{"id":552,"date":"2007-12-20T08:22:27","date_gmt":"2007-12-20T12:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/?p=552"},"modified":"2007-12-20T08:22:27","modified_gmt":"2007-12-20T12:22:27","slug":"abject-answerability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/abject-answerability\/","title":{"rendered":"Abject Answerability"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brian Lamb’s latest post over at Abject Learning<\/a> is clear-eyed, thoughtful, and more than a little poignant. Extraordinary, really.<\/p>\n

All I can say to the first two bullet points is “right on.”<\/p>\n

I’m going to be mulling over that third bullet point for a long time. It’s early here and I can’t vouch for the coherence of my response, but I want to try, so bear with me please. (I’m hoping to recover some bold bloggery over this holiday break and get back in this conversation–and Brian’s post is nothing if not inspiring in that regard.)<\/p>\n

My first thought, maybe my most urgent thought, is that we must teach our students and our colleagues (and ourselves!) to be technology strategists. That kind of education ought to be one of our institutions’ top priorities. The range of options, the dizzying implications, the come-and-go services, the question (as Col. Tom Parker used to ask) “how much does it cost if it’s free?”: these are questions that education should address from an early age in the specific context of networked computing. There’s more to being a technology strategist than just being a savvy user. All digital citizens should be digital strategists. That’s going to take some significant curricular and attitudinal change–though I think we can take important steps in that direction without bringing all the current machinery of education to a screeching halt.<\/p>\n

A bubble may well burst in 2008, but I feel the Web 2.0\/3.0\/x.0 landscape will continue to expand in all the ways Brian has described. There’s no going back. I understand the feeling of panic that can engender. I’d argue that that feeling is not different in kind from the feeling of having to mature and take one’s place in a very complex civilization that may well be eating itself, but which (as always with our species) holds enormous promise and often great joy and splendor.<\/p>\n

I am no techno-utopian and am not always optimistic about the scalability of benign self-organization, but I do believe in the power of allegory, or at least extended analogy, and I see the emerging situation Brian’s outlined as no different from the basic questions that should always engage us with regard to schooling. I think we’ll look back on the last century or more of higher education as a time when we got sleepy and forgetful about the difficulties of creating and sustaining real school. I think the open web and its successors, with all their mess, peril, and promise, may force us to wake up. That’s my hope.<\/p>\n

It’s the alternative that frightens me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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