Immediately after completing assignment 1, I started to go through this module on readings and tried to understand more ‘conceptually’ about the net and the intersection between information and communication. This module covers three sections from Information Ecologies, Peer-to-Peer to the future of the net.
The term Information Ecologies is totally new to me and I find it interesting the many approaches we could have about the Internet. The complexity and uniqueness of the Internet are interrelated system between people and tools where we should continue to learn and participate.
Reading through P2P Networking allowed me to better understanding Peer-to-Peer networking. The effective ways of information sharing and its dynamic potential in business communities should be an exciting one. The downside is however, the emerging challenge of legal concerns.
It was amazing to see how Internet2 have progressed in the past 10 years. Their collaboratively ways of research and education will eventually evolved and transformed information and communication in how we work, learn and communicate. In light of this, I would say this very exciting advancement of technologies has indeed build us to develop our skills and knowledge towards the so called “Learning Society” as cited on page 322 of Phillip C Candy in his electronic PDF version document of Linking Thinking 2004.
Reference:
Matthew Allen (n.d) Curtin University of Technology: Internet Communications: Concepts Document, Module 5, Net11: Advanced Skills in Internet Use, Retrieved on 09 January 2007 from http://webct.curtin.edu.au/SCRIPT/305033_b/scripts/student/serve_bulletin
Philip C Candy August 2004, © Commonwealth of Australia 2004 Linking Thinking, Self-directed learning in the digital age, ISBN 0 642 77386 6 (Electronic Version), Retrieved 21 January 2007
