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South by Southwest: Interactive 2010
Jonathan SmithThe Catholic University of America
http://www.flickr.com/photos/adactio/4436106831/
Smartphones are ubiquitous
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tweenina/4451985145/
Twitter is everywhere
Emerging tech - QR Codes
http://www.flickr.com/photos/betsyweber/4430726235/
Emerging tech - location-based social networking
Emerging tech - touch screens
Danah Boyd - Making sense of privacy
Universities in the "Free" Era
The University System is in crisis, the current model is leading to a collapse.
Where to begin• Experiential learning• Multi-institutional
collaborations• Train PhDs to think more
contextually and how to teach
• Get rid of tenure• Facilitate collaboration, team
teaching etc• De-privilege institutional
content• Reward failure, publishing
results• Get rid of departments
instead focus on questions• Contribute to open commons
HTML5
• “Is Google making us stupid?”• There needs to be time inefficient
contemplation in balance with information retrieval
• Will we adapt? People used to flip through TV channels, now they prefer to watch DVD box sets to get immersed
Nicholas Carr - The Shallows
Links: http://docs.google.com/View?id=dhshfdgz_349t9k7gdcr