The process of reflection is vital to the development of teachers. I found this out long ago in my childhood. I found out that extensively documenting what I did and what was happening around me exponentially increased my learning capabilities. Essentially, this is what I did with all five books that I have written as well as the countless hours of films that I have created. Documenting what you are doing is not only a way to increase your own education but also others, for those documents have the ability to follow us around for the rest of our lives. And if media is going to attach itself to us, what media do we want attaching to us? What keywords do we want to relate to us? I have typed philosophy and sociology so many times that these two words are forever attached to me. These are the words I want representing me after I die.
The process of reflection is not only of benefit to the one involved in the reflection. Because consise reflections about a topic is actually creating knowledge. New information arises from our reflections which can then be applied in countless ways. The more you give to the Internet, the more it learns who you are. Eventually artificial intelligence will become your best friend if you used the Internet efficiently. The more the Internet knows who we are as people, the more it has the ability to help us in our day to day lives. But we must be careful because this technology can be used for evil. Because the more the Internet learns who we are as people, the more it can manipulate us.
Wow Wendell seems like you are a determined and determined digital creator and curator – five books and numerous films – very impressive. Was the song an original of yours? Kath
Thank you. Countless hours of films, yes. And yes, the song is an original of mine.
I completely agree that the internet can be the best companion to an augmented existence, but that this can also carry some risks. For example, although they have had quite a good track record so far, Google and other large corporations who obtain and use our data, are still, very much doing it for the profit of their shareholders.
I know right. Scary how much power they have. Having a centralised force is scary, especially when they don’t care about you as an individual.