How does it differ from web 3.0?
Web 3.0 defines the internet as 'getting smart'. It will be able to 'connect every aspect of our digital lives - be it a website, an e-mail, or a file on our PC - to every other aspect. It will know, for instance, when you are typing an e-mail, what the subject of the e-mail is, and be able to suggest websites and books as well as documents, photos and videos you have saved that may be relevant to that topic.'
Already the likes of 'Facebook, YouTube and the other social networks and blogs that fall within the scope of 'Web 2.0' may be beginning to penetrate the mainstream' so it is only a matter of when this will all take off.
However this 'intelligence' differs from the 'semantic web' because it is a case of less searches, sites and links, and more connection, interactivity and intelligence. Whereas the 'semantic web' seems to be a more intelligent labeling system of the many pages, sites and information on the internet.
Mr Spivack, the founder of Radar Networks, a leading Web 3.0 company, says it's useful to think about the web's development in ten-year cycles."We have had the first decade of the web, or Web 1.0," he says, which was about the development of the basic platform of the internet and the ability to make huge amounts of information widely accessible, "and we're nearing the end of the second decade - Web 2.0 - which was all about the user interface" and enabling users to connect with one another.'
The information i found for this question was from this article..
Web 3.0 and beyond: the next 20 years of the internet. October 2007. The Times Online. (Online) Can be found at http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article2726190.ece
Saturday, 28 March 2009
Week 10. Semantic Web..
What is the 'semantic web'?
Tim Berners-Lee (2001) discusses the concept of a semantic web in todays society, which is basically an internet which semantically filters out searches to find more specific and needed websites and pages rather than the usual 'routine processing' (e.g. linked pages, matching words) and so it would be much more intelligent than the world wide web.
Berners-Lee defines the need for such an idea because 'most of the Web's content today is designed for humans to read, not for computer programs to manipulate meaningfully' and so 'in general, computers have no reliable way to process the semantics'
The Semantic Web, May 2001. The Scientific American. (Online) Can be found at http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=the-semantic-web
Tim Berners-Lee (2001) discusses the concept of a semantic web in todays society, which is basically an internet which semantically filters out searches to find more specific and needed websites and pages rather than the usual 'routine processing' (e.g. linked pages, matching words) and so it would be much more intelligent than the world wide web.
Berners-Lee defines the need for such an idea because 'most of the Web's content today is designed for humans to read, not for computer programs to manipulate meaningfully' and so 'in general, computers have no reliable way to process the semantics'
The Semantic Web, May 2001. The Scientific American. (Online) Can be found at http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=the-semantic-web
Week 10. Wenger and Prensky.
How might Wenger's notions on practice communities relate to Prensky's on education?
Wenger's theories can relate to Prensky's on education because they both concern the development and cooperation of a learning concept.
Wenger discusses how groups of people who share common interests and goals with each other (for example people in a sociable sports team with the interest and goal of learning new and better techniques with the goal to win) are known as being part of a community of practice. And this relates to Prensky's concept of 'Digitally Native' students being taught by their 'Digitally Immigrant' teachers because this way of learning, although not necessarily the right way (e.g. teachers being taught by their pupils) shows how common interests are placed into activeness in the practice community of the schooling system.
Wenger's theories can relate to Prensky's on education because they both concern the development and cooperation of a learning concept.
Wenger discusses how groups of people who share common interests and goals with each other (for example people in a sociable sports team with the interest and goal of learning new and better techniques with the goal to win) are known as being part of a community of practice. And this relates to Prensky's concept of 'Digitally Native' students being taught by their 'Digitally Immigrant' teachers because this way of learning, although not necessarily the right way (e.g. teachers being taught by their pupils) shows how common interests are placed into activeness in the practice community of the schooling system.
Week 9. Describe the experience of a fictional technophile student in 2020.
A typical day in the life of Jez91 (known to his friends online and off now) is to him 'maxing and relaxing' (as he says so in various 'about me' sections on his several different social networking sites).
He wakes up to various set digital alarms around his double room and switches them off via his computer as he briefly surfs the net as a bit of quick mornings shopping and orders breakfast online from the local star bucks. Then gets himself ready and leaves climbing aboard his expensive electric bicycle (he likes to exercise himself to uni, the environmentally friendly way!) and stops by starbucks on the way to pick up his breakfast and returns to listening to his SuperiPod with integrated radio, TV and Film (handy for sitting in 2 hour lectures!) He sits his 'notepad' laptop on his lap in the lectures and types up some notes here or there but finds it easier to simply use the built in web cam to take pictures of the slides the lecturer is showing.
He then calls a Chinese delivery service when he returns home, from which he found the number online and tucks in to his meal when it its delivered to the door, whilst catching up on daytime tv and missed episodes of his usuals by downloading them and leaves a few friends text messages about silent discos that night.
With his friends later that evening, Jez91 uses his electronic chip and pin card to withdraw enough cash for that nights outings and gets almost free entry into the club with his digital members swipe card. They enter and are given electronic headphones where they listen to all the music the DJ sends out making several requests by text from songs they had downloaded earlier.
Jez91's parents go to sleep that night hoping their son will do well in his big computer-thingy exams tomorrow because they know how he struggles with some of that computer stuff.
He wakes up to various set digital alarms around his double room and switches them off via his computer as he briefly surfs the net as a bit of quick mornings shopping and orders breakfast online from the local star bucks. Then gets himself ready and leaves climbing aboard his expensive electric bicycle (he likes to exercise himself to uni, the environmentally friendly way!) and stops by starbucks on the way to pick up his breakfast and returns to listening to his SuperiPod with integrated radio, TV and Film (handy for sitting in 2 hour lectures!) He sits his 'notepad' laptop on his lap in the lectures and types up some notes here or there but finds it easier to simply use the built in web cam to take pictures of the slides the lecturer is showing.
He then calls a Chinese delivery service when he returns home, from which he found the number online and tucks in to his meal when it its delivered to the door, whilst catching up on daytime tv and missed episodes of his usuals by downloading them and leaves a few friends text messages about silent discos that night.
With his friends later that evening, Jez91 uses his electronic chip and pin card to withdraw enough cash for that nights outings and gets almost free entry into the club with his digital members swipe card. They enter and are given electronic headphones where they listen to all the music the DJ sends out making several requests by text from songs they had downloaded earlier.
Jez91's parents go to sleep that night hoping their son will do well in his big computer-thingy exams tomorrow because they know how he struggles with some of that computer stuff.
Week 9. Describe the daily frustrations of a fictional neo-luddite at university now in the UK.
Being at uni in the UK today, i think, would be VERY frustrating for a neo-luddite.
Take for example, a day for Englebert the neo-luddite in the middle of a semester, if he has managed to survive getting into uni without using computers in the first place, enrollment, online timetables, making friends who are in constant communication using facebook and mobile phones, etc.
Englebert attends lectures and seminars all day ending each one with a quick visit to the possibly annoyed lecturer to quickly pick up that weeks reading, as he refuses to use computers and printers and heads to the library to start the reading. However he cannot gain access to the library as he will not use the small electronic swipe card to get in and so heads home to his accommodation, where he must first go to the office so that someone can walk him to his building with a key card to let him in because he doesn't use his own and so cannot enter the building.
He then retrieves to his room where he sits alone writing notes with pen and paper because he disagrees with the guys television and games consoles and the girls electronic hair equipment laying around the so-called 'communal area'.
It's one of his coursemates birthdays and half the course is apparently going out for a nice meal together but of course he has no facebook account or mobile phone for people to have invited him out. So he makes his way to the train station as he is going home for the weekend instead, but misses his train because he couldn't book his tickets online and the ticket Que was so long, so he has to wait a frustrating 3 and a half hours for the next train.
At home he cannot keep in touch with coursemates or flatmates because he has no means of electronic communication with them and then a large snow storm blocks the family into the home during the weekend.
The family cannot call anyone to come and remove the snow so poor Englebert can't return back to uni on time the following week nor can he email friends or lecturers telling them of the disaster because of the lack of such technology.
The thought on all Englebert's family members minds is 'should he even bother bless his heart?'
Take for example, a day for Englebert the neo-luddite in the middle of a semester, if he has managed to survive getting into uni without using computers in the first place, enrollment, online timetables, making friends who are in constant communication using facebook and mobile phones, etc.
Englebert attends lectures and seminars all day ending each one with a quick visit to the possibly annoyed lecturer to quickly pick up that weeks reading, as he refuses to use computers and printers and heads to the library to start the reading. However he cannot gain access to the library as he will not use the small electronic swipe card to get in and so heads home to his accommodation, where he must first go to the office so that someone can walk him to his building with a key card to let him in because he doesn't use his own and so cannot enter the building.
He then retrieves to his room where he sits alone writing notes with pen and paper because he disagrees with the guys television and games consoles and the girls electronic hair equipment laying around the so-called 'communal area'.
It's one of his coursemates birthdays and half the course is apparently going out for a nice meal together but of course he has no facebook account or mobile phone for people to have invited him out. So he makes his way to the train station as he is going home for the weekend instead, but misses his train because he couldn't book his tickets online and the ticket Que was so long, so he has to wait a frustrating 3 and a half hours for the next train.
At home he cannot keep in touch with coursemates or flatmates because he has no means of electronic communication with them and then a large snow storm blocks the family into the home during the weekend.
The family cannot call anyone to come and remove the snow so poor Englebert can't return back to uni on time the following week nor can he email friends or lecturers telling them of the disaster because of the lack of such technology.
The thought on all Englebert's family members minds is 'should he even bother bless his heart?'
Week 9. b) The youngest digital immigrant you know.
I don't think i know any people my age who DON'T use computers, phones ect, only people who use them a little less. So i think the youngest digital immigrant i know is one of my mums friends who is in her early 30's because she has only recently switched to DVD from VHS because a few of her favourite videos broke! And my mum is always complaining about texting her because 'she always calls back straight afterwards because she doesnt know how to text back' (ha!) This seems almost impossible to hear from a person these days but apparently she simply doesn't text because she doesn't like it!
Week 9. a) The oldest digital native you know.
I think the oldest Digital Native i know could be my great uncle who is 63, as he made a carreer from building computers and owned his own company from which he is now retired and still cant help being involved with laptops and PC's, i suppose because it is all he has known for such a long time so it is just a second nature to him.
But i think it is interesting becuase he could look at the hard-drive of a computer and fix it somehow manually and/or go into a computer as a user and click away fixing and mending but refuses to use any type of new communicative sites and programmes (accept email) such as skype, facebook and MSN because he claims they are too lazy and pointless as he 'works with the darn things' so refuses to use them in his spare time.
To younger digital natives, spending time online iS their freetime, so he is an intriguing digital native.
I think this is an interesting difference in what people do in their spare time depending on the time they grew up though. E.g. my uncle not agreeing with 'wasting' his time online because he grew up without computers.
But i think it is interesting becuase he could look at the hard-drive of a computer and fix it somehow manually and/or go into a computer as a user and click away fixing and mending but refuses to use any type of new communicative sites and programmes (accept email) such as skype, facebook and MSN because he claims they are too lazy and pointless as he 'works with the darn things' so refuses to use them in his spare time.
To younger digital natives, spending time online iS their freetime, so he is an intriguing digital native.
I think this is an interesting difference in what people do in their spare time depending on the time they grew up though. E.g. my uncle not agreeing with 'wasting' his time online because he grew up without computers.
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