Dear TWers, With much of humility, may I contribute to thoughts about these learning concepts started with D. Hillis during the OSCON you refers to... as I'm very concerned with the use of TW in this scope and already achieved some good results.
- TW is shown through a web browser. Recently, firefox, - my favourite, shows several drawbacks : the need of an addon, tiddlyfox, because the improved security rules prevents TW to save ; advertising to get rid, if possible, of google's financial control. What will be next ? I found it better to come back to a firefoxportable version 13 having suppressed the updater.ini file to prevent the browser to self update, which did, even with the correct options selected. - TW takes its main strength with its ability to be autonomous. It means to me that it is a perfect tool for personal use, - yet easy to share. But a share probably more oriented with physical contact, even if through a web server is also possible. We should think about that because I'm not sure how the web services will go in the (near) future. Electricity is everywhere in the nature, so that we can always find a way to make a computer work. Autonomy is about simplicity. - TW, may be, is not the simplest system for a newbie ; but far from being the most complicated. And still we can see a fork of TWC with TW5, which is, in my opinion, more like what is done nowadays : "sexy" style, more distracting, more dictatorial, more complex. - Putting these points altogether, along with some philosophical thoughts (yet drawn through experiments), I found that we should not forget a small student group way of learning concept because the massification has so many drawbacks ; one being that it brings more problems than it eases things. As a matter of fact, the more people are put together, the less they have common points, and, as a conclusion, the more control over the system we have to put on. So, TWC, with a smart organization concept, is already able to handle the bright ideas Mr Hillis refers to if only we can accept a TW becomes "Mrs Wilner" (the teacher, first human, then virtual, and finally in-between as I propose). It means that a TW can be a mind we can look into, be presented by its human counterpart, and considered, depending on infinite contexts, as a teacher, a student, a friend... To stress again on my idea : the cyberspace already contains quite everything ; what we need from it and how to exploit it can probably be better done by small groups rather than by a learning system reproducing the cyberspace diversity once more. I do not intend to influence anyone ; I know too well how destructive opposite opinions can be : I wish all the best to the bright developpers and conceptors. I rather wanted to give my profound acknowledgement to the TWC creator, and his followers... Le vendredi 14 novembre 2014 13:19:27 UTC+1, Richard Smith a écrit : > > Hi TWers, > > As you may know, I am very interested in educational (micro) content. I > just came across this excellent talk by Danny Hillis which pretty much > crystalises my own opinion about the kind of learning system that we need > to build. > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKcZ8ozCah0 > > I think that much of what he is describing can be achieved with TiddlyWiki > > Regards, > Richard > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
