Shirin Kouladjie | Days of My Life : 2001.06.28
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Thoughts on Collage and New Media:
A Commonplace Book
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"A lot of education is like teaching marching; I try to make it more like dancing. Education is this funny thing. You deal for several years with organized information, and then you go out into the world and you never see any of that ever again. There's no more organized information. I'm trying to establish within my seminars disorganized information, which students can start practicing their moves on."
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"The major advances in civilization are processes that all but wreck the societies in which they occur."
—Alfred North Whitehead, qtd. in Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore, The Medium is the Massage (New York, Random House 1967): 7.
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"Everything we do is music."
—John Cage, qtd. in Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore, The Medium is the Massage (New York, Random House 1967): 119.
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"We have no art. We do everything as well as we can."
—Balinese Saying, qtd. in Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore, The Medium is the Massage (New York, Random House 1967): 137.
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"Only the hand that erases can write the true thing."
—Meister Eckhardt, qtd. in Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore, The Medium is the Massage (New York, Random House 1967): 147.
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"The meaning of a message is the change which it produces in the image."
—Kenneth Boulding, qtd. in Marshall McLuhan Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man (New York, McGraw Hill 1964): 26.
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"...Indeed, if multiplicity is the spirit of the digital age, it encompasses the trivium as well as the quadrivium– which later joined forces to form the seven liberal arts– and much more. We might say that, as a vehicle for education not only formal but more importantly via living, the web has obsolesced the seven liberal arts in favor of a curriculum with boundaries far less rigid, and populated by thousands of subjects, constantly under construction via the serendipity of Web links rather than departmental committees in universities.
"We might call this new anti-regime: the digital arts."
—Paul Levinson, Digital McLuhan: A Guide to the Information Millenium (New York : Routledge, 1999): 194.
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"...If our traditional liberal arts were designed to make us fully productive citizens in a world moved by literacy, we might say that the digital arts– not only what is on the Web but the training and knowledge to know how to find and use it– are necessary to make us fully productive citizens in at least the first years of the new millenium.
"This new digital emphasis not only on knowing but on knowing how to know– which suggests that the most fundamental form of knowing is doing– is consistent with the educational philosophy of John Dewey, which, apropos his name, went so far as to equate knowing with doing. It is also consistent with McLuhan's call for "cool" teachers– facilitators, not lecturers, who elicit student participation– and theorists from Dewey to Montessori to Piaget who have promoted the virtues of the active learner....
"Online education thus becomes education about how to learn online, as much as it is education in any specified subject such as history or philosophy, in this reversal of passive, lecture-and-book based education that parallels the reversal of television into the Web."
—Paul Levinson, Digital McLuhan: A Guide to the Information Millenium (New York : Routledge, 1999): 196.
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