[Xmca-l] Annotations and XMCA

[Greg Mcverry]

Alfredo,

I moved the discussion off of the other thread (though I am perpelexed by
the Perezhivaniyaha and influence of power in  being told by educators to
reflect on one's funds of identity*) *to think about annotations.

I wanted you to know they are automatically given a Public Domain License.
If there was interest and people do want to maintain rights to their
content we could do a private XMCA group.

Yet you are right. Hypothes.is it is still a place I must create an
account. It  would be really cool to annotate, or at least syndicate
annotations back to my blog. I try to include a feed to all my annotations
as an iframe but as soon as I make a public annotation I no longer own it.

I am okay with this. Many on the listserv may not be. I am cool with that
too. Your data. Your destiny.

In terms of my annotations I figure I am paid by taxpayers thus my mental
work on the state dime belongs in the open. I also believe in the team
behind the project as creating what Anil Dash calls "ethical tech
<https://medium.com/humane-tech/12-things-everyone-should-understand-about-tech-d158f5a26411>"
that would pass Stommel's test for Ethical online learning
<https://www.slideshare.net/jessestommel/ethical-online-learning>

Yet now what happens when learning and reading itself become performative?
Or the act of note taking used as a measure of learning?

When I annotate with students I never force them to give up rights to their
work or publish openly. In fact I still allow print and paper annotation
because I feel like I do not have a right to dictate what kind of external
storage device to use.

I firmly believe students should own their data. Too often the perezhivanie
surrounding online learning strips students of power. Rights to the content
gone and often materials inaccessible as soon as class finishes. It can get
worse and soon universities are drawing correlations between meal points
spent and student performance.

The funds of knowledge and funds of identity outside of formal learning
environments

This is what scares me more than anything in child development right now.
"personality and knowledge are now actively constructed" (Blunden, p. 2)
in environments that are simultaneously designed to take advantage of brain
chemistry while controlling the flow of social peer interactions.

The Funds of Identity children draw upon are algorithmically determined by
corporate interest, mob mentality and millions of dollars into never
published brain, computer, and human interaction research.

Who you talk to? Facebook feed. Chasing likes and clicks? Instagram envy.

I believe we need frank conversations about our avatars as they are just
networked funds in the centralized bank of facebook (as in Facebook, What's
App, Instagram, Occulus).

This is why I believe we need to teach our children early on about carving
out their own corner of the web. What is the point of being able to draw on
funds of identity if somebody else owns the bank?

We need to discuss with children that all the research shows notifications
and social media often make more people sad than happy.

Most importantly, and a lesson I too often ignore, we need to model good
digital hygiene. Remove most if not all notifications from your phone. Be
picky about social media apps.Get your own website. Syndicate from your
place out on to the web.

To circle back to the article that is the tough part of perezhivaniyaha in
school is it is a place where funds of identity are developed yet the
processing of social experiences occurs through rapid APIs and machine
learning.

Thus I believe as educators we have a responsibility to our students and
their avatars.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mailman.ucsd.edu/pipermail/xmca-l/attachments/20180621/0909b9b3/attachment.html