Presentation by Teemu Arina at The Annual Conference on Distance Teaching & Learning, 7th of August 2009 in Madison, Wisconsin. Video recording available later.

1. IN THE AGE OF REAL-TIME
The complex, social, and serendipitous learning offered via the Web
August 2009
Teemu Arina
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2. Ours is a brand-new world of allatonceness.
We can no longer build
serially, block-by-block,
step-by-step
...because instant communication insures that all
factors of the environment and of experience
co-exist in a state of active interplay."
– Marshall McLuhan (1967)

3. FRACTAL LEARNING

9. Pattern Recognition
“Information overload is an opportunity for
pattern recognition” – Marshall McLuhan
Image: jbum

12. TV > MOBILE HEAD
Image: Judy Breck

13. INTERNET?

14. INTERNET PROVIDES
Independence of...

15. Time > No-time

16. Space > No-Space

17. Schizophrenics:
No Sense of Time
and Space

18. Instant communication insures that all factors of
the environment [SPACE] and of experience [TIME]
co-exist in a state of active interplay.
– Marshall McLuhan (1967)

19. TIME

20. Time = Change
Linear Complicated Complex
Known Knowable Perceive and adapt

21. < Mechanic Age of Speed
> Digital Age of Real-time

22. The web is transitioning from mere interactivity to a more
dynamic, real-time web where read-write functions are
heading towards balanced synchronicity.
The real-time web is the next logical step in
the Internet’s evolution.
– OM Malik, Giga OM (2009)

23. From Pages to Streams

27. FROM COLLECTING

28. TO PERCEIVING
FLOWS OF PATTERNS

29. FROM SEQUENTIAL
MODELS

30. TO SERENDIPITY

31. SPACE

33. Digital + Analog as a Double Helix
Digital
aNAlog

34. Digital + Analog as a Double Helix
DIGITAL
D’N’A
ANALOG
DOUBLE HELIX

35. Digital+Analog at the Physical Space

36. THE SIXTH SENSE
colored
caps
camera
projector
phone mirror
Ref: MIT Media Lab

37. Ref: MIT Media Lab

38. Magic Wands
What do you call a h
andheld interface fo
real, actual objects? r
"A wand."
– Bruce Sterling

39. Ref: Microsoft

40. ONE MACHINE
Technology as an extension of man.
Man as an extension of technology.

41. "Time and space are modes by
which we think and not
conditions in which we live"
Albert Einstein

43. "It is the framework which changes
with each new technology and not
just the picture within the frame."
Marshall McLuhan

44. Thanks!
Teemu Arina
ceo - dicole ltd.
mail teemu@dicole.com
blog tarina.blogging.fi
web www.dicole.com
“Imagination is more
important than knowledge”
– Albert Einstein
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