Toddlers Addicted to I-Pads Like Crack!

Toddlers becoming so addicted to iPads they require therapy

by Victoria Ward 4/21/13

By the telegraph. 

Toddler Ipad Addicts Need Therapy! Read the article here! 

This article is alarming, but not surprising. Dr Graham who launched the UK's first technology addition program three years ago, said that young technology addicts experienced the same withdrawal symptoms as alcoholics or heroin addicts, when the devices were taken away.

He warned that the condition prevented young people from forming normal social relationships, leaving them drained by the constant interaction.

It's strange to think of technology as dangerous addiction and compared to hardcore drugs like heroine.
Ipads like heroine. It's definitely a critical issue to consider.

Rumble Arts Show

Hey guys! This Friday Night there is going to be an opening at the Rumble Arts Gallery in Humboldt Park that highlights some of my participant work from this past semester. There is work up from participants at Trilogy Behavioral Health Center http://www.trilogyinc.org/ and an intergenerational class at Caring Connections for Seniors.
Come and support us! It should be a great show!

Educational Reproductive Habits of Animals

Isabella Rossellini's critically acclaimed and provocative online series, GREEN PORNO covers both land and sea! The series features Rossellini as she acts out the reproductive habits of marine animals and insects, both scientifically accurate yet extremely entertaining.

Check out more short films at the Sundance channel http://www.sundancechannel.com/series/greenporno

Weirdly Compelling Sculptures of Dissected Pop Culture Characters

Well, these are weird. Brooklyn-based artist Jason Freeny’s work, which we spotted at Beautiful Decay, revolves around the idea of exploring what lies beneath the shiny veneer of pop culture. His sculptures do this a way that’s both conceptually interesting and really rather disconcerting — they’re bold, cartoonish figurines of instantly recognizable toys and characters with their flesh peeled back to reveal the skeleton and organs beneath. The result is somewhere between Disney and Gunther von Hagens. You can see more of Freeny’s work at his website.

Art Project Powered by Google

The Art Project powered by Google features interior tours of seventeen world famous art museums. Select a museum from the list on the homepage and you can virtually tour it using the same interface style you experience in Google Maps Streetview. Inside the museum just double click to zoom to a location. You can also open a floor plan overview and click on a room to navigate to that part of the museum. The best part of the Art Project powered by Google is the option to create your own artwork collection while visiting each museum. As you're touring a museum click on the "+" symbol on any work of art see it in greater detail, to add it to your collection, and to open background information about that work of art. To create a collection you must be signed into your Google account.
http://www.googleartproject.com/

Hyde Park Art Center

On April 2nd, our Cyberped class took a field trip to the Hyde Park Art Center, little I'd know we were entering one of the most dynamic art spaces in all of Chicago with insightful exhibitions and a wide array of art marking facilities,

TOM TORLUEMKE: FEARSOME FABLE – TOLERABLE TRUTH

Spin-Art Mandalas In Ceramics Room

Feed back board encourages responses from visitors

E-Waste -Designed for the Dump

What happens to the mountains of e-waste we make every year? Find out on the Story of Electronics....

ViMEOW! April Fools!

For all you cat lovers out there.... Introducing Vimeow

"The company formerly known as Vimeo has not been one to pounce on Internet trends. The Hula Hoop, for example — not for us. But it cannot be denied that cat videos, with their unforgettable characters and riveting plot lines, are here to stay." 

Keep?

Google taketh....and Google giveth....

We said goodbye to Reader and now Google's introduced Keep.

http://money.cnn.com/2013/03/22/technology/mobile/google-keep/index.html

A note taking app on the Android platform that syncs with Google Drive, etc. Maybe not a big deal if you're an iPhone person, but pretty cool for anyone on Android. Do you use note apps on your smartphone? Some folks like Evernote since it includes more functionality, but it's possible that as Keep evolves it'll match Evernote.

Awesome Street Signs Commemorating Iconic Rap Lyrics

After schooling New Yorkers on etiquette via numerous unsanctioned interventions, artist Jay Shells channeled his love of hip hop music and his uncanny sign-making skills towards a brand new project: “Rap Quotes.”

For this ongoing project, Shells created official-looking street signs quoting famous rap lyrics that shout out specific street corners and locations. He then installed them at those specific street corners and locations.

Shells went all city and posted over 30 signs quoting the likes of Jeru tha Damaja, Mos Def, Nas, Kanye West, CL Smooth, GZA, and RA the Rugged Man.
http://animalnewyork.com/2013/jay-shells-rap-quotes/

Interviewing for podcasts at the MCA!

This past week, graduate students set out on the digital-audio frontier of collecting data and interviews at the museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago.

These soon-to-be educators took to the museum with a curious and inquisitive ear.
Cant to hear the thoughtful resulting podcasts!

Stephanie and Ellen deeply engaging a couple of museum goers

RIP Google Reader

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/14/the-end-of-google-reader-sends-internet-into-an-uproar/

Google Reader, Google's RSS aggregation feed (the thing that pulls together lots of various blog posts that are new into one place for you to read) is scheduled to shut down July 1, as a result of 'declining usage'

Lots of folks use reader and there's been a notable web backlash. Thoughts?

Where the Clouds Live!

As I have been working on my thesis research, and constantly uploading images, documents, and all kinds of scholarly things to cloud spaces like Google drive, or Dropbox (I'm sure you can relate) I wondered where do these documents go? How are they saved?
 Where do the clouds live? What do they look like? Do they have a space, or are all my documents stored in some incorporeal invisible space?

Turns out they do live somewhere.

Kind of like here.


It took me a short search of googling Google to find this wired.com article.
One of the most shocking things I learned is all the energy that is being used to save all my precious Google Docs in data centers consume up to 1.5 percent of all the world's electricity.

It's definitely worth taking a look!

Google Throws Open Doors to Its Top-Secret Data Center

Technology and E-Waste.

How many computers have you gone through since you were younger? How many cellphones? Have you ever wondered what happens to all of your outdated technology?

The amount of electronic waste is skyrocketing in the United States. This is due in large part to advances in technology. For example, as technology improves, the lifespan for electronic tools and devices—such as computers and cell phones—becomes shorter, resulting in more waste. Technological advances also have resulted in decreasing the demand for repair of electronic devices. Compared to the 1960s and1970s, it is nearly always less expensive to buy new than to have a defective product fixed.

Poducate me!

Podcasting has taken the educational world by storm, and is being used in K-12 schools, universities, colleges and around the world.

What are the benefits of bringing podcasting into the classroom?

Check out this website Poducate me!

Gooru!

Education startups seem to be everywhere. Search engines too. What happens when you try to combine them? Maybe it looks something like Gooru! I'm intrigues but not sure how effective it'll be yet. thoughts?

Connected Learning: 'Creative'

The interview subject is DePaul University associate professor Nichole Pinkard, founder of Chicago's pioneering Digital Youth Network (http://digitalyouthnetwork.org),

The transformation of technology urges us as a culture to develop our creativity for a wide-range of problem-solving, through multiple modes of communication. 
How can we teach these new forms of literacies to students growing up in the digital age?

This film examines how creativity, shunned in the industrial age approach to schooling, is essential to learners in a networked society and a critical element of connected learning.

Guided by six learning principles and three core values, connected learning is the outcome of a six-year research effort supported by the MacArthur Foundation into how learning, education, and schooling could be re imagined for a networked world.

The film asks:
- 'In this rapidly changing world might creativity need to sit at the heart of an education for all?'
- 'Might education now need to embrace these new forms of literacy for all students?'
- 'Might our future call for creative, literate, self expressive and resourceful students?'

Digital interactive!

This past Thursday we went on a class field trip to AIC to check out the museum and experience their new digital interactives in the European decorative arts.
One thing that really struck me was this intersection between past and present, and how we experienced old ornate things, in a new digital way.
How did the iPads affect our experience with decorative arts? Was it distracting? Or were we able to glean more information from this enhanced experience?

TED Talks - Want a SMART board?

A common perceived barrier with technology is cost. New computers, new software, new equipment, it all costs money! But many creative folks find or develop cheaper solutions that take advantage of technology as a great equalizer at minimal cost.

Here's a great TED talk from a few years ago about using a Wii remote to create a functional SMART board! (for those who don't know, these are interactive white boards, very pricey). What other types of devices and technology could we create if more folks thought this way?

Blog on Tmblr!

Hey Guys!

Since so many of us already have blogs on Tmblr, we decided to make an account as well!
Check us out at http://cyberped.tumblr.com/

Media Center Menu

Just like a delicious dining experience, the SAIC media center(s) have a extensive array of  equipment flavors for your consumption and production.
Check out your options!
Media Center Equipment Menu

Family Portraits in the Digital Age

Photographer John Clang has a great series embodying the phenomenon of globalization and the age of the internet. These projected Skype family portraits really bring into question dimensions of time ideas of time and space, as well the new virtual space.
It's interesting to think about how just a few years ago the cost of long-distance calling made it expensive to keep in contact with family members far away. What modes of technology do you use to communicate with your own loved ones if they are near or so far away? Skype? Messengers of various sorts? Face time? Texting? What's App? Regular old phone conversations? Snail mail? Postcards, perhaps...

Skype Reunion Family Portraits

If you've seen this, it never hurts to give it another viewing. Well-presented. And paradigm shifting.

Check out these decayed frames from the Davide Turconi Project, which is a record of the 35mm nitrate film frame clippings collected by Italian film historian Davide Turconi (1911–2005) from the Josef Joye Collection in Switzerland and from other unidentified sources.

   It's interesting to think about how technology has aged, or can be aged from 100 years ago. These images show advanced ages in nitrate decomposition.

It makes me wonder how our current technologies will have aged in the projected future, and also makes me appreciate the natural process of decomposition. 

How has technology aged from even 10 years ago? Is there any record or proof of this age? 

Prezi example -Technology in Art Education

Here is a great introduction not only to Prezi, but also to technology in Art Education. 

This prezi addresses 21st century learning and teaching in terms of BOLS - or blended online learning systems, which can facilitate learning in a online and face-to-face setting using programs such as Moodle. The Prezi also focuses on student use such as online photo and video editing sites, but also on art history, teaching others through video. This presentation also addresses professional development of teachers using such sites as Twitter, Facebook, ArtEd 2.0 Ning, and much more!

Beaming Tweets into Outer Space

Tweets in outer-space?!

Check out artist Nathaniel Stern's project sending out unmediated thoughts and responses about politics and culture via twitter to our (perhaps) soon to be alien friends. TWEETS IN SPACE

How does Tweets in Space create a conversation not just about communication within our world, but transcend the traditional limits and scope of communication? How is this work a performance, or coerces the public to preform?

Welcome Friends!

Welcome to Cyberpedagogy!

  where art, technology, education, and cyberspace collide...

 This is the class blog that will be maintained by Ray and I (Jenny) to create dialogue with your personal blogs. Blogger is super user-friendly to create dialogue and conversation and we  encourage you to take advantage of this feature and give each other thoughtful and critical feedback this way!

To Re-Cap Blogging expectations, here is what the syllabus says:

"Students will be required to keep an online blog and post to the blog at least twice each week. One of the posts will be in response to that week’s assigned reading or online resource. The other posting is open-ended and topics for the entry could include commentary on issues in art education, responses to the readings, thoughts regarding current projects, or general commentary on life, society, and culture. Students are encouraged to blog more than the two required entries each week. Students are also required to read and comment on their classmates’ blogs. "

The blogs will also be used to create a more holistic and rounded out atmosphere for growth and learning. In this case, have FUN!
Blog about what interests you, perplexes you, amuses you and how it fits in with everything else you are learning, devleoping, investigating, ect.

I'm excited to read your blogs and see the themes, schemes, and dreams that emerge from our class!

-Jenny