[xmca] Free Enterprise Discipline

A disciplined future entailed by Free Enterprise concept marking in subject
lines?
Really?

Enterprisingly, but not particularly disciplined
mike

On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 2:59 PM, Etienne Pelaprat <pelaprat@gmail.com>wrote:

> There's no reason the two can't co-exist or collaborate.
> Consider that there are about 35,000 email messages in the archive of XMCA
> -- are we going to go through those and code them one by one? Probably not
> :) I think for past messages the strategy should be to use a machine
> learning algorithm to try, as best as we can get it to, to attempt and
> produce some categorization scheme.
> Future messages, incoming messages, could certainly do what you're
> proposing. That would take a lot of discipline from xmca members :)
> etienne
>
>
>
> On Jul 29, 2008, at 2:51 PM, Mike Cole wrote:
>
> Interesting idea, tony.
>> I have changed the heading on this note to see if i get the idea
>> mike
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Tony Whitson <twhitson@udel.edu>
>> Date: Jul 29, 2008 2:38 PM
>> Subject: Another way Re: [xmca] Fwd: we need more terms
>> To: mcole@weber.ucsd.edu, "eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity" <
>> xmca@weber.ucsd.edu>
>> Cc: Etienne Pelaprat <pelaprat@gmail.com>
>>
>> Instead of this "Central Planning," model, there's another (more "free
>> enterprise") way of doing this.
>>
>> We could encourage everybody to include keywords with their posts.
>> For example, David Kirshner's recent post could include "internalization"
>> and "appropriation" as keywords, or "tags". A longer tag might be
>> "sociocultural and activity theories" (for use in searches looking for posts
>> in which these two approaches are compared).
>>
>> A protocol could be established that would enable software to identify
>> entries in the keyword or tag "field" within each post (for example,
>>
>> ##: internalization, appropriation
>>
>> could be read as a field containing those two terms as keywords for the
>> post. This could be used both for "harvesting" the complete keyword list
>> from posts as they are posted, and also for indexing each post by its
>> included keyword. (Searches using keywords on the list would not be limited
>> to posts in which those terms are formally identified as "tags".) This would
>> be even easier in a web-based interface for entering posts in this threaded
>> discussion list, but it could work just using the email interface, as well.
>>
>> On Tue, 29 Jul 2008, Mike Cole wrote:
>>
>>
>> Tony et ALL!!
>>
>> Etienne, who is supervising the effort to build the conceptual/memory
>> facility into xmca, makes the following request. Please help by sending
>> replyall so that Etienne is included and can act on the extra info..
>> mike
>>
>>
>> let's see if we can generate terms beyond this list:
>>
>> the more the better
>>
>>
>> activity
>> action
>> agency
>> artifact / artefact
>> classroom
>> community
>> community of practice
>> contradiction
>> development
>> ethnicity
>> gender
>> learning
>> identity
>> Intersubjectivity
>> mediation
>> object
>> operation
>> play
>> power
>> prolepsis
>> race
>> reflexivity
>> sign
>> subjectivity
>> telos
>> tool
>> work
>> zpd=zoped=zone of proximal development
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>>
>> Tony Whitson
>> UD School of Education
>> NEWARK DE 19716
>>
>> twhitson@udel.edu
>> _______________________________
>>
>> "those who fail to reread
>> are obliged to read the same story everywhere"
>> -- Roland Barthes, S/Z (1970)
>>
>
>
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