With the use of digital learning devices in classrooms, educators and policy makers have set ‘interactivity’ and ‘attention span’ as the benchmark for progress in classrooms. But with psychologists and academicians constantly warning us about the permanent brain and behavior changes that our ‘connected lives’ are leading to, are we forcing our children to learn and grow up in an environment that is riddled with cliches, confusion and contradiction, asks Nilofar Ansher
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Are we pushing our digital native children towards a Catch-22 future?
Posted by Nilofar Ansher on April 4, 2012
http://trailofpapercuts.wordpress.com/2012/04/04/are-we-pushing-our-digital-native-children-towards-a-catch-22-future/
All the fuss over rampaging robots & avenging androids: YAWN!
There is this pathologically monotonous narrative in science fiction books and movies. Does this script sound familiar? Flashback: One man has a breakthrough with Artificial Intelligence that allows robots to think. Intermission: Robot supersedes man’s intelligence. Present: Robot plots mankind’s destruction and goes on a killing spree. Climax: Man plots robocide – robotic genocide. A [...]
Posted by Nilofar Ansher on March 3, 2012
http://trailofpapercuts.wordpress.com/2012/03/03/all-the-fuss-over-rampaging-robots-avenging-androids-yawn/
The Everyday Digital Native Video Contest You THINK Digital? You CONNECT using digital devices and gadgets? You ACT digital, always clicking, linking, posting, tagging and Liking? You know what it means To Be digital! Tell us your Digital Story. What makes your life so click-worthy? Submit your idea online: https://www.research.net/s/BZXQPHL | Top 10 video finalists [...]
Posted by Nilofar Ansher on January 11, 2012
http://trailofpapercuts.wordpress.com/2012/01/11/920/
Trail of Papercuts 2011: In Review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 6,900 times in 2011. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 6 trips to carry that many people. Click here to [...]
Posted by Nilofar Ansher on January 1, 2012
http://trailofpapercuts.wordpress.com/2012/01/01/trail-of-papercuts-2011-in-review/
Fandom: Cyber Sleuthing My Fictional Heroes
Where I Try Playing Catch-up With My Favorite ‘Fictional’ Stars By Stalking Their Real Life Counterparts. *Warning: This article makes frequent references to the Twilight Saga, non-Twihard fans, suck in that incredulity, now. Street stalking is actually passe. It’s too much of an effort hiding behind the bushes outside your favorite movie star’s house, waiting [...]
Posted by Nilofar Ansher on December 19, 2011
http://trailofpapercuts.wordpress.com/2011/12/19/fandom-cyber-sleuthing-my-fictional-heroes/
Spam: Playing into our pursuit of desire
What is really the tricky part about spam messages, and I would go so far as to say evil actually – is that the actionable instructions required in the email – sign up, click here, send us your address – play into our very real “wish list”: loads of money in American dollars, an all-expense-paid vacation to an exotic island, an anonymous stranger transferring all her property and wealth to our name.
Posted by Nilofar Ansher on October 1, 2011
http://trailofpapercuts.wordpress.com/2011/10/01/spam-playing-into-our-pursuit-of-desire/
Could we benefit from having censor ratings for online content?
What concerns me more today is the proliferation of material online and the easy access to the same. While it took money to buy a video cassette or music CD once upon a time, today, with 24×7 net access, the same content is easily available on YouTube or any torrent site for free download. How then can the State regulate access to such content and make it age appropriate?
Posted by Nilofar Ansher on September 20, 2011
http://trailofpapercuts.wordpress.com/2011/09/20/could-we-benefit-from-having-censor-ratings-for-online-content/
Engineering a Cyber Twin: How do we design identities online?
This is an excerpt from the essay ‘Engineering a Cyber Twin’, published by Centre for Internet and Society, and Hivos, in ‘Digital AlterNatives with a cause?’ | The Hague: July 2011 | Download the four-volume collective here. Note: MyCyberTwin.com is a web-based artificial intelligence service founded by tech-duo Liesl Capper and John Zakos in [...]
Posted by Nilofar Ansher on September 20, 2011
http://trailofpapercuts.wordpress.com/2011/09/20/engineering-a-cyber-twin-how-do-we-design-identities-online/
Remains of the Text
In continuation of my pathological obsession, most recent, to understand the ontology of our avatar, here is another post that delves into textual remembrances. What surfaces and what do we miss when all traces of our textual avatar is deleted from a group? If posts are representations of a person – their voice, so to speak – what does it say about group behaviour online when we ignore or remain neutral to status updates?
Posted by Nilofar Ansher on August 9, 2011
http://trailofpapercuts.wordpress.com/2011/08/09/remains-of-the-text/
Miss Digital Native
Learnt to write before I took my first baby steps, and devoured books before playing with dolls. Writer, Editor, Researcher, I have chanced upon the world of Digitalia and don't plan to leave soon. Cybersociology, Performance Studies and Ancient Civilizations get me going - in that order!
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