Gardner Campbell’s article A Personal Cyberinfrastructure calls for a complete reshaping of course curriculum. Course curriculum needs more than just an application of technology stapled on like a digital facelift. It needs a new digital face. That face is a personal cyberinfrastructure. Personal cyberinfrastructure provides learners with an online presence. A place where they can reflect, analyse, create and share information throughout their scholastic career and ‘beyond’.
The ‘beyond’ or the continual accumulation (and persistence) of data after it’s initial scholastic purpose is one of the things that interests me about Gardner Campbell’s personal cyberinfrastructure idea. Sure, the skills and knowledge gained through the process of assembling your own personal cyberinfrastructure can be applied in all aspects of your scholastic, personal and employment career, but I’m interested to know what happens with your data. Continuing to develop your personal cyberinfrastructure initial scholastic purpose would result in an excellent repository of evidence. Evidence of your thought process throughout your life. Evidence of your existence. You will be known by the trail of your data.
