ICS 131--F00--Lecture Five--10 October 2000
1. Some afterthoughts on Lecture Four--Beyond E-mail
A. Publications on-line
Organizations
Self-publishing
Do-it-yourself
Using a publisher
Napster as a vehicle for self-publishing music
B. Retail sales
Lots of articles on getting ready for Christmas
Sales tax and internet sales
C. Buying v Renting Software
D. The village and privacy
In the old village, everybody knew
everybody else's business
Then people started moving away
for various reasons
Now people want to know your business
E. Beyond Business 2 Consumers
B2B--Business to Business
P2P--Person to person, e.g., napster
Readings
Schwartz, John. New Economy: Finding some middle ground in a world obsessed with the new and impatient with the old, NY Times, 9 Oct, C4.®
Richtel, Matt. Signs of Market Saturation in PC World [Does almost everyone who wants a computer already own one?], NY Times, 9 Oct, C8.(o)
Morris, Bonnie Rothman. A day in the life of the wired school, NY Times, 5 Oct, D1, D8 ®
Hafner, Katie. Schools and computer: debate heats up, NY Times, 5 Oct, D8 ®
Brown, John Seely, and Duguid, Paul. The Social Life of Information.
Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2000. HM 851 .B76 2000 (o)
-----------------------. 1996b "The University in the Digital Age." Times higher Education Supplement, 10 May (multimedia supplement): iv-vi.
Available: http://www.parc.xerox.com/ops/members/brown/papers/university.html
[1999, July 21]. ®
2. Education
A. Elementary education
Morris, Bonnie Rothman. A day in the life of the wired school, NY Times, 5 Oct, D1, D8
Viola Elementary School, Suffern, NY
Some examples:
1. Fifth Grade Language Arts
Using web sites to get information for a report on Gary Paulsen,
author of books for young readers
2. Third graders
Scanning photos
3. Sixth grade science students using
Weather satellite information, and
Weather web sites
to track a tropical storm
Viola has
544 students, k-6
I-Books: 22 on a cart
PC's:
6 in every classroom
12 in library
20in a lab
video camera--1
e-mail, excel, powerpoint
96% of public schools have I-net access.
How is it being used?
Trap--Using computer just for sake of using it
Trick--How to use them creatively? What does it take to do it?
Great ways to use computers in elementary schools
and lots of way to do it poorly
B. Elementary Education
Hafner, Katie. Schools and computer: debate heats up, NY Times, 5 Oct, D8
Allianceforchildhood.org
Moratorium on introduction of computers into elementary schools
until their effect on your children is assessed more carefully.
85 experts
Waldorf education
C. Colleges and Universities
Brown, John Seely, and Duguid, Paul. The Social Life of Information.
Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2000. HM 851 .B76 2000
-----------------------. 1996b "The University in the Digital Age." Times higher Education Supplement, 10 May (multimedia supplement): iv-vi.
Available: http://www.parc.xerox.com/ops/members/brown/papers/university.html
[1999, July 21].
Schwartz, John. New Economy: Finding some middle ground in a world obsessed with the new and impatient with the old, NY Times, 9 Oct, C4.
[interview with JSB]
Chapter 8--Re-education
Basic theme: computers and the web are not going to eliminate the
world as we know it. best solution is to use them to augment and improve what we have.
On Colleges and Universities
1. Pressures for Change
a. Changes in Student Body
from one school for four years
from all 18-22 year olds
b. Changes in Competition for students
Open University in UK
University of Phoenix
Unplug and play
Changes in Competition on research
people and money
PARC, Microsoft
c. New Technologies
Do things differently
Do things more cheaply
2. The New Model
25 Courses make up half the curriculum in two-year schools
and one-third of the curriculum in four-year schools
The Hype problem--
IBM ad--Italian Senior doing grad work at Indiana
California Virtual University
Penn State
3. The Old Model
a. What is it?
b. What's important about it?
Degrees--Certification
Incidental learning
Peer Support
local impact, Davis-wine, UCLA-film, B-computers
4. What could be improved?
a. Open up college education to disenfranchised
b. External degree model
c. Access to information
d. More flexibility
Degree Granting Bodies
Univ of Chicago exams