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<div>< comment my bcc - respond to <a href="mailto:psp@secondschool.net">psp@secondschool.net</a> > </div><div>< comment the iDC Digest is an academic forum well moderated.></div><div>***</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><b>Dear colleagues,</b></div><div><br></div>This next academic year, I will be teaching introduction to computer science (two sections) at a small but very elite university in Northern VT. I have posted on this forum in the past and am a three+ year (oh does time fly) reader.<div><br></div><div>So I expect that a public commons based on my work will be available with teleconferencing between universities and other locations. This is an invitation. </div><div><br></div><div>I am in Austin Texas now and working on establishing a "secondSchool" network in Texas. We look to build an extension and separation from Second Life, in the form of a public common (meaning everything is designed with responsibility assignable to participants. Clearly security is addressed with the technology- so a new capacity is to be made available - as a no cost public sector provided "service".) <br><div><br></div><div>With respects, I wish to discuss the shift being visited by David, </div><div><br></div><div>and will develop a thesis:</div><div><br></div><div><b><i>The non-availability of knowledge management and ontological modeling capability </i></b></div><div><b><i>is a major fact in the turn to entertainment. </i></b></div><div><br></div><div>Some History:</div><div>This history of virtual worlds is well known to Dr Kriste Bellman, and others whose effort within defense communities created the foundation for multiple user domains, such as Second Life, or Palace, or etc... Twitter is not equipped with true knowledge management tools, as is proposed by myself (in 1999). But it could be, and thus follow the model of Grove (used at DARPA etc all during the first part of the decade and last part of last decade. <div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Jun 9, 2009, at 7:00 AM, <a href="mailto:idc-request@mailman.thing.net">idc-request@mailman.thing.net</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Naturally, the talk turned to social media as a possibility and an obstacle</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">for such organization.</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">His advice to me, based on anecdotal evidence, was to advise students</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">against using social media for organizing until they had strong face-to-face</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">relationships.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And then, only use it sparingly, as a tool.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>His experience,</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">based on work with 20-50 year old working folks was that attitudes quickly</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">devolve into patterns consistent with the consumption of entertainment--you</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">do it when you have time, when it is fun, and with the multitude of</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">available channels of information it is too easy to avoid bare-knuckle</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">conflicts (even when exchanges become hot).<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>In his view, the contexts which</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">require organizing the most are those which are going to be risky--where you</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">might lose your job, face retaliation, and, in some cases, get beaten.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">so, you need a tight social relationship in which people are willing to</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">sacrifice for each other.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>His efforts at organizing online were weak...</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">they generated good talk among those who participated...<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>but they did not</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">translate into a strong group, unless the group was rooted in face-to-face</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">relationships.</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">The view he articulated to me was basically the one that I had been moving</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">more closely to over the years--watching students organize an organization</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">with 200 members on facebook, and then showing up to an empty meeting. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font></p> </blockquote></div><br></div><div><br></div><div>A background for my thesis is being structured into a book <b><i>"Bridge to the Future".</i></b> </div><div><br></div><div>The down load is <a href="http://www.mathPedagogy.com/bridge.doc">www.mathPedagogy.com/bridge.doc</a>. This is a peer review request, not a publication as yet.</div><div><br></div><div>There is always posted the dated last version (As of this morning - 136 pages - small type). </div><div><br></div><div><b>Collaboration within the community of scholars</b></div><div><br></div><div>I am looking for collaboration from social networking community and academic communities in specific areas such as evolutionary psychology, and theoretical biologic, or quantum theory. Essential information theory and social theory - along with the neurology and biology </div><div><br></div><div>I will make detailed analytic response to this forum. And will request, after a few exchanges, that a separate group form within some public commons platform. </div><div><br></div><div><b>Sub-thesis:</b> The students, and our society as a whole, may do as humans and human social systems do; but in an entirely new way.</div><div><br></div><div>The formation of a <b>specific paradigmatic foundation</b> is possible <b>because we use language. </b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>As a consequence of specific cultural histories, </b> the enhanced capability to form various paradigmatic foundations is resulting in new social behaviors never seen in past history. These foundations are in essence, our viewpoints. Acquired learning disability and avoidance behaviors rwt mathematics is thus re-framed (framing in the sense of G. Lakoff) as the first two memetic shifts (see for example <a href="http://www.laetusinpraesens.org/docs00s/chitable.php">http://www.laetusinpraesens.org/docs00s/chitable.php</a>)</div><div><br></div><div><b>We see evolution and change occurring around us. </b> The primary "improvement" (an evolution I see) is in developing the "common" capacity to shift from one set of foundational elements to a completely different set of foundational elements, and then back - easily. </div><div><br></div><div><b>Why is this an improvement?</b></div><div><br></div><div>So the individual on face book is interacting with many other "social systems", and increased effort along with reinforcement from peers creates new capacity. There is a self organization occurring, and this self organization is responding to the enhanced and increased capacity to shift viewpoint. </div><div><br></div><div><b>A C tuning fork does not make a D tuning fork ring</b>, but with all of the harmonies of nature - as played in musical expression - we have orchestration. </div><div><br></div><div>What might be <b>orchestrated by 18 year olds</b> attending college for the first time, this year? Well, I believe that knowledge management and ontological modeling capacity use by these 18 year olds will result in <b>music, and in tremendous insight as to how to fix our broken social and financial and education systems. </b></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Paul Prueitt</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></body></html>