.
    on the informationsociety
 agricultural industrial digital industry 4.0
  • 13.
    on the informationsociety
 1989 1994 1995 1998 1999 2000 2001 2003 2006 2007 2010 2011 2013 2016 2018 Tim Berners- Lee invents World Wide Web Saw Timothy Leary speak on ‘cyberspace’ at USF Google formed Sent first email Bought first PC Napster launch Dotcom bubble First mobile phone First social network (‘Friends Reunited’) SQL Slammer Worm; coining of ‘Net Neutrality’ Started own blog First iPhone Started own YouTube channel Started on Twitter Arab Spring Launch of Wikileaks Started MA in Digital Media Edward Snowden revelations Finished MA; wrote dissertation on Internet openness Yahoo! hacks (1bn accounts); Brexit/Trump (Cambridge Analytica) China’s social credit system
  • 14.
    on the informationsociety

  • 15.
    three major areasof study within ethics: ‱ meta-ethics concerning the theoretical meaning and reference of moral propositions, and how their truth values (if any) can be determined ‱ normative ethics concerning the practical means of determining a moral course of action ‱ applied ethics concerning what a person is obligated (or permitted) to do in a specific situation or a particular domain of action https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethics on the information society
 ‘Socrates’ by Marie-Lan Nguyen (via Wikimedia, CC- BY)
  • 16.
    on digitised educationalenvironments
 learning analytics
  • 17.
    on digitised educationalenvironments
 intelligent campus
  • 18.
    on digitised educationalenvironments
 holographic projection
  • 19.
    on digitised educationalenvironments
 artificial intelligence (mozfest, oct 26, 27)
  • 20.
    activity 3 1. groupdiscussion 2. (if time) find your own ethical conundrum and write a scenario to share with the room http://bit.ly/DP-DigitalEthics

Editor's Notes

  • #3 Line-up: how do you feel about the future (from ‘excited’ to terrified’) Reflection on activity
  • #6 Personal stuff Myself as a child of the Internet, born inbetween the Moon Landings Vint Cerf/Bob Kahn, TCP/IP – first proposed at Sussex Uni Internetworking Group in 1973
  • #7 Personal stuff Current job Academic background (UG, PG)
  • #9 HG Wells – ‘a new, free, synthetic, authoritative, permanent "World Encyclopaedia" that could help world citizens make the best use of universal information resources and make the best contribution to world peace, first articulated in a lecture in 1936. Vannevar Bush – ‘As We May Think’. Concerned with post-war scientific efforts going towards understanding rather than destruction, a desire for a ‘collective memory machine (memex) that would make knowledge more accessible and help fix these problems, also precursor to hypertext Marshall McLuhan – prophesised the web, through ‘The Gutenberg Galaxy’, reknowned for ‘the global village’ and ‘the medium is the message’
  • #13 Pros and cons of each? Arguably, industrial had two stages (steam-powered, electrical powered) Digital = personal computers + the Internet (aka third industrial revolution) 4th Industrial = example of latest technological revolution, where one or more technologies is replaced by another in a short amount of time, causing abrupt changes in society; introduced at WEF in 2015; robotics, AI, nanotech, biotech, quantum computing, IoT, 5G, 3D printing, autonomous vehicles
  • #15 Aaron Swartz – from one of the last known interviews – ‘The Internet’s Own Boy’ (2012)
  • #17 It aimed to identify where any boundaries might be for the institution in terms of using data as the basis for learning interventions. As this is an emerging area that the institution has yet to fully implement, there were difficulties in conveying potential applications and by extension, possible ethical pitfalls. With this in mind, a series of scenarios were provided to participants. These were designed as student personas, presenting both the subject’s ‘real’ story and also the information that the learning analytics system held in relation to their engagement with learning. Part of an example scenario is shown in Figure 1. These cases demonstrated to participants that data may not always provide the full picture of student engagement. They also stimulated discussion about how demographic data might be used by institutions and whether using algorithms to flag students who might need support is problematic. Also looked into what a participant would like a learning analytics system to include.
  • #22 one thing I'll take away from this session is... https://www.polleverywhere.com/free_text_polls/d6FTf3VmGfhgMsbMnhuP7