Welcome to the Bildung Biodigitale repository activated at baumhaus.digital on 18th April 2023 (AE530418)

Old definition: BB is an educational curriculum integrating paradigms of computer-oriented sciences (e.g. informatics, cybernetics, AI etc.) and nature-oriented sciences (e.g. biology, ecology, botanics etc.) into a life-centered didactic package. Instead of being composed of dry indoor frontal teaching lectures, BB seminars mostly take place outdoor, some of them are peripatetic –i.e. walking– and apart from „aesthetic“ and „theoretical“ components always include a „survival“ component.

New definition: Bildung Biodigitale is a seminar cycle which deploys eco-artificial education within University context.

``Ecoartificial education (EAE) integrates those forms of pedagogical and didactic practice where artificially intelligent systems are being deployed for the purpose of increase of Wuman’s knowledge and respect of the surrounding biosphere.''

EAE is about cultivating what Charles Darwin called ``the most noble attribute of man''

Bildung Biodigitale: standing on shoulders of giants and lying below shovels of dwarfs.

physical courses take place every 2 weeks on Thursday between 16:00 - 19:00

location/venue for next course will be precised at the end of the previous course

however, due to weather conditions or other unpredictable circumstances, it may also be the case that the outdoor session will need to be canceled or special measures (umbrella, rainjacket) will need to

magnifying glass or telescope can also be useful for certain sessions

should the session get canceled, You will be informed about that no later than at noon (12:00) in seminar's asynchronous matrix seminar room

/join #bio-animals:m3x.baumhaus.digital

GPT4 PROMPT: "I will have a 10 minute impulse talk at Weizenbaum institute about digital sustainability (DS). It will be fairly critical, starting with the idea that concept of DS is an oxymoron, given that digitalization as we currently practice it, is definitely not sustainable. Greenwashing will also be mentioned. Then I will move to more optimistic perspectives: solarpunk and  permacomputing in order to end with introduction of the concept of digital ascesis. Provide five alternatives for a fairly short title..."

Nachhaltigkeit von was ? Von Umwelt? Von biologischen Vielfalt ? Von etablierten Institutionen ? Von "status quo" ? Von nicht-nachhaltigen Strukturen und Praktiken (z.B. unbegrenzte Wachstum im begrenzten Raum ?)

... einen fehlerhaften Schluss, der dadurch zustandekommt, dass der Ausdruck für den Mittelbegiff in zwei verschiedenen Bedeutungen im Ober- und Untersatz des Schlusses gebraucht wird...

Mann kann, in Theorie, über Nachhaltigkeit von Digitalisierung sprechen wenn alle Ressourcen wie

Material

Energie

Wasser / Kühlmittel

und alle Aspekte, Nebenwirkungen und "collaterals" der

Produktion

Betrieb

Abfallbewirtschaftung

berücksichtigt sind.

"There are a handful of firms with 20k+ A/H100 GPUs, and individual researchers can access 100s or 1,000s of GPUs for pet projects. The chief among these are researchers at OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, Inflection, X, and Meta, who will have the highest ratios of compute resources to researchers. A few of the firms above as well as multiple Chinese firms will 100k+ by the end of next year...."

(Patel & Nishball, 2023, Google Gemini Eats The World)

An exercised, disciplined poor one practically always gets better "last laugh" than all those pesky rich ones driven by ὕβρις and vanity.

"Permacomputing is both a concept and a community of practice oriented around issues of resilience and regenerativity in computer and network technology inspired by permaculture.

In a time where computing epitomizes industrial waste, permacomputing encourages the maximizing of hardware lifespans, minimizing energy use and focussing on the use of already available computational resources. We do this we want to find out how we can practice good relations with the Earth by learning from ecological systems to leverage and re-center existing technologies and practices..."

permacomputing.net

"Solarpunk beschreibt eine Zukunft in der Klimakatastrophe und Umweltverschmutzung zumindest teilweise überwunden sind und Inklusion und Diversität das Zusammenleben prägen. Solarpunk wird von Gruppen weltweit in diversen Sprachen über eine Vielzahl von Medien wie Literatur, Kunst, Architektur, Mode, Musik und Computerspielen transportiert. Es wird oft eine ökologische Zukunft beschrieben, die tatsächlich durch vorhandene Technologien und politische Bewegungen erreichbar scheint und eine positive Zukunft für die Menschheit darstellt."

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solarpunk

Elemente naturwissenschaftlichen Wissens aus Biologie, Ökologie und Botanik sind kritisch mit Elementen der Informationswissenschaften wie Informatik, Kybernetik und KI gegengelesen.

Unterricht im Freien (outdoor on-line learning)

"eco-artificial education" mithilfe von Apps wie Merlin, Naturblick, SvampeAtlas

eigene Artefakte (digitale Fibel, Magic Wand 0)

eigenes Software (teacher.js, Kastalia Knowledge Management System)

Das "Bildung Biodigitale" Konzept wurde im Rahmen des Projektes teacher.solar / Stifterverbands Senior Fellowship für Innovationen in der Hochschulbildung entwickelt.

https://udk.ai/day0

Narren hasten, Kluge warten, Weise gehen in den Garten...

Some symptoms describing the current crisis.

Few proposals how to get UdK through the current crisis.

Some older presentations:

* Medienhaus IT-vivisection (2018) https://kastalia.medienhaus.udk-berlin.de/5668/
* Klasse Klima (2019) talk https://kastalia.medienhaus.udk-berlin.de/5668/
* Carbon-Neutrality and a digital school: can we align them ? (2019) https://kastalia.medienhaus.udk-berlin.de/6118


Some older papers:

* Circadian and eutark reduction of the energy trace of a digital school
* teacher. js: A low-bandwidth Digital Tool for Outdoor Online Teaching
* Power Consumption of Diverse Speech Command Classification Methods on the Raspberry Pi Zero