If #
local is about
places near you #
and #
digital spaces are
places you can go #
and #
access is about
getting to those digital places
wherever you are, #
then #
what will
local look like
when
the new geography arrives? #
Or is it (t)here? #
Discuss. #
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I suppose to some extent it depends on whether you consider yourself an immigrant or a native to the digital place you’re trying to get to. JUST KIDDING
I wonder about how people’s perceptions of “real place” or “realness” is changing as a result of all this social revolution. Is Twitter a place? Is it real, even if it’s mediated by the technology that supports it? And what does it mean if teachers and their students perceive wholly different realities?
.-= JennaMcWilliams´s last blog ..the Bloomington Herald-Times doesn’t get this ‘social networking’ thing. =-.
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Do you mean digital spaces are not real? Digital space has the same energy as physical, but I guess one has more control over the digital.
It may become apparent
as the global vision grows
that everywhere is present
on the crystal screen that glows.
You’ll alter your position
when the order is ‘be quick’,
a split-second decision –
you’ll be there in just a click.
i love this bud.
thank you.
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Hi, Bud
Just came across your thoughtful and wonderfully crafted poem. It speaks to me in so many different ways at the moment. It makes me think about/re-think:
finding a sense of place in cyberspace
digital footprints
“mapping” the Internet
the relationship between digital citizenship & global citizenship
the digital divide=not being (t)here (?)
Following your link to John Creighton’s post about “a world of new geography,” I was reminded how lucky I am to be involved in a new way of teaching and learning that IS preparing students for this new geography. As participants in the Flat Classroom Project, my students and I are developing the knowledge, skills, new literacies, habits of mind, and global competencies needed to participate in the “flat world” where local is digital is global.
Thanks for your blog in general and this poem in particular.
~Honor
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