EDTC6101 Module4
Tech Obsession
Opening
Inventions
Cell Phone
Gun
Distraction device
Point at another individual
Jack plug-in
Monetary opportunity
Programming
Apps?
People?
Aza Raskin, Other
infinite scroll
Programmer Incentives
Infinte soup bowl
Mind obesity
Tristan Harris, Google
Humane Technology
Attention impact
People's attention
Ad Revenue Model
Billions of users
Hours of activity
Takeaways
Robert Lustig, UCSF Prof
Value of boredom
Creativity
Grow neural connections
Imagination
Technology eliminates boredom
Technology impact
Notification
New thoughts
New feelings
Stress response
Collective attention deficit disorder
Distraction
23 minute recovery
Technology ability to control
Ant colony with phones
Facebook control with a button
Google / Apple ' Facebook
Monitor / limit usage
Public health issue
Public health solution
Put user interests first
Attention, Reality, Truth
Attention crisis (Tristan Harris)
Digital design
Capture attention
Commodify attention
Attention strategies
Mindful (NetSmart)
Intentions
Emotions
Mindful Tech (David Levy)
Selective-directedness
Mental lives
Task focus
Self-observation
Confessions (Augustine)
Human existence
Temporal / embodied
Mental lives
Past memory
Present experiences
Future expectations
Perfect attention (God)
Receptive & Comprehensive
Not selective and limited
Marno & Malebranche
Prayer
Encounter with God
Attention
Encounter with truth
Reality crowding truth (Jacques Ellul)
Truth
Human values / ends
Reality
Seen & measured
Conclusion
Improve selective attention
Enhance agency
Receptive attention
Recognize agency limits
Teaching in Distraction Age
Author: Sherry Turtle MIT
Constant connection
3 minutes check
Comfort with contact
Device-free class
Conversations relaxed & cohesive
Finished thoughts
Unrushed
More present
Participate in uninterrupted conversation
In control of attention
Attention decides
What we learn & value
Distraction
Contagious
Signals
Boring
Permission to check out
Multi-tasking
Bad for learning
Feels good
Resistance seems futile
Education practices
Embrace hyper attention
Google jockeying
Display relevant web content
Audience backchannel commentary
Moment of boredom
Draw on imaginative life
New thinking
Attentional pluralism
Hyper attention
Deep attention
Unable to focus
Unable to follow complex arguments
Life lived online
Deep attention harder
Brain is plastic
Rewires itself
Note taking benefits
Art of listening / thinking
Education tech design
Massively open online courses (MOOC)
Best with presence
No up-staging
Importance of relationships
More powerful learning
Classroom experience
Companionship / alive
Face-to-face conversation challenge
Process of making
GChat / email pitfalls
Lacks intellectual serendipity
Eliminates best ideas
Go deeper, not faster
Eliminates unprompted conversations
Missed opportunity to grow
School studies & Love of God
Prayer
Quality attention to God
School
Lower kind of attention
Real object
Sole interest
Effort matters most
Allows prayer to God
Successes unimportant
Truth requires correctness
Attention to faults
Acquire humility
Two Goals
Attention for prayer
Mediocrity & humility (from failures)
Study / intelligence
Led by desire
Requires joy of learning
Attention (for prayer)
Not possible with fatigue
Requires suspending thought
Patient / ready to receive
Reject inadequacies
Love of neighbor
What are you going through?
Recognize a man like us
Truth, Reality, 10 Commandments
Fallen humans
Desire reality
Open to truth
Distinguish
Truth
Reality
Ultimate destiny
Communicated by committed person
Seen & measured
Transmitted impersonally
Time to absorb / debate
Abstract data
Grasped immediately
Posture of waiting / listening
Power over objects
Allows love / freedom
Enslaves humans (complete dependence)
Realm of necessity
Before Fall
Spontaneous obeidance
Will of God
After Fall
New laws
Needed to prevent destruction
Various forms
Physical
Civil
Moral
Lack God's love
Laws of necessity
Prescribe killing
Biological needs
Capital punishment
Reciprocity
Violence reproduces violence
You shall not kill
Nonviolence
Attending to truth
Listening & waiting
Love & freedom
Violence
Manipulating reality
Object of reality
Something to be possessed
"Love that waits"
"Power that crushes"
Theology: commandments
Prologue
Human existence requirements
Fear of God
Obey God's commandments
Antidote to laws of necessity
Characteristics
Promises
Make life possible
Future beyond death-dealing forces
Sociology: Neutral knowledge
Negative view
Vicious cycles
State sanctions technology
Power
Lustful of reality
Squeeze out truth
Reinforces power
Technology drives politics
Positive view
Personality formation
Public debate
Reason
Self-control
Respect for others
Key: open to dialogue
Against false Gods
What one trusts
What one worships
What one desires
Language
Propaganda
Change people's behavior
Not their beliefs
Property
Work / job
Material sustenance
Reality valued over truth
Family relationships
Listen
Those that brought you forth
That you did not choose
Dialogue connection
Social resilience
Personal resilience
Technical autonomy
Expression of original sin?
Calculative power -> slavery
Lust for the unequivocal
Domination of truth by reality