Is social business going to change our collabortaion patterns?

The way people, specially those named as digital natives, are going to be connected and to interact between them in the future is one of the  main keys for the next generation of corporate aplications.

Social business is just starting while Facebook is use decreasing. There are a lot of questions about all of this. For example, is social business coming to stay or is it just a gateway for new mobile and agnostic applications?

In these days we are just making a brief analysis abuou social media lessons learned and how this lessons must impact in the new social business and collaborative platforms we are now implementing.

Social Business

From the "Alejandría Library" to Google

Gathering Human Knowledge is one of the main utopies in the History. The most famous initiative was at the Alejandría Library project but this is also a common topic in Literature, as in Borges short stories, and specially from Enlightment Age and Encyclopedic reasearchers

Hereby a trailer of a film based on Google,s intention of collecting and scanning as much paper books as possible. "Google and the World Brain", the story of Google 2002 ambitious project about creating a virtual library worldwide... Furthermore, a virtual brain!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CTJugCKxzA
12/02/2013 - Polarstarfilms

More information at...
http://www.worldbrainthefilm.com/#prettyPhoto

El viejo sueño de abarcar la sistematización del conocimiento y la utopía de la "bibioteca total" ha sido uno de los tópicos de filósofos, políticos (la Biblioteca de Alejandría) y pensadores hasta llegar al magnífico e irónico cuento de José Luis Borges, La biblioteca de Babel. Ahora, sin embargo, y adaptado al mundo internetizado en el que vivimos, aparece un genial documental, que se presentó en el Festival de SunDance también en Documenta, en Madrid, hace unas semanas.

The film raises some of the dilemmas about the possibility of encompass human knowledge in a simple way to transmit... Google and the world brain, trailer

"I liked" culture is not knowledge sharing!

One of the troubles of our digital environment is being superficial and avoiding to go deep with intelectual issues.

Young people trends to click the "I liked" button instead of having a conversation on Internet. Ideas exchange is more that saying I like the idea is just commenting it, redefining, using the idea to reconect some others and... trying to provide value to the community...

"I liked" is for voting a song, for providing support to a social idea or a book or something personal in the social business. However, it has extended use to any other particualr comment or idea expressed at Internet 2.0 aplications. Knowledge sharing and leveraging is more than that and it involves a generous contribution related to have a common understanding about a common idea or sharing some research in order to have feedback or...

So please, I beg you to contribute, not only to click "I liked"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Learning code,

Whay most schools don´t teach!!

This is a great video in order to promote a different learning at school more close to real employment in these days.

Famous innovators at Internet World like Bill Gates, creators of Valve, Facebook and other relevant companies represented, talk in this video about learning to programming in the early years at school.

A vey interesting reflection about school nowadays... What are the matters or subjects that teach how to think nowadays?

Which one is going to be the new education model for the children in the near future? Can we take the opportunity to change things?

Blogging and microblogging integration, #edcmooc

The very best of the course I have just finished at coursera platform, "E-learning and digital cultures" was, without doubt, the big intercation with other students and peers.

1. Blogging and microblogging interaction:

Benefit: it moves me to action from the frist moment, writing and participating in the community.

2. Personal blogs integration within the course:

Benefit: curiosity for other points of view, respecting diversity.

3. A lot of disccussion, forums and chatting in a big community provides us with a lot of thinking from the others:

Benefit: a real exchange withing different groups or teams that could have some  impact in the near future. We have created a group in LinkedIn: MOOCs en español, lets continue the conversation...
After the course, after hours...


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Why not Utopia? A collegue in #edcmooc

Love this artefact from a collegue of my course in Digital Cultures. Human evolution and human education are not only conditioned by technology nowadays but also by biology. Sustainability must be linked to progress in all  main issues of life. Great job that makes reaction and reflection!!

The author´s main goal is "to complement the technology vission of the #edcmooc with at balance the bleak preponderance of dystopian visions of robots, borgs and machines by introducing the magic and awe of the science of biology."

Why not Utopia?

The artefact adress a complementary idea to the course related to biology evolution and the intercation between biology and human, not only technology. It reflects a good undersatnding about posthuman digitalization and offers an interesting vission related to this pots-humanistic concept. Digital education in a biological world, all related, as a new key!

This artefact dont leaves the audience indifferent, it makes you thing about the main concept.

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# edcmooc, Find your metaphora,

Metaphoras are the story or the frame or the image we use to represent and transmit others our mental ideas about specific idea or concept.

Below is my metaphora and my artifact about the course: "e-learning and digital cultures"

View, 7 challenges 4 open learning model by Maria Barceló on Prezi.com

Happy zooming!

http://prezi.com/ewe19sspddhm/7-challenges-4-open-learning-model/
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Are we going to read classics and literature anymore? #edcmooc

Reflections and indeep knowledge...

Are we inmersed in a "I like" culture, with no reflection and a little knowledge impact? How can we afford from elearning perspective a more learning digital culture?


Is Google making us stupid?

We read different books and screens...

It is clear that users are not reading online in the  traditional sense; indeed there are signs that new forms of “reading” are emerging as users “power browse” horizontally through titles, contents pages and abstracts going for quick wins. It almost seems that they go online to avoid reading in the traditional sense.

Or brain is malleable and the media interact with our brain. This make us completely different the way we are going to capture ideas and knowledge from computer and tables. So the risk is to stay in a a superficial learning nature instead of adquiring indeep knowledge of the key matters.

Is human more digital than social? #edcmooc

Human nature, women nature, men nature... #edcmooc

There is a point of view in which the concept of "human nature" is related with the concept "human is made of...". therefore the traditional idea of the human nature essence is questioned by those who said that defining ‘the human’ we also marginalise and exclude from view other ways of thinking about who we are...

Post human in a digital culture like the one we are living in bring to us a new dylema about the humanistic problems of rationality, responsability, creativity and so on. If them can be held by an artificial intelligence what does "human" concept mean?

Technology evolution makes us making a lot of questions, but also are we who are guessing and creating new devices related with our dreams... like in this video. Human is digital but digitalization is linked to socialization.

How do learn gods and apes? #edcmooc

Gods learn and so do apes!

The planet of the apes was/is a really good film as represent the fight between the concept of human evolution and  the one about human supremacy.

In this film we can see how apes and humans and perhaps gods (like in Ancient Greek Mithology) learn in different ways in order to evolve: copying, understanding, imitating are the basic process for learning activities.

Nowadays, we use to asume that there are three key drivers for learning in a daily basis at work and at life:

1. Learning by training: classes, lessons, lectures... 10%
2. Learning by sharing: interacting, working together, team building... 20%
3. Learning by experience: challenges, projects, solving problems... 70%

So, if experience is the most relevant driver for learning, (=70%) is it crucial for differenciate gods from apes?

What it means to be human? Are we closer to apes that to gods? Look at this fantastic video with a great sense of humor in which human is defined by the material of which is composed!!!
They're Made Out Of Meat - New York Film Academy (NYFA)

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Harvard, the Learning Temple, #edcmooc

Harvard in January, 2012
Harvard & Coke: branding our present

Which Learning Temples, ie Harvard, will survive?

The authority of the teacher, the content, the concept, the pedagogy, the pupils interaction.... what matters?
There is something that is above: the brand. The learning brand! And that´s one of the reason that MOOC are having success, that behind this new way/model of learning are premium brands in the learning markets like Harvard, MIT or Berckeley.  This is one of the key attarctors of the mooc education system.

We need the past, the learning and ancient institution that gives the brand and the quality guarantee for the future learning activities.

Mi vission about the past and future of digital learning, surronded by bits we are in the middle of a changing learning process. Threfore we need some new models, like MOOCs themselves, that could solve the learning demand from the users: new channels, new process, new learning activities, new contents.

Learning evolution, always digital #edcmooc

Images, the way we project our concerns in the present and in the future.

The Cave Art was also digital, don´t forget!

Studying digitalization from the Cave to the future, I´ve seen a fantastic video from my course in Digital Education, "Plurality", a quite interesting story about how technology is going to be use in the future to control our lives...

Plurality is a clear example of a dystopian vision in the way that technology facilitate 

people´s control over any other option to offer a better future world. Often, technology is seen in films and books in a very polarized way as a nice and fancy facilitator of a better world or as big brother controlling human beings... However, History demonstrates us that any progress brings new opportunities and new problems at the same time. It is not new, it is the history of human evolution...

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Learning by seeing, teaching by figures, #edcmooc

Teaching by painting, teaching by images... it is not new! Listen to our forfathers...

How did people learn in the ancient world? 
Looking at the images! There were a lot of teaching! Just think on the paintings and sculptures of a Church in the Middle Ages....
People didn´t read but they listen to the priest and they watch the figures around them in the walls. They learn de Scriptures from all those pictures and images. The written word wasn´t as important as it becomes to be after, in the Gutenberg period of our History.

Can we say now that we are going back to the pre-Guttenberg period in which listen and wathing (now in video, multimedia and so) were the prior access fro learning?

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Content and visualization, the challenge of digital content. #edcmooc

The content and the picture....
Chinesse Caligraphy! 
How to work in message and visualization at the same time... Not only for learning purposes but also for communication ones.

I'm now very sure that pictures, photographs and other visual icons are the most useful artifacts for learning... Try to reflect one idea on a page, just as a visualization of a concept or an idea representation, and that... is learning conceptualization!!


Chinesse caligraphy,
Japanisse Haikus,
claims in modern advertisements,
graffities...

All of them are key in the way they transmit and reflect a concept or idea. And this is the main goal of this blog, a few words and one image in each post!

It is easy you remember better the image than the words... Hopefuly with an associated concept...maybe!

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Is education really changing due to technology? #edcmooc

Is education the ONLY ONE explanation for the educational change we are living?

Often we use to put "the blaim" on technology... but it is not only technology, is also about human evolution and how new issues interact with human being. Obviously technology is more than a simple tool, is a change driver  of a new society. However, in this change also influences the emancipation of women or ecology revolution, both of them are the silent revolutions of the end of the XX century.

And the most important is the coexistence between the digital and the real life, learning and connecting ways of interacting in our society. We still play chess... in the public square,  on the
Network or on the iPad...

Some reflections about the readings and the  materials in week one from my Digital Education course.
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Is out there a digital learning utopy?

Human is always learning on a daily basis, by copying what are others doing, by working it self... Now that we have a technology based society...  Is technology part of our learning utopy?

Technology is more than a channel or a facilitator in our L&D approach, technology is part of the new learning model and is interacting with the model. Web based appllications are changing the way we learn, we are defining the learning of the future.

Learning and a little bit of reflexion about Digital learning: utopias and dystopias in Coursera: E-Learning and Digital Education. Below is a video  from the course, Inbox- Short film in which you can see a nice parody about connections between people, barriers and limitations...

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The learning of the future

Internet and Social Media are changing the way we do business, the way we do relationships and ... the way we learn from the others and from the world.
What are young people doing when they want to learn or to know more about anythng? The search at Google, the look in Wikipedia, they ask in Forums, Chats and they ask their friends in Facebook, Tuenti, or similars at local levels.

Therefore, we need to learn about the learning of the future: methods, contents, supporting IT and other artifacts that are moving the L&D industry.

I´am know just starting a coursera module called e-learning and digital cultures!

...exploring the connections between education, learning and digital cultures.

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Why I´m teki?

 It is is not easy to explain how technology comes to my life but I´ll try...

As I was starting my worklife in the early 90 technology issues weren´t the core business. However, the explosion of Internet first came to Spain multinationals and after it spreads all over other sectors and insdutries and eventually to all activities. In a few years, Internet was there and we have to embedded the web in our work processes.

I used to work (and I´m still doing it) as an information professional providing support to different content based activities focused on marketing, communication, knowledge management, L&D and other web initiatives
Therefore, Technology and Internet are part of my job profile!

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