** Cottage **
`>`you are standing in a small cottage. There is a **fishing pole** here.
Exits are: OUT
---
Yes Keanu. Woah indeed.
---
# Bash
---
_or_
---
## Why I Stopped Assigning Essays and Started Making and Breaking Things
Follow along at [j.mp/sg-bash](http://j.mp/sg-bash)
Dr. Shawn Graham, Dept of History, Carleton [@electricarchaeo](http://twitter.com/electricarchaeo)
---
---
---
---
---
I'd prefer if someone called 'bullshit'.
---
---
...instrumentalization of learning is part of it.
---
...surveillance masking as 'Engagement Analytics'
---
This isn't a new thing, of course.
---
via [Audrey Watters, whom you must read](http://hackeducation.com/2014/06/22/ed-tech-patents)
---
1866
---
---
[Click Here to Save Education](http://hackeducation.com/2013/03/26/ed-tech-solutionism-morozov)
---
---
But when I hear 'Digital Natives'
---
---
Or when I hear 'gamify!'
---
---
---
The Argument So Far:
---
+ Concerns for form over content kill love
---
+ Atomization & measurement kill joy
---
+ Both lead to surveillance and the casual acceptance of the same
---
+ Resulting in what we see in our classrooms.
---
...and the 'essay' is the prime vector.
---
---
---
After a statement like that, I'd better have something good, right?
---
---
No more essays.
Let us `essayer` something else.
---
---
Metaphors Matter.
----
---
The Trousers of Time
-T. Pratchett
Note:
trousers of time lampoons complexity and all the rest of it
---
Weirdness of 'seeing the past'
---
Note:
We've always been augmenting reality. But maybe we could make things a bit more... awesome. image: http://www.dayofarchaeology.com/cakes-cottages-and-manky-bones/
---
Acknowledge the weird.
Note:
this is where I talk about unessays, about bashing stuff together to see what happens. If we recognize that 'visualizing' and 'essays' are just metaphors, then that makes us see they have a grammar, a form; and if we break away from that we have to establish a new form, a new grammar, and in this, we see things new.
---
"How do we write good history?"
...we bash it into a different form.
---
---
---
Some focus on place.
---
---
---
Some focus on pushing the physical into the digital and back to the physical world.
---
---
---
---
Some tell algorithmic stories.
---
---
Some build worlds
---
[RideauCraft](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1GYZKKFpatf0fYf71akcSvDu4Qtb1RA9fCPhcdtajaS4/edit?pli=1#slide=id.p)
---
[VimyCraft](https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/37716296/vimyparadata.html)
---
The Medic's War
---
The only thing worse than writing a 5 pg essay is **not** writing a 5 pg essay.
---
Bashing history upsets the game.
---
This is good.
Lack of grammar for the other modalities is an opportunity to figure out new ways of knowing, to 'see' things afresh.
---
Note:
photobashing ... occupies a liminal position in archae because it puts 'something captured through a mechanical process through a subjective one'
Value in it- because it 'sit[s] at an intersection of subjective processes and mechanical capture, allows for some interesting interactions and reflexivity between both sides of this discussion'. Photobashing is deformation.
---
## Soundbashing
Topic model viz is [here](http://bl.ocks.org/shawngraham/raw/b7a0ce3eb646158439f0/#topic=20&lambda=1&term=)
---
## The result:
_Songs of Jesuits_
[Listen to the recording](https://soundcloud.com/shawn-graham-60451318/jesuits-groove)
Live-coding with [sonic pi](http://sonic-pi.net)
Note:
Try to live-code the performance; play notes.tick plays the data straight up, etc
---
You don't have to buy what I'm selling. But...
---
#?
---
Yes Keanu. Woah indeed.
---
Forget about essays.
---
Ask 'how this form enables/constrains different modes of knowing'.
Bash stuff together.
---
**Classroom**
`>`you are standing in a small classroom. There is a **computer** here. Students are staring at you.
Exits are: OUT
---
[Link to Sources for Images; all CC.](https://github.com/shawngraham/presentations/blob/master/bash-images.md)