fine, so long as you don't get too caught up in the hype. People throw around words like seamless, leverage, cognitive systems, analytics, etc... but you wonder how much has really has changed other than fancier graphics, faster CPUs, more memory. The cloud is sort of mainframe with graphics and sound.... I also wonder if the new media is nothing more than more ways to get distracted. We are living in an age of mobile distractions. The difficulty is navigating through an onslaught of crap....
On 6/5/13, Mike Tintner <[email protected]> wrote: > Good to see that “media literacy” is becoming an established term, esp. in > education as a “21st century skill”. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_literacy > http://namle.net/publications/media-literacy-definitions/ > I have obviously been campaigning about this for years here – most (if not > all) AGI-ers are more or less media illiterate – think they can get by with > maths, logic and algos –with the classic AI extensions of the 3 R’s - the > old literacy – *20th century skills* - and without the new “imaginative > media” of the new millennium. > Not a hope in hell of that – look around just at how the world of computing > is becoming ever more imaginative. > P.S. It may not be clear from the entries above, but media literacy involves > recognising the INTERDEPENDENCE and COMPLEMENTARITY of different media and > literacies. The old 3R’s literacy thinks that they are all separate – that > you can have words WITHOUT pictures and still know something – Chinese room > style. Wrong. > Media literacy also involves a revolutionary change from thinking about the > *logical truth* of representations to their *pictorial realism* and other > things undreamed of by logicians, like the *bias*/*angle*/*perspective* of > representations. > > > ------------------------------------------- > AGI > Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now > RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/11943661-d9279dae > Modify Your Subscription: > https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com > ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
