>you are standing in a small cottage. There is a fishing pole here.
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Yes Keanu. Woah indeed.
or
Follow along at j.mp/sg-bash
Dr. Shawn Graham, Dept of History, Carleton @electricarchaeo
I'd prefer if someone called 'bullshit'.
...instrumentalization of learning is part of it.
...surveillance masking as 'Engagement Analytics'
This isn't a new thing, of course.
via Audrey Watters, whom you must read
1866
But when I hear 'Digital Natives'
Or when I hear 'gamify!'
The Argument So Far:
- Concerns for form over content kill love
- Atomization & measurement kill joy
- Both lead to surveillance and the casual acceptance of the same
- Resulting in what we see in our classrooms.
...and the 'essay' is the prime vector.
After a statement like that, I'd better have something good, right?
No more essays.
Let us essayer something else.
Metaphors Matter.
-T. Pratchett
Weirdness of 'seeing the past'
Note: We've always been augmenting reality. But maybe we could make things a bit more... awesome. image: http://www.dayofarchaeology.com/cakes-cottages-and-manky-bones/
Acknowledge the weird.
Note: this is where I talk about unessays, about bashing stuff together to see what happens. If we recognize that 'visualizing' and 'essays' are just metaphors, then that makes us see they have a grammar, a form; and if we break away from that we have to establish a new form, a new grammar, and in this, we see things new.
"How do we write good history?"
...we bash it into a different form.
Some focus on place.
Some focus on pushing the physical into the digital and back to the physical world.
Some tell algorithmic stories.
Some build worlds
The Medic's War
The only thing worse than writing a 5 pg essay is not writing a 5 pg essay.
Bashing history upsets the game.
This is good.
Lack of grammar for the other modalities is an opportunity to figure out new ways of knowing, to 'see' things afresh.
Note: photobashing ... occupies a liminal position in archae because it puts 'something captured through a mechanical process through a subjective one' Value in it- because it 'sit[s] at an intersection of subjective processes and mechanical capture, allows for some interesting interactions and reflexivity between both sides of this discussion'. Photobashing is deformation.
Topic model viz is here
Songs of Jesuits
Listen to the recording
Live-coding with sonic pi
Note: Try to live-code the performance; play notes.tick plays the data straight up, etc
You don't have to buy what I'm selling. But...
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Yes Keanu. Woah indeed.
Forget about essays.
Ask 'how this form enables/constrains different modes of knowing'.
Bash stuff together.
`>`you are standing in a small classroom. There is a **computer** here. Students are staring at you.
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