{"id":258,"date":"2007-04-15T05:12:41","date_gmt":"2007-04-15T10:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/nesson\/2007\/04\/15\/sj-will-lead-a-working-group-at-is2k7\/"},"modified":"2007-04-15T05:12:41","modified_gmt":"2007-04-15T10:12:41","slug":"sj-will-lead-a-working-group-at-is2k7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/nesson\/2007\/04\/15\/sj-will-lead-a-working-group-at-is2k7\/","title":{"rendered":"sj will lead a working group at is2k7"},"content":{"rendered":"

a pixie of a man, guiding the steam of bits into xo and from there out to children in developing nations. what can we do to help? i visit him at one laptop per child. i sit in a room with a tree of xo’s strung along the ceiling like green and white flowers along a garden path. sj stands at a whiteboard describing a taxonomy of knowledge and a plan for rendering it in bits. open invitation to the derek bok center<\/a> and to the charles hamilton institute for race and justice<\/a> and to the pitf program<\/a>– let us join together in this enterprise. here is the audio recording – sj’s workgroup is2k7<\/a>.<\/p>\n

i went last night to a free culture<\/a> meeting at the offices of one laptop per child, olpc. dean jansen presented the democracy player<\/a>. the democracy player is like tivo for the net. elizabeth stark led us in working on the wiki for how to make internet tv – how to be your own channel. i opened an xo, hit the button, started it up, just like a kid in a developing nation. i could find the camera. i could take a picture. i could make music. i could open a text environment and type. i could open a file and read. i could see the tree connecting xo’s in a mesh any link of which connecting to the net would connect them all to me. i am a teacher. i teach law. i teach evidence. i teach dispute resolution through civil discourse. i teach empathic argument. i teach programming from scratch. i teach poker. i teach teaching and thinking and feeling and doing and being a student of it all with reverence for life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

a pixie of a man, guiding the steam of bits into xo and from there out to children in developing nations. what can we do to help? i visit him at one laptop per child. i sit in a room with a tree of xo’s strung along the ceiling like green and white flowers along […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":370,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2179,439,2177,2178],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-berkmania","category-harvard","category-rhetorical-space","category-trust","p1","y2007","m04","d15","h00"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/nesson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/nesson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/nesson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/nesson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/370"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/nesson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/nesson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/nesson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/nesson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/nesson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}