Hapgood

Mike Caulfield's latest web incarnation. Networked Learning, Open Education, and Online Digital Literacy

  • Blowhardization hits the Windy City

    So last month we had an embarrassment of riches with intelligent articles on the perils of multitasking and the online rabbit hole. This month, please welcome blowhardization, the inevitable second round of the public multitasking debate where bloviators are given extra time on the mike, and the more intelligent voices are gonged off stage. Exhibit Continue reading

  • Carr’s “Is Google Making Us Stupid”, Rosen’s “Myth of Multitasking”

    It seems every year for the past several years there’s been a couple of weeks where there is a flurry of intelligent articles about the dangers of multitasking and the hivemind. Then the inevitable blowhardization of the subject sets in, the intelligent voices fade and the Grandpa Simpsons come out of the woodwork. And we Continue reading

  • Offlining Experiment #1: Disengaging from the hivemind using Sony Reader

    Tools used: Sony Reader (yeah, I know, should have waited for the Kindle) T-Mobile Dash I needed to read some of the latest articles on the perils of multitasking (we seem to be in our yearly cycle here). Figured this was as good a chance as any to try offlining. Method: Searched via Google for Continue reading

  • Offlining

    I’m in the process of creating a new blog, Offlining, which will deal with my experiments in “offlining” (yep, a new neologism) — the practice of disconnecting from some or all of the network in order to increase productivity and life satisfaction while maintaining the killer connectivity which has enriched all our lives. Offlining isn’t Continue reading

  • Blogging the Media vs. Blogging Your Class

    Great observation by master-blogger Ezra Klein on what we in the education biz would call “newspaper literacy”: Every so often, an older and wiser colleague or interlocutor will ask, sighing, if I read newspapers. And I do. Sort of. I scan newspapers. But increasingly, I read things that take newspaper content and repackage it in Continue reading

  • Recording Industry Says AM-FM Broadcasting is ‘A Form of Piracy’

    From Wired’s Threat Level: [T]wo weeks ago, the recording industry, under the umbrella group musicFIRST, sent the NAB four digital downloads: “Take the Money and Run” by the Steve Miller Band; “Pay me My Money Down” by Bruce Springsteen; “Back In the U.S.S.R” by Paul McCartney and “A Change Would Do You Good” by Sheryl Continue reading

  • Edu_protectionism

    I’ve been working on the college AT Vision, trying to hone it down. It’s an attempt to get beyond the technology and the hype. But even with all the buzz removed, I still occassionally feel like the question of the AT plan is formulated in such a way that the answer can never be what Continue reading

  • Recursive Publics, Martin Luther, and Copyright

    I found this an interesting coincidence reading these two things back to back: From a post on David Wiley’s Iterating Toward Openess: Educational reform is much like religious reform, and our openness movement and desires to innovate in higher education are much like the Reformation. When the Church was the prevailing power, it took Luther Continue reading

  • Recursive Publics

    From Christopher Kelty’s new book, via Glyn Moody: Recursive publics are publics concerned with the ability to build, control, modify, and maintain the infrastructure that allows them to come into being in the first place and which, in turn, constitutes their everyday practical commitments and the identities of the participants as creative and autonomous individuals. Continue reading

  • Edupunk and REST

    Everyday I wake up thinking “This is the day we kill the edupunk meme. Because even *I* am sick of it.” But then I read something like this from Brian Kelly: REST, it seems, is the punk response to the pompous stadium rock of SOAP and the Web Services stack. That’s exactly right. But bigger Continue reading