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President's Grant Proposal
telling our new story
This course is itself an island on my odessey from first acquaintance to connoiseur to creator. We march together along Piaget's Path. We quest to become fully expressed men and women in our environment. We wish to learn, individually, institutionally, nationally, globally.
role play the law lord and the design lady. create a narrative to relate ourselves to our audiences and our audiences to each other. convey the force of combining willing energy for good.
we ask our audiences to accept our premise. we have a message to get out. we must get it out in time to save the planet and the human race.
how can we get our message out and be sure that it has been received and understood?
we will tell a story with a recognizable narrative core. we are the actors in the play we write. we perform our play in a theater we create. we record our play and time-release our audiences, each addressed as primary. we task each audience to participate with us in refining our message for the next.
multiple audiences
the media object we craft for each audience will be tailored to its needs and attributes, the process by which each audience discusses, questions and responds likewise crafted and tailored:
1. face to face audience in our physical classroom
1a. face to face audience in discussion groups
2. extension school audience in second life
2a. extension audience in discussion groups
3. cambridge audience over CCTV plus bicycle&possum
4. podcast
5. web
the stimulus object to come to these audiences staged on a timeline; face to face at time zero; extension at 2 days; cctv at 7 days; web asap.
cascading functionalities
each audience challenged to frame a refined form of their challenge for the audience next out, to consider the structure of the learning process within which the next audience will act, and formulate a form of response that will meet the need the near audience has felt for response to the way in which it meets the challenge it faces.
for each unit, charles and rebecca must find that the structure for the face to face audience and be prepared to help it with the structure for passing on.
suppose we put forward a stimulus on the basis of which a question can be formulated about where folks stand. we then ask our class to respond but to use group process and the question tool to formulate a survey questionaire, to which the extension audience, after discussion, will be asked to respond, and challenged to refine for open second life and net
Palfrey's Question
I am struggling with your recursive comment still. I suspect it is because I do not understand the mathematics well enough.
recursion
- a function that calls itself
- a powerful and elegant form of thought;
consider first "iteration". recursion is a form of iteration.
to iterate a process is to repeat it. here is an example in programming terms:
variables i, a := 0 // initialize a before iteration by setting both i and a to zero
for i from 1 to 3 { // loop three times
a := a + i // increment a by the current value of i
}
print a // the number 6 is printed
In this program fragment, the value of the variable i changes over time, taking the values 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. This changing value—or mutable state—is characteristic of iteration. as the program iterates, for i = 1, a (which starts at zero) becomes a + 1 = 1; the process is then repeated with i=2 and a=1, which outputs a=3; the process is then repeated with 1=3, which outputs a=6.
problems that are complex and seem difficult can often be solved with a fairly simple interated approach. consider the riddle of the unfaithful husbands:
Once upon a time in a land far away a queen ruled a queendom in which her word was law. One day the queen declared that there was adultery in her kingdom and ordered every woman whose husband was cheating on her to kill him at the next dawn. Assume that by magic each woman in the kingdom knows of every man who is adulterous but knows nothing about her own husband (and nobody tells). For days after the queen's announcement nothing happens. Then, on the 28th day, there is a slaughter in the kingdom. What explains the slaughter that took place on the 28th day, and how many men were killed?
the riddle is interesting and apt because you are given so little information to go on, yet what you have is enough to solve what looks like an insoluble problem.
(1) the queen says there is adultery in the kingdom. since her word is law her subjects must assume this as a fact.
(2) every woman knows about every cheating husband except for her own.
(3) it follows that if a married woman in the kingdom knows of no man who is being unfaithful to his wife, then her own husband must be an adulterer.
(4) the fact that the first morning dawns and no one is killed must, therefore, mean that every woman in the kingdom knows at least one many who is an adulterer.
(5) but if a woman knows of only one man who is an adulterer, then on the second morning she (and one other woman who likewise knows of only one adulterer) will slay their husbands.
(6) the fact that the second morning dawns and no one is killed must, therefore, mean that every woman in the kingdom knows at least two adulterous men.
(7) but if a woman knows of only two men who are adulterers, then on the third morning she (and two other women who likewise know of only two adulterers) will slay their husbands.
(8) ... and so on until the morning of the slaughter comes on the 28th day when 28 men are slain. [the number 28 in the stated problem is arbitrary. had the story been told of a slaughter on the 34th day, then 34 men would be killed.]
this illustrates the idea that sometimes problems that are complex and seem difficult can be solved with a fairly simple iterated approach.
recursion is a form of iteration in which a function calls itself. f(0) = 1 f(n) = n * f(n − 1) for any natural number n > 0
why is this interesting to me? i’ve posed the problem of creating an educational stimulus that engages multiple audiences edited so that each audience can see itself as primary.
recursion
first see the power of iteration
recursion incorporates the loops of iteration a function that calls itself
the anthropormorphic principle our reality exists because we are capable of perceiving, remembering, integrating, sharing to create our consensual reality that reality exists
reality contrasts with both unreality and nothing
quote anthropic
we are expressions of our code, dawkins
communication is a function of both medium and message; what is the message? the message is that communication is a function of both medium and message.
get practical speak with dean at ten, i want three videos cut from beyond broadcast, liroff, zuckerman, my close want to ask global voices to play the game, send a request to your weakest link, someone you would say is in a distant world from you.
write to dan moriarty and ask to see him, talk with him about the project, set it up by phone. see if sid and stuart and steve and derek and terry might not want to attend.
our reconception of the mission of the extension school was not limited to seeing if we could teach a class in second life. we are interested in seeing the extension school process built into a larger process with greater vision. we want a model that will
meta notes
the metaverse wiki is a great resource (http://trumpy.cs.elon.edu/metaverse/wiki/index.php/Main_Page )
thoughtful and introductory pieces by Betsy Book in terms of media, avatar-based marketing
advertising and media in SL - machinima (http://youtube.com/watch?v=oTxGHKOPees ) - a great use of media to advertise someone's store
harvard business review (http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/hbrsa/en/issue/0606/article/R0606BPrint.jhtml ) does a good job at explaining virtual worlds and the needs of our virtual representations
the metaverse diy the thirteenth floor, ed tv
how about all assignments in the wiki, video a regular part,
Heralds of Resource Sharing http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4989933629762859961
I was going through my "to do" list today and found this old documentary that I had been meaning to watch for a while now. "Computer Networks: The Heralds of Resource Sharing" is a 1972 documentary about the beginnings of the ARPAnet. It has vintage nerds in full color describing (very well, I might add) how the network was designed to work, and what they viewed would be the purpose of such a network at that time. It does a very good job of "rationalizing" to a non-technical audience why a computer network would be a good idea.
(One particularly perplexing moment comes when a scientist is explaining why some people might NOT want electronic bank records. He says "a husband might not want his wife to know how much money he makes". What an interesting piece of cultural history - and an interesting intersection of culture and science that will seem foreign to us today.)
Robert Kahn's lecture at 4 minutes into the film is fabulous. IMO, it's 2 great minutes of lecture.
The link below is to google video, so pretty poor quality, and it was made in the 70s, so it's not particularly glitzy in any way....... but I couldn't help but get excited to have this bit of "original footage".
Link here: Google Video
And here is the associated wikipedia entry.
posted by megan conklin @ 12:45 PM
list of videos to watch, assigned, with opportunity to talk about
so far google video of licklighter thanks to megan to whom i've just said hello on my blog.
a movie a week, show it in ames and on cctv
what are you true to, how true to it are you, what's your argument, have you the will to carry through
aristotle's Rhetoric. - Rhetoric informs us about cognitive features of language and style. By doing so provides understanding of the pathways for communicating message. One can see how rhetoric lost its credibility: academics taxonimized it, made it a field full of classification, distinctions, names for forms. Suddenly the masters of persuasion lost their connection with value in pursuit of truth. That is territory we will seek to reclaim.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_McLuhan#Figure_and_ground
what are we doing: leading a research project, teaching a class, putting on and putting up a show
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Boole
Approximately seventy years after Boole's death, Claude Shannon discovered Boolean algebra while taking a philosophy class at the University of Michigan. Shannon went on to write a master's thesis at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in which he showed how Boolean algebra could optimize the design of systems of electromechanical relays then used in telephone routing switches. He also proved that circuits with relays could solve Boolean algebra problems. Employing the properties of electrical switches to do logic is the basic concept that underlies all modern electronic digital computers. Hence Boolean algebra became the foundation of practical digital circuit design. Thus Boole, via Shannon, provided the theoretical grounding for the Digital Age.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boolean_logic
http://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/resource_rhet.html
one can see how rhetoric lost its credibility: it was the academics that did it; they taxonimized it, took it to the level of academic subject full of classification and distinction, names for forms, and suddenly the masters of persuasion lost their connection with pursuit of truth. That is territory we will seek to reclaim. the fourth and fifth stages of Connoisseurship.
the law lord rules with reason. enacted law is reason crystallized to rule. interpret rules in light of reason
avatar marketing http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/hbrsa/en/issue/0606/article/R0606B.jhtml?type=F
a program of evening events arguing out the flag issue, for start. richard, barlow,
piaget, levels of learning, law, persuasion through physical and social force, argument
link to whistleblower story
On YouTube, Charges of Security Flaws Inbox
Dean to Rebecca, me, Ansible, gene, Colin More options Aug 31 (17 hours ago) This is a great story about a whistle blower's story finally being heard through YouTube.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/28/AR2006082801293.html
