Sorry, but I've TOTALLY missed the point of this one. Am I just being
thick? What's the argument?
Paul.
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From: Discussion list for disabled students and their support staff.
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of A Velarde
Sent: 13 July 2006 14:40
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Subject: Re: Returning to the discussion about reading and writting
technologies
Hello Amanda. Yes. The technology is opening the possibility of instant
communication I.e receiving your answer of your exam question as you
request it by 'thinking'. Today the use of the internet is creating many
problems to university assessments (I/e plagiarism bcs internet
companies can send you top 'assignments' in 48 hours). One of the main
hurdles dyslexic people are challenging is the paradigm of knowledge
repetition vs knowledge creation. In the former, dyslexics are more
likely to have less opportunities as current achievements suggest.
Film, and television, are the main source of knowledge (and distorted
knowledge) transmission. It is not the school, nor the University at
they were designed some seven centuries ago. (I've been told that Mel
Gibson is received as a hero in Scotland!) The trouble is that one would
have a serious problem if in stead of writing up a volume of 500 pages
thesis for your PhD you come up with a 15 minutes video clip (which
probably have 20 million times more coded characters than a thesis in a
written language, in binary language)
Andy
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From: amanda kent
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2006 1:15 PM
Subject: Re: Returning to the discussion about reading and writting
technologies
hi andy,
there is an article along similar lines in todays' independent
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_technology/article1174087.ec
e
same story in new scientist:
http://www.newscientisttech.com/article/dn9540-brainimplant-enables-mind
-over-matter.html
and scientific american:
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa003&articleID=0004DD3A-6E37-14
B5-AE3783414B7F0000
my understanding of this technology is that it is tapping into neural
pathways related to motor nerves that have previously been intact, ie
there is a reactivation of nerual networks already laid down. that seems
to me to be a very long way from the suggestion that 'inward thought'
could be projected using same process. can't we do that anyway with
existing- films? ;)
amanda
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