Emergence: What I Know Now in Art, Technology, & Education

W H AT I K N O W N O W I N A R T,
T E C H N O L O G Y, & E D U C AT I O N
E M E R G E N C E :
Ann DeMarle — demarle@champlain.edu — @anndemarle

• Duality & Affordances
• Emergence
• Questions
• Gen Z
• Connected Learning

“The affordances of the environment are what it
offers the animal, what it provides or furnishes either
for good or ill”
— J A M E S J . G I B S O N , T H E E C O L O G I C A L A P P R O A C H T O
V I S U A L P E R C E P T I O N ( 1 9 7 9 )
A F F O R D A N C E S

A F F O R D A N C E S Fire
"Short & sweet,
affordances are the
perceived properties of a
thing in reference to a
user that influences how it
is used."
— PA U L K I R S C H N E R
• Heat
• Light
• Energy
• Purification
• Destruction

A F F O R D A N C E S Fire
• Heat
• Light
• Energy
• Purification
• Destruction

The principle of Yin and Yang is that all things exist as
inseparable and contradictory opposites….
The two opposites of Yin and Yang attract and complement each
other and….each side has at its core an element of the other.
Neither pole is superior to the other and, as an increase in one
brings a corresponding decrease in the other, a correct balance
between the two poles must be reached in order to achieve
harmony.
— M A R K C A R T W R I G H T, H T T P S : / / W W W. A N C I E N T. E U / Y I N _ A N D _ YA N G /
Duality

• Procedural: actions
based on rules
• Participatory: invites
human manipulation &
action
• Encyclopedic: provides
high capacity for
information
• Spatial: ability to
navigate information or
virtual spaces
Duality

• Interactivity
• Replication
• Networked Information
• Participation
• Connectivity
• Amplification
• Intelligence
Duality

E M E R G E N C E
http://bbcearth.com/videos/stunning-snowflake-formation-sequence
The act of arising or developing into new shapes greater
than & patterns from previous, more basic parts.
The resulting entity (object, system, or event) cannot be
reduced to its underlying components.
1 +1 = 2
Difficult to predict
/

E M E R G E N C E Technology
• Procedural: actions based on rules
• Participatory: invites human manipulation & action

• Spatial: ability to navigate information or virtual spaces

• Spatial: ability to navigate information or virtual spaces
• Encyclopedic: provides high capacity for information

E M E R G E N C E Art
Express
View

E M E R G E N C E Art
Express
View
Experience
• Interactivity
• Replication
• Networked Information
• Participation
• Connectivity
• Amplification
• Intelligence

E M E R G E N C E
GREEK
GREEK
GREEK
ENGLISH
-logia
communications
-logy
teknologia
systematic
treatment
technology
early 17th century
tekne
art, craft
-
Image: Prof saxx , Photography of Lascaux Animal Painting, Feb 2006

E M E R G E N C E Cave Paintings/Community
Image: Prof saxx , Photography of Lascaux Animal Painting, Feb 2006
“The shaman’s vision gives meaning to
the hunting and killing of animals on
which these societies depend.”
— K A R E N A R M S T R O N G , “ T H E C A S E F O R G O D ”

E M E R G E N C E Vowels/Expression
“Whoever of the dancers now dances lightly,
he shall get me as his prize.”
Image: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dipylon_Inscription.JPG

E M E R G E N C E Printing Press/Revolution
“Some 6M-7M pamphlets were printed
in the first decade of the Reformation,
more than a quarter of them Luther’s.”
— “ H O W L U T H E R W E N T V I R A L : S O C I A L M E D I A I N T H E 1 6 T H
C E N T U RY, ” T H E E C O N O M I S T, 1 2 / 1 7 / 1 1
Jovhannes manuscript of 1053 C.E. (Ms. 3793). At the Matenadaran in Yerevan, Armenia. Photo by Raffi Kojian.
Images: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gutenberg_Bible & http://library.hds.harvard.edu/collections/rare-books/exhibits-and-selected-titles

E M E R G E N C E
Image: https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/exploring-the-early-americas/documenting-new-knowledge.html
Printing Press/Revolution

E M E R G E N C E Telegraph/Time & Space
“We are in great haste to construct a
magnetic telegraph from Maine to
Texas, but Maine and Texas, it may
be, have nothing important to
communicate.”
— H E N RY D AV I D T H O R E A U

E M E R G E N C E Computing/Paradigm Shift

E M E R G E N C E Speed of Change
“Facebook launched in 2004,
YouTube in 2005, Twitter in
2006, the iPhone in 2007. By
2008, Twitter had 1M users, and
only about 1 of 6 Americans
had a smartphone. Today,
Twitter has more than 300M
users, and 2 of 3 Americans
own smartphones.”
—-Jill LaPore, The New Yorker, 8/16,
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/
2016/02/22/did-social-media-produce-the-
new-populism

Q U E S T I O N S
“The affordances of the environment are what it
offers the animal, what it provides or furnishes
either for good or ill”
— J A M E S J . G I B S O N , T H E E C O L O G I C A L A P P R O A C H T O
V I S U A L P E R C E P T I O N ( 1 9 7 9 )

Q U E S T I O N S
The plow—like many technologies, both ancient and modern—is about creating
more of something and doing it more efficiently, so that more people can benefit.
— B I L L G AT E S ,
H T T P S : / / W W W. T E C H N O L O G Y R E V I E W. C O M / S / 6 1 2 9 3 2 / B I L L - G AT E S - H O W - W E L L - I N V E N T- T H E - F U T U R E /
Echo & Bias

Q U E S T I O N S Privacy & Security

Q U E S T I O N S
“Everything that can be automated, will be.”
— H O WA R D G A R D N E R
Learning, Play, & Work

Q U E S T I O N S
“The interconnections offered
by the internet, though
certainly sufficient in the kind
of deliberation that a
community has to practice, do
not encourage this kind of
interaction (truth & civility).
Hence, the decency, trust,
responsibility, and on-going
engagement that sustain
community become
improbable if not
impossible. “
— S H I R L E Y B R I C E H E AT H
Community & Isolation

Q U E S T I O N S
“Google knows everything.”
— A N D R E A S S C H L E I C H E R
Who decides?

G E N Z
• Now entering college
• 25% of population, larger than
Baby Boomers
• US: 54% Caucasian, 24% Hispanic,
14% African-American, 4% Asian,
4% are multiracial or other
• Fiscally pragmatic, socially
support same-sex marriage,
transgender rights & gender
equality
• Always had the internet, 3+ hrs a
day
• 95% teens own phones
True Digital Natives

G E N Z
• 80% expect to attend college
• Learn online: by 2015 @ 150,000
educational apps
• Independent & entrepreneurial yet
risk adverse
• Internet & web tools to build
businesses - not lemonade stands
• Expect mobility & immediacy
• Bonded to devices

G E N Z
• Form relationships online,
girls primarily through social
media, boys primarily
through games
• Loneliness, anxiety, &
fragility, girls may be more
affected than boys due to
social media
• Cyberbullying
• Prefer person to person

G E N Z Their Future in Undecided

G E N Z Their Future in Undecided
Crimson: Top 10 Jobs in 2030:
Skills You Need Now to Land the
Jobs of the Future
• Trash Engineer
• Alternative Energy Consultant
• Earthquake Forecaster
• Medical mentors!
• Organ/Body Part Creator
• Memory Surgeon
• Personal Productivity Person
• Personal Internet of Things (IoT)
Security Repair Person
• Flight Instructor
• Commercial Space Pilot

G E N Z
“Future of Skills: Employment in 2030” emphasizes social
perceptiveness, fluency of ideas and active listening—
part of a list of 21st century skills that will be highly valued
in 2030. The report also includes a list of 10 occupations
most likely to increase in demand by 2030 including
teachers, animal care workers, personal appearance
workers, social scientists, counselors and social
workers, and entertainers, performers and athletes.
All of these fields require skills that cannot be replaced,
or even duplicated with great success, by machines.
Their Future in Undecided
Jobs with the most growth require uniquely human skills:

G E N Z
“Futurist Brian David Johnson wrote on the 9 Billion
Schools blog about the importance of honing uniquely
human skills… because if there’s one thing machines
don’t do well, it’s being human. Johnson says working in
fields requiring these human skills is the best way to
protect one’s career from automation.”
Jobs with the most growth require uniquely human skills:

G E N Z
Howard Gardner: Five Minds for the Future
• Disciplinary Mind: the mastery of major schools of
thought, including science, mathematics, & history,
& of at least one professional craft.
• Synthesizing Mind: the ability to integrate ideas
from different disciplines or spheres into a coherent
whole & to communicate that integration to others.
• Creating Mind: the capacity to uncover & clarify
new problems, questions, & phenomena.
• Respectful Mind: awareness of & appreciation for
differences among human beings & human groups.
• Ethical Mind: fulfillment of one’s responsibilities as
a worker & as a citizen.

G E N Z
How do we educate when computing is rapidly
changing the nature of who we are, how we interact,
communicate, and learn — shifting cultural
paradigms?
•
Educational Affordances

But it often comes up short in preparing students to
wrestle with intractable problems and unending
disruption.
G E N Z
– T RY G G V I T H AY E R ,
W W W. E D U C AT I O N 4 S I T E . O R G / B L O G / 2 0 1 6 / A F F O R D A N C E S -
E D U C AT I O N - A N D - F U T U R E - T E C H N O L O G I E S /

G E N Z
• Career Opportunities
• Mastery of Content
• Parsing Information
• Ability to Collaborate &
Connect
• Context & Critical Thinking
• The Right Questions
• Developing Character:
• Grit, flexibility, empathy…

G E N Z Educational Affordances
“Every recitation in every subject gives an opportunity for
establishing cross-connections between the subject matter of
the lesson and the wider and more direct experiences of
everyday life. …Save by accident, out-of-school experience is left
in its crude and comparatively irreflective [sic] state. It is not subject
to the refining and expanding influences of the more accurate and
comprehensive material of direct instruction. The latter is not
motivated and impregnated with a sense of reality by being
intermingled with the realities of everyday life. The best type of
teaching bears in mind the desirability of affecting this
interconnection. It puts the student in the habitual attitude of
ﬁnding points of contact and mutual bearings.”
– J O H N D E W E Y, D E M O C R A C Y A N D E D U C AT I O N

All of this has forced professors here to think carefully
about what, exactly, they’re supposed to be doing. How
do you develop a course in which students learn to be
innovative? What is the role of the instructor if he is no
longer the authority in the classroom? How do you
evaluate students when there are no right answers? And
what is innovation, anyway?
– N O T E X T B O O K S , N O L E C T U R E S , A N D N O R I G H T A N S W E R S . I S
T H I S W H AT H I G H E R E D U C AT I O N N E E D S ?
B Y B E T H M C M U R T R I E F E B R U A RY 1 0 , 2 0 1 9
C H R O N I C L E
G E N Z Educational Affordances

C O N N E C T E D L E A R N I N G

C O N N E C T E D L E A R N I N G Teacher
https://www.smore.com/5mhyn-flipped-learning
Sage on the Stage

Sage on the Stage Marlboro Man
Image: https://medium.com/content-shailee/semiotics-analysis-of-the-iconic-marlboro-man-ba933411d465

Sage on the Stage Guide on the Side
Teacher

Father Knows Best Guide on the Side

Teacher
as co-Learner
C O N N E C T E D L E A R N I N G New Roles

Teacher
as co-Learner
Student
as Teacher

“What do we have to offer that machines and AI can’t do
better and faster?
Empathy, connection, & courage.”
— B R E N E B R O W N
Teacher
as co-Learner
Student
as Teacher
Technology
Informs

Teacher
as co-Learner
Student
as Teacher
Technology
Informs
Connected
in
Community
New Roles

C O N N E C T E D L E A R N I N G C O M M U N I T Y
Student Interests
Shared Practices
Shared Goal
Connections
Across Settings
Interdisciplinary
Technology Affordances
Connected
Learning
Environment
Peers
Mentors
Community

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=30&v=tgZ7bMJG9RE

With few exceptions the solitary animal is, in any
species, an abnormal creature …The dominant
principle of social life is not the struggle for existence,
but cooperation … If we would seek for one word that
describes society better than any other…The word is
COOPERATION.
— A S H L E Y M O N TA G U

The only place where people are asked to work alone in
a competitive atmosphere on a regular basis is the
college classroom.
— D . S C H U M A K E R

“An academic studio partnering with industry, public institutions &
nonprofits to develop new concepts, processes, uses & applications for
games & other forms of emergent media.”

“A fearless learning community designing dynamic processes
and tools to create meaningful solutions.”

P R O C E S S
• Feedback
• Diverse experiences,
mindsets
• Local to Global
• Connecting to
expertise

Howard Gardner: The Theory
of Multiple Intelligences.
• musical-rhythmic
• visual-spatial
• verbal-linguistic
• logical-mathematical
• bodily-kinesthetic
• interpersonal
• intrapersonal
• naturalistic
• existential
Image: Wilson "Snowflake" Bentley, 1902

• Game Thinking
• Meaningful Challenges
P R O C E S S

• Game Thinking
• Meaningful Challenges
• Out-of-Comfort Zone
• Community Learning
P R O C E S S

• Co-create
• Build Mastery
• Collaborative Teams
• Critical Friends
P R O C E S S

F O R M S O F C O L L A B O R AT I O N
John Abele on
Collaboration and Leadership
Physical
Virtual
Synchronous
BIG
small
Asynchronous
SHORT
L
O
N
G

T Y P E S O F C O L L A B O R AT I O N
• Command & control
• Facilitated
• Self organizing
• Egalitarian
• Adversarial
• Pseudo
• Mass
• Crowd Sourcing
• Combinations “Success depends on differing
strategies & leadership.”John Abele on
Collaboration and Leadership

• Career Opportunities
• Mastery of Content
• Parsing Information
• Ability to Collaborate &
Connect
• Context & Critical Thinking
• The Right Questions
• Developing Character:
• Grit, flexibility, empathy…
Interactivity
Replication
Networked Information
Participation
Intelligence
Amplification
Connectivity
P R O C E S S : Technology Affordances

• Design Thinking
• Reflection & Integration
P R O C E S S

http://ten.emergentmediacenter.com

• Affordances & duality: how we perceive and utilize
technology and education.
• Emergence: why technology and resulting social
impacts are greater than their original intent.
• Questions posed by the speed of technological
change.
• Gen Z is the first generation to grow up fully digital,
possibilities for their future.
• Connected Learning recognizes the paradigm shift.
Best practices challenge learners, utilize technology’s
affordances, & collaboration for individual &
community growth.

As a teenager Ann hated her typing class. Little did
she know that her prophetic pursuit of her MFA in
painting and computer graphics would prepare her
for a life of typing and swiping (and much more).
Ann will look at the dual nature of computing, the
challenges it poses to education, and what’s she
learned creating ground breaking degree
programs that merge art and technology. She’ll
take a deep dive into her current thinking on how
we can take on the future creating both gritty
individuals and innovative communities through
“Connected Learning”, a collaborative model
between education and organizations utilizing
technology, creating, and relationships.

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