Comments on: The B-L “YKWI…” Effect http://anumma.com/2009/07/02/the-b-l-%e2%80%9cykwi%e2%80%a6%e2%80%9d-effect/ Conversation on Old Testament/Hebrew Bible and Higher Education Tue, 31 Jan 2012 04:53:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Bryan http://anumma.com/2009/07/02/the-b-l-%e2%80%9cykwi%e2%80%a6%e2%80%9d-effect/#comment-260 Tue, 14 Jul 2009 03:30:32 +0000 http://anumma.com/?p=539#comment-260 I was at the beach when this came out and missed it somehow. Thanks for the by-line. As you perhaps expected, I immediately started trying to parse and translate b’l ykwi in various semitic dialects. :-) That final aleph is a problem.

I definitely think you’re right about the rise of these epiphanic moments of connection and “unpredictably synthesis.” One result of the technological environment is that more of these moments can be “captured” rather than float in and out of our heads. One can post a quick Twitter or blog entry with a Youtube video and a few words of explanation, and there you go. It might spark something in someone else or it might not, but it’s there.

Connect these various captured streams through RSS, Delicious, etc., and you’re talking about emerging social knowledge.

]]> By: adamofclay http://anumma.com/2009/07/02/the-b-l-%e2%80%9cykwi%e2%80%a6%e2%80%9d-effect/#comment-197 Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:20:15 +0000 http://anumma.com/?p=539#comment-197 It is interesting that you call it a fragmentation of attention. I imagine you do this through your professor lens, however, through my student lens it seems your theory is not emphasizing fragmentation but a bringing together. We are taught socially and through traditional schooling to segment our lives. (very male and very modern) But if a professor is able to add course content to the mediums already present in a students life it brings the student’s worlds (school, work, play, family, etc) together in a much more potent way. To all professors, I implore you to vary your platforms and learn the mediums your students use. They will be smarter for it and like you more!

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