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Been meaning to blog about this for a while, especially after listening to this podcast episode: Open Source » Blog Archive » One Laptop Per Child? Quite insightful, in my mind, and they did touch on several of the important issues. Advertisements
4 Comments | tags: leapfrog effect, TED, TED Conferences | posted in Africa, cellphones, nationalism, Nicholas Negroponte, OLPC, One Laptop Per Child, TEDtalks
[Been sitting on this one for a little while. Better RERO it, I guess.] Sticking My Neck Out (Executive Summary) I think that participants in many technology-enthusiastic movements which carry the term “social” would do well to learn some social science. Furthermore, my guess is that ethnographic disciplines are very well-suited to the task of […]
3 Comments | tags: Acephalous groups, activism, Add new tagInsight, advertising, Attitudes to change, Buzzwords, City-State, cluefulness, Cog in a wheel, Cognition and communication, Consensus culture, Conservatism, constructivism, creative thinking, critical thinking, disruptive technology, Early adopters, Ego-based groups, Empowerment, Epidemiology of ideas, Establishing rapport, Ethnography, Fluidity, Forced adoption, freedom, geek culture, global, glocal, groupthink, Idea horizon, Impatience, influence, Influence network, innovation, Intersubjectivity, Late adopters, Low-stakes, Luddites, memes, memetic marketplace, meta, Mutual influences, Network effects, Neural networks, Niche thinking, Non-hierarchical groups, OLPC XO, OLPC XOXO, openness, organic relationships, Regional, relevance, Risk-taking, social, social butterfly effect, social networks, Sphere of influence, Target audience, Technology adoption, transparency, trial and error, unintended uses, viral, Wilson and Sperber, windmills and shelters | posted in activism, adaptation, advertising, advice, advocacy, Anth, Anthropology, Apple, applied anthropology, audience, cluefulness, Clueing, clueless, cluetrain, Cluetrain Manifesto, comment-fishing, commodities, communitas, Communities, community-building, consumerism, critical thinking, cultural awareness, cultural capital, cultural diversity, diversity, economics, Empowerment, enthusiasm, Ethnography, expertise, free software, freedom, friendliness, friends, friendship, geek culture, geekness, geeks, globalisation, globalization, glocal, glocalisation, glocalization, Google, groupthink, hegemony, humanism, hype, identity, informal learning, innovation, knowledge, knowledge management, knowledge people, Learning, linkfest, local, market economy, marketing, Marshall McLuhan, mass media, media, mediascape, memes, mindshare, networking, online communities, Open Source Movement, open-source, openness, performance, playfulness, professionals, qualitative research, ramblings, research, shameless plug, social, social butterflies, social butterfly effect, social capital, social change, social contract, social dynamics, social networking, social networks, social software, sociocentrism, specialization, surveys, Tech, techno enthusiasts, technological determinism, technology, Technorati, trends, trusting people, Web 2.0, Web applications
I’m still giving Diigo.com a try, so this is partly an excuse to try out the “send to blog” feature. These are selected links to blogposts and articles about issues related to the One Laptop Per Child project, with my embedded annotations. graphpaper.com – Challenge: If You Can’t Say Something Nice about OLPC… tags: OLPC […]
Leave a comment | tags: critical thinking, design, laptops, neo-colonialism, neo-imperialism, Neo-Liberalism, neocolonialism, neoconservatives, stonewalling, technological determinism, textbooks, zeal | posted in cellphones, Learning, linkfest, Nicholas Negroponte, OLPC, One Laptop Per Child
Ok, it probably shouldn’t become part of my habits but this is another repost of a blog comment motivated by the OLPC XO. This time, it’s a reply to Niti Bhan’s enthusiastic blogpost about the eeePC: Perspective 2.0: The little eeePC that could has become the real “iPod” of personal computing This time, I’m heavily […]
1 Comment | tags: 802.11g, 802.11n, 802.11x, accelerometer, adaptive technologies, agism, alphabetization, alternatives, Android, Asus, AsusTek, audio inputs, audio outputs, aurality, Bluetooth networking, cameraphones, cameras, cell phone, communication device, community-building, complemenary technologies, constructionism, culturally appropriate, daydreaming, device categories, disruptive technology, eeePC, embedded Linux, engineering challenges, feature lists, for the rest of us, Ford Model T, Ford T, Fordism, form factor, generation gaps, global cellphone penetration, global markets, GPS, Graphical User Interface, GSM, GUI, handheld devices, handhelds, Handhelds for the Rest of Us, handicaps, handset, haptics, headphones, headsets, hearing-impaired, HftRoU, humanism, humanitarian aid, humanitarian intervention, humanitarianism, input devices, inter-device, Internet Protocol, iPod Dock Connector, keyboard obsession, keyboard-les, keypad, kinesics, leapfrog effect, literacy, local manufacturers, location-based, long-form text, MacBooks, manufacturing costs, mesh networking, microphones, Microsoft Surface, MMS, mobile, multilingualism, multitouch, navigation, Newton, next big things, Nintendo DS, OLPC debacle, OLPC dream, OLPC Sugar, OLPC XO-1, One Handheld Per Child, Open Handheld Alliance, open minds, operating systems, OS, Palm, paradigm shifts, Perceptive Pixel, personal digital assistant, Pixel Qi, Playstation Portable, portable, portable devices, portable games, portable gaming consoles, portable media players, positioning, post-OLPC projects, power autonomy, power consumption, power management, prototypes, scree size, screen reading, self-empowerment, Skyhook, Skype, smartphones, SMS, solidarity, speakers, speech recognition, speech synthesis, subnotebooks, Symbian, tagfest, techno lust, text-focus, textism, Touch devices, touch-typing, typing, Ultimate Handheld Device, UMTS, unintended uses, USB, visually-impaired, VoIP, weather, Wi-Fi Positioning System, WiFi, WiMax, Windows Mobile, XO-1, Zune | posted in advocacy, Apple, books, cellphones, comment-fishing, computers, constructivism, Crazy Predictions, cultural awareness, cultural diversity, development, Digital Divide, diversity, Empowerment, gadgets, globalisation, glocalisation, Google, informal learning, iPhone, iPod, iPod touch, Learning, linkfest, localization, location-specific, Microsoft, Nicholas Negroponte, OLPC, One Laptop Per Child, openness, ramblings, techno enthusiasts, techno lust, technological determinism, textbooks, voice, voice interface, WiFi, wishful thinking, wishlists, writing, Zune
To say the least, I’ve been ambivalent about the One Laptop Per Child project. And I was not alone in my OLPC discomfort. But now, I feel optimistic. Not about the OLPC project. But because that project is enabling something important.
3 Comments | tags: Adam Smith, alter-globalization, altermondialists, cellphone penetration, cellphones, cult of personality, economic development, engineering, Engineers Without Borders, enthusiasm, EPFL, fair-trade, free trade, GDP-poor, Geekcorps, globalization, hegemony, human factors, humanitarianism, Invisible Hand, iPhone, John Perry Barlow, liberal democracy, liberalism, messianic complex, MIT Media Lab, naïveté, neoconservatives, neoliberalism, Nicholas Negroponte, Peter Schwartz, post-industrial societies, privatization, representative democracy, Sherman Dorn, technology, troubleshooting approach, United States, utopia, well-intentioned, well-meaning, XO | posted in A, Anth, Anthropology, applied anthropology, cellphones, cultural awareness, economics, Education, education systems, Ethnography, groupthink, naïve, naïveté, Nation-States, Nicholas Negroponte, OLPC, One Laptop Per Child, optimism
Been thinking about blogging on my use of Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) for a little while. Here’s my chance: There’s simply no market these days for the traditional PDA, as even basic mobile phones can do everything a PDA can do, just with more style. Report: Apple developing OS X minitablet | One More Thing […]
13 Comments | tags: cellphone, Clié, field research, gadgets, leapfrog, MessagEase, MessagePad, Newton, OLPC, PalmOS, PDA, personal digital assistant, portable device, predictions, smartphone, speech recognition, technology, tools, Visor, WiFi | posted in gadgets, PDAs, ramblings
Lots to mull over. Haven’t read this report by Daniel Miller and Heather Horst (PDF) yet, but it does sound quite insightful: The whole report is full of examples for ethnography’s ability to check (and often disprove) common-sense beliefs concerning the benefits of new technologies Rich ethnographic reports about the uses of ICT in low-income […]
3 Comments | tags: Developing World, Don Hinkelman, Japan, laptops, Luddites, Marshall McLuhan, MIT, technocrats | posted in Anthropology, books, cellphones, development, Digital Divide, Ethnography, globalisation, globalization, glocal, Nicholas Negroponte, OLPC, One Laptop Per Child, Radio Open Source, technological determinism, United States
Something I just posted on a forum about the Moodle course management system. Using Moodle: Thinking Through Groups Here are some comments and observations about the “Groups” interface (where an instructor can put participants in distinct groups) and other group-related features in Moodle. I’m currently teaching a smallish ethnomusicology seminar and a large (170 students) […]
3 Comments | tags: avatars, educational technology, feature requests, peer-assessment, peer-evaluation, peer-teaching, personas, student engagement, student participation, team projects, teamwork | posted in Academia, collaborative learning, Content Management Systems, course management systems, Education, eLearning, Ethnography, Facebook, Learning, Moodle, profiles, ramblings, Sakai, social networking, students, Teaching
Been quite taken by the last episode of Les années lumière, Radio-Canada’s scientific radio show. Made me think about scientists as human beings. Of course, there are several anthropologists working with scientists as groups, including Cultural Critique Michael M.J. Fischer and Maggie Paxson. My goal here is quite limited. It’s fascinating to hear Ethiopian-born paleoanthropologist […]
Leave a comment | tags: Camille Limoges, fundamental research, Internet in Chile, leapfrog effect, Margaret Paxson, Michael Fischer, science politics, sciences, Selam, Zeray Alemseged | posted in Années Lumière, knowledge people, Radio-Canada
