dogtraxNov 26
Each year, when I have class discussions and activities with my young students about their digital lives, I have them use Kevin Kelly's The Internet Mapping Project to visualize their relationship to technology. They always amaze me with their creativity.
Show threadAlan is @cogdog 🇨🇦

@dogtrax This is the sound of my jaw dropping on the floor, your students are brilliant with their internet mapping project- the water sprayer of time, the dangling bloody chains...

How do you frame this task for your students?

Wow.

Wow.

I went digging to find ones I had created as a "Make" assignment in #netnarr (2020) https://make.arganee.world/thing/internet-map/ and then going back to ones around 1990 when Kelly was collecting them https://www.flickr.com/photos/kevinkelly/albums/72157613562011932/

Your Personal Map of the Internet

Many of us spend hours per day on the internet. Do we have a map or a model in our head? a physical metaphor? Do we know where we are in it? One response to Kevin Kelly’s Internet Mapping Project K…

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Show threaddogtraxNov 27
@cogdog Thanks, Alan. How do I frame the lesson? It's part of a larger lesson around how companies track us when we are online and some mitigation strategies. Then we talk about the role of technology in their lives (gaming, communication, etc). We talk about metaphors as symbols but they are free to go the literal route, too. Then, later, they write about their choices and share with the class. It's always a good lesson. (And then I put their art in the main school hallway for others to see)
Show threadAlan is @cogdog 🇨🇦Nov 27
@dogtrax I am counting on your students realizing now and years from now, what a gift they have for you as a teacher.
Show threadAlan is @cogdog 🇨🇦Feb 9

@dogtrax I kept these tabs open for a while, and trying to provoke some responses in the @oeglobal community space.

https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/monday-connect-your-internet-mapping-project-2026/8710

I am finding my wheels spinning these days on enticing people to participate in creative acts.

Monday Connect: [Your] Internet Mapping Project 2026

This week’s <span class="hashtag-icon-placeholder"></span>monday-connect</span> resumes a schedule of Mondays. How about an internet classic? Quite some time ago, Futurist and Wired writer Kevin Kelly put out a call as The Internet Mapping Project for ordinary people to draw their own personal hand drawn map of how they saw the internet. The internet is vast. Bigger than a city, bigger than a country, maybe as big as the universe. It’s expanding by the second. No one has seen its borders. And the internet is intangible, like spirits and angels....

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Show threaddogtraxNov 27
@cogdog I thought I came across the Internet Mapping Project via #clmooc but now wonder if it was #netnarr