Lifelogging
Lifelogging
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WWhat is Lifelogging?
WWhat is Lifelogging?
The term "lifelogging" was coined by Gordon Bell, who started wearing a camera around his neck in 2000 as part of the MyLifeBits project at Microsoft. The camera took pictures every 30 seconds, attempting to help Bell create a digital archive of his life. Bell also created digital versions of everything that he read or created. The idea was to store all this information in his hard drive and create a digital index so that he could go back and pull up bits of information from his life, much like having a photographic memory. The project was intended to build off of an idea by Vannevar Bush, who in 1945 envisioned a machine called a Memex, which would store information about your life. By 2016, Bell had stopped wearing the camera, acknowledging that the project "wasn't something that was bringing a lot of value to my life" and that Smartphones along with Apple watches and fitness trackers were already collecting a lot of the data proposed by this idea.
Lifelogging is a collection of data about a person's daily life. Whether you are intentionally logging your life or not, many of us are participating in a current version of automatic lifelogging. The term "lifelogging" does not seem to be used as much as it was a decade ago, when wearable cameras were thought to be our future.
Elgan, Mike. “Lifelogging Is Dead (for Now).” Computerworld, 4 Apr. 2016, www.computerworld.com/article/3048497/lifelogging-is-dead-for-now.html.
Examples of Lifelogging (as it exists now)
These days, nobody is walking around with a camera around their neck. The modern day version of lifelogging includes a variety of tools that track our exercise, heart rate, steps taken, sleep quality, posts to social media, etc. Look at the examples below and you may realize that you are doing some lifelogging without even realizing it.
Classroom Connections
Classroom Connections
Honestly, I struggled to think of how lifelogging could be useful in education. Then one day my students were answering a question on Flip and I saw them looking back at their posts from the previous year. That is when I realized that we are logging one aspect of their lives with this kind of technology. They can reflect back at their learning from last year and the previous year through these posts. This kind of logging could also be used by teachers to assess the student's growth in understanding during the course of a school year.
Seesaw is another site that my school uses to post student learning. I don't think that we have it set up to look back to previous years, but you can definitely see growth within the school year.
Seesaw is another resource where students can document their learning, share it with families, and look back on it later. Our school has a paid subscription but there is a free version as well.
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