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Teme is friendly
Submitted by Paul Tiffany (not verified) on Mon, 05/25/2009 - 02:13
The Teme Foundation is undergraduates for undergraduates. Teme's founders believe the unrelenting enthusiasm and empathy of the world's future leaders must be a clarion call in fight against existential threats. Ours, unlike any other generation, matured in the dawn of the computer age. Our relationship to technology is one fundamentally different from that of our ancestors. Irradiated with technological influence, we are our grandparents' mutant tech support superheros. Indeed, while I make effort to understand technology's impact on myself, I am completely overwhelmed when considering the relationship children today are developing with technology. Thus, Teme will always consist of undergraduates: those young leaders of society, reared in an increasingly complex world, providing clarity.
Technology presents opportunity and responsibility. Teme exists to enable undergraduate efforts on both accounts. The Teme Foundation provides platforms for undergraduate innovation in an increasingly technological world: social networking, blogs, an undergraduate research initiative, video, and other tools we find useful in creatively collaborating. As we use these tools, they will evolve as temes (techno-memes).
Teme is about our voice. Contribute yours today. Share your vision in the comments below. Start a blog. Create an undergraduate research project. Tell your friends.
Words words words
This is a joint comment with love from Shayne and Katherine:
(Shayne is having problems logging in.)
I know that Paul and I have debated about the use of big words to convey foriegn ideas. Particularly, we were arguing about writing styles of ethnographies and whether or not they should be written in language that is easily understood by people. And in that argument, I was on the side of using big words, because if it's not presented in language that we are not really used to and requires greater effort to decipher, then we don't really recognize that it's different. However, I think that right now we're working with the opposite situation. If you want your ideas to reach people, then you need to put them in language that people are going to understand.
("Irradiated" and "ameliorations" are big words.)
(Ethnographies are anthropological writings about other cultures. I apologize, because it IS a big word.)
Here is a beautiful, simple cutout by Matisse. Beautiful and simple like our language should be. Or it would be if we could figure out how to get pictures to work on this blog. Here's the link though: http://www.kinderart.com/arthistory/matisse_icarus.jpg
Enjoy.
"Mutant Tech Support Superheroes"
Agreed. I think few too many realize the significance of the technological divide; including it's limitations and possible ameliorations. It's identification, seems to me, to be the first step towards reaching a mutual understanding between internet kids and the old generation. Although there are exceptions, many do not realize the potential information technology still holds for the future, but IT itself can rectify this imbalance.