Blog your answers to the exercise, ‘Compare Mindsets 1.0 and 2.0’ in the What is Web 2.0? module, here.
Go through each ‘mindset’ (Lankshear and Knobel (pdf)) line by line, below. Find examples of each mindset, e.g., ‘Product as artefact = book; Product as service = blog site”. Which mindset do you belong to and when? What about your students: which mindset are they most comfortable with? What are the values inherent in each mindset? What about the problems?
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Mindset 1.0 |
Mindset 2.0 |
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The world is appropriately interpreted, understood and responded to in broadly physical industrial terms |
The world cannot adequately be interpreted, understood and responded to in physical-industrial terms only |
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Products as material artifacts |
Products as enabling services |
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Tools for producing |
Tools for mediating and relating |
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Focus on individual intelligence |
Focus on collective intelligence |
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Expertise and authority ‘located’ in individuals and institutions |
Expertise and authority are distributed and collective; hybrid experts |
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Space as enclosed and purpose specific |
Space as open, continuous and fluid |
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Social relations of ‘bookspace’; a stable ‘textual order’ |
Social relations of emerging ‘digital media space’; texts in change |
