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Memory Machines: Learning, Knowing, and Technol...

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Memory Machines: Learning, Knowing, and Technological Change

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Transcript

  1. Memory Machines: Learning, Knowing, and Technological Change Audrey Watters @audreywatters

    Digital Pedagogy Lab - Prince Edward Island 2016

  2. teaching machines and Turing machines

  3. memory machines

  4. technology as myth

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  8. technology consumption is not innovation

  9. information overload

  10. obligatory Socrates reference

  11. collective memory

  12. human memory is not data storage

  13. the fragility of digital data

  14. who are the stewards of our digital memories?

  15. the “memex"

  16. we can do better than (re)build digital flashcards

  17. proprietary data silos (containing our data)

  18. who controls memory machines, controls the future