Visually Triangulating on Musical Artists.

Thanks to Alf's amazing TouchGraph Audioscrobbler Browser, a dream of mine has come to life. I can now pick a number of bands that I like and find not just the sets of artists that relate to those bands individually, but also identify new artists who are in the intersection of these sets. Play around with it - it's great fun!

In the same vein: this and this.

[Seb's Open Research]
3:31:42 PM  #  

Why I believe that skill development of and support for self-organized learning is a worthwhile goal. My assumptions are the following:

• it is increasingly difficult to keep up the notion of "obligatory curriculum" because of the pace of production of concepts and artifacts, a growing individualization of needs and purposes, and a fragmentation of knowledge domains in general
• we will face more and more situation where there is nobody around who would "set the agenda and to decide what knowledge might be considered and in what sequence"
• in emerging knowledge domains it is not quite clear yet what "comprises the knowledge, skills, and values of the educative experience that meet criteria of excellence that make them worthy of study"
• it is then very hard or impossible to find expert teachers who are "well versed in both the material and the criteria of excellence used in the area of study"
• because of the individualization of learning needs and a growing dependance on digital artifacts it is increasingly difficult to actually design, and therefore control, the "milieu" or context in which learning experiences take place for others

So, what do we do in a situation like this? Do we simply want to sit back and wait until "teachers" or "curriculum" comes to rescue us? How can we deal with all the uncertainties and the lack of guidance we are confronted with? This is where personal Webpublishing offers some interesting potentials for the self-organized learner... [Sebastian Fiedler]

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3:26:23 PM  #  

Nyhet fra IT avisen: «Tablet PDA» fra Sony
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