Re: [-empyre-] clarifying noiseless challenge

[Aliette <aliette@criticalsecret.org>]

Hello Michelle,

We are a singular part of environmental components and environment is a
component of our behavioural singular education. That is not thinking.
But whatever: we think.

Where we think it is not in the box.

A.


On 22/11/06 0:09, "michelle@kasprzak.ca" <michelle@kasprzak.ca> probably
wrote:

> hi all,
> Apologies for coming a little late to the party.
> Since this discussion started I've been interested in thinking beyond
> defining the "noiseless" challenge literally, and thinking of it more as a
> notion of what is obvious versus what is less visible and more reflexive.
> 
>> Once Guy Debord said that i'm a lost child. Now, in
>> the middle of our discussion i feel that i'm a lost
>> child. I prefer to be silent and listen.
> 
> I'm picking up on Hamed's reference to a "lost child", because reading the
> debate over the past weeks reminded me of Mimi Ito's research into how
> young people use technology - though the children she is studying are far
> from lost. If my 10 year old niece is any example, technology is
> completely "noiseless" (noiseless = invisible, reflexive) to her - she
> uses instant messaging and email in ways and for reasons that are
> completely not obvious to me, someone who came to networked technologies
> in her teens (in other words, relatively late in life!)
> 
>> From the official announcement about Mimi Ito's new research programme:
> (sorry for the long quotation but I think it explains this research
> initiative in sufficient detail - references from
> http://spotlight.macfound.org/,
> http://www.smartmobs.com/archive/2006/10/21/mimi_ito_studie....html,
> http://www.annenberg.edu/news/news.php?id=41)
> 
> "Mimi Ito, a senior fellow at the USC Annenberg Center for Communication
> was named among a distinguished group of researchers awarded grants
> through a major new research initiative on "Digital Media and Learning"
> announced by The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation on October
> 19.
> 
> The five-year, $50 million initiative aims to support research which
> helps determine how digital technologies are changing the way young
> people learn, play, socialize, and participate in civic life.
> 
> ³Digital media are no longer experimental technologies that live in
> special laboratories and classrooms; they are part of our everyday  lives,
> inhabiting our living rooms, backpacks, pockets, and cars,² says Ito on
> the MacArthur Foundation¹s ³Digital Media and Learning² blog site for the
> initiative.
> 
> ³We need to understand how digital media has changed how young people
> play, learn,
> relate to others, get information, and create knowledge and culture. Ito¹s
> research, in collaboration with colleagues at the University of
> California-Berkeley, includes a large-scale ethnography of young people
> that will provide a broad portrait of the digital generation:technology's
> influence on their social networks and peer groups, their family life, how
> they play, and how they look for information. It will be one of the most
> significant attempts yet made  to explore the influence of digital media
> on youth.
> 
> ³One goal of our project is to unpack what it means to be ³fluent² and
> ³natural² with digital technology, and document the technical, social,
> and cultural environments that support this kind of lifelong learning  and
> literacy,² says Ito. ³Configuring an iPod, exchanging IM with friends, or
> posting a question to a fan bulletin board are all learning  moments.
> Taken as a whole, these informal and everyday moments can have  a longer
> and lasting impact on young people¹s learning
> and development  than their exposure to educational technologies in the
> classroom.²
> 
> As Aliette noted in a post earlier today to this list:
> 
>> The butterfly does not think, he flies.
> 
> I'm sorry to truncate your very long post down to one solitary sentiment,
> Aliette, but it is the one that supports what I am saying! ;)
> 
> What becomes of digital creation when noise and noiselessness collide -
> that is, what kind of artwork will my niece make, as a member of a younger
> generations for whom a networked existence is natural? (A butterfly that
> does not think, just flies.) As opposed to the new media works created by
> us, the digital immigrants? And how shall we have a conversation about it
> or understand each other's perspectives?
> 
> all the best
> Michelle
> --
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