RFCs, MOOs, LMSs: Assorted Educational Devices\ud

This paper discusses implicit social consequences of four basic internet protocols. The results are then related to the field of computer-assisted teaching. An educational on-line community is described and compared to the emerging standard of web-based learning management.\u

Player agency in interactive narrative: audience, actor & author

The question motivating this review paper is, how can computer-based interactive narrative be used as a constructivist learn- ing activity? The paper proposes that player agency can be used to link interactive narrative to learner agency in constructivist theory, and to classify approaches to interactive narrative. The traditional question driving research in interactive narrative is, ‘how can an in- teractive narrative deal with a high degree of player agency, while maintaining a coherent and well-formed narrative?’ This question derives from an Aristotelian approach to interactive narrative that, as the question shows, is inherently antagonistic to player agency. Within this approach, player agency must be restricted and manip- ulated to maintain the narrative. Two alternative approaches based on Brecht’s Epic Theatre and Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed are reviewed. If a Boalian approach to interactive narrative is taken the conflict between narrative and player agency dissolves. The question that emerges from this approach is quite different from the traditional question above, and presents a more useful approach to applying in- teractive narrative as a constructivist learning activity

Learning and Living Difference That Makes A Difference: Postmodern Theory & Multicultural Education

The application of postmodern theory to a transformative understanding of multiculturalism can make a difference. Multicentered culture, antiessentialist race consciousness, and political equity—aspects of a transformative multiculturalism put forward in 1996 by Newfield and Gordon—can be juxtaposed with elements of a postmodern theorization of society as a consumer-driven economy saturated with multiple mediated unstable, fragmented, and evolving discourses and cultural interaction. This theoretical construct can be illustrated with research data from college classrooms and specifically an analysis of the television show The X-Files. This analysis shows how a discussion of whiteness creates larger discussion of transformative multiculturalism in which difference makes a difference. Moreover, a postmodern transformative multiculturalism sees universities as ideological sites in the production and reproduction of hegemony

Tapol bulletin no, 38, March 1980

Contents: 1980 Tapol statement -- Where is Trubus Sudarsono? He disappeared -- Ex-Tapol receives Unicef award -- Citizenship: weeding out the Chinese -- Heri Akhmadi on student trials and normalisation -- Students demonstrate against 'normalisation' -- What's going on in Kalimantan? -- Book review: Annual report on Fundamental Human Rights in Indonesia 1979 -- Land disputes -- Aceh tapols -- Garuda pilots dismissed -- A petty despot's 'reconstruction' in Medan -- Tourists: another invasion of the Asmat -- Massive forced re-settlement in East Timor -- Brutality on Biak -- Press freedom: Ali Murtopo elucidate

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Includes: The Changing Relationship Between Federal, State and Local Governments, by Tim Penny; The Implications of Changing Federalism: County View, by Barbara Sheen Todd; The Implications of Changing Federalism State View, by Tom Stinson; Shaping National Values: A Non-Profit Perspective, by David Mathews; The Role of Religion in Public Policy Debate, by Gary Farley; Does the Press Shape or Reflect National Values? by Hasso Hering; What Does it Mean? by Daryll Ray; Implications of the 1996 Farm Bill-Comments, by Chuck Hassebrook; Implications of the 1996 Farm Bill-Another Comment, by John M. Schnittker; The Changing Work Force and Implications for Work and Family, by Cali Williams; Work-Life: An Interplay of Issues, by Patricia Hendel; Forms of Property Rights and the Impacts of Changing Ownership, by Bonnie McCay; Common Property Issues and Alaska's Bering Sea Communities, by Larry Merculieff; Maine's Lobster Fishery - Managing a Common Property Resource, by James WilsonAgricultural and Food Policy,

Deep Learning: Our Miraculous Year 1990-1991

In 2020, we will celebrate that many of the basic ideas behind the deep learning revolution were published three decades ago within fewer than 12 months in our "Annus Mirabilis" or "Miraculous Year" 1990-1991 at TU Munich. Back then, few people were interested, but a quarter century later, neural networks based on these ideas were on over 3 billion devices such as smartphones, and used many billions of times per day, consuming a significant fraction of the world's compute.Comment: 37 pages, 188 references, based on work of 4 Oct 201

"I Saw You": searching for lost love via practices of reading, writing and responding

How do emotions move and how do emotions move us? How are feelings and recognitions distributed socio-materially? Based on a multi-site ethnographic study of a romantic correspondance system, this article explores the themes of love, privacy, identity and public displays. Informed by ethnomethodology and actor-network theory its investigations into these informal affairs are somewhat unusual in that much of the research carried out by those bodies of work concentrates on institutional settings such as laboratories, offices and courtrooms. In common with ethnomethodology it attempts to re-specify some topics of interest in the social sciences and humanities; in this case, documents and practices of writing and reading those documents. A key element of the approach taken is restoring to reading and writing their situated nature as observable, knowable, distributed community practices. Re-specifying topics for the social sciences involves the detailed description of several situated ways in which the romantic correspondence system is used. Detailing the translations, transformations and transportations of documents as 'quasi-objects' through several orderings, the article suggests that documents have no essential meaning and that making them meaningful is part of the work of those settings