BeBettr Late Morning Session pt2
January 14, 2011
Aral is taking questions having run over. He’s had the most questions this morning so he must have sparked some thoughts!! I think that he was talking mostly about teaching these skills initially to primary school kids but I think the audience is talking about more complicated aspects of code. Aral says that these things aren’t important just giving kids the ability to try things out rather than trying to make it the best you can. You can always amend the code, it’s what you create that’s important. Bad code is better than no code! Make mistake, this is good. His best examples have come out of mistakes. Kids should experiment to learn. I agree! Questions are still coming thick and fast, he’s caught everyone’s imaginations. Coding, adding and sharing is the ethos of open source. The organisers have called time on Aral now and we’re on to the next speaker, James Burke.
His business is called lovele and he doesn’t care how you pronounce it! It’s about open, e-learning, education etc… Now we have a picture of Joi Ito (@joi) he is an internet leader. Now we’re on to interoperability and connected devices. He’s moving really fast and I’m not sure my fingers can keep up. I’ll try my best!!. It’s low cost to try things out. Sourceforge is there as an example, he mentions open source and the open movement and how his business could benefit from that. The highest cost to development isn’t the coding it’s the rights clearance. Using a comic strip to illustrate IPR… we’re flicking though them so I can’t transcribe them down, but the jist is that there should be more sharing and less hang ups around IPR. Copyright started in 1700′s to protect and encourage learning through printed work. This doesn’t apply to today though. So is there another way, a copyleft? Using Creative Commons as an example. He asked if organisations use CC and I ask my boss, he predictably replies ‘no!’. James flicks through how CC works and says there is something here to change e-learning from where it’s been over the past 10 years. He’s talking about the 4Rs Reuse, Revise, Remix and Redistribute. Technology shouldn’t interfere with the 4Rs. Now were are onto the conversation prism and back to the cartoon again. There is steam coming off of my fingers now and my brain is starting to ache!! There is a lot of stuff in this presentation that is attributed to other people, and I guess this is part of the point he’s trying to make. Another reference to sethgodin.typepad.com and on to something else. Talking about social networks and social graphs, our trusted network and where we get learning and information from… moving on very swiftly… The social technographics ladder by gartner and we’re back to the strip again. Aaaargghhh… slow down!! I’m not sure this dude has taken a breath yet either!! More quotes from twitter and back to the 4Rs and a picture and links to James’ own twitter and he talks about attribution as he has attributed everything throughout his presentation. He talks us through how he’s attributing the content using text, links through to the actual CC license that is all machine readable by Google. Getting on to context and serendipity. Put in the links and this will build his social capital and I think that if you provide the resources to the learners and they have trust in you then you don’t have to fear that they won’t come back to you or your content. In summary, hacking, open, digital, content. Legal hacking, access permissions “rules”, HTML – view source URI/URL linked data, context – relevance localisation provenance. Make stuff available but giving access to learners so they can consume it in the way that is suitable for them. What is the source and where does it come from. This is what lovle is about (he says lov-el) and it launches in February. It’s all about taking other peoples content and repackaging that in a usable, visible and machine readable format.
