The TTIX 2009 planning committee is proud to present three exciting, engaging, and thoughtful keynotes this year:
The Urgency of Open Education
Do the implications of digital media turn our educational institutions inside out? Can educators learn to stop worrying and love the remix? Is originality overrated? What’s the difference between reuse and plagiarism? Is openness our only hope? Where’s the RSS feed? What does “data literacy” look like? Are Web 2.0 companies a teacher’s best friend, [...]http://ttix.org/archives/2009-keynotes/the-urgency/
More about this session...From Plato to Perl: the Problem of Sociality and the ‘Idea’
Presenter: Chris Lott We create, discover, discuss and exchange ideas, but what are they, really? How does an idea mean? And once we have one, can collaboration and creation of the highest order even co-exist, much less be meaningfully combined? The contrary history of the idea of the idea, from Plato and the poets to [...]http://ttix.org/archives/2009-keynotes/from-plato-to-perl-the-problem-of-sociality-and-the-idea/
More about this session...The Open Educator as DJ – Towards a Practice of Remix
Presenter: Scott Leslie The metaphor of “Teacher as DJ” isn’t that new – as Wiley noted (http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/227), ever since the phrase “Rip, Mix, Burn” entered the popular consciousness via Apple’s advertising campaign, it began to be applied to how educators might approach digital educational resources. But with the ever increasing number of quality free open educational resources, [...]http://ttix.org/archives/2009-keynotes/the-open-educator-as-dj-towards-a-practice-of-remix/
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