Comments on: Waking Up With a “Cognitive Surplus”

By: frymaster

frymaster — Tue, 13 May 2008 15:57:30 +0000

And so it is…

Brennan, Thomas Edward.
Craze: Gin and Debauchery in an Age of Reason (review)
Journal of Social History – Volume 37, Number 3, Spring 2004, pp. 774-776

George Mason University Press

Thomas Edward Brennan – Craze: Gin and Debauchery in an Age of Reason (review) – Journal of Social History 37:3 Journal of Social History 37.3 (2004) 774-776 Craze: Gin and Debauchery in an Age of Reason. By Jessica Warner (New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 2002. xviii plus 267 pp. $24.95). Although presented as a “Tragicomedy in three acts” and in a style that occasionally descends to an arch burlesque of the eighteenth-century works she often quotes from, Jessica Warner’s Craze is a serious scholarly study of the first and, arguably, most notorious drug scare in history. The rapid spread of gin consumption, from its mid-seventeenth century invention to the squalor depicted in the Hogarth engraving “Gin Lane” a hundred years later, continues to challenge the historian’s understanding of popular culture and the policy maker’s views on drug policies and social control. This expertly argued book has compelling insights to offer both fields. The gin craze itself, the consumption of which quadrupled in three…

By: frymaster

frymaster — Tue, 13 May 2008 15:55:06 +0000

I have the same result, Sandy. The null set. Is Gin Cart in some obscure history textbook?

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Sun, 11 May 2008 13:40:39 +0000

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By: Digital Learning Environment

Digital Learning Environment — Sun, 11 May 2008 03:11:41 +0000

The Physics of Participation and the Skill of Unlearning…

In the event that you don’t have time to watch, there are a few nuggets you simply must consider. As you read these first two nuggets, try changing the word media to education.

“This is something that people in the media world don’t understand…

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By: Sandy

Sandy — Sun, 04 May 2008 00:17:13 +0000

Has Clay confused gin with the cotton gin? There’s absolutely nothing about “gin carts” and the Industrial Revolution — except in reference to his own speech and its transcript — anywhere in the global collective consciousness. And before sit coms, there were romance novels… before romance novels, star gazing… nowadays, it’s self-publishing on blogs… it’s called leisure time activity, and it seems that every generation has its own preferred form.

By: Tim Stahmer

Tim Stahmer — Sat, 03 May 2008 16:50:29 +0000

Being behind on my aggregator reading , I am late getting to your post and stumbled across the video of Shirky’s talk yesterday. But no matter how you consume his ideas, there are some excellent points in here about how our relationship with media is changing. “Cognitive Surplus” is a great term, one that I will have to borrow.

As to the story of the 4 year old, some were not as taken with the metaphor as I was.

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By: mrsdurff

mrsdurff — Fri, 02 May 2008 10:27:53 +0000

Pretty smart 4 year old! Interacting, conversing, creating, that is exactly what we want!! When i am asked to sit passively through anything, including a church service, twelve minutes is my max. If that is true of this old woman, think what torture we put our k12 learners through! I am just as guilty, not pointing fingers here.

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Fri, 02 May 2008 01:29:04 +0000

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By: michelle

michelle — Fri, 02 May 2008 01:03:10 +0000

This is exactly the point I’m trying to help our teachers understand. You can’t stand in front of a class full of today’s kids and expect them to passively listen. They want to be engaged. They want to be involved. And those types of teachers-the sages on stages- are missing out on all the wonderful things these kids can produce. Wade through the garbage on YouTube to see one small example of all the amazingly creative projects they’re developing.

Sorry… preaching to the choir. I know. Thanks for posting this. I’m going to link to it on my blog.

By: Britt Watwood

Britt Watwood — Fri, 02 May 2008 00:55:27 +0000

Will:

I was blown away by this video too (and just finished HERE COMES EVERYBODY this past week). Shirky is my new hero as well. However, I saw the Shirky video here – http://tinyurl.com/568v8m – and some of the comments at that website made me think again about alternate viewpoints. It is all fascinating!

By: Christy Tvarok

Christy Tvarok — Thu, 01 May 2008 23:01:16 +0000

YES! I feel that not only is it now easy to consume, produce and share, but it’s a sort of rite of passage…an awakening to what’s really going on in the world rather than what I’ve been led to believe is happening.

Sidenote: At first, I thought “cognitive surplus” was similar to the information hangover I’ve been experiencing lately. Reading posts before going to bed = a racing mind for most of the night!