Hi, Joi (in Quora),
I applied for a MIT Media Lab faculty position in January 2013, vis-a-vis World University and School, teaching "Society and Information Technology," and my actual / virtual Harbin Hot Springs' books and virtual Harbin research, but didn't use the words, Uniqueness, Impact and Magic in my application, and perhaps would use the word open-disciplinary (in all languages) for WUaS ... WUaS would like to hire a lot of MIT graduate students, and in many languages, eventually, and needs funding, as well. Here's my 500 word application ...
I’m writing
to apply for the MIT Media Lab faculty position focusing on learning
and technologies. I concentrate on three main areas in my work:
a)
Developing World University and School, which is like Wikipedia with
MIT OCW, - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Subjects - with free, online degrees planned, and as wiki-school in all 7,413+
languages and 205+ countries;
b) Writing an
actual / virtual Harbin Hot Springs’ ethnography, with 3-4,
further, Harbin books planned. I’m writing the eighth of nine
chapters presently, and plan to create a virtual Harbin, for
ethnographic fieldwork, and for comparison with on-the-ground Harbin,
for subsequent books. I’ve written a number of papers about the
World Wide Web in other contexts, particularly in terms of actual and
online ‘place.’
c) Teaching
about the sociology and anthropology of the Internet, particularly a
course entitled “Society and Information Technology,” which I’ve
taught on Harvard’s virtual island for 7 semesters, and vis-à-vis
Manuel Castells’ Network Society research, in a variety of ways.
I’ll focus
here now on World University. Wiki World University and School plans
to be the MIT / Harvard of the internet in all 7,413+ languages and
the 205+ countries, building on MIT OpenCourseWare, and offers not
only remarkable, creative, Media Lab opportunities in its making, but
also potentially extends MIT into all languages and countries online.
WUaS is also
planning MIT OCW-centric, Creative Commons’ licensed, bachelor,
Ph.D., International Baccalaureate, law and M.D. degrees, including
online Medical (as well as an hospital) and Law Schools, accrediting
on MIT OCW where possible, in many languages and countries,
especially in the poorest parts of the world.
WUaS is
planning an online Media Lab in each language and country, and seeks
to grow these with overachieving, creative, MIT Media Lab-like
students.
WUaS is also
planning a Universal Translator, building on Google Translate, etc.,
in part, but for voice, and thus creating unique and far-reaching
A.I. and programming opportunities over the years ahead.
WUaS is also
planning a Music School in all languages, and with all instruments,
each a wiki, subject page to begin, with online teaching, learning
and jamming possibilities.
WUaS plans to
use the
Conference Method of teaching and learning (like Reed College uses),
but online, and engaging MIT OCW’s 2,142+ courses - e.g.
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Conference_Method_of_Teaching_and_Learning.
WUaS
presently has 539
wiki pages, the section headings of which we plan to copy, paste and
translate into other languages, as we move from the current, Wikia
wiki to the new, Creative Commons’ licensed Wikidata / Wikibase
database.
As a
concluding statement of my work, WUaS plans to create academic,
information technology jobs for students at the Media Lab, for all of
MIT, in many, many languages and countries, and also for students at
other great universities, especially, where the Media Lab could
become the organizational hub for extensive, knowledge-oriented, job
generation, worldwide.
MIT
OCW-centric degrees for overachievers in many languages and
countries, with the MIT Media Lab at the center of all of this, will
generate a remarkable, flourishing, STEM-centric, academic
conversation.
...
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