#7616716 Lleshrad wrote:The Tedtalk about it has blown my mind with the things it can do. I think I am a little hesitant to use it because I feel that no matter what I decide to do with it, I won't be doing the app justice lol.
I find myself falling back on the classical rhetorical model of the memory palace as a guide for how to experiment with all of this new technology. The strategy used a familiar physical space to identify places into which one would store images that would trigger a memory (e.g. the "topics" of a speech). Jonathan Foer introduces the concept in his recent book.

If we think of all of this tech as simply extending our memories out into space, then it becomes a little clearer how it might be used.
It's useful to think of
books as a technology here as well.
The "
electrate" individual, then, is one who knows how to find information using the new technology. (In the humorous youtube video above, a medieval monk is getting help with how to use a book.) That's one fundamental skill. Another is authoring--being a content creator.
I'd be interested in hearing what people think are the skills necessary for creating relevant content with Aurisma: how do we decide what "auras" to connect to what "images" or triggers? How does juxtaposition and irony come into play? What is the most effective use of such "tagging"?
One thing I like to do is to invite students into the process of inventing practices for using the tech. I try to provide the framework, the "playpen" with boundaries in which they can play. And then I let them play. So we don't have to figure it out first--we give our students the opportunity to figure it out for us.... Then we watch for patterns and apply what we know of our given fields to extrapolate best uses.
--Richard